Dear everyone,
As presented at last year's WikidataCon
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VxTlBNkyk>, Wikimedia Deutschland has
set out to find new ways for collaboration around Wikidata software
development to enhance the diversity of our movement, increase Wikibase’s
scalability and robustness and breathe life into our movement principles of
knowledge equity. With a grant from Arcadia
<https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>, a charitable fund administered by Lisbet
Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we will be able to implement such a
collaboration in the next two years.
Today, we are happy to share an exciting update on the progress of this
project with all of you. After spending the last few months with
conversations with the movement groups who were interested in joining such
a partnership, we have now reached a point where we can spread the news
about the future partners and projects that will shape this Wikidata
software collaboration.
Wikimedia Indonesia, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia
Deutschland will be joining forces to advance the technical capacities of
the movement around Wikidata development and with this, make the software
and tools more usable by cultures underrepresented in technology, people of
the Global South and speakers of minority languages.
Wikimedia Indonesia, a non-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia
and established in 2008, is dedicated to encouraging the growth,
development & dissemination of knowledge in Indonesian and other languages
spoken in Indonesia. Since then, Wikimedia Indonesia has supported the
development of 14 Wikipedias in the languages spoken in Indonesia, 12
regional Wikimedian communities spread across the country, and two
Wikimedia project-based communities.
For this project, in collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia
Indonesia wants to build up a software team of their own in the course of
the next 2 years. The tools will hopefully help under-resourced language
communities contributing to the flourishing of their languages online
through lexicographical data, and also involving the local language
communities in contributing to lexemes in Wikidata.
Igbo Wikimedians is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working on
various wiki projects related to Igbo language
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_language> and culture. The user group
is organizing projects around community building in the Igbo community,
content improvement for Wikipedia and its sister project and has
established its own Wikidata hub in 2021.
The Igbo Wikimedia User Group and their program of the Wiki Mentor Africa
<https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiki_Mentor_Africa> is aiming at
building up technical capacity in African Wikimedia communities by
mentoring African developers for Wikidata Tool Development. Wikimedia
Deutschland will support the user group in the implementation of their
project and mentoring program.
Wikimedia Deutschland has been founded in 2004 as a member’s association
and is located in Berlin, Germany. Wikimedia Deutschland support
communities like the Wikipedia community, develop software for Wikimedia
projects and the ecosystem of Free Knowledge, and wants to improve the
political and legal framework for Wikipedia and for Free Knowledge in
general.
Specifically, Wikimedia Deutschland has been working on the development of
Wikidata since 2012. Since then, an active and vibrant community of
volunteer editors and programmers, re-users, data donors, affiliates and
more has formed around Wikidata.
Wikimedia Deutschland will be responsible for the administrative setup of
those collaborations and the communication with Arcadia. We are also happy
to share our experiences and knowledge about establishing software teams,
software development in the Wikidata/Wikibase environment, the Wikidata
community and providing support for emerging tech communities.
If you want to find out more about the partnership, you can read up on this
on our project page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Software_Collaboration_for_Wikidata>,
where we will keep updating the community on the progress of this
collaboration. If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please
use the talk page there to get in contact with us.
We are all excited to see those collaborations coming to life!
With kind regards,
Igbo Wikimedians User Group
Wikimedia Indonesia
Wikimedia Deutschland
--
Maria Heuschkel
Projektmanagerin
Softwareentwicklung
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit
teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello Wikidata Users,
Wikidata Query Service experienced a brief outage on 2022 November 22[1]. Please see the link below for further details.
If you have any questions about this, please respond here or on the talk page for the article below. Our apologies for any disruption you may have experienced.
Best,
Brian King
SRE, Search Platform Team
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC: inflatador
[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2022-11-22_wdqs_outage
Hello all,
*(sorry for cross-posting, and feel free to share this email to other
technical channels)*
On behalf of the Technical Engagement team at the Wikimedia Foundation, I’m
very excited to let you know that after three years of online and hybrid
editions, the Wikimedia Hackathon is about to go back “IRL”, and will take
place on May 19th to 21st in Athens, Greece
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023>.
The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual event to bring the global technical
community together to connect, hack, and explore new ideas. Technical
contributors from all around the world come together to improve the
technological infrastructure and software that powers and benefits the
Wikimedia projects. The 2023 edition is organized by the Wikimedia
Foundation, in collaboration with the local Wikimedia affiliate, the Wikimedia
Community User Group Greece
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Greece>.
This edition of the Wikimedia Hackathon will focus on bringing together
people who already contributed to technical aspects of Mediawiki and the
Wikimedia projects, who know how to find their way on our technical
ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects rather
autonomously. People who’d like to get started as technical contributors
are very welcome to look at the list of newcomers-friendly events and
resources
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Documentation#Event…>
to start being involved on technical projects.
Most of the Wikimedia Hackathon will take place onsite, but some elements
of the program will be broadcasted online. Local communities are also
welcome to organize pre-hackathon events or meetups. In the upcoming
months, you will find on these pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023> information about
how to attend, the venue, travel, accommodation, and scholarships.
As a next step, registration and scholarship applications will open at the
beginning of December. Updates will be posted regularly on this talk page.
Stay tuned and feel free to share the information to your fellow Wikimedia
technical contributors.
If you have any questions or would like to reach out to the coordination
team, feel free to contact hackathon(a)wikimedia.org or comment on the talk
page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023>.
We are really looking forward to welcoming you again at the Hackathon
onsite, and we hope that you are also excited to join and hack together!
Best,
--
*Léa Lacroix *(she/her)
Hackathon Event Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
(apologies for cross-posting - you can find this announcement in Mandarin
below)
Hello all,
Following up on the search for a partner to co-organize the WikidataCon 2023
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th…>
and after talking to several enthusiastic affiliates and local Wikidata
communities, I am happy to announce, Wikimedia Germany will support
Wikimedia Taiwan and the local Wikidata community in Taiwan in designing
and running the next iteration of the Wikidata conference, which will take
place on October 28-29, 2023.
The Wikidata community in Taiwan
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/Wikidata_Taiwan> has been
active for years and regularly organises events in Taiwan, collaborating
with other open source and open data communities. They are particularly
interested in geographical data, human settlements and local languages
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Taiwan>. Wikimedia
Taiwan will provide the administrative coordination and legal framework to
support the Wikidata community in Taiwan.
Many people from different fields are working on Wikidata: Researchers,
cultural institutions, linked open data enthusiasts and more. WikidataCon
2023 attendees will be able to discover how people from other disciplines
interact with Wikidata, learn from them, exchange ideas and find
inspiration.
With this partnership, we’ll try out a hybrid event format. We will hold an
on-site event that will take place in Taipei, welcoming participants from
East Asia. Meanwhile, participants from other regions of the world will be
able to join the conference online. Finally, we’re encouraging other local
Wikidata groups to prepare satellite events and on-site gatherings.
More information and updates will be provided in the upcoming months
on Wikidata:WikidataCon
2023 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023> and its talk
page. Meanwhile, if you have any questions, feel free to reach the
organizers on the talk page.
We’re extremely happy to be collaborating with the enthusiastic Wikidata
community in Taiwan. We look forward to this new iteration of the
conference.
Léa Lacroix & Alan Ang for Wikimedia Germany
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逐家好！
自從宣佈公開徵求Wikidatacon 2023 的伙伴
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/th…>之後，德國維基媒體協會
(Wikimedia Germany) 與數個興趣小組與在地維基數據社群接洽。我們德國維基媒體協會很高興宣佈我們將與台灣維基媒體協會
(Wikimedia Taiwan) 合作，台灣在地的臺灣維基數據社群(Wikidata Taiwan)將會設計與執行下一輪於 2023
10/28-29 舉行的 Wikidatacon 大會。
近幾年台灣的維基數據社群
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/Wikidata_Taiwan>
相當活躍，定期在台灣舉行活動，並且與其他的開源與開放資料社群合作。他們關注行政區劃、在地語言、溪流資料
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Taiwan>。
在地社群，台灣維基媒體協會，則會提供必要的行政協調與法律架構來支援整個社群。
這次合作舉辦會議，將會彰顯東亞這邊進行的維基數據專案，鼓勵跨領域的合作，例如人們在不同的領域之間，如文化機構、教育單位、研究機構等展開合作。
我們攜手合作之下，我們會嘗試混合型式的活動，一場在台北的實體活動，歡迎東亞區域的客人參與，而其他有興趣的人則是能夠線上參與。我們也會鼓勵其他在地維基數據社群舉辦衛星活動與實體聚會。
Wikidata:WikidataCon 2023
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023>
頁面與討論頁面將會在接下來幾個月提供更多資訊與消息；同時間，如果你有任何問題與回饋意見，你可以在討論頁聯繫主辦方。
我們相當高興能與台灣活躍的維基數據社群共同合作，並且期待下一次新一輪的大會。
德國維基媒體協會 Léa Lacroix 與 Alan Ang
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Hello all,
Here is a quick update on Outreachy Round 25: we recently concluded the
final call for projects and mentors and are now promoting 6 projects led by
14 mentors. If you know someone who cleared the Outreachy's initial
eligibility check, encourage them to explore the Wikimedia projects below:
- Create a web application for editing Toolhub records, mentored by:
Slavina Stefanova, Damilare Adedoyin, Roy Smith
- Develop features for Wiki Loves Monuments app, mentored by: Ederporto,
Mike Peel
- Rewrite Imagebulk tool to scale up, mentored by: Jay Prakash,
Sudhanshu Gautam
- Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits, mentored by: Sage Ross,
Will Kent
- Develop a web app for patrolling based on the new ML-based service to
predict reverts, mentored by: Diego Saez-Trumper, Muniza A.
- Hybrid event production for QueeringWikipedia 2023, mentored by: Z.
Blace, Owen Blacker, Freddy eduardo
If you are interested in any of these projects, you can either subscribe to
the related Phabricator tickets or share your ideas and suggestions in a
comment.
Learn more here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_25> [1]
Cheers,
Srishti
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_25
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
We had a brief (~20 min) outage of our WDQS hosts in codfw earlier today.
Service availability was restored with a rolling restart of codfw wdqs
hosts.
For more details please see the incident report:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2022-11-22_wdqs_outage
Hi 👋🏽
I am Arian, I just joined the Wikidata team as the new Junior Product
Manager.
In this new position, I’ll be helping Lydia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)> and Manuel
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Manuel_Merz_(WMDE)> day-to-day to
support you and Wikidata’s development and learning as much as I can from
them.
Like a lot of you, I am passionate about free knowledge and learning. I
have worked as a product designer and community manager and in my previous
lives, I have worked as a curator, writer and designer.
I am excited to work with all of you to continue our mission of sharing
free knowledge and open data with the world.
Feel free to reach out to me anytime
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Arian_Bozorg_(WMDE)> – looking forward
to meeting you all!
--
Arian Bozorg (he/him)Junior Product Manager Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-230https://wikimedia.de
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Hi team!
Something happened with my account? (it's not my end because I cleared
cookies and tried to login with my saved password as well as tried to reset
my password).
I continually get the message:
Incorrect username or password entered. Please try again.
[image: image.png]
I was ideally hoping that I could be put on the exclusion list so that I
didn't have to even use a VPN to connect from China where I moved to
permanently as many of you know.
What should be the next steps to:
1. unblock me for *wikidata.org <http://wikidata.org>* somehow if I am
blocked somewhere in the system?
2. add my account so that I can login to *wikidata.org
<http://wikidata.org> *and *meta.wikipedia.org <http://meta.wikipedia.org>*
without needing to go through a VPN?
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/https://calendly.com/thadguidry/