Wikidata September 2019

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Prepare your small tasks to mentor a new contributor! (Google Code-in early heads-up)
by Andre Klapper 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

(Note: This is only an early heads-up, to be prepared. Google Code-in has NOT been announced yet, but last year, GCI mentors asked for more time in advance to identify tasks to mentor. Here you are. :) * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has some smaller design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Google Code-in (GCI) is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. GCI 2019 has not yet been announced but usually takes place from late October to December. It is not only about coding: We also need tasks about design, docs, outreach/research, QA. Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors , add your name to the mentors table, and start tagging tasks in Wikimedia Phabricator by adding the #gci-2019 project tag. We will need MANY mentors and MANY tasks, otherwise we cannot make it. Last year, 199 students successfully worked on 765 tasks supported by 39 mentors. For some achievements from the last round, see https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/02/20/partnerships-make-it-possib… Note that "beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant") and generic tasks are very welcome (like "Choose and replace 2 uses of Linker::link() from the list in T223010" style). We also have more than 400 unassigned open #good-first-bug tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/3YnDUWYJfXSo/#R Can and would you mentor some of these tasks in your area? Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors , ask if you have any questions, and add your name to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2019#List_of_Wikimedia_mentors Thanks (as we will not be able to run this without your help), andre -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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[ANN] DBpedia’s Databus and strategic initiative to facilitate 1 Billion derived Knowledge Graphs by and for Consumers until 2025
by Sebastian Hellmann 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

** [Please forward to interested colleagues] We are proud to announce that the DBpedia Databus website at<https://databus.dbpedia.org/>_https://databus.dbpedia.org_ <https://databus.dbpedia.org/> and the SPARQL API at<https://databus.dbpedia.org/(repo/sparql|yasgui)>_https://databus.dbpedia.org/(repo/sparql|yasgui)_ (_docu_ <http://dev.dbpedia.org/Download_Data>) are in public beta now. The system is usable (eat-your-own-dog-food tested) following a “working software over comprehensive documentation” approach. Due to its many components (website, sparql endpoints, keycloak, mods, upload client, download client, and data debugging), we estimate approximately six months in beta to fix bugs, implement all features and improve the details. If you have any feedback or questions, please use the<https://forum.dbpedia.org/>_DBpedia Forum_ <https://forum.dbpedia.org/>, the “report issues” button, or _dbpedia(a)infai.org_. The full document is available at: _https://databus.dbpedia.org/dbpedia/publication/strategy/2019.09.09/strate… We are looking forward to the feedback and discussion at the_14th DBpedia Community Meeting at SEMANTiCS 2019 in Karlsruhe_ <https://wiki.dbpedia.org/events/14th-dbpedia-community-meeting-karlsruhe> on September 12th or online. ######## # Excerpt ######## DBpedia Databus The DBpedia Databus is a platform to capture invested effort by data consumers who needed better data quality (fitness for use) in order to use the data and give improvements back to the data source and other consumers. DBpedia Databus enables anybody to build an automated DBpedia-style extraction, mapping and testing for any data they need. Databus incorporates features from DNS, Git, RSS, online forums and Maven to harness the full workpower of data consumers. Vision Professional consumers of data worldwide have already built stable cleaning and refinement chains for all available datasets, but their efforts are invisible and not reusable. Deep, cleaned data silos exist beyond the reach of publishers and other consumers trapped locally in pipelines. *Data is not oil that flows out of inflexible pipelines*. Databus breaks existing pipelines into individual components that together form a decentralized, but centrally coordinated data network in which data can flow back to previous components, the original sources, or end up being consumed by external components, The Databus provides a platform for re-publishing these files with very little effort (leaving file traffic as only cost factor) while offering the full benefits of built-in system features such as automated publication, structured querying, automatic ingestion, as well as pluggable automated analysis, data testing via continuous integration, and automated application deployment *(software with data)*. The impact is highly synergistic, just a few thousand professional consumers and research projects can expose millions of cleaned datasets, which are on par with what has long existed in deep silos and pipelines. 1 Billion interconnected, quality-controlled Knowledge Graphs until 2025 As we are inversing the paradigm form a publisher-centric view to a data consumer network, we will open the download valve to enable discovery and access to massive amounts of cleaner data than published by the original source. The main DBpedia Knowledge Graph - cleaned data from Wikipedia in all languages and Wikidata - alone has 600k file downloads per year complemented by downloads at over 20 chapter, e.g.<http://es.dbpedia.org/>_http://es.dbpedia.org_ <http://es.dbpedia.org/> as well as over 8 million daily hits on the main Virtuoso endpoint. Community extension from the alpha phase such as<https://databus.dbpedia.org/sven-h/dbkwik/dbkwik/2019.09.02>_DBkWik_ <https://databus.dbpedia.org/sven-h/dbkwik/dbkwik/2019.09.02>,<https://databus.dbpedia.org/propan/lhd/linked-hypernyms>_LinkedHypernyms_ <https://databus.dbpedia.org/propan/lhd/linked-hypernyms> are being loaded onto the bus and consolidated and we expect this number to reach over 100 by the end of the year. Companies and organisations who have<https://github.com/dbpedia/links>_previously uploaded their backlinks here_ <https://github.com/dbpedia/links> will be able to migrate to the databus. Other datasets are cleaned and posted. In two of our research projects_LOD-GEOSS_ <https://www.enargus.de/pub/bscw.cgi/?op=enargus.eps2&s=14&q=BASF%20SE&v=10&…> and<http://plass.io/>_PLASS_ <http://plass.io/>, we will re-publish open datasets, clean them and create collections, which will result in DBpedia-style knowledge graphs for energy systems and supply-chain management. The *full document* is available at: _https://databus.dbpedia.org/dbpedia/publication/strategy/2019.09.09/strate… ** ** **

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Weekly Summary #381
by Léa Lacroix 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events> - Upcoming: Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: References in Wikidata, 10 September. Agenda <https://docs.google.com/document/d/14oW7DoEMRQ8hy2Rj7V1kjbeNiL2chGTsPrqf239…> Press, articles, blog posts <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage> - Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students <https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2019.00058> - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV) - Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata <http://blogs.harvard.edu/britton/2019/09/06/open-access-society-publishers-…> by A. Britton Tool of the week - moveClaim <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mat%C4%9Bj_Such%C3%A1nek/moveClaim.js> allows you to move or copy claims from one item to another. This is especially useful when splitting items, or creating lots of similar items. Other Noteworthy Stuff - Seventh birthday of Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Seventh_Birthday>: you can start thinking about organizing a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community! - The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2019/Program> is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference. - Because of a database switch, Wikidata will be in read-only more on September 10th at 05:00 UTC, for max. 30min (phab:T230762 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230762>) - Recent tool: @Wikidatabot <https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@WikidataBot>, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram - New game: Wikidata Mall <https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@WikidataMallBot>, a Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata Did you know? - Newest properties <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties>: - General datatypes: mobile formatter URL <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7250>, degree of difficulty <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7252>, color produced <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7253>, computer performance <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7256>, use restriction status <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7261>, FCC Product Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7290>, Itch.io ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7294>, Gregorian calendar start date <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7295> - External identifiers: Identification code for Japanese universities and colleges <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7251>, Pilze Deutschland ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7254>, Moose Deutschland ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7255>, Guia dos Quadrinhos artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7257>, Toons Mag ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7258>, Newspapers.com ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7259>, Transporter Classification Database ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7260>, ESPN.com College Football Player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7262>, Prime Pages ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7263>, FCC Grantee Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7264>, FNL player ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7265>, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian comic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7266>, Guia dos Quadrinhos brazilian publishing house ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7267>, Guia dos Quadrinhos character ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7268>, Guia dos Quadrinhos comic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7269>, Guia dos Quadrinhos international publishing house ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7270>, Hiking Project area ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7271>, Hiking Project site ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7272>, National Equipment Registration System Supplier Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7273>, Naver Music album ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7274>, Naver Music artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7275>, New Encyclopedic Dictionary of Czech <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7276>, Pandora artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7277>, Peakbagger climber ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7278>, Peakbagger key col ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7279>, playmarkerstats.com team ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7280>, Radio Equipment List Certification Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7281>, Slovo i Dilo person ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7282>, Spectrum Management System Company Number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7283>, The Independent topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7284>, WGA project ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7285>, WGA writer ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7286>, WorldFootball.net team ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7287>, Bursa Malaysia stock code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7288>, CPUID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7289>, L-number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7291>, Arnet Miner publication ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7292>, NLP ID (record) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7293> - New property proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal> to review: - General datatypes: IP Code <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/IP_Code>, dénivelé cumulé positif <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/d%C3%A9nivel%C3%A9…>, Supports qualifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Supports_qualifier>, climbing route <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/climbing_route>, madhhab <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/madhhab>, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TDV_%C4%B0slam_Ans…> - External identifiers: Auckland Museum ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Auckland_Museum_ID>, Al-Jazeera Topic ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Al-Jazeera_Topic_ID>, Highland Historic Environment Record ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Highland_Historic_…>, Grammy Awards artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Grammy_Awards_arti…>, SNK ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SNK_ID>, Online PWN Encyclopedia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Online_PWN_Encyclo…>, VAT identification number <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/VAT_identification…>, TOP500 System ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/TOP500_System_ID>, ACUF unique ID (UFI) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ACUF_unique_ID_(UF…>, Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Marine_Regions_Geo…>, Downdetector ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Downdetector_ID>, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/National_Wildlife_…>, Behind the voice Actors short ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Behind_the_voice_A…>, Rate Your Music label ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Rate_Your_Music_la…>, Labelcode <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Labelcode>, Maine Trail Finder ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Maine_Trail_Finder…>, Aozora Bunko author ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aozora_Bunko_autho…>, Aozora Bunko work ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Aozora_Bunko_work_…>, iHeartRadio podcast ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/iHeartRadio_podcas…>, iHeartRadio artist ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/iHeartRadio_artist…>, WeChat ID <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/WeChat_ID> - Query examples: - UK Cabinet Ministers and their links in the UK National Archives <https://w.wiki/7vc> | (Histropedia timeline <http://histropedia.com/showcase/wikidata-viewer.html?q=SELECT%20?person%20?…> ) - Most common properties on Senses <https://w.wiki/87G> (source <https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1170681272806576131>) - Place of birth of actors in The Matrix <https://w.wiki/87J> (source <https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/1170079436768563200>) - Graph of all species in the Heron (Ardeidae) family with an IBP alpha code <https://w.wiki/87K> (source <https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/1169368504325165056>) Development - Wikidata got a high-resolution logo, thanks to Odder <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Odder> (phab:T230120 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230120>) - New monolingual code languages are added, thanks to Jon Harald Søby <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian) - Fixed a bug in constraint violations indicator that was not showing up sometimes (phab:T227866 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227866>) - Make Lua's function mw.wikibase.entityExists return true for redirects (phab:T192462 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192462>) - Reviewed and followed up on highlighting statements when using "#P" in URL (phab:T178745 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178745>) - Wikidata Bridge: saving the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226999>) - Showing the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227759>) - Overcoming a conceptional oversight between mediawiki and standard language codes (phab:T231833 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T231833>) You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R>. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filt…>. Monthly Tasks - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview> - Suggested and open tasks <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks> ! - Contribute to a Showcase item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items> . - Help translate <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats> or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language! - Help merge identical items <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge> across Wikimedia projects. - Help write the next summary! <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next> -- 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.

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Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, September 10th
by Hilary K Thorsen 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Greetings everyone, Our next biweekly LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call is Tuesday, September 10th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST. We'll be discussing references in Wikidata and take a closer look at the Cradle tool. The call details are below. To receive notification about upcoming calls and meeting notes you can subscribe to the ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ld4-wikidata>, and if you aren't able to attend, the meetings are recorded and meeting notes available on Google Drive<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n>. If you haven't joined one of our calls before, the LD4-Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the Linked Data for Production project<https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=104568167>. One of the goals of the project is understanding how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. Wikidata offers exciting possibilities for libraries to become a part of the linked data landscape, share and reuse data, and discover new relationships and connections. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata. Call Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, September 10th at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20190910T160000&p…>) Zoom link to join meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/204437188 Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14oW7DoEMRQ8hy2Rj7V1kjbeNiL2chGTsPrqf239… Communication: Ld4-wikidata Google group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata #wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: http://bit.ly/joinld4slack Notes in public LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JwTulCABs0TkGQDVSnYbIYEb7bC-j4-n Website: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/LD4P2/LD4-Wikidata+Affinity+Group Cheers, Hilary Hilary Thorsen Wikimedian in Residence Linked Data for Production Project Digital Library Systems and Services Stanford Libraries Stanford, CA 94305 thorsenh(a)stanford.edu 650-285-9429

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[ANN] New Monthly DBpedia Releases
by Sebastian Hellmann 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

[Please forward to all people who have been waiting for new DBpedia releases.] [Responses and questions can also go into https://forum.dbpedia.org] Dear all, we built a complex, automated, test-driven system around the DBpedia releases to allow the community to debug and extend the data and tools better. The system is partially implemented and documented, meaning: * from now on there will be monthly DBpedia releases * they are *neither as complete* as the last big release *nor perfect*, but decent and they will improve each month with your contribution * the system feels more effective as in: we found it much easier to locate and fix issues due to automatic testing URI patterns, N-Triples syntax and soon SHACL on Minidumps (triggered on software git commit) and on the final large dumps. * two former community extensions were submitted already: DBkWik <https://databus.dbpedia.org/sven-h/dbkwik/dbkwik/2019.09.02> and LinkedHypernyms <https://databus.dbpedia.org/propan/lhd/linked-hypernyms/2016.04.01> Only technical documentation is available at the moment. No summary statistics yet, i.e. we don't know yet how well we are doing overall. * How to download: http://dev.dbpedia.org/Download_DBpedia * How to improve: http://dev.dbpedia.org/Improve_DBpedia * They can be browsed via http://databus.dbpedia.org/dbpedia but there docu is incomplete and the query and collection builder is untested Also next week, 12th of September, DBpedia will meet at SEMANTiCS 2019 <https://wiki.dbpedia.org/events/14th-dbpedia-community-meeting-karlsruhe> -- 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

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performance
by Gerard Meijssen 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hoi, At this time it is not feasible to edit Wikidata. Performance is abysmal, timeouts occur all the time. Other websites are quite alright so it must be Wikidata that has a problem. In the weekend is my prime time to edit wikidata.. PLEASE... Thanks, GerardM

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"Collaborating on the sum of all knowledge across languages"
by Denny Vrandečić 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Hi all! I really try not to spam the chat too much with pointers to my work on the Abstract Wikipedia, but this one is probably also interesting for Wikidata contributors. It is the draft for a chapter submitted to Koerner and Reagle's Wikipedia@20 book, and talks about knowledge diversity under the light of centralisation through projects such as Wikidata. Public commenting phase is open until July 19, and very welcome: "Collaborating on the sum of all knowledge across languages" About the book: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia@20 Link to chapter: https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah Cheers, Denny

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Invitation to join the Program Committee for the 2020 LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries--apply by September 6th
by Hilary K Thorsen 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

We’re seeking volunteers with a wide variety of skills and backgrounds to join the Program Committee for the 2020 LD4 Conference: May 13th and 14th, 2020, in College Station, Texas, USA, at the Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center<https://www.texasamhotelcc.com/> at Texas A&M University. The Linked Data for Production initiative<http://www.ld4p.org>, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is hosting this conference to bring together anyone passionate about the adoption of linked data in libraries. There were quite a few sessions on Wikidata during the 2019 conference, so we expect it will also be well-represented in 2020. Our contemporary venue accommodates up to 200 people, with flexibility for multiple simultaneous activities and proximity to local cultural attractions. What kind of community meeting space would you like to create? How can this community gathering best advance the adoption of linked data in all kinds of libraries? Join the Program Committee and shape an event you are excited to participate in! To serve on the Program Committee, you should plan to attend the conference in College Station, Texas on May 13th and 14th, 2020, and be available for bi-weekly teleconference calls beginning in September. Fill in this short form<https://forms.gle/MfDNKiWLy5tBeRCAA> by September 6th to indicate your interest in joining the Program Committee. Committee members will be selected based on a diversity of skills, interests, and backgrounds and will be notified by September 13th. For those not joining the Program Committee, keep an eye out for a call for proposals and other announcements about the 2020 LD4 Conference! Hilary Thorsen (Linked Data for Production project) and Christine Fernsebner Eslao (Harvard University) 2020 LD4 Conference Co-Chairs Hilary Thorsen Wikimedian in Residence Linked Data for Production Project Digital Library Systems and Services Stanford Libraries Stanford, CA 94305 thorsenh(a)stanford.edu 650-285-9429

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Wikimania report
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Dear all, I thank you for your efforts. I invite to see my Wikimania report at https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_France/Micro-financement/Wikima…. Waiting for the video of my session entitled Wikidata and Health: Current situation and perspectives. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki (he/him) Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36 GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group Member, WikiResearch Tunisia Member, Wiki Project Med Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb Founder, TunSci ____________________ +21629499418

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Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Raz Shuty 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Sorry for cross-posting! Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting this week **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Questions can be asked in English! The Technical Advice IRC Meeting (TAIM) is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about MediaWiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! -- Raz Shuty Engineering Manager Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment. 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.

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