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
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello all,
As you may know, Wikidata’s 10th birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday> is
around the corner, with plenty of local and online events taking place in
October 2022 to gather the Wikidata community.
On top of that, we are working on a collaborative video to celebrate the
10th anniversary of Wikidata and the achievements of the community. In this
short clip, we would like to integrate footage from many people from all
around the world sharing birthday wishes, saying a few words about
Wikidata, and showing places around them.
This is where you come in! You can contribute directly to this project
by *recording
and sending us a video before September 18th*.
You can do it on your own or together with your local Wikidata community.
You can take the opportunity of an upcoming onsite event (for example, a
Wikimania gathering) to record something with more people.
You don’t need a lot of equipment: videos filmed on smartphone are very
welcome. You will find *all the details and requirements on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ce…>*
.
On top of that, if you need support to record a video, or simply if you
want to take the opportunity to gain new skills, we are happy to offer an
online workshop “how to film with your smartphone”, you will find more
details about the workshop on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ce…>
.
Feel free to share this message with your local community and anyone
interested. If you have any questions or need support, please check the
documentation page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ce…>,
and feel free to write on the talk page. If you have technical questions,
you can also contact Anne, our video producer, directly by email
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ce…>
.
We’re very excited to receive your videos and to create this celebration
content with you! Best,
--
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.
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia is participating in the winter edition of this year's Outreachy <
https://www.outreachy.org/> [1] (December 2022–March 2023)! The deadline to
submit projects on the Outreachy website is September 30th, 2022. We are
currently working on a list of interesting project ideas. If you have some
ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation,
outreach, research) projects, share them here: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313361> [2].
*About the Outreachy program*
Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS), coding, and non-coding projects with experienced
mentors. These internships run twice a year–from May to August and December
to March. Interns are paid a stipend of USD 7000 for the three months of
work. Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy
sponsors or jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship.
This program is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly
invites the following people to apply:
* Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people.
* Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or discrimination
in the technology industry in their country of residence.
* Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/American Indian,
Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.
See a blog post highlighting the experiences and outcomes of interns who
participated in a previous round of Outreachy with Wikimedia <
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/06/02/outreachy-round-21-experiences-an…>
[3]
*Tips for mentors for proposing projects*
* Follow this task description template when you propose a project in
Phabricator: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects> [4]. Add
#Outreachy-Round-25 tag.
* Project should require an experienced developer ~15 days and a newcomer
~3 months to complete.
* Each project should have at least two mentors, with one of them holding a
technical background.
* Ideally, the project has no tight deadlines, a moderate learning curve,
and fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core infrastructure. Projects
addressing the needs of a language community are most welcome.
* If you don't have an idea in mind and would like to pick one from an
existing list, check out these projects: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/> [4]
* To learn more about the roles and responsibilities of mentors, visit our
resources on MediaWiki.org: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors> [5].
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Srishti
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313361
[3]
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/06/02/outreachy-round-21-experiences-an…
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello! My apologies if you see similar announcements across platforms, we
are hoping to reach as many interested folks as possible.
We are having a community conversation and demonstration of a new tool in
development, View it!. Please join us (anyone is allowed to attend) on
Wednesday, August 31st at 14:00 GMT
<https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/event?lid=5577147%2C5128581%2C3435910&h=5577…>
If you’re interested in learning more but are unable to attend, please feel
free to email me, or visit our Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/View_it!_Tool> and sign up for updates (or
beta testing).
View it! is a tool that will show Wikipedia users (editors and hopefully
readers, too) relevant Wikimedia Commons media depicting - or otherwise
related to - the article they are viewing.
The number of images displayed in a Wikipedia article is finite and highly
curated by editors; through View it! users will have access to the full
catalog of images available on Wikimedia Commons. View it! will increase
discoverability of Wikimedia Commons uploads and encourage contributors to
utilize Commons and structured data
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data>.
Please join Dominic Byrd-McDevitt (User:Dominic
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic>), Kevin Payravi (
User:SuperHamster <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster>), and
Jamie Flood (User:JamieF <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JamieF>) to
share more about the vision for View it! and have a community conversation
about functionality of the tool and suggestions for structured data to be
utilized.
We look forward to chatting with you and hope you’ll join us!
Thank you,
Dominic, Kevin, & Jamie
Dear Wikimania Hackathon Attendees,
It was a pleasure spending the weekend hacking with you! I hope you had as
much fun as I did playing with WikiData games, learning about clever ways
to improve medical data on wikis, exploring Wikimedia Cloud Services, and
engaging with all the other cool projects and sessions.
If you missed the final showcase, it was recorded! You can watch it on
YouTube. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2tKvv3Hfc>
The playlist of recorded sessions is also available. <
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3soxkz-0_y6xOBqgWuZXv4ZrGJTghXIA>
There’s also information about all the projects on the Wikimania wiki. If
you didn’t get the chance to present, you can still add your project there.
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon/Showcase>
Finally, please consider giving feedback on the event! If you have ideas,
things you liked, or things you’d like to see changed, this is your chance
to share that so we can improve in the future. <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/2022WikimaniaHackathon-FB>
My best regards,
Haley and the Developer Advocacy Team
--
*Haley Lepp*
Technical Community Program Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello all,
As you may know, Wikidata went live on 29 October 2012 ; in 2022, *we are
celebrating 10 years of Wikidata together!* We would like to organize
celebration events all around the world, and to create a huge network
of *decentralized,
local and community-led events*, that will take place onsite or online,
around October 2022.
The goal of these birthday celebrations are to celebrate the achievements
of the community, to bring people together, and also to talk about Wikidata
to the rest of the world in order to get more people onboard. In various
areas of the world, people get together to organize plenty of different
birthday events: meetups, workshops, discussions, live streams, editing
campaigns… *How about you get involved in organizing such an event with
your local community?*
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*How to organize an event?*
On the Tenth Birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday>
page,
you will find resources to learn how to plan and schedule an event. You
will find *a few tips to get started
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ru…>*
, *some ideas of events formats
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ru…>*
and *the visual kit
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ru…>*
to
create your own communication material.
If you are interested in organizing an event or an activity for Wikidata’s
10th birthday, we recommend you *get in touch with other organizers
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ru…>*
to
get inspired by their experiences and ask for support if needed.
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*How to get funding for your activities?*
WMF and Wikimedia Deutschland are collaborating on a special Rapid Fund
campaign for Wikidata’s birthday. If you need financial support to run an
event, you can now send an application to receive *funding up to 5,000 USD*.
Feel free to check *the details of the funding campaign, eligibility
criteria and supported activities
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ru…>*.
The program covers a wide range of costs that can be funded: renting space
or equipment, internet connection, transport and accommodation, food and
refreshments, printing merchandise and communication materials, prizes for
contests, and more.
To make sure that your application is processed in time for your event,
don’t wait too long to submit your application! The Wikidata birthday
events are typically held between mid-September and mid-November, and you
should send your application at least *45 days before your activity starts*.
If you have questions or need support to apply for funding, feel free to get
in touch
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Tenth_Birthday/Ru…>
-
we will also organize calls for organizers starting at the end of August.
------------------------------
We will post news about the Wikidata birthday regularly on this talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Tenth_Birthday> and on social
channels, as more exciting projects are coming soon: a collaborative
celebration video and some blog posts about Wikidata.
If you have any questions, if you want to get involved in Wikidata’s 10th
birthday or if you have suggestions, feel free to reach out to me.
Best,
--
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.
Hello everyone,
The sixth workshop on the topic of "How to maintain bots" is coming up - it
will take place on Friday, July 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_mainta…>
[1].
This session will focus on best practices for maintaining bots and tools in
the Wikimedia ecosystem. It will cover a few practices that can help
developers run a bot or a tool with help from others, such as picking a
license, adding co-maintainers to the project, publishing source code,
writing docs, and much more.
To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with bots
or tools development. You can add your discussion ideas in the etherpad doc
linked from the workshops page.
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_mainta…
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>