Happy Earth Day all,
This is an update that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Search team, who
currently owns and maintains Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), will be
lowering our WDQS update lag Service Level Objective (SLO) from <10 minute
update lag 99% of the time to 95% of the time.
This change comes roughly 6 months after the release of the Streaming
Updater, which has significantly helped
<https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/yCBd7Tdnk/wdqs-wcqs-lag-slo?orgId=1&from=no…>
with
WDQS update lag, but is unable to by itself offset the impact of outages
caused from Blazegraph failures, memory issues, and other modes of failure
related to scaling challenges.
For users, the SLO lowering to 95% may mean more frequent and/or longer
downtime of WDQS before the Search team is able to address these issues. We
recognize that this is not ideal, but this reduces how often alarm bells go
off (on weekends) for our Site Reliability Engineers, who have many other
priorities, and gives the Search team more space to focus on addressing
long term scaling issues rather than only putting out fires.
We appreciate your patience and understanding as we continue our work to
both provide a functional stable WDQS, and also work to scale it for future
resiliency.
Best,
Mike
—
*Mike Pham* (he/him)
Sr Product Manager, Search
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Good summary and overview of the usual arguments:
https://plus.pli.edu/Details/Details?fq=id:(352066-ATL2)
«Developers of data sets need to be educated about the importance of
releasing their rights under the public domain—or, at a minimum, using
licenses with no notice conditions. Currently, this can be done via
Creative Commons Zero or the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication
and License.»
Federico
Hello all,
As previously announced, the Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference will
take place on July 1-2, with the goal of gathering participants from
various groups working on minority languages on the Wikimedia projects. In
this update, we would like to share with you some exciting news about the
format, the onsite events, and how your community can contribute to the
program of the conference.
If you know people or groups who are working on minority languages and
could be interested in this event, feel free to share this message with
them!
☘ Contribute to the “News from the Language Communities”
For this year’s edition of the conference, the main call for contributions
from the community takes the shape of a series of lightning talks called
“News from the Language Communities”. The goals of these short
presentations are to give an overview of ongoing projects and work related
to minority languages and the Wikimedia projects, to give an update about
what happened in the past year, to share lessons learned that could be
useful to other groups working on similar projects, and to start
conversations among participants.
Individuals or groups who would like to contribute to this part of the
program are welcome to prepare and send their presentation in the form of a
5-minute pre-recorded video, before May 31. You will find more information
about the content, requirements and support offered by the organizers on
this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Online_program
☘ Format
Although international events and travels are possible again, we made the
decision to stick to a hybrid format. The main program will take place
online on July 1-2, and we will actively encourage communities who want to
organize local gatherings as satellite events of the conference. Although
restrictions have loosen up in several countries, we want to acknowledge
that the pandemic is still going on in most of the world, and that
international travel remains difficult from many countries, especially for
financial or paperwork reasons. Therefore, we believe that an online format
remains the best solution in order to ensure the best possible diversity of
participants.
☘ Onsite events and scholarships
We are offering two kinds of scholarship around the conference:
scholarships to help with online participation and scholarships to help
with organising onsite events. The aim is to help people take part in the
live conference, and to give people a way to organise events in their area
related to the Celtic Knot.
Onsite event grants are for up to £1,000, with some ideas and more detail
on this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Satellite_events
Online attendance scholarships are for up to £80 per person. Full details
of the process, and a link to the application form are on this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Attend#Scholars…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022/Attend#Scholarh…>
We’re looking forward to your contribution to the Celtic Knot! If you have
any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact me, Daria Cybulska or
Richard Nevell.
For the organizing team,
--
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.
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
My name is Tiffany and I must writing to ask about the mailing list. Thank
you so much like I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely, Tiffany Casteel
Hi everyone,
The next Wikidata+Wikibase office hours
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Office_hour_notes> will take place
on Wednesday, April 20th 2022 at 16:00 UTC (18:00 Berlin time) in the
Wikidata Telegram group <https://t.me/joinchat/IeCRo0j5Uag1qR4Tk8Ftsg>.
*The Wikidata and Wikibase office hours are online events where the
development team present what we have been working on over the past
quarter, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss
important issues related to the development of Wikidata and Wikibase.*
Looking forward to seeing you all.
--
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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Welcome to #KGConference 2022
The Knowledge Graph Conference (KGC 2022) will take place between May 2-6,
2022. Bolstering a 5-day hybrid conference with multiple parallel tracks
per day. The hybrid format includes the In-Person conference taking place
on the Cornell Tech Campus in NYC from May 2-5 and the virtual component
taking place globally on Airmeet from May 2-6. All KGC 2022-related
programming will be held with respect to the eastern time zone.
With two days of over 30+ scientific and industry workshops and tutorials
(May 2-3) & three days of over 80+ sessions of world-class, impact-focused
programming in our main conference (May 4-6). KGC 2022 will be covering a
multitude of topics related to knowledge graph technologies.
View the list of speakers here:
Speakers 2022 Page – The Knowledge Graph Conference
<https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/speakers-2022-page/>
Our program is available here:
KGC 2022 Program – The Knowledge Graph Conference
<https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/kgc-2022-program/>
Join the conversation online or in New York City to discover everything you
always wanted to know about this fabulous technology.
The goals of the conference are to showcase major knowledge graph
implementations, to educate on how knowledge graphs are built, maintained,
and used, and to develop a community around technology leaders.
Registration:
Use coupon code ACA20 by April 22, 2022, to get a 20% discount off on your
ticket purchase for VIP ALL ACCESS (HYBRID) and ALL ACCESS (VIRTUAL)
tickets.
https://www.airmeet.com/e/feb6c540-7a86-11ec-9e6a-cf0133ef516e
In case you need any support, kindly drop us a message at
info(a)knowledgegraph.tech
See you in KGC 2022!!!!
KGC-2022 Team
--
Regards
Dr. Sanju Tiwari (PhD, Post-Doc), SMIEEE
Sr. Researcher, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico
Adjunct Professor, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India
DAAD Post-Doc-Net AI Fellow
General Chair *KGSWC-2022* (Third Indo-American Conference)
http://www.kgswc.org <http://www.kgswc.org/indo-american/>/
"Do what you love, Love what you do"
We are thrilled to announce that the 2nd edition of the International
Workshop on Archives and Linked Data (https://linkedarchives.inesctec.pt/)
will be run in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Theory
and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022) (http://tpdl2022.dei.unipd.it/
).
The workshop aims to gather researchers and specialists who are engaged in
initiatives that cross Archives and the Semantic Web and those planning
similar initiatives in cultural heritage organizations.
We'd love to have your contributions, so please take a look at the call:
https://linkedarchives.inesctec.pt/#submission.
Please note that *29 May 2022* is the submission deadline.
The workshop will include invited talks, presentations of papers and demos,
as well as an opportunity for participants to meet and discuss latest
developments and opportunities in the field.
TPDL 2022 aims to be an in-presence event in Padua, Italy. TPDL will
publish the proceedings of the workshops and the doctoral consortium
in the CEUR
Workshop Series <http://ceur-ws.org/>. Extended versions of the best papers
will be selected to be published in the ACM Journal on Computing and
Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). <https://dl.acm.org/journal/jocch>
We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in September!
Best regards,
Carla Teixeira Lopes
(on behalf of the Organizing Committee)
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, April 6th, 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