FYI: new passwords requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged
accounts starting on December 13th.
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From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 20:35
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia password policy and requirements
To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password
policy and requirements. [0] You can learn more about the project on
MediaWiki.org. [1]
These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged
accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a
minimum length of 8 characters. Privileged accounts will be prompted
to update their password to one that is at least 10 characters in
length.
These changes are planned to be in effect on December 13th. If you
think your work or tools will be affected by this change, please let
us know on the talk page. [2]
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Password_policy
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team/Password_strengtheni…
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Security_Team/Password_streng…
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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Hello dear Wikidata community,
After the success of the first WikidataCon in 2017
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017> and many
conversations regarding the future of this conference, we are now ready to
announce that the WikidataCon 2019 will take place on October 25th-26th
2019 in Berlin.
Apart from this first piece of information (save the date in your
calendars!), there are some important changes regarding the goal of the
conference that we would like to share with you.
After its first iteration, the goals of the conference will evolve. The
event will be more focused on networking and strategic discussions. The
target group will of course include the Wikidata community in its broad
sense, especially people and organizations who are already involved in
editing, structuring and reusing the data, but will also reach further the
organizations who may be interested in using Wikidata and Wikibase, or
contributing in various ways to the evolution of Wikidata.
The program will be adapted to this new goal, and organized around
different levels of involvement for the participants: from being inspired
(with keynotes, success stories, vision of Wikidata’s future) to diving
deeper into the hot topics, but also action: the participants will have the
opportunity to work on projects during the conference.
Besides many possible topics that will be submitted by the participants, we
plan to have a dedicated track about lexicographical data, discussing the
perspectives for further reusing data about words within and beyond
Wikidata.
A lot of space will be left for discussions, networking, building
connections between the different stakeholders and members of the broad
Wikidata community.
The conference will be hosting at least 250 participants. In order to make
sure that the access to the conference is fair and to not reproduce the
issues of last year (rush to get a ticket and long waiting list), we will
set up a more streamlined registration process, where a committee made up
of both staff and volunteers will make sure that the applicants will
contribute in one way or another to the goal of the conference. I will keep
you updated for the next steps of this process.
You can already see Wikidata:WikidataCon 2019
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019> which will be
improved step by step over the next months, and you can already use the
discussion page. If you have any question, you can also contact me on my
talk page or by email.
We're looking forward to a great WikidataCon 2019, together with you!
Thanks for your attention,
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi all,
as we have written a previous email, we are currently applying for a
MediaWiki grant to exploit the DBpedia Extraction Software to syncronize
between infoboxes between Wikipedias as well as Wikipedia and Wikidata.
During the discussion on the talk page
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSyncRE)
the question was raised that we as DBpedia have too much of a bird's eye
view on things and it is true, i.e. since we are used to bulk extracting
and working with a lot of data instead of individual records.
The main problem here is that for us the prototype first of all shows
that we have the data, which we could exploit in several ways, however
for Wikipedians and Wikidata users the process of using it is the main
focus. We assumed that for Wikipedians an article-centric view would be
the best, i.e. you can directly compare one article's infobox with all
other articles and wikidata. However, for Wikidata the
article/entity-centric view does not seem practical and we would like to
have feedback on this. The options for globalfactsync are:
1. entity-centric view as it is now: same infobox across all wikipedias
and wikidata for one article/entity
2. template-centric (this one will not work, as there are no equivalent
infoboxes across Wikipedias or only very few )
3. template-parameter-centric: this is the current focus of Harvest
Templates, i.e. one parameter in one template in one language
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/harvesttemplates/
* Note that one improvement DBpedia could make here is the
mappings we have parameter to DBpedia to Wikidata
* Another is that we can save the logs and manifest the mappings
entered by users to do a continuous sync, at the moment it is a
one time import
4. multilingual-template-parameter-centric or wikidata property
centric, i.e. one parameter/one Wikidata P across multiple templates
across multiple languages. This is supercharging harvesttemplates,
but since it is a power tool for syncing, it gets more complex and
overview is difficult.
All Feedback welcome, we also created a topic here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSyncR…
# Motivation, Wikidata adoption report
One goal of Wikidata is to support the infoboxes. We are doing monthly
releases now at DBpedia and are able to provide statistics about
Wikidata adoption or missing adoption in Wikipedia:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_aNjgExJW_b0MvDSQs5iSXHYlwnZ8nU2zrQ…
In total 584 million facts are still maintained in Wikipedia, not using
Wikidata. In case they are already in Wikidata, this means that there
are two or more places the same fact is maintained, multiplying
maintenance work (unless the fact is static).
Code used to extract:
https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/blob/master/core/src/main/s…
Data:
http://downloads.dbpedia.org/repo/dev/generic-spark/infobox-properties/2018…
Stat generation: echo -n "" > res.csv ; for i in `ls *.bz2` ; do echo
-n $i | sed 's/infobox-properties-2018.11.01_//;s/.ttl.bz2/\t/' >>
res.csv ; lbzip2 -dc $i | wc -l >> res.csv ; done
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All the best,
Sebastian Hellmann
Director of Knowledge Integration and Linked Data Technologies (KILT)
Competence Center
at the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) at Leipzig University
Executive Director of the DBpedia Association
Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org,
http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt
<http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt>
Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Hello,
We are organizing a workshop on Data Quality Management in Wikidata
(http://wikidata-quality-workshop.org) on January 18th, 2019 in Berlin
(Office of Wikimedia Deutschland).
The workshop will give scientific researchers and the Wikidata community
members the opportunity to discuss and present preliminary findings,
ideas, opinions, and demos.
We have an open call for abstracts (submission deadline December 6, 2018),
and will give the authors of accepted abstracts the opportunity to submit
a full paper (by March 2019).
Best,
The workshop team
Dear,
A new request for comments is open about the heant treating of materials.
This is a very important subject for the Materials Project that is blocked
since several months by a lack of voters.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/How_to_handle_h…
I know that heat treating is very technic but the subject is mainly related
to Wikidata management so that every experienced Wikidata user may have a
word to say.
Thanks
Thibaut DEVERAUX
Tel : 06 75 51 20 80
thibaut.deveraux(a)gmail.com
Skype : thibaut.deveraux
Hello all,
The development team is aware that several problems occur around the
process of requesting, adding and using new languages in Wikidata.
With this feedback loop
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Identify_problems_with_adding_new_la…>,
we would like to list and describe the problems, so we can address them and
together with the community, find stable solutions for these different
problems.
Please add your input directly on the talk page :) The feedback loop is
open until December 18th.
Cheers,
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Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.