Hullo.
I recently recorded a video of my 2-hour SPARQL tutorial. It is better
than the SPARQL section in my 3-hour Intro to Wikidata video from a couple
of years ago, and is easier to follow, with the query screen fed directly
rather than through the video camera.
It is now available here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Querying_Wikidata_with_SPARQL_for_A…
Enjoy!
A.
Hello all,
*(sorry for crost-posting)*
If you're into Wikidata and attending Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town, you'll
probably be interested in the Wikidata booth!
Located in the core of the conference venue[0], this table will be
dedicated to the Wikidata community, and an information point for anyone
wanting to learn more about Wikidata.
This booth being community-driven, we need help from everyone to take care
of this space, make it friendly and animated, and engage with the
participants!
To take a shift, you don't need to know everything about Wikidata, you
should mostly be able to answer simple questions, be friendly with people,
and redirect them to volunteers or employees if necessary.
If you're willing to take a shift, or organize something special with the
other community members, please register on this page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimania_2018#Wikidata_community_bo…
If you have any question or idea, feel free to contact me.
Cheers, Léa
[0] more details about the exact location to come
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Hi Mathieu, Rob, Denny, and Wikidatans,
I'm writing to inquire about further Wikidata CC licensing clarifications.
Wikidata may be heading to
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
which allows for a) sharing b) adapting and even c) commercially
MIT OCW uses, by way of comparison,
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
which allows for a) sharing b) adapting but c) non-commercially
At a Wikimedia conference in early 2017, with Lydia and Dario present, I
think I learned that all books / WikiCitations in all 301 of Wikipedia
languages could be licensed, or heading to be licensed, with CC-0 licensing
- https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ - and per
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193728 - which would allow them to be
data sources for online bookstores even. Is this the case. Could some of
Wikidata's data be licensed with CC-SA-4 (
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) and other data be licensed
with CC-0?
Thanks.
Cheers, Scott
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Rob Speer <rob(a)luminoso.com> wrote:
> > As always, copyright is predatory. As we can prove that copyright is the
> enemy of science and knowledge
>
> Well, this kind of gets to the heart of the issue, doesn't it.
>
> I support the Creative Commons license, including the share-alike term,
> which requires copyright in order to work, and I've contributed to multiple
> Wikimedia projects with the understanding that my work would be protected
> by CC-By-SA.
>
> Wikidata is engaged in a project-wide act of disobedience against CC-By-SA.
> I would say that GerardM has provided an excellent summary of the attitude
> toward Creative Commons that I've encountered on Wikidata: "it's holding us
> back", "it's the enemy", "you can't copyright knowledge", "you can't make
> us follow it", etc.
>
> The result of this, by the way, is that commercial entities sell modified
> versions of Wikidata with impunity. It undermines the terms of other
> resources such as DBPedia, which also contains facts extracted from
> Wikipedia and respects its Share-Alike terms. Why would anyone use DBPedia
> and have to agree to share alike, when they can get similar data from
> Wikidata which promises them it's CC-0?
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2018 at 21:43 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > Thank you for the overly broad misrepresentation. As always, copyright is
> > predatory. As we can prove that copyright is the enemy of science and
> > knowledge we should not be upset that *copyright *is abused we should
> > welcome it as it proves the point. Also when we use texts from everywhere
> > and rephrase it in Wikipedia articles "we" are not lily white either.
> >
> > In "them old days" generally we felt that when people would use
> Wikipedia,
> > it would only serve our purpose; share the sum of all knowledge. I still
> > feel really good about that. And, it has been shown that what we do;
> > maintain / curate / update that data that it is not easily given to do as
> > well as "we" do it.
> >
> > When we are to be more precise with our copyright, there are a few things
> > we could do to make copyright more transparent. When data is to be
> uploaded
> > (Commons / Wikipedia or Wikidata) we should use a user that is OWNED and
> > operated by the copyright holder. The operation may be by proxy and as a
> > consequence there is no longer a question about copyright as the
> copyright
> > holder can do as we wants. This makes any future noises just that,
> > annoying.
> >
> > As to copyright on Wikidata, when you consider copyright using data from
> > Wikipedia. The question is: "What Wikipedia" I have copied a lot of data
> > from several Wikipedias and believe me, from a quality point of view
> there
> > is much to be gained by using Wikidata as an instrument for good because
> it
> > is really strong in identifying friends and false friends. It is superior
> > as a tool for disambiguation.
> >
> > About the copyright on data, the overriding question with data is: do you
> > copy data wholesale in Wikidata. That is what a database copyright is
> > about. As I wrote on my blog [1], the best data to include is data that
> is
> > corroborated by the fact that it is present in multiple sources. This
> > negates the notion of a single source, it also underscores that much of
> the
> > data everywhere is replicated a lot. It also underscores, again, the
> notion
> > that data that is only present in single sources is what needs attention.
> > It needs tender loving care, it needs other sources to establish
> > credentials. That is in its own right what makes any claim of copyright
> > moot. It is in this process that it becomes a "creative" process negating
> > the copyright held on databases.
> >
> > I welcome the attention that is given to copyright in Wikidata. However
> our
> > attention to copyright is predatory in two ways. It is how can we get
> > around existing copyright and how can we protect our own. As argued,
> > Wikidata shines when it is used for what it is intended to be; the place
> > that brings data, of Wikipedias first and elsewhere second, together to
> be
> > used as a repository of quality, open and linked data.
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
> > [1]
> >
> > https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2018/05/wikidata-
> copyright-and-linked-data.html
> >
> > On 11 May 2018 at 23:10, Rob Speer <rob(a)luminoso.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Wow, thanks for the heads up. When I was getting upset about projects
> > that
> > > change the license on Wikimedia content and commercialize it, I had no
> > idea
> > > that Wikidata was providing them the cover to do so. The Creative
> Commons
> > > violation is coming from inside the house!
> > >
> > > On Tue, 8 May 2018 at 03:48 mathieu stumpf guntz <
> > > psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello everybody,
> > > >
> > > > There is a phabricator ticket on Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata
> > > > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193728> that you might be
> > interested
> > > > to look at and participate in.
> > > >
> > > > As Denny suggested in the ticket to give it more visibility through
> the
> > > > discussion on the Wikidata chat
> > > > <
> > > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#
> > > Importing_datasets_under_incompatible_licenses>,
> > > >
> > > > I thought it was interesting to highlight it a bit more.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
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- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- World University and School
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric
CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in
California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
Merrilee, Daniel, Wikimedia Librarians, WikiCite people, and Wikidatans,
Thanks. Seeking here to add this thread to the Wikidata community too.
Again, Wiki CC World University and School is looking for an online
university library for matriculated undergraduate students (taking CC-4 MIT
OCW courses for credit toward free Bachelor degrees), first in English for
our second matriculating class potentially beginning this September. Soon
thereafter, WUaS will be seeking major online university libraries,
emerging from universities based on each country from -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - for
matriculated WUaS students in each of all ~200 countries and potentially in
all 301 Wikipedia languages - and for Bachelor, Ph.D, Law, MD and I.B. high
school degrees in each of these countries' official and main languages.
Thank you.
Best, Scott
On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen@googlemail.
com> wrote:
> I think a big one is missing on the list of options in the poll -
> engaging with Wikidata and particularly WikiCite and offsprings like
> Scholia or Inventaire.
> d.
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:43 AM, Merrilee Proffitt <mproffitt(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > The Wikimedia and Libraries User Group poll is open until the end of the
> > month. We have a good response so far but if you have not yet shared your
> > opinion, please do so now! We will be closing the poll on the 30th.
> >
> > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOVeyakyIIkUVZ5sLW
> RTNHME3teFhwbXEanJcfwK0NCl3t8g/viewform?usp=sf_link
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Merrilee
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Libraries mailing list
> > Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in
California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
Dear Wikimedians,
We are closing the application form for Working Group members later
today.[1] Please consider applying, if you are interested in strategic
conversations about movement structures in thematic areas like roles
and responsibilities, revenue streams, resource allocation,
partnerships, capacity building, advocacy, technology and product,
diversity or community health. We have received more than 100
applications by now and are looking for more!
I would like to encourage you to also consider applying even if you
have not contributed to movement strategy conversations before or feel
that you might lack experience or expertise to contribute. Your
perspective might still enrich the discussions and we would like to
see a broad diversity of voices in the conversations, from each corner
of the movement.
We have heard a lot of feedback regarding 5 hours per week that we
expect to be the average time investment for members of the Working
Group. Time investment will vary depending on the week and progress:
there will possibly be weeks with little to do (e.g. reading a
one-pager), but there will also be weeks where members will need to
read, discuss, design or review research tasks, agree, and communicate
with each other and with other groups, have online-meetings or will
attend in person events, write and review documents and emails etc. It
will all also depend on how the working group decides to work
together, and on the members and their individual work and
conversations styles. Working groups will be supported according to
their needs, for example in terms of facilitation, administration and
translation.
If you think you can only invest 2-3 hours, but bring a unique set of
experiences or background, please also consider applying! We will take
a variety of criteria into account when selecting the members together
with our Steering Committee.
Next steps:
Selection of Working Group members will happen in the first half of
July. The minimum number of members for working groups to be
established is 6. That means, we might start with a smaller Working
Group, then map the gaps in terms of diversity, representation and
expertise and identify profiles of members that we need to bring into
the group. Recruiting and selection of additional members will not
only happen in July, but also at later stages in the process,
depending on the needs the Core Team and the Working Groups identify.
If you are interested in applying but still have doubts, please reach
out to Kaarel or me directly. We will work with you all on
clarification.
All the best,
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 at 03:24, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Following up on Katherine’s email from last week[1], we are today
> opening the call for Working Group members for 9 Thematic Areas (yes,
> we added one more!).
>
> == Working Group members ==
> The Working Groups will map the present situation of their Thematic
> Area, the obstacles and opportunities, as well as needed changes to
> advance our movement in our strategic direction. They will identify
> possible strategies for making these changes and develop concrete
> recommendations for the movement on how to ratify and implement
> them.[2]
>
> Working Group members will need to be able to invest a minimum of 5
> hours per week, but that time might vary depending on the workflow
> that each group agrees upon. Members of the Working Groups are
> expected to act in the interest of the movement, not in the interest
> of their own organization or community.
>
> == Selection of members ==
> We are looking for a maximum of 15 members for each of the 9 groups.
> For best results we will need a diverse set of members from across the
> movement. We have developed a set of criteria, to ensure the necessary
> expertise, diversity, and representation.[3] We will assemble a
> Steering Committee to decide upon membership of the Working Groups in
> close coordination with the Core Strategy Team.[4]
>
> == Apply to become a working group member ==
> We encourage everyone with an interest in the strategic conversations
> to apply for becoming a Working Group member in their topic of
> expertise. We recommend that movement organizations and groups create
> internal processes for the selection of their candidates to avoid
> multiple, competing applications.
>
> The call will be open until June 25, 2018. ***Please apply via this
> application form.[5]*** To prepare your application, you can consult
> the overview of the questions asked in the form on Meta.[6]
>
> == Next steps ==
> We expect to be able to announce the Working Group members in the
> second week of July, so that the working groups can be assembled,
> onboarded and ready to start working before Wikimania. The first step
> for the groups will be to agree upon their set-up and scope of work.
> At Wikimania, we plan to convene the attending Working Group members
> in the Strategy Space to discuss and refine their road to the
> recommendations and ensure exchange between the groups.[7]
>
> We invite you all to familiarize yourselves with the existing
> documentation of the Working Group(s) of your interest,[8] add
> comments, additional input or share your concerns via talk pages Your
> comments will be then be taken into consideration by the respective
> Working Groups.
>
> We are looking forward to working and having these long-awaited
> conversations with many of you!
>
> In the name of the Strategy Core Team,
> Nicole
>
> [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-June/090417.html
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [5] https://goo.gl/forms/zVElm0hLT9eZvqwF3
> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
> [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
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Adviser International Relations
Program Manager Wikimedia Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello all,
As you may know, we use a tool called ORES
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORES> is analyzing edits to detect
vandalism. It is providing a score per edit. You can see the result in the
Recent Changes, by adding the filters "likely have problems" and "very
likely have problems" in the "contributions quality predictions" section.
[image: Screenshot of Wikidata recent changes, filtering with the results
from ORES]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Screenshot_Wikidata_recent_changes_…>
In order to keep improving this tool, we would need feedback about:
- Edits that are not detected as vandalism
- False positive (edits that are highlighted as vandalism when they’re
not)
- Any kind of patterns that you notice (for example: "edits on Commons
categories have a higher chance to be vandalism")
You can let feedback on one of these two pages: *report mistakes
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORES/Report_mistakes/2018>*
and *patterns
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORES/Vandalism_patterns>*.
Thanks a lot,
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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.
