Hi Galder,
Please see below.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:26 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
<galder158(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Leila, for answering the question raised.
Anytime.
> I'm a bit confused with this, I supposed that the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award was an initiative from the Research team of the WMF (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research), but I read in your answer that "WikiResearch is primarily in English and about research published in English". I understand that the main working language of the WMF is English, as this mailing list is, but I would assume that an Award promoted by the WMF should be multilingual.
Sorry. Let me clarify. What I was referring to when I used
WikiResearch in my email was the WikiResearch twitter account:
https://twitter.com/WikiResearch . I did not intend to refer to the
WMF Research team or Wikimedia Research community. And to repeat: this
is one source we use to find research done on the Wikimedia projects.
There are other sources as I mentioned in my response.
> Me, as a Basque Wikimedians User Group member, I promote Wikimedia activities in Basque language, because that is our goal. But the WMF is not the English Wikimedians User Group, as far as I understand. Our designated lingua franca may be English, but the WMF can't exclude research that is not made in this language from an Award. I would understand if the (non-existing) English Wikimedians User Group created the "EWUG Research in English Award of the Year", but is not the case.
I understand and acknowledge your point about inclusion. I hope some
of the points I shared about our existing process in my other email
can help you find possible solutions we can consider doing. :) On my
end: I have a todo to come back to you all.
Best,
Leila
> Cheers,
>
> Galder
>
> ________________________________
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> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 8:04 PM
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> Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
>
> Hi all, Thank you for your feedback. I take your comments as a sign of
> genuine care and I'm happy to engage and learn with you how we can do
> better. (Note: I'm responding to all lists, though some of the
> feedback has been sent only to wikimedia-l.)
>
> * Galder, Gereon, Xavier, Gnangarra, and Andy: thank you for your feedback.
>
> * Andy, I'll respond to your comment first. We do not require the work
> to be published under a free license for us to consider it for the
> award. However, if the work is shortlisted, we reach out to the
> authors, tell them that it's shortlisted, and it can be considered for
> the award if the work is at least made publicly available. At that
> point, we also encourage the authors to publish under a free license
> and share with them a few ways they may be able to (even if the work
> is published somewhere already with restrictions). The issue of
> licenses is on top of our mind and we actively look for ways to push
> for more Wikimedia research work to be published under free licenses.
>
> * I am going to share with you some of my thoughts, and a possible
> improvement we can make in the process.
>
> ** Let's try to keep things simple to be able to improve things
> together. This is not a case of "WMF did x". The idea of the award was
> created in the Research team, and both last year and this year, we've
> been grateful to have the support of researchers outside of WMF for
> it. (Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University), and Benjamin Mako Hill (U.
> of Washington)). I take full responsibility for the execution of the
> award and I can take your feedback and see where we can improve the
> process. :)
>
> ** In order to be able to improve the process, I should share more
> details about how we do the search for the publications first. We have
> multiple sources for searching for research published in a given year:
> 1. The nomination process we shared on this thread.
> 2. Research publications shared in WikiResearch twitter account.
> 3. External research search engines and repositories for different
> fields: we use scholar.google.com, dblp.org and more.
>
> To give you a sense of the distribution of scholarly publications we
> identified last year from each of the above sources: 11 nominations
> and 170+ research publications through the twitter account and
> external searches. The award chairs (2 people; this year it is going
> to be Mako and I) reviewed all identified publications. We discussed
> every publication at varying depth depending on the result of our
> initial reviews.
>
> ** Knowing the process, there are at least a few ways I think the
> process must be improved. I'm sure now that you see more you can
> critique even more. :) I proactively share with you some of them here:
> ::* I need to have an easychair account to nominate. That can/must
> change (but to what? we want these nominations to be private, and we
> need a way to be able to process them efficiently because we're only 2
> people. We are considering openreview.net for the future years because
> they're open source; but they still have other limitations. For this
> year, easychair it is.).
> ::* We need more people on the committee: both for workload sharing,
> and also including more perspectives. (This is /a lot/ to ask of
> researchers. I'm grateful that Mako and Aaron have supported us in the
> past.)
> ::* We need other non-English sources to source community research.
> (WikiResearch is primarily in English and about research published in
> English.)
> ::* The shared language of reviewers is assumed to be English. If we
> are going to at scale consider other languages, then we need a way
> that this group of people can converse on academic topics with one
> another without having to share a language.
>
> ** I also understand the reality of the resources available to me and
> our team. I understand the importance of working on multiple fronts
> with regards to the research community (Wikimedia Research Funds, Wiki
> Workshop, global research competitions, research showcases, monthly
> office hours, talks and presentations, formal collaborations, and
> more). I believe in the importance of motivation (and we have seen a
> very good momentum around the award idea from last year's run). We
> need to do many things, with very limited resources; Our values and
> ideals are important and we have to attempt to hold them all as we
> make decisions. In practice, sometimes we can't meet all the ambitions
> we have. We need to make trade-offs. What is important is to be aware,
> to listen, to try to improve, and to be honest.
>
> I will leave you with the above and I commit to talk with Mako to
> consider ways to open up the process for more languages to be included
> (in 2021 or in 2022+; I can't promise changes for the 2021 process.).
> One of us will write back here with what we decide to do.
>
> Thanks,
> Leila
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 5:42 AM Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 19:48, Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > =Eligibility criteria=
> >
> > > * The publication must be available in English.
> >
> > I echo others' concerns about this.
> >
> > I'm equally concerned that, while WMF regard being in English as
> > essential for one of their awards, they do not regard the use of an
> > open licence as a requirement.
> >
> > --
> > Andy Mabbett
> > @pigsonthewing
> > https://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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[Apologies for cross-posting.]
Hi all,
We invite you to nominate one or more scholarly research publications
to be considered for the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the
Year. Learn more below.
=Purpose of the award=
Recognize recent research on or about the Wikimedia projects or recent
research that is of importance to the Wikimedia projects. Recognize
the researchers behind the research.
You can learn more about 2021's winners at
https://research.wikimedia.org/awards.html .
=Eligibility criteria=
Your nomination must meet the following criteria:
* The research must be on, about, using data from, and/or of
importance to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons or
other Wikimedia projects.
* The publication must be available in English.
* The research must have been published between January 1, 2021 and
December 31, 2021.
=Nomination process=
Submit your nominations by 2022-02-07 through
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmfray2021 . We will ask you
to provide the following information in your nomination:
* Title of the manuscript
* A copy of the manuscript you are nominating
* A summary of the research and a clear justification for why the work
merits the award (in 350 words or fewer in English).
Note that self-nominations and nominations of others' work are both welcome.
==Winner(s)==
The winner(s) will be announced in a ceremony as part of Wiki Workshop
2022: https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/ .
If you have any questions, please contact us at
wmf-ray-2021(a)easychair.org or here.
Best,
Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)
Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2022-01-11, at 12:00-13:00 UTC (4:00 PT / 7:00
ET / 13:00 CET). View your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1641902452>. Please note the time change!
We are experimenting with our Office hours schedules to make our sessions
more globally welcoming.
To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g. about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
-
You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour. However, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Emily on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Workshop on Modular Knowledge (1st edition), co-located with ESWC 2022
https://mk2022.fbk.eu/
*First Call for Papers*
We invite submissions to the 1st Workshop on Modular Knowledge (MK2022), to be held in conjunction with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) that will take place in Hersonissos (Greece) from May 29 to June 2, 2022.
The Modular Knowledge workshop offers an interdisciplinary venue for discussing and developing solutions for modularity of knowledge: the dramatic increase in the amount of open and linked data and the increasing semantification of such data make clear that knowledge is not monolithic, static or uniform, and that there is a need of methods and tools for dealing with heterogeneous and distributed knowledge as a constellation of modules.
The workshop aims to cover and establish connections between various approaches (ranging from rich semantic representations, like Knowledge Graphs and formal ontology, to simpler schemas, like RDF and database schemas) for representing knowledge, its context, its evolution, and for making it accessible to automatic reasoning and knowledge management tasks. We welcome approaches that make use of logic-based, subsymbolic, or numerical representations.
Modular Knowledge is a full-day workshop consisting of full paper and short/position paper presentations, a lightning talk session, an interactive session between pairs of participants randomly selected, and an open discussion between all participants.
*Important Dates*
Abstract submission deadline (for full or short papers): February 21, 2022
Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2022
Paper notification: March 28, 2022
Camera-ready version: April 11, 2022
Submission deadline for lightning talks: May 8, 2022
Workshop date: May 29 or 30, 2022
*Topics*
We seek contributions on all aspects of modularity in data, information and knowledge, including:
- Theoretical and cognitive aspects of modularity
- Languages for capturing modularity
- Modularity in knowledge graphs, linked data and ontologies (conceptual as well as formal)
- Modules and modularity at all stages of knowledge engineering, including during modeling and design, formalization, verification, and use (for querying, reasoning and other purposes)
- Extracting and computing modules from knowledge and data sources
- Merging, aligning, integrating, and matching of data and knowledge via modules
- Versioning and evolution of modules and modular knowledge
- Reasoning and representing knowledge in context
*Submission requirements*
We invite the submission of original research results and proposed research directions related to the focus areas of the workshop, in one of the three categories given below:
- Full papers (up to 12 pages including references) with mature work and established results, including research reports and surveys
- Short/position papers (up to 6 pages including references) presenting proposed research directions, new open issues, ideas and challenges, positions and opinions on the status of the field
- Lightning talk abstracts (up to 500 words) with a position statement, a challenge, a project, a tool, a team, a paper/poster/demo presented at the main conference, related to the topics of the workshop
All papers must be formatted using the Springer LNCS style and submitted non-anonymously in PDF via EasyChair at this link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mk2022
*Proceedings*
Accepted full and short papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Accepted lightning talks abstracts will be made available from the workshop website.
The best papers from each workshop may be included in the supplementary proceedings of ESWC 2022, which will appear in the Springer LNCS series.
Further information about paper publication will be soon available at the workshop website.
*Workshop Chairs*
Loris Bozzato (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Valentina Anita Carriero (University of Bologna)
Torsten Hahmann (University of Maine)
Antoine Zimmermann (École des Mines de Saint-Étienne)
-----------Call for Papers ACM UMAP 2020-----------------------
--- Please forward to anyone who might be interested ---
--- Apologies for cross-posting ---
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**30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
(UMAP ’22)**
Barcelona*, Spain, July 4–7, 2022
http://www.um.org/umap2022/
* Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning for a hybrid
conference and will accommodate online presentations where needed.
Submission Deadline:
* Abstracts due: February 10, 2022 (mandatory)
* Full paper due: February 17, 2022
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**BACKGROUND AND SCOPE**
============================================
**ACM UMAP** – ***User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization*** – is the
premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working
on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that
collect, represent, and model user information. **ACM UMAP** is sponsored
by ACM SIGCHI (https://sigchi.org) and SIGWEB (https://www.sigweb.org), and
organized with User Modeling Inc. (https://um.org) as the core Steering
Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The proceedings are published
by the **ACM** and will be part of the ACM Digital Library (
https://dl.acm.org).
**ACM UMAP** covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization
and adaptation may be applied. The main theme of **UMAP 2022** is ***“User
control in personalized systems”***. Specifically, we welcome submissions
related to user modeling, personalization, and adaptation in all areas of
personalized systems, with an emphasis on how to balance adaptivity and
user control. Below we present a short (but not prescriptive) list of
topics of importance to the conference.
ACM UMAP is co-located and collaborates with the ACM Hypertext conference (
https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/). UMAP takes place one week after Hypertext and
uses the same submission dates and formats. We expect authors to submit
research on personalized systems to UMAP and invite authors to submit their
Web-related work without a focus on personalization to the Hypertext
conference. The two conferences will organize one shared track on
**personalized recommender systems** (same track chairs and PC, see the
track description).
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**IMPORTANT DATES**
============================================
- Paper Abstracts: February 10, 2022 (mandatory)
- Full paper: February 17, 2022
- Notification: April 11, 2022
- Conference: July 4-July 7, 2022
**Note**: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59 pm AoE time (Anywhere on
Earth)
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**CONFERENCE TOPICS**
============================================
We welcome submissions related to *user modeling, personalization, and
adaptation in any area*. The topics listed below are not intended to limit
possible contributions. **Detailed descriptions and the suggested topics
for each track are reported in the online version of the CFP on the UMAP
2022 web site.**
### **Personalized Recommender Systems**
**Track Chairs: Osnat Mokryn (University of Haifa), Eva Zangerle
(University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Markus Zanker (University of
Bolzano, Italy, and University of Klagenfurt, Austria)**
(*) This is a joint track between ACM UMAP and ACM Hypertext (same track
chairs, overlapping PC). Authors planning to contribute to this track can
submit to either conference, depending on their broader interest in either
Hypertext or UMAP. Track chairs organize a special issue in the journal New
Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia.
This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to
discuss open challenges, the latest solutions, and novel research
approaches in the field of recommender systems. In addition to mature
research works addressing technical aspects pertaining to recommendations,
we also particularly welcome research contributions that address questions
related to user perception and the business value of recommender systems.
### **Adaptive Hypermedia, Semantic, and Social Web**
**Track Chairs: Alexandra I. Cristea (Durham University, UK) and Peter
Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, US)**
This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open research
problems, solid solutions, the latest challenges, novel applications, and
innovative research approaches in adaptive hypermedia, semantic and social
web. We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of
personalization, user models building, and personal experience in online
social systems.
### **Intelligent User Interfaces**
**Track chairs: Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology, Austria) and
Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia)**
This topic can be characterized by exploring how to make the interaction
between computers and people smarter and more productive, which may
leverage solutions from human-computer interaction, data mining, natural
language processing, information visualization, and knowledge
representation and reasoning.
### **Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning**
**Track chairs: Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Australia) and Sharon Hsiao
(Santa Clara University, US)**
This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from various
disciplines to present their innovative learning solutions, share acquired
experiences, and discuss their modeling challenges for personalized
adaptive learning.
### **Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy**
**Track chairs: Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University College of Computing
and Digital Media, US) and Munindar P. Singh (NC State University, US)**
Adaptive systems researchers and developers have a social responsibility to
care about the impact of their technologies on individual people (users,
providers, and other stakeholders) and on society. This track invites work
that pertains to the science of building, maintaining, evaluating, and
studying adaptive systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’
privacy, and beneficial to society.
### **Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems**
**Track chairs: Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada) and
Panagiotis Germanakos (SAP SE, Germany)**
This track invites original submissions addressing the areas of
personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies, including but
not limited to personalization models, user models, computational
personalization, design and evaluation methods, and personal experience
designing personalized and adaptive behaviour change technologies.
### **Virtual Assistants and Personalized Human-robot Interaction**
**Track chairs: Radhika Garg (Syracuse University, US) and Cristina Gena
(University of Torino, Italy)**
This track aims at investigating new models and techniques for the
adaptation of synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots,
social robots) to the individual user.
### **Research Methods and Reproducibility**
**Track chairs: Odd Erik Gundersen (Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway) and Dietmar Jannach (University of Klagenfurt,
Austria)**
This track accepts works on methodologies for the evaluation of
personalized systems, benchmarks, measurement scales, with particular
attention to the reproducibility of results and of techniques.
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**SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS**
============================================
Please consult the conference website for the submission link:
http://www.um.org/umap2022/.
The maximum length is **14 pages (excluding references) in the ACM new
single-column format**. We encourage papers of any length up to 14 pages;
reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the length is appropriate for
the contribution.
**Additional review criteria are available in the online version of the CFP
on the UMAP 2022 web site.**
Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings and
presented at the conference.
UMAP uses a **double-blind** review process. Authors must omit their names
and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious identifying
statements. For instance, citations to the authors' own prior work should
be made in the third person. Failure to anonymize your submission results
in the desk rejection of your paper.
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**ORGANIZERS**
============================================
**General chairs**
* Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy
* Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
* Olga C. Santos, Spanish National University for Distance Education, Spain
**Program Chairs**
- Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
- Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, US
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**RELATED EVENTS**
============================================
Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral
Consortium, and Demo/Late-Breaking Results, as these have different
deadlines and submission requirements.
Nasim Sonboli (Researcher, University of Colorado Boulder), Helma Torkamaan
(Researcher, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
UMAP'22 Publicity Chairs
Hello (& with crossposting apologies!),
The Ethics in Linked Data Affinity Group
<https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/LD4P2/Ethics+in+Linked+Data+Affinity+Group>,
an active member of LD4, is planning its activities for 2022.
If you are unfamiliar with ELD Affinity Group, previous minutes are
publically available, but recently meetings have included reports on the
development of CIDOC-CRM, discussions about the treatment of gender in
Wikidata with Meg Wacha of Wikimedia NYC, and work on our upcoming book, Ethics
in Linked Data <https://litwinbooks.com/books/ethics-in-linked-data/>.
In order to schedule our meeting dates and times for next year we have set
up a poll (link <https://www.when2meet.com/?13842613-tnWlm>). If you are
interested in attending please fill out the when2meet by December 21st.
This is a general availability poll, so fill it out like a generic work
week. Additionally, we co-convenor(s) for the coming year to help
coordinate meetings and topics if you're interested in being a co-convenor,
please get in touch with Bri at bmwatson1989(a)gmail.com.
Finally, the editors of the Ethics in Linked Data book are looking for peer
reviewers for book chapters; they especially welcome reviewers interested
in the ways that Linked Data interacts with gender, race, indigenity,
history, and technology.
bri
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Hi Community!
We are currently in discussions about possibly introducing a new property
that might simply be called* "activity" or "activities"* to hold the value
of a popular *"things to do"* that you typically see in search results when
looking around tourist attractions, parks, etc.
The risk is that of large lands, administrative territories, or country
being abused, but this could be mitigated by disallowing that new property
on those broader kinds of instances where it doesn't make sense. I.E. a
proposed property would likely be much more specific to things that
typically do have activities as advertised or managed by governments
through various amenities or resources, such as "boating" because the
government maintains a "boat ramp" for public use, etc. And would *not
allow* something like Switzerland https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39 =
"activity": "snow skiing" as an example.
"activity" has a corollary with "amenity" which is different. "swimming"
an activity *is not* "swimming pool" an amenity.
The discussion over this new property is likely to directly overlap with
OpenStreetMap and their properties and tags (some of which are enumerated),
where they have Tag:amenity=swimming pool (new tag is leisure:swimming pool)
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure%3Dswimming_pool> as an
example. Some activities are *a sport*, and others are *not a sport*.
In Schema.org, we already have https://schema.org/TouristAttraction but
there's no property already made to hold "hasActivities" for example. (but
we could in the future if deemed useful) @Dan Brickley <danbri(a)google.com>
?
Also, a new property like "activity" or "has activities" would align quite
well to many search services such as Google, Bing, Yandex having similar
lookup services such as https://www.google.com/search?q=activities+near+me
as well as Government services such as https://www.recreation.gov like
https://www.recreation.gov/search?q=boating and several other European and
international lookup services.
The initial discussion is here if you want to see some of the provenance
and work I've been doing:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Protected_areas#Nat…
Whew, too long, ok... Thoughts?
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/https://calendly.com/thadguidry/