Hello, everyone –
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1727798400>).
New Format!
We have decided to try a new programming format starting this fall. We’ll work with members of the community to highlight their projects and provide editing support by coordinating Project Series lasting two months. The general format will be to host one presentation and discussion oriented call followed by three Working Hour-style editing sessions in support of that project. All events will take place during our regular every-other Tuesday timeslot (12pm EST/9am PST/16:00 UTC/6pm CEST).
We are thrilled that Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead, with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA<https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/> database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Sessions for this series will be on September 3rd and 17th, and October 1st and 15th.
Here is the plan for the series sessions:
Session 1 (September 3)
Intro to community of practice and the project
Session 2 (September 17)
Working session using Mix‘n’Match<https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/5301> to add Wikidata items
Session 3 (October 1)
Working session using a data model and the UseAsRef user script<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bargioni/UseAsRef> to enhance items
Session 4 (October 15)
Working session to demonstrate an image search for item enhancement and celebrate with data visualizations of the work we’ve done
Instructions will assume rudimentary knowledge of Wikidata, but beginners and their questions are most welcome! Step-by-step instructions will be provided, so hopefully even those unfamiliar with Wikidata will be able to follow along.
The call details are below. Working sessions will not be recorded, but demos and how-to sections will be made available as recordings. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and session information you can subscribe to the <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata>.
Call Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, 1 October, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1727798400>)
Zoom link info: https://notredame.zoom.us/j/99242314441?pwd=Yxm1vCdSNHllZWK6b4fhMqlKfnNRYt.1
Meeting ID: 992 4231 4441
Passcode: 149356
Event Page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: <https://ld4.slack.com/> https://ld4.slack.com/
Series event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
Website: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators,
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
Hi everyone,
A rerun of the Wikidata Open Online Course
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Open_Online_Course> will kick off
on October 1, 2024, and will be available for the following 5 weeks. The
previous iteration of the course saw a great turnout, with positive
feedback from learners, including GLAM professionals and students. Here’s
what you can expect:
*📚 Course Structure*
- Chapter 1: The Wikimedia Movement and the Creation of Wikidata
- Chapter 2: Understanding Knowledge Graphs and Queries
- Chapter 3: Discovering Wikidata, Open Data, and the Semantic Web
- Chapter 4: Contributing to Wikidata, the Community, and Data Quality
- Chapter 5: Bonus Resources on Scientific Bibliography from Wikidata
Head over to Wikidata 101: An Introduction
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Deutschland+WMDE001+2024_2/a…>
to enroll, and don’t hesitate to share it with your friends and colleagues.
The course is hosted on learn.wiki, and you can sign up using the same
credentials you use for Wikimedia projects.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me directly.
Cheers,
--
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*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: cal.com/masssly.
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Hello, everyone –
We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1726588800>).
New Format!
We have decided to try a new programming format starting this fall. We’ll work with members of the community to highlight their projects and provide editing support by coordinating Project Series lasting two months. The general format will be to host one presentation and discussion oriented call followed by three Working Hour-style editing sessions in support of that project. All events will take place during our regular every-other Tuesday timeslot (12pm EST/9am PST/16:00 UTC/6pm CEST).
We are thrilled that Christa Strickler will be our first Project Series lead, with her joint project with the Wikidata Religion & Theology Community of Practice to contribute biographical data to Wikidata from the IRFA<https://irfa.paris/en/en-learn-about-a-missionary/> database using the Mix’n’Match tool. We are excited to learn more about this project, provide a forum for discussion and shared learning, and lend a hand while building new skills. Sessions for this series will be on September 3rd and 17th, and October 1st and 15th.
Here is the plan for the series sessions:
Session 1 (September 3)
Intro to community of practice and the project
Session 2 (September 17)
Working session using Mix‘n’Match<https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/5301> to add Wikidata items
Session 3 (October 1)
Working session using a data model and the UseAsRef user script<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Bargioni/UseAsRef> to enhance items
Session 4 (October 15)
Working session to demonstrate an image search for item enhancement and celebrate with data visualizations of the work we’ve done
Instructions will assume rudimentary knowledge of Wikidata, but beginners and their questions are most welcome! Step-by-step instructions will be provided, so hopefully even those unfamiliar with Wikidata will be able to follow along.
The call details are below. Working sessions will not be recorded, but demos and how-to sections will be made available as recordings. To receive notifications about upcoming calls and session information you can subscribe to the <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> ld4-wikidata Google Group<https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata>.
Call Details:
Date and Time: Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 16:00 UTC / 6pm CEST (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1726588800>)
Zoom link info:
https://notredame.zoom.us/j/99370077916?pwd=MYK5tqxAJqk1AnNi1zvHWOdWwhmNsh.1
Meeting ID: 993 7007 7916
Passcode: 771807
Event Page:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
The LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group is associated with the LD4 Community and investigates how libraries can contribute to and better integrate library metadata with Wikidata to improve access to library resources on the web. The Affinity Group calls provide an informal space to share information and learn more about Wikidata.
Communication:
Ld4-wikidata Google group: <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ld4-wikidata
#wikidata channel on LD4 Slack: <https://ld4.slack.com/> https://ld4.slack.com/
Series event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
Website: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Gr…
On behalf of the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group co-facilitators,
Hilary Thorsen
Resource Sharing Librarian
Stanford Libraries
thorsenh(a)stanford.edu
650-285-9429
Is there a way to get the Wikidata Query Service to report the total time
taken to evaluate a query? This would be better than estimating the time from
the elapsed time between a request and the beginning of a response.
peter
On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 6:02 PM Physikerwelt <wiki(a)physikerwelt.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Guillaume,
>
> thanks for sharing. Could you explain WHO has decided that the graph split will be done?
>
> All the best
> Moritz
Hi Physikerwelt,
the problems with the Wikidata Query Service backend are being
discussed since July 2021,[1] and the split in the graph has been
introduced as a possibility in October 2023.[2] We communicated about
it periodically (maybe not to the best of our possibilities, for which
I am willing to take the blame), but we've kept our communication open
with the most affected users during the whole time.
Cheers,
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_up…
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_up…
Hello,
I'm happy to announce that Wikimedia is participating in Round 29 of the
Outreachy program https://www.outreachy.org/ [1] that runs from December
2024 through March 2025! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy
website is September 11, 2024 at 4pm UTC and the project list will be
finalized by September 18, 2024.
We are currently gathering a list of interesting project ideas. If you have
some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation,
outreach, research) projects, please share them on this task:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T372834 [2].
*About the Outreachy Program*
Outreachy is a paid, remote three-month internship program. Outreachy's
goal is to support people from groups underrepresented in tech. We help
newcomers to free software and open source make their first contributions
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.
Outreachy internship projects may include programming, user experience,
documentation, illustration, graphical design, or data science. Interns
often find employment after their internship with Outreachy sponsors or in
jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship.
Outreachy is open to applicants around the world and the program is open to
both students and non-students; complete eligibility rules
<https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/> [3]. Outreachy expressly
invites the following people to apply:
- Women (both cis and trans), trans men, non-binary people, 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 America of any gender
who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native
American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific
Islander.
*Tips for mentors for proposing projects*
As a mentor, you will engage with potential candidates in the application
period during October and help them make small contributions to your
project. You will work more closely with the accepted candidates during the
internship period from December through March.
Each mentor will need to submit an intern project proposal:
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/ [4]. The project
proposal will then be reviewed and approved by the FOSS community
coordinators. Additional co-mentors for the intern project will be able to
sign up for the project after it has been approved by the community
coordinator.
*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 [5].
- Add *Outreachy (Round 29)* 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 [6]
- To learn more about the roles and responsibilities of mentors, visit
our resources on MediaWiki.org:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors [7]
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Deb
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T372834
[3] https://www.outreachy.org/docs/applicant/
[4] https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/
[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects
[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
--
deb tankersley (she/her)
senior technical program manager
Wikimedia Foundation