Hi all,
The registration for Wiki Workshop 2022 [1] is now open. The event is
virtually held on April 25, 12:00-18:30 UTC and as part of The Web
Conference 2022 [2]. The plenary parts of the event will be recorded
and shared publicly afterwards.
Wiki Workshop is the largest Wikimedia research event of the year (so
far;) that the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation co-organizes
with our Research Fellow, Bob West (EPFL). This year, Srijan Kumar
(Georgia Tech) joined the organizing team as well.:) The event brings
together scholars and researchers from across the world who are
interested in or are actively engaged with research and development on
the Wikimedia projects.
While the details of the schedule are to be finalized and posted in
the coming week, we expect to generally follow the format of 2021 [3].
This year we received research submissions from more than 20 countries
and have accepted 27 research papers whose authors will present the
work as part of the workshop (If you are an author of an accepted
paper: congrats!:) . Our keynote speaker is Larry Lessig [4] and we
will have a panel to reflect on the decade anniversary of SOPA/PIPA,
moderated by Erik Moeller (Freedom of the Press). And of course, all
the music, games, etc. will remain. :)
If you are interested in participating in the live event, please
indicate your interest by filling out [5]. Anyone is encouraged to
register: you don't have to be a researcher. In the registration form,
please explain why attending the live event will support you in your
work on the Wikimedia projects and beyond.
If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Best,
Leila
[1] https://wikiworkshop.org/2022/
[2] https://www2022.thewebconf.org/
[3] https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/#schedule
[4] https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10519/Lessig
[5] (privacy statement for the Google form survey [6])
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctlkUv8FasB2Nc4RvThnxAbjPzUwmnxB2…
[6] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Wiki_Workshop_Registration_Priv…
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Leila Zia
Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello all,
The next *Wikidata Bug Triage Hour session* will take place on Thursday, *May
5th, at 16:00 UTC* (18:00 CEST) on Jitsi.
This meeting is open to everyone involved in Wikidata and interested in
following the progress of the software development, or having specific
issues or requests related to software. During this session, we look at
tickets of our tracking system Phabricator, we improve their description,
tags and keywords together, in order to make them more understandable and
easier to discover and to pick by a development team or a volunteer in the
future.
The upcoming session doesn't have a specific topic, it's an open
discussion, so you are welcome to join and *bring a Phabricator task that
you particularly care about or that deserves some love*.
The meeting is taking place on Jitsi, it is not recorded in video but we
are taking collaborative notes. You can find all the links and information
here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events#Wikidata_bug_triage_hour
And finally: there is no prerequisite or need to have participated in
previous sessions to join - you can also join only to listen and *discover
more about how we track and describe bugs and feature requests for Wikidata
:)*
Looking forward to meet you there!
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Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
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.
The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds an
open meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS),
Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Time: 15:00-16:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PDT / 11:00-12:00 EDT / 16:00-17:00 WAT
/ 17:00-18:00 CEST
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Hope to talk to you next week!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Staff Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC–4 / EDT
Hello everyone,
The third workshop on the topic of "Writing Pywikibot scripts" is coming up
- it will take place on Friday, April 29th at 16:00 UTC. You can find more
details on the workshop and a link to join here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_write_…>
[1].
This workshop will introduce participants to writing basic scripts via the
Pywikibot framework. We will be focusing on examples of scripts that
participants have requested to cover in the workshop (e.g., finding and
replacing content, archiving discussions, etc.). You can add your ideas to
the ongoing discussion in the etherpad doc linked from the workshops page. If
you missed attending the previous two workshops, going through the workshop
materials beforehand would be beneficial.
We look forward to your participation!
Best,
Srishti
On behalf of the SWT Workshops Organization team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_write_…
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours Tuesday, 2022-05-03. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1651593600>.
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 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
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
(This change is relevant for all Wikidata users working with labels,
descriptions, and aliases.)
Based on a long-standing community request we have enabled a new language
code for labels, descriptions, and aliases on Test Wikidata: “mul”, a
special language code meaning “multiple languages”. It is intended to
replace the current duplication of certain labels and aliases in many
languages: instead of the given name Douglas (Q463035)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463035> having the label “Douglas” in
hundreds of Latin-script languages, it should be enough to add it once as
the “mul” label and have all other languages falling back to that (before,
as usual, falling back to “en” as a last resort). This should reduce the
amount of redundant data in Wikidata, and relieve some pressure from the
query service. A big thank you goes to all people involved in the
discussions!
The purpose of the Test Wikidata version of this feature is to determine
whether the current functionality is already sufficient, or whether the
feature needs more work before it can be enabled on Wikidata proper.
Current implementation:
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You can interact with the new language code using the API.
-
The new language code appears in the table of labels at the top of an
item page for users whose Babel information includes “mul” (or who use ?
uselang=mul in the URL). If there is already a “mul” label, it will be
available for everyone under the usual “all entered languages” option.
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The page heading will fall back to the “mul” label if necessary.
Fallbacks to “mul” have the usual “indicator” that shows a fallback took
place (CSS class wb-language-fallback-mul).
For more details, see T285156 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285156>
(or T297393 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297393> for the Test
Wikidata implementation). You are welcome to leave any feedback about the
technical implementation of the new language code on these tickets.
The new language code will very likely need adjustment of Wikidata policies
and guidelines. In case you would like to contribute to drafting
preliminary new guidelines, a good starting point is: Help
talk:Label#Drafting of guidelines for new language code mul
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help_talk:Label#Drafting_of_guidelines_for_ne…>
.
Cheers,
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
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