Wikidata March 2020

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New Wikimedia Technical Blog
by Sarah R 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Hi all, We just launched [[WM:Techblog]] <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/>, a new place to share stories from the Wikimedia technical community with the world. Yay! We created this venue to provide a central place for people to share stories about the technical work that they do— like: - How to run a top ten website that is all Open Source? - How do we make our codebase more modular and future-proof? - How do we come together to work on technical projects? - How to develop a product for many different languages? - How do new tools and bots help run Wikimedia projects? - What can we learn from data science and research? - And, much more… Check out these posts for examples: Computational knowledge: Wikidata, Wikidata query Service, and women who are mayors! <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/03/24/computational-knowledge-wikidata-…> By Trey Jones Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again <https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/03/24/parsoid-in-php-or-there-and-back-…>, By S.Subramanya Sastry and C.Scott Ananian Wikimedia projects have many intersections with the larger Open Source community. It’s our hope that the technical blog will create more visibility and conversations and provide information to a wider audience of people who are interested in our work. If you are interested in writing a blog post, read the editorial guidelines <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_blog_editorial_guidelines> to learn about what would make a good story and how to get published! We manage the process of reviewing and publishing posts here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/Technical-blog-posts Thanks to everyone who contributed to making the blog possible. There were many! For the WM Techblog team, Sarah R. Rodlund Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> srodlund(a)wikimedia.org

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Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems - ExUM@UMAP 2020 - Call for Papers
by Oana Inel 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

*** Apologies for cross postings *** ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM@UMAP 2020) July 17, 2020 co-located with UMAP 2020 (http://www.um.org/umap2020) - Genova, Italy Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExUM_Workshop Web: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exum2020 For any information: cataldo.musto(a)uniba.it, marco.polignano(a)uniba.it ======================== COVID-19 STATUS - UPDATE ======================== UMAP 2020 will proceed as planned July 14-17, but we will continue to monitor the evolving situation related to the coronavirus disease outbreak and potential impact on global travel. We wish to reassure that should a physical conference be unsafe or should people have travel limitations from Governments, the remote presentations/recordings will be possible. ========= ABSTRACT ========= Adaptive and personalized systems have become pervasive technologies which are gradually playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Indeed, we are now used to interact every day with algorithms that help us in several scenarios, ranging from services that suggest us music to be listened to or movies to be watched, to personal assistants able to proactively support us in complex decision-making tasks. As the importance of such technologies in our everyday lives grows, it is fundamental that the internal mechanisms that guide these algorithms are as clear as possible. It is not by chance that the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) emphasized the users' right to explanation when people face machine learning-based (or ñ more in general - artificial intelligence-based) systems. Unfortunately, the current research tends to go in the opposite direction, since most of the approaches try to maximize the effectiveness of the personalization strategy (e.g., recommendation accuracy) at the expense of the explainability and the transparency of the model. The main research questions which arise from this scenario is simple and straightforward: how can we deal with such a dichotomy between the need for effective adaptive systems and the right to transparency and interpretability? Several research lines are triggered by this question: building scrutable user models and transparent algorithms, analyzing the impact of opaque algorithms on final users, studying the role of explanation strategies, investigating how to provide users with more control in the personalization and adaptation problems. The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing such problems, challenges and innovative re-search approaches in the area, by investigating the role of transparency and explainability on the re-cent methodologies for building user models or for developing personalized and adaptive systems. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interests include but are not limited to: ∑ TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE PERSONALIZATION STRATEGIES o Scrutable User Models o Transparent User Profiling and Personal Data Extraction o Explainable Personalization and Adaptation Methodologies o Novel strategies (e.g., conversational recommender systems) for building transparent algorithms ∑ DESIGNING EXPLANATION ALGORITHMS o Explanation algorithms based on item description and item properties o Explanation algorithms based on user-generated content (e.g., reviews) o Explanation algorithms based on collaborative information o Building explanation algorithms for opaque personalization techniques (e.g., neural networks, matrix factorization) ∑ DESIGNING TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER INTERFACES o Transparent User Interfaces o Designing Transparent Interaction methodologies o Novel paradigms (e.g. chatbots) for building transparent models ∑ EVALUATING TRANSPARENCY AND EXPLAINABILITY o Evaluating Transparency in interaction or personalization o Evaluating Explainability of the algorithms o Designing User Studies for evaluating transparency and explainability o Novel metrics and experimental protocols ∑ OPEN ISSUES IN TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER MODELS AND PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS o Ethical issues (Fairness and Biases) in User Models and Personalized Systems o Privacy management of Personal and Social data o Discussing Recent Regulations (GDPR) and future directions ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies to exploit heterogeneous personal data and approach to build transparent and scrutable user models. (A) Regular papers (from 4 to 6 pages + 1 reference - ACM format); (B) Demo and Position Papers (max 2 pages + 1 reference - ACM format); Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exum2020 All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceedings template: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Note that the references do not count towards page limits. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior the specified deadline (all deadlines refer to GMT). All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2020 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the particular workshop and present the paper there. ================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Full paper submission: April 9, 2020 * Paper notification: April 30, 2020 * Camera-ready paper: May 6, 2020 ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Cataldo Musto - University of Bari, Italy Nava Tintarev - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Oana Inel - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Marco Polignano - University of Bari, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Juergen Ziegler - University of Duisburg Essen ======================= PROGRAM COMMITEE (TBC) ======================= Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal Ludovico Boratto, Eurecom Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburg Amra Delic, TU Wien Michael Ekstrand, Boise State University Eelco Herder, Radboud University Nijmegen Bruce Ferwerda, Jˆnkˆping University Fabio Gasparetti, Roma Tre University Eelco Herder, Radboud University Dietmar Jannach, University of Klagenfurt Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University Aonghus Lawlor, University College Dublin Benedikt Loepp, University of Duisburg-Essen Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University Panagiotis Symeonidis, Free University of Bolzano Christoph Trattner, University of Bergen

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Analytics/Research Office hours on 2020-03-25 at 17.00-18.00 (UTC)
by Martin Gerlach 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Hi all, join us for our monthly Analytics/Research Office hours on 2020-03-25 at 17.00-18.00 (UTC). Bring all your research questions and ideas to discuss projects, data, analysis, etc… To participate, please join the IRC channel: #wikimedia-research [1]. More detailed information can be found here [2] or on the etherpad [3] if you would like to add items to agenda or check notes from previous meetings. Best, Martin [1] irc://chat.freenode.net:6667/wikimedia-research [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours [3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation

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Call for Proposals for grants to support WikiCite satellite events
by Liam Wyatt 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Dear Wikimedians, The call for proposals for grants to organise WikiCite satellite events <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> to be held first half of 2020 is now open. WikiCite is an initiative to develop open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge. Since 2016, there has been an annual conference in support of that goal. In 2020, this will become a series of independently organised Satellite events around the world. The steering committee, with the financial support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation, are offering grants to support WikiCite Satellite events in three categories for events happening in the first half of 2020: 1. *International events in association with professional conferences *[Maximum $10k each, Application deadline 1 February] (details <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite#1:_International_events_in_associa…> ) 2. Local workshops and meetups [Maximum $2k each, Open until funds are allocated] (details <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite#2:_Local_workshops_and_meetups> ) 3. Events seeking non-financial support (details <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite#3:_Events_seeking_non-financial_su…> ) Submissions are especially encouraged if they are related to marginalised knowledge and/or hosted at a location in the global South. To read the detailed criteria for each of these categories, and to apply for a WikiCite Satellite event grant, visit: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite Sincerely and on behalf of the steering committee <http://wikicite/administration#Coordination>, Liam Wyatt / Wittylama WikiCite program manager [WMF Contractor] Note: If you wish to host an event in support of WikiCite’s aims, but do not require any support, you do not need to apply for ‘permission’. Please add your event to the ongoing calendar of events <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/media>.

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adding population to Metropolitan France
by Zsolt Ero 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Hi, Total Wikidata beginner here. I found that Metropolitan France doesn't have population information: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212429 On the other hand, Wikipedia has it, including official source for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_France My question is: - Is there any way to flag some information to be corrected, or communicate the need for improvement? For example OpenStreetMap has a bug feature for this. - How can I add this value myself? What do I need to do exactly? Zsolt

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Weekly Summary #408
by Léa Lacroix 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

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Important for tool maintainers: last steps of wb_terms table migration
by Léa Lacroix 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Hello all, This is an important announcement for all the tool builders and maintainers who access Wikidata’s data by *querying Labs database replicas directly*. In April 2019, the Wikidata development team started a heavy redesign of an important table of the database, wb_terms. Over the years, this table has become too big, causing various issues. That’s why we decided to split it into several smaller tables. For more context, you can have a look at previous announcements: April 2019 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-April/012987.html>, May 2019 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-May/013052.html>. We encountered a lot of unexpected issues on the road which required us to postpone the timeline, but the final steps of the migration are now happening. We published a blog post <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/195/coming_to_terms_with_…> to explain in more detail what we did and why it was important to optimize the database structure. Here’s an overview of what happened, what are the next steps and how you can update your code: - The new structure is now in place on Labs. You can read more details on this documentation page <https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-extensions-Wikibase/master/php/md_docs_…> - Wikidata is entirely reading from and writing to the new tables since March 18th, which means the existing wb_terms table is *not updated anymore* - This means that any tools that are still reading from wb_terms and updating Wikidata based on its content have to be updated as soon as possible - In order to fully deprecate the table and make it clear that it is outdated, the wb_terms will be renamed to wb_terms_no_longer_updated on Monday, *March 30th*. Tools still querying this table at that date will certainly encounter errors. - To get an overview on how to update your queries, you can have a look at these examples <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221767> If you have questions or encounter any issues, please write on this Phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208425> or write me an email. We apologize for the delay and the lack of recent updates regarding this change. Cheers, -- 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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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The Corona dead
by Pine W 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

I'm forwarding this, although I wish that the circumstances were better. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 2:46 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Corona dead To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hoi, Obviously with a pandemic people die including notable people. As I am used to do, I have a query, a Listeria list that will update the latest information based on what we know in Wikidata. Given that it is not restricted to any one Wikipedia, we will know the notable dead from any and all Wikipedias. It is easy enough to have this list on your Wikipedia.. Thanks, GerardM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM/The_Corona_dead _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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can one create properties with QuickStatements?
by Olaf Simons 21 Mar '20

21 Mar '20

A questions for those who have created Wikibase installations When creating a new Wikibase: How do you create Properties en masse - especially useful if you want to implement all the properties of a partner project? Is there a way to do that with QuickStatements? Best, 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

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[CfP] ESWC 2020 - **Submission deadline extended** for Industry Tracks
by Valentina Ivanova 21 Mar '20

21 Mar '20

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The 17th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020) May 31st - June 4th, 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. ESWC is a premier venue for discussing the latest scientific results and innovations in the field of semantic technologies on the Web and Linked Data, attracting a high number of participants from academia and industry alike. Follow us: Web Page: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/ Twitter: @eswc_conf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ESWCCONF LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8843932/ Become part of ESWC 2020 by submitting to the following tracks & activities! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In this announcement: ******************************************* 1. Call for Papers - Industry Track https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-industry-track/ * Submission deadline: March 27, 2020 (**Extended**) (All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12)) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 1. Call for Papers - Industry Track ******************************************* The industry track seeks to present the state of adoption of semantic technologies in industrial applications, and intends to facilitate a discussion about what current industry challenges can be addressed with semantic technologies. These technologies may be used in specific industries (e.g., media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, government, intelligence, public sector, industrial production etc.) and in different application areas (e.g., business intelligence, smart cities, digital twin, analytics, search, content management, knowledge management, recommendation systems, data integration, automotive etc.). The industry track aims to facilitate the exchange between Semantic Web researchers and industrial solution developers to bridge between state-of-the-art research and its application in industrial scenarios. We welcome contributions about: * Success stories of adoption of semantic technologies and knowledge graphs in real-world environments, especially by emphasizing how these technologies have succeeded in creating value as well as key factors for the success of the adoption in a large-scale organization. * Experiences about challenges that are encountered in an industry setting when adopting a solution based on semantic technologies. * Contributions about current challenges in industrial fields which should be tackled by semantic technologies, emphasizing solution approaches and existing issues that are currently only insufficiently addressed by Semantic Web research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Development and application of semantic technologies and knowledge graphs for specific industries (automotive, financial, healthcare and life sciences, energy industry, industry 4.0, public sector etc.) * Real-world applications of semantic technologies for enabling FAIR (meta) data * Approaches to bridge between domain experts and semantic technology experts * Successful application domains: Knowledge management, data integration, data sharing, search, Business Intelligence, data analytics, open data, enterprise data management etc. * Industrial trends related to the usage of Linked Data, Open Data and Semantic Web technologies * Financial and strategic investments in semantic technologies * Machine Learning approaches in connection with the Semantic Web (e.g. ML for knowledge graph completion or ontology matching, learning of knowledge graph and entity embeddings, question answering, etc) Further info: https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/call-for-papers-industry-track/ == Important Dates == Paper submission: March 27, 2020 (**Extended**) Notification to authors: April 16, 2020 (**Extended**) Camera ready papers due: April 30, 2020 == Industry Track Chairs == Javier D. Fernández, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG jfernand(a)wu.ac.at Josiane Xavier Parreira, Siemens AG Austria josiane.parreira(a)siemens.com Looking forward to your submissions! The ESWC 2020 Organising Team https://2020.eswc-conferences.org/organising-committee/

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