Introducing the Wikidata thesis toolkit
With the focus increasingly on the academic library as a provider of Open Knowledge, the libraries at LSE and York have been working to develop a process to upload research theses metadata to Wikidata in order to extend the access and visibility of scholarly content. We are keen to reduce the development burden for this work across the sector and have compiled a toolkit to give guidance to other academic libraries who are interested in promoting their research in a similar way.
A more detailed introduction to our work can be found here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FylUJ9soIqMzH3yCOHHZzPgE7S3cvdZQowhpY2…>, and the toolkit itself can be accessed via the Wikidata Thesis Toolkit<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Wikidata_Thesis_Toolkit>.
Helen and Ruth will be presenting the toolkit at the Metadata and Discovery Group conference<https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1729456&group=201298> in September 2023.
Helen Williams and Ruth Elder
Helen Williams
Metadata Manager, Digital Scholarship and Innovation Group
LSE Library
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
H.K.Williams(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:H.K.Williams@lse.ac.uk>
ORCID: 0000-0003-1259-7097<http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1259-7097>
Twitter: @HelsHRW
Ruth Elder
Collections Management Specialist
Content and Open Research
Library, Archives and Learning Services
Student and Academic Services
University of York
Heslington York YO10 5DD
ruth.elder(a)york.ac.uk<mailto:ruth.elder@york.ac.uk>
Twitter: @ruthelder2
Greetings Wikidata,
As you may already know, we had an incident last week which caused a subset of users to receive stale results when querying WDQS. The incident occurred from 2023-05-04 1000 UTC to 2023-05-10 at 1030 UTC.
The task for this issue is here[0] and the incident report is here[1] . If you have any questions or feedback on this outage, please respond in the task (recommended) or reply directly to me.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Best,
Brian King
SRE, Search Platform Team
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC: inflatador
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336134
[1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2023-05-05_wdqs_not_updating_…
Hello,
I’m excited to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Deutschland Hardware
Donation Program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardware_Donat…>,
which aims to provide used laptops to eligible Wikidata contributors who
may not have access to the necessary hardware to continue their valuable
contributions to the project.
To apply for a laptop, users must have actively contributed to Wikidata for
at least 1 year. Contributions could include being an editor, conducting
research related to Wikidata, developing software or tools related to
Wikidata, or organizing Wikidata-related training for others. Applicants
must also agree to identify themselves with WMDE and sign a brief agreement
stating that they intend to use the donated hardware to support their
activity on Wikidata.
To apply, simply visit the following link and enter your Username to create
a new page with a preloaded application form: Wikidata:Wikimedia
Deutschland Hardware Donation Program#Applying
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardware_Donat…>.
Applications will be reviewed by WMDE staff with an observer from the
community, and decisions will be based on the set criteria and the
availability of equipment.
We look forward to supporting the Wikidata community through this program,
and we hope it will help us take another step toward building a better,
more inclusive project for everyone.
If you have any questions feel free to reach out via email or leave a
comment on the project talk page: Wikidata talk:Wikimedia Deutschland
Hardware Donation Program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata%20talk:Wikimedia_Deutschland_Hardwar…>
.
Cheers,
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly.
Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
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<https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>.
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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 folks,
Please join us in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
Summer of Code 2023 [1] and Outreachy Round 26 [2]!
**Google Summer of Code 2023**
1. Ahmed Amine Hassou, Morocco, Wiki Education Dashboard: Refactoring
and upgrading React <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332976>
Mentors: Sage Ross
2. Chenhao Liu, United States of America, Wiki farm support for Canasta <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333773>
Mentors: Yaron Koren, Jeffrey Wang
3. Nikhil Mahajan, India, End-to-end test coverage for Abstract
Wikipedia's Wikifunctions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333498>
Mentors: Stef Dunlap, James Forrester, Cory Massaro, Denny Vrandečić
4. Zexi Gong, China, Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to
Structured Data on Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332671>
Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas
5. Shashwat Khanna, India, Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX for
Article Scoped Programs <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332932>
Mentors: Sage Ross
6. Saurabh Jamadagni, India, Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS application
and expanding keyboard languages <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333156>
Mentors: Andrew McAllister
7. Ritika Pahwa, India, Commons Android app: Make upload more reliable <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332126>
Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Kaartic Sivaraam
8. Punith Nayak, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - New
features <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T330465>
Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta
9. Varun Shrivastava, India, Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool
- Code Quality/Code Health <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333466>
Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta
**Outreachy Round 26**
1. Nathaly Toledo, Venezuela, Research imbalances in translation
between languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333792>
Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo
2. Abhishek Bhardwaj, India, Research imbalances in translation between
languages on Wikipedia <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333097>
Mentors: Adam Wight, Kavitha A, Simulo
3. Sulagna Saha, Bangladesh, Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata
edits <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333790>
Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent
We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
this thread and give a brief overview of the project they will be working
on.
We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community,
and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the
summer. Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm
and commitment!
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26
Regards,
GSoC / Outreachy Wikimedia organization administrators (Gopa, Sohom,
Srishti)
Hello,
This is an announcement about an upcoming breaking change related to the
list=wbsubscribers API Query module, which has inconsistencies in its
response.
Currently, calling the action=query&list=wbsubscribers API endpoint on a
Wikibase returns a response with two different keys that could potentially
contain results: subscribers and wbsubscribers. In addition, the XML
response format is not structured as expected.
We have identified the root cause of this issue, which was a typo in the
code that sets up the API module. We have fixed the issue and made the
necessary changes to ensure that the results are now added to only one key,
namely wbsubscribers instead of subscribers, and in the correct XML
structure. The fix is already deployed on Test Wikidata, and we plan to
deploy it to Wikidata on or after 2023-05-18.
Currently, an example API response may look like this:
JSON format
XML format
{
"batchcomplete": true,
"query": {
"wbsubscribers": {},
"subscribers": {
"Q42": {
"subscribers": [
{
"site": "enwiki"
}
]
}
}
}
}
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api batchcomplete="">
<query>
<wbsubscribers />
<subscribers>
<Q42>
<subscribers>
<subscriber site="enwiki" />
</subscribers>
</Q42>
</subscribers>
</query>
</api>
With the change, it will instead look like this:
JSON format
XML format
{
"batchcomplete": true,
"query": {
"wbsubscribers": {
"Q42": {
"subscribers": [
{
"site": "enwiki"
}
]
}
}
}
}
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api batchcomplete="">
<query>
<wbsubscribers>
<entity id="Q42">
<subscribers>
<subscriber site="enwiki" />
</subscribers>
</entity>
</wbsubscribers>
</query>
</api>
As an API user, you can prepare for this change by first checking if the
wbsubscribers element in the response is empty or not. If it is nonempty,
use it (the response is using the new format); if it is empty, fall back to
using the subscribers element instead (it is still using the old format).
This way, your code will work both before and after the change is deployed.
(Later, you can remove the fallback code.)
If you have any questions or concerns about this change, please don’t
hesitate to reach out to us in this ticket (phab:T300458
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300458>).
Cheers,
--
Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly.
Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now
<https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>.
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!
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.