Hello all,
Following the past events dedicated to data quality and data reuse, the
Wikidata team wanted to host a new gathering dedicated to data modelling.
The Data Modelling Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023>
will take place online over three days and will host a variety of
discussions, workshops and practical sessions on the topics of Wikidata
ontologies, EntitySchemas, modelling issues and various other challenges.
The event is open to everyone, regardless of your experience with modelling
data on Wikidata. We particularly encourage people who are working on
specific topics to join the event and present their modelling challenges.
If you know people or groups who are already discussing modelling issues on
Wikidata, or would have something interesting to contribute, please share
this message with them!
You can find more information on the dedicated page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023>, sign
up
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023/Part…>
and let us know what you are interested in, you can already propose discussions
and workshops on the talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023>
until November 19th.
If you cannot attend, don’t worry, most sessions will be recorded, notes
will be taken and slides will be shared.
We are looking forward to seeing you and learning more about your modelling
challenges during the Data Modelling Days! If you have any questions, feel
free to reach out to me.
Best,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Hello all,
As you may know, Wikidata was launched on October 29, 2012, and every year
in October, we celebrate the anniversary of the project with birthday
wishes, events and cake. As we will celebrate the 11th birthday of Wikidata
this year, we wanted to share with you how you can get involved in this
event!
1. Prepare a birthday present
Every year for the birthday, people prepare some presents for the Wikidata
community. These presents can be useful, fun or interesting: a new Wikidata
tool, a new WikiProject, a logo or another piece of art, a blog post, an
important community discussion… They can be worked on alone or in
collaboration with other people.
If you have ideas for a Wikidata birthday, now is the perfect time to start
thinking about it, and finding other people to work with you! Once the
present is ready to be announced, you can add it to the Presents page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Presents>. If
you’re looking for inspiration, you can check what was done for the
previous anniversaries on the Eleventh birthday page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday>.
2. Attend the WikidataCon 2023
The WikidataCon 2023
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023> will take place
on October 28-29 with a hybrid format: while people from Taiwan and the
neighbouring regions can join the onsite event in Taipei, people from all
around the world will participate online. Most sessions will be broadcasted
and recorded, in English and Chinese.
If you would like to participate, you can register for the event
<https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/>, and check out the program
<https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/>.
3. Present your birthday gift during the WikidataCon 2023
You prepared a present for Wikidata's birthday and would like to present it
to the community? You can sign up for the birthday presents lightning talks
session that will take place online during the WikidataCon 2023
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023>, on Day 2.5, October
29, at 14:15 UTC.
To register for a slot, please read the instructions and add your project
to this page
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikidataCon2023-BirthdayLTsession>.
Please make sure that you are registered for the WikidataCon 2023
<https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/> in order to access the
session.
4. Join or organize other events
You can also autonomously organize a distributed birthday event with your
community or in your area: when your event is ready to be announced, please add
details on the Distributed events page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Events>.
To connect with other people organizing Wikidata-related events, feel free
to join the Wikidata Events Telegram group
<https://t.me/joinchat/HGjGexK8LA2wJZEk1x1p_A>.
If you have any questions or need support, feel free to contact me or to
write a message on this talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Eleventh_Birthday>.
Looking forward to interacting with you all around the Wikidata birthday!
Best,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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, October 4, 2023
Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 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/>
Hello (Semantic) MediaWiki maintainers, software developers, consultants, researchers!
The SMWCon 2023 (https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023) will be held on location in Paderborn, Germany (and online). On three days there will be talks, tutorials and hackathons.
Registration
----------------
Registration is open on Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/smwcon-fall-2023-tickets-719554987337>.
Go there and take advantage of the early bird rates!
Call for Contributions
----------------------------
This conference addressed everybody interested in wikis and open knowledge, especially in Semantic MediaWiki, e.g. users, developers, consultants, business or government representatives, and researchers.
This conference aimed to:
* inspire/onboard new users,
* inform on where and how MediaWiki is used,
* convey and consolidate best practices,
* initiate/foster/integrate application and development and
* strengthen the community of stakeholders and its service portfolio.
Learn how to "do" MediaWiki in order to assume your responsibilities regarding your organization's knowledge management.
Your experience is valuable for all of us! So please share and propose a talk, tutorial or other contribution.
Go to the Conference Page (https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023)
and hit the 'Propose a talk here' button.
Please propose a contribution if you plan to have one, even if you don't have the details yet. For us it is important to know what we can expect.
We look forward to your contribution!
Best,
Bernhard and Tobias
on behalf of https://mwstake.org/ - the MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group
Hi,
between 5:30 and 7:10 UTC on 2023/09/27 the WDQS servers running in the
eqiad datacenter have returned results with more than 10 minutes of lag.
This caused bots using MW maxlag [0] to stop functioning properly during
that time.
The incident started after a failure of the mirroring system between two of
our kafka clusters [1], such incident should not have impacted WDQS but it
uncovered improper sandboxing of the WDQS updater test setup [2].
Sorry for the inconvenience.
--
David Causse
Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
0: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter
1:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2023-09-27_Kafka-jumbo_mirror…
2: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347515
Hello all,
On behalf of the WikidataCon 2023 organizing team, I’m happy to share that
we released the program of the conference dedicated to the Wikidata
community. Co-organized by Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia Taiwan, it
will take place on October 28-29 with a hybrid format. In this email, you
will find more information about the format, the program and registration
for the conference.
Format
While most of the world will attend the sessions and discussions online,
people living in Taiwan and the neighbouring countries can decide to join
the onsite part of the event taking place in Taipei. Online participants
will be able to join the conference, follow the sessions and interact with
other participants on the platform GatherTown. Onsite participants will be
hosted at the National Taipei University. You will find more information
about the onsite
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_in_Taipei>
and online aspects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_online> of
the conference onwiki.
Part of the program (Day 1 and Day 2) will be delivered from the onsite
event in Taipei, on their day time. The other part of the program (Day 1.5
and Day 2.5) will be produced online, at times that will be more friendly
to participants located on the European, African and American continents.
In any case, the contents of the conference will be available online during
or after the conference.
Program
Together with volunteers involved in the program committees, we elaborated
an ambitious program that will run across time zones. Connected to our
theme “Collaboration across boundaries”, the sessions will cover a huge
range of topics (data quality, data reuse, Wikidata and the Wikimedia
Projects, open data initiatives). In particular, we want to highlight the
Wikidata and open data projects and initiatives in the ESEAP region.You can
find the first version of the schedule here
<https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/>. You can switch time zones,
languages, and mark sessions as favourites. Some changes may still happen
in the upcoming weeks.
English and Mandarin are the official languages of the event. The sessions
will be available in these two languages, either via captions or
interpretation. If you are interested in helping us translate contents
(program, wikipages, sessions) please get in touch!
Registration
You can already sign up to the event by registering here on the Pretix
platform <https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/>. The registration
form includes both online participation and onsite participation in Taiwan.
Registration will be open until the start of the event. Some useful
information will be sent in the upcoming weeks to people who registered,
including the link to the event platform for online participants. Please
note that registration is free of charge, but no scholarship to attend the
online or onsite event will be provided.
Questions ? Feel free to contact the organizing team by writing on this
talk page or at contact(a)wikidatacon.org.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the WikidataCon 2023!
—
電子郵件/維基
主題：2023 年維基數據大會：第一版活動議程上線！
逐家好，
很高興我代表2023年維基數據大會組織團隊，發佈本次 Wikidatacon 2023
的第一版議程。這是由德國維基媒體協會和台灣維基媒體協會共同主辦，會議將於 10 月 28 日至 29
日以混合形式舉行。在此電子郵件中，你會看到更多有關會議形式，專案以及註冊的資訊。
舉辦刑事
儘管世界上大多數人將參與網上會議以及線上討論，但居住在台灣和鄰近國家的人，可以決定參加在台北舉行的活動的實體活動。在線參與者可加入會議，關注會議並在Gather
Town 平台上，與其他線上參與者互動。實體參與者將在國立臺北大學舉行。你可以在 wikidata page上找到有關會議現場和在線方面的更多資訊。
部份議程（第 1 天和第 2 天）將在白天的臺北現場活動進行。議程的另一部份（第 1.5 天和第 2.5
天）將在線上呈現，該時段更適合對位於歐洲，非洲和美洲大陸的參與者將。會議內容將在會議期間或在這之後，以線上提供。
活動議程
我們與參與專案的委員會的義工一起制定一項具有企圖心的計劃，該計劃將跨時區運行。與我們的主題“：鏈結資料 Koh（再）發現：Wikidata
的跨領域匯流＂”相關，會議將涵蓋廣泛的主題（資料品質，資料重用，維基數據和維基媒體專案，開放資料倡議）。
重點是：我們想強調ESEAP地區的維基數據和開放資料項目和倡議。你可以在此處找到活動議程表的第一個版本。未來數周仍可能發生一些變化。
英語和中文是活動的官方語言。會議將以這兩種語言提供，無論是字幕還是口譯。如果你有意願幫助我們翻譯內容（活動議程，維基頁面，討論頁），請聯絡我們！
報名
你已經可以透過在 Pretix
平台上報名該活動。報名表包含線上參與者，和臺灣現場參與者。報名將開放到活動日開始。相關有用的資訊將在未來幾周內寄送給已完成報名者，包括線上參與者的活動平台連結。請注意，報名是免費的，但不提供參加線上或現場活動參與的獎助金。
有問題？請隨時透過在此討論頁或 contact(a)wikidatacon.org 上寫信與組織團隊聯絡。
我們期待在2023年維基數據大會上與你見面！
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Hello all,
On behalf of the WikidataCon 2023 organizing team, I’m happy to share some
exciting news about the WikidataCon 2023. The conference dedicated to the
Wikidata community and co-organized by Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia
Taiwan will take place on October 28-29 with a hybrid format. In this
email, you will find more information about the format and registration for
the conference.
Format
While most of the world will attend the sessions and discussions online,
people living in Taiwan and the neighbouring countries can decide to join
the onsite part of the event taking place in Taipei. Online participants
will be able to join the conference, follow the sessions and interact with
other participants on the platform GatherTown. Onsite participants will be
hosted at the National Taipei University. You will find more information
about the onsite
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_in_Taipei>
and online aspects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_online> of
the conference onwiki.
The first version of the program will be released on October 2nd - stay
tuned!
Registration
You can now sign up to the event by registering here on the Pretix platform
<https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/>. The registration form
includes both online participation and onsite participation in Taiwan.
Registration will be open until the start of the event. Some useful
information will be sent in the upcoming weeks to people who registered,
including the link to the event platform for online participants. Please
note that registration is free of charge, but no scholarship to attend the
online or onsite event will be provided.
Questions ? Feel free to contact the organizing team by writing on this
talk page or at contact(a)wikidatacon.org.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the WikidataCon 2023!
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.