Our World in Data (OWID) - Wikimedia-l

Bashir sani

2 Mar 2 Mar

1:54 a.m.

How can I get a loan through to wikimedia? On Tuesday, 1 March 2022, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID) working within a mediawiki environment. 1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/grapher/interventions-ntds-sdgs>. Hopefully this has allowed us to address security and privacy concerns. 2) We have created an extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OurWorldInDataMirror> that allows the use of this content within a mediawiki install 3) We have made a bunch of changes to formatting, such as removing the logo, to make it compliant with WP practice and style. You can see an example on MDWiki in the infobox here <https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases>. My question to the movement is are their communities interested in using this technology? There are about 4,000 of these graphs <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/charts>. We of course will also need to develop a framework for translation. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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Gerard Meijssen

10:34 a.m.

Hoi James, The biggest bottleneck to innovation is our own community process. It is also an impossibility to get Wikimedia to consider how it performs for specific groups of students. Never mind. When you want to increase the value of "Our World in Data", it helps when their identifiers are linked to Wikidata identifiers. The OWID identifiers are welcome on Wikidata when need be. The value is that as a consequence labels in all our supported languages become available. When information is to be shown in another language, only the missing labels are needed for best results. When Wikimedia Foundation is interested in improving its functionality, I am quite happy to point to the lowest hanging fruits for the biggest number of people we could provide a service for. Thanks, GerardM On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 22:52, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID) working within a mediawiki environment. 1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/grapher/interventions-ntds-sdgs>. Hopefully this has allowed us to address security and privacy concerns. 2) We have created an extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OurWorldInDataMirror> that allows the use of this content within a mediawiki install 3) We have made a bunch of changes to formatting, such as removing the logo, to make it compliant with WP practice and style. You can see an example on MDWiki in the infobox here <https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases>. My question to the movement is are their communities interested in using this technology? There are about 4,000 of these graphs <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/charts>. We of course will also need to develop a framework for translation. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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James Heilman

5:39 p.m.

Next thing we need is clear consensus that the Basque community wants this. In the form of a RfC with greater than 60% support should do. Ping me when this is developed and happy to help bring it forwards to the WMF leadership and technical folks. James On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 8:20 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder158(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

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THIS IS GREAT. One of the best uses of cc I have seen lately. At Basque wikipedia we have been trying to include maps uing data uploaded to commons and then using Kartographer directly. But this solution is way better. What would we need to deploy there and serve as an example of what can be done? Galder ------------------------------ *From:* James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 1, 2022 10:51 PM *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Our World in Data (OWID) We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID) working within a mediawiki environment. 1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/grapher/interventions-ntds-sdgs>. Hopefully this has allowed us to address security and privacy concerns. 2) We have created an extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OurWorldInDataMirror> that allows the use of this content within a mediawiki install 3) We have made a bunch of changes to formatting, such as removing the logo, to make it compliant with WP practice and style. You can see an example on MDWiki in the infobox here <https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases>. My question to the movement is are their communities interested in using this technology? There are about 4,000 of these graphs <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/charts>. We of course will also need to develop a framework for translation. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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James Heilman

5:57 p.m.

Hey SJ Yes working to add OWID both to the sources tab. With respect to translation, am in discussion with OWID and they have no capacity to add this infrastructure for a couple of years. We will need to build something ourselves if we want it sooner. Am looking for volunteers who are interested :-) Or funding to help hire someone to work on this. James On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 8:41 AM Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Fantastic. I would include OWID in the Sources attribution line in the embeds. Do they already have a start at translation? A strings file associated w/ each map? On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 4:52 PM James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:

We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID) working within a mediawiki environment. 1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/grapher/interventions-ntds-sdgs>. Hopefully this has allowed us to address security and privacy concerns. 2) We have created an extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OurWorldInDataMirror> that allows the use of this content within a mediawiki install 3) We have made a bunch of changes to formatting, such as removing the logo, to make it compliant with WP practice and style. You can see an example on MDWiki in the infobox here <https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases>. My question to the movement is are their communities interested in using this technology? There are about 4,000 of these graphs <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/charts>. We of course will also need to develop a framework for translation. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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James Heilman

9:17 p.m.

Evelin Wiki Project Med Foundation is a Wikimedia Movement thematic organization... We are applying for funding <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WPM:VideoWiki> for our work on VideoWiki. James On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 11:48 AM Evelin Heidel <scannopolis(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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This sounds like something they could apply for funding from the Wikimedia Alliances Fund? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Vi to

11:48 p.m.

Quite impressive, really. Vito Il giorno mar 1 mar 2022 alle ore 22:53 James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:

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We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID) working within a mediawiki environment. 1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/grapher/interventions-ntds-sdgs>. Hopefully this has allowed us to address security and privacy concerns. 2) We have created an extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OurWorldInDataMirror> that allows the use of this content within a mediawiki install 3) We have made a bunch of changes to formatting, such as removing the logo, to make it compliant with WP practice and style. You can see an example on MDWiki in the infobox here <https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases>. My question to the movement is are their communities interested in using this technology? There are about 4,000 of these graphs <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/charts>. We of course will also need to develop a framework for translation. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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