Hello all!
The Search Platform Team 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, June 4, 2025
Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
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
Have fun and see you soon!
Guillaume
*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone,
(Sorry for cross-posting!)
We’re thrilled to announce that submissions are now open for both the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 Scholarship Applications and the Call for Program Proposals!
This milestone is the result of dedicated work by both the Scholarship and Program Committees, as well as the Core Organizing Team.
This year’s conference theme is:
Resilience: Shaping the Future Through Community and Openness
This theme is grounded in three key aims: 1) Building the Future, 2) Community Resilience, and 3) Digital Resilience.
We believe this is a timely and meaningful theme — one that resonates deeply across the global open movement and within every part of the Wikimedia community.
You can find full details, including scholarship criteria and program tracks, on the Meta-Wiki event page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2025
Deadlines:
Scholarship Application: 7 June
Program Call-for-Proposals: 15 June
Save the date!
The conference will take place 30 October – 1 November 2025, in Lisbon, Portugal. Stay tuned for updates on registration, opening later in June 2025.
We can’t wait to welcome you to Lisbon — and we look forward to your ideas, energy, and participation in shaping a resilient future together.
Kind regards,
The GLAM Wiki 2025 Organizing Team
*(Cross-posting from Wikimedia-l, Wikitech-l, langdivhub-com)*
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next *Language Community Meeting* is
happening soon, *May 30th at 15:00 UTC*! If you’d like to join, simply *sign
up on the wiki page*
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. In our upcoming meeting, we plan to cover
results from a recent language onboarding experiment and hear experiences
from a Nigerian contributor who contributes to the Obolo wiki, which was
part of this experiment.
*Got a topic to share?* Whether it’s a technical update from your project,
a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support,
we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add
agenda items to *the document here*
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-may-2025>.
Also, we wanted to highlight that the 7th edition of the *Language &
Internationalization newsletter (April 2025)* is available here: *Wikimedia
Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/April*
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Pr…>.
This newsletter provides updates from the January–March 2025 quarter on new
feature development, improvements in various language-related technical
projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas
for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the
newsletter on its wiki page: *Wikimedia Language and Product
Localization/Newsletter*
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Newsletter:Language_and_I…>
.
Would you be interested in contributing to the technical workaround
language development? There is a newcomer-friendly core namespace-related
task waiting for your contribution: *T391725*
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391725>.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting, see you there!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello
I am looking for feedback to help evaluate and test a schema I have been working on for digital arts festivals and would really appreciate your help. This is at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126682939
It was created to document a record of early digital arts festivals in the UK where none previously existed - which is an area that I am currently researching - and is based on a simplified version of the existing film festival schema https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q220505
It aims to recognizes that festivals that were primarily about showing digital art, rather than including it as part of a wider cultural programme, didn't easily fit into the existing Wikidata categories for festivals – i.e film, visual art, music.
The term “digital arts festival” is used with the understanding that some events would not necessarily define themselves as a festival and/or might use the term new media art. To try and address this and ensure a wider spectrum of events could be accommodated, Items were also added for new media arts festival and digital arts event.
I’d really appreciate feedback on this approach – specifically how the schema might be improved/amended and whether the Labels reflect adequately reflect the item.
Suggestions for other places to gain feedback are also very welcome :)
Thank you so much
Janet
Call for Proposals: LD4 2025 Conference - Linked Data in the Real World
Conference Dates: 28-30 July, 2025 (online)
Submission deadline: May 30, 2025
Submission form: https://forms.gle/61reaRvXWrS6bbUx5
There’s still time to submit a proposal for the LD4 2025 Conference! If
you've been thinking about contributing, we’d love to hear from you.
The LD4 2025 Conference invites proposals for presentations, lightning
talks, and workshops that highlight the real-world applications of linked
data in GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).
Possible topics could include:
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From pilot to production - the life cycle of a linked data project
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Building sustainable and scalable linked data workflows
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Strengthening connections through linked data
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Project how-tos and case studies
We encourage you to submit a proposal for any of these session formats:
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10 minute lightning talks
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30 minute presentations (inclusive of a Q&A portion)
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Workshops (longer form how-to's, show & tell, and participatory sessions)
We are especially encouraging proposals from participants from groups and
regions that are traditionally underrepresented in conferences related to
linked data in libraries and other cultural heritage organizations, as well
as proposals from early career professionals. Successful proposals will
focus on concrete ways that linked data is used in GLAM (Galleries,
Libraries, Archives, and Museums) institutions, and will share pathways
that allow others to participate in linked data.
The conference is an initiative of the LD4 Community <http://ld4.io>. The
conference is free of charge, and we will reach back out to let everyone
know when registration is open. You can see up-to-date information on the 2025
LD4 Conference Website
<https://sites.google.com/view/2025-ld4-conference/home>.
To submit a proposal, please fill out the form:
https://forms.gle/61reaRvXWrS6bbUx5
********************
2025 LD4 Conference Co-Chairs
Kelly Davis, Yale University
Sasha Frizzell, Binghamton University
Mary Muratsubaki Campany, Cornell University
*Call for Papers - 2nd posting*
Dear Colleagues,
Your submissions are very welcome! Please submit paper proposals today!
The IFLA Bibliography Section
<https://mailinblack.univ-lyon1.fr/securelink/?url=https://www.ifla.org&key=…>,
the IFLA Information Technology Section
<https://mailinblack.univ-lyon1.fr/securelink/?url=https://www.ifla.org&key=…>
and
the IFLA Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group
<https://mailinblack.univ-lyon1.fr/securelink/?url=https://www.ifla.org&key=…>
invite
you to submit paper proposals to their IFLA WLIC 2025 joint Satellite
Meeting.
The meeting will be held on Thursday *14th August* (afternoon) and *15th
August* (full day) at the Astana IT University
<https://mailinblack.univ-lyon1.fr/securelink/?url=https://astanait.edu.kz&k…>,
Astana, Kazakhstan.
*Title: **Artificial Intelligence, Bibliographic Control and *Legal* Matters:
Navigating New Horizons* *(Metadata, Collections, Copyright, Legal Deposit)*
*Theme:*
The potentially transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
generative AI on the evolution of bibliographic control, metadata
practices, library collections, and legal aspects associated with them, is
the central theme of this 1.5-day satellite meeting. The satellite meeting
aims to investigate and analyze these critical issues, exploring the
multifaceted impact of AI, both in its current applications and in the
emerging paradigm of generative AI, on the core missions of libraries and
information institutions, including national bibliographic agencies, and on
metadata, library collections, copyright and legal deposit, in an
AI-increasingly driven information landscape.
*More information at*: https://2025.ifla.org/bibliography
-section-with-the-information-technology-section-and-the-ifla-artificial-intelligence-special-interest-group/
<https://mailinblack.univ-lyon1.fr/securelink/?url=https://2025.ifla.org&key…>
*Posted on behalf of the organization team,*
*Cory Lampert*
Chair - IFLA IT Section Standing Committee
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Cory Lampert
Professor and Head, Digital Collections
University Libraries
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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