Hello,
The following primary database masters will be switched over during the
next few weeks (more details at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788):
Impact:
*Writes will be blocked*
*Reads will remain unaffected*
These are the concrete days, hours and affected wikis:
* s8: 10th Sept from 05:00-05:30 UTC. The affected wiki is: wikidatawiki -
tracking task: T230762
* s2: 17th Sept from 05:00-05:30 UTC. The list of affected wikis is at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/mas…
- tracking task: T230785
* s3: 24th Sept from 05:00-05:30 UTC. The list of affected wikis is at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/mas…
- tracking task: T230783
* s4: 26th Sept from 05:00-05:30 UTC. The affected wiki is: commonswiki -
tracking task: T230784
If everything goes well, we do not expect to use those 30 minutes of
read-only and rather just a few minutes.
We will email send an email the day of each failover before and after it is
done.
Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.
Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. As requested by many interested scientists, I put the full text of the work in Zenodo. It is currently available at https://zenodo.org/record/3461198.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
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De : Houcemeddine Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr>
Date : 2019/09/25 13:12 (GMT+01:00)
À : wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Paladox via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikimedia-medicine(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Objet : Our research paper about Wikidata and Health has been published
Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. I am honoured to inform you that our latest research paper about Wikidata and Health has been published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics (IF=2.9). The paper is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103292. This paper is the first one of our series of research publications about Medical Wikidata project. If you like to have the paper, please contact me and I will send the PDF to you. Our next papers will work on finding methods to ameliorate the coverage and quality of medical information in Wikidata. We are quite sure that our work is important as it will be provide trustworthy reference medical information that can be used by physicians and computer programs to process medical data and enhance the efficiency of health care.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
GLAM, Research and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
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Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. I am honoured to inform you that our latest research paper about Wikidata and Health has been published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics (IF=2.9). The paper is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103292. This paper is the first one of our series of research publications about Medical Wikidata project. If you like to have the paper, please contact me and I will send the PDF to you. Our next papers will work on finding methods to ameliorate the coverage and quality of medical information in Wikidata. We are quite sure that our work is important as it will be provide trustworthy reference medical information that can be used by physicians and computer programs to process medical data and enhance the efficiency of health care.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
GLAM, Research and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
____________________
+21629499418
Greetings!
Apologies for cross-posting. After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000. About 9 in-person events were also organised for the edit-a-thon in different parts of the world.
The contest is organized by a Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine Project",[1] which is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, and events, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
If you would love to join this exciting event, please list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page.[2] If you would love to lead this contest for your country or community, please list your name in the coordinators page here.[3] The rapid grants team would be accepting proposals throughout October and November, in case you'd need funds to run local edit-a-thons or some other activities related to this event. Upon listing your name on the coordinators' page, you'd be contacted to talk about the resources you'd need to run the event in your community. You can also contact me directly for any clarifications.
Finally, We also need volunteers to handle some aspects of the AfroCine project. These aspects include:
1. Community Liaison: This role essentially involves closely engaging with local communities to support their activities within the scope of Afrocine.
2. Communications: This involves the communications aspects of the project. Sharing relevant information on mailing lists and social media would be the responsibility of this person.
3. MAC Jury: This role involves joining the jury of Months of African Cinema contest. We need as many people as we can get :).
4. Tools: Going forward, we would need relevant tools to better track the metrics and also analyse the general impact of these events. We are calling for Wikimedia volunteers who can navigate wikimedia tools that can be useful for the project.
If you would love to help with any of these roles, or some other roles that have not been mentioned, please contact me directly.
If you have further questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project talkpages.
Thank you!
Sam Oyeyele.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Coordinators
just wrote a little blog post on Paul-Olivier Dehaye's visualisation of the Illuminati correspondence - done from a SPARQL query of our wikibase:
https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/1695
an interface for this visualisation should not be too difficult to script - I'd have some ideas about the simple functionalities such a thing should have.
...if I can inspire someone.
Cheers
Olaf
Dr. Olaf Simons
Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt
Schloss Friedenstein, Pagenhaus
99867 Gotha
Büro: +49-361-737-1722
Mobil: +49-179-5196880
Privat: Hauptmarkt 17b/ 99867 Gotha
Hello all,
Over the last few years, more and more research teams all around the world
have started to use Wikidata. Wikidata is becoming a fundamental resource
[1]. That is also true for research at Google. One advantage of using
Wikidata as a research resource is that it is available to everyone.
Results can be reproduced and validated externally. Yay!
I had used my 20% time to support such teams. The requests became more
frequent, and now I am moving to a new role in Google Research, akin to a
Wikimedian in Residence [2]: my role is to promote understanding of the
Wikimedia projects within Google, work with Googlers to share more
resources with the Wikimedia communities, and to facilitate the improvement
of Wikimedia content by the Wikimedia communities, all with a strong focus
on Wikidata.
One deeply satisfying thing for me is that the goals of my new role and the
goals of the communities are so well aligned: it is really about improving
the coverage and quality of the content, and about pushing the projects
closer towards letting everyone share in the sum of all knowledge.
Expect to see more from me again - there are already a number of fun ideas
in the pipeline, and I am looking forward to see them get out of the gates!
I am looking forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions, and to continue
contributing to the Wikimedia goals.
Cheers,
Denny
P.S.: Which also means, incidentally, that my 20% time is opening for new
shenanigans [3].
[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=wikidata&sort=relevance
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_residence
[3] https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah
Hello everyone,
Apologies for cross-posting, and please forward to communities who you
think will be interested.
In light of the movement’s increased focus on diversity and becoming
essential infrastructure for diverse human knowledge, the Community
Programs team at the WMF has begun investigating the use of content
campaigns in the movement. Campaigns are some of the most reliable ways to
create new content and introduce new contributors to the movement, but we
have a lot of questions like:
What are the different steps that our community organizers have to go
through in order to organize campaigns and contests such as Wiki Loves
Monuments, Wikipedia Asian Month, #1lib1ref Wikidata Menu Challenge etc.?
What are the tools that are being used in organizing these campaigns and
contests such as PetScan, Listeria, CitationHunt, Fountain, wscontest tool,
Outreach Dashboard etc.?
During some initial research into the space, we have developed a draft
Organizer
Framework <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Organizer_Framework>[1]
that highlights key stages in organizing any campaign/contest and the
documentation that we could find supporting those stages.
Now, we need your help us improve the framework so that we can help less
experienced organizers understand how to better support content campaigns.
Please join us in discussing the framework and provide feedback on the talk
page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Campaigns/Organizer_Frame…>[2]
or connect with us on the discuss forum.[3]
If you want to reach out directly, feel free to email us at
astinson(a)wikimedia.org or sgill(a)wikimedia.org.
Thanks,
Alex Stinson and Satdeep Gill
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Organizer_Framework
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Campaigns/Organizer_Framework
[3]
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/feedback-on-content-campaigns-framework…
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Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Hello All,
I'm writing asking your opinion
Before some words on the context:
I'm in the process of creating a Wikidata use case example to present and I
have chosen a subject that I hope is of interest by many persons: sports.
I want to present a query for the the athletes that are ACTIVE TODAY in a
certain discipline, e.g. "soccer".
>From the results of the query on the players I have had to
1) filter out the retired (I want only the active ones)
2) filter out the death persons
The second is required since the date for the end of career is not always
available, especially for athletes of the past.
Here the point:
I found athletes with the "Date of born" but with NO "date of death". So a
query on the age show me athletes up to 149 years old.
Since the oldest know person was 122, what about to set "date of death =
unknown value" for all the persons resulting older such age ?
Thanks in advance for you opinion
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*FabC*
Dear Sir,
I thank you for your answer. I did not issue a preprint online because the editorial board of the journal advises me not to do that before the paper is published by the journal. I will publish the preprint where the paper is issued by the journal. This will happen within two weeks. However, I can send you the preprint of the work if you need it.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM, Research and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
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De : Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen(a)gmail.com>
Date : 2019/09/21 10:19 (GMT+01:00)
À : Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Objet : Re: [Wikidata] Personal news: a new role
Dear Houcemeddine,
do you happen to have a preprint for that online?
Egon
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American Chemical Society to join the Initiative for Open Citations
too. SpringerNature, the RSC and many others already did.
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Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT
Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/)
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