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.
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, September 6, 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
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*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi folks!
I noticed a few issues on iOS cellphone with Edge and Safari.
1. Language tag is shown confusingly right after and in line with Lemma.
Ex. “bring it on en” in screenshot attached. If someone could open a phab
ticket on my behalf that would be most welcome!
2. I no longer see + or add/edit buttons for Senses, Statements, etc.
(weird? Profile/account issue? Happens on both browsers on my iOS
cellphone.)
Thanks in advance!
Thad
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Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/https://calendly.com/thadguidry/
Hello everyone,
TLDR; Wikimedia is participating in the Outreachy Round 27 internship
program <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_27 > [1].
Outreachy's goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in the
technology industry. Interns will work remotely with mentors from our
community. We are seeking mentors to propose projects that Outreachy
interns can work on during their internship. If you have some ideas for coding
or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, outreach, research)
projects, share them by Sept. 29, 2023 at 4 pm UTC here as a subtask of
this parent task: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343871 > [2]
Program Timeline
As a mentor, you engage potential candidates in the application period
between October–November (winter round) and help them make small
contributions to your project. You work more closely with the accepted
candidates during the internship period between December–March (winter
round).
Important dates are:
-
Aug. 22, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Live Q&A for Outreachy mentors
<https://www.youtube.com/@outreachyinternships>
-
September 29, 2023 at 4pm UTC - Project submission deadline
<https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/>
Guidelines for Crafting Project Proposals
* Follow this task description template when you propose a project in
Phabricator: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects> [3]. You
can also use this workboard to pick an idea if you don't have one already.
Add #Outreachy (Round 27) tag.
* Project should require an experienced developer ~15 days and a newcomer
~3 months to complete.
* Each project should have at least two mentors, including one with 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.
Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of mentors on
MediaWiki.org: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors> [4][5]
Cheers,
Onyinye & Sheila (Wikimedia Org Admins for Outreachy Round 27)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_27
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343871
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
[ 5] https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/mentor-faq