*Wikidata and medical data*
Presentation at Wikimania by User:Csisc from Tunisia and User:Saintfevrier from Greece: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2019_-_Wikidata_and_Heal...
*Visual content*
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Commons media of the day: butterfly takeoff in slow motion, uploaded by Japanese Wikipedia contributor User:Phonon.b https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Phonon.b: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graphium_sarpedon_flapping_HighSpeed... -
Commons picture of the day: "Columns in Turkish baths, Salamis, Northern Cyprus", https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columns_in_Turkish_baths,_Salamis,_N..., by User:Podzemnik https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Podzemnik, who is a native speaker of Czech and identifies as "Librarian, photographer, nomad, hiker". -
Commons picture of the day: "Window in Fira, Santorini, Greece" https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santorin_(GR),_Fira_--_2017_--_2624...., by German Wikipedia contributor User:XRay https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:XRay
*Text content*
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Selected anniversaries for English Wikipedia noted that 28 August was the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream speech by American civil rights activist and religious minister the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr. -
English Wikiquote of the Day for 28: “At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid." --William Least Heat-Moon https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon -
English Wikiquote of the day for 1 September: "People ask where writers get ideas. Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood." --C. J. Cherryh https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._J._Cherryh
About these individuals, according to English Wikipedia:
"Martin Luther King Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott… He led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech."
William Least Heat-Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon “is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_StatesAmerican travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry”. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri and worked as a professor of English. He wrote an autobiographical travel book, *Blue Highways*, that was well received. Stories that arose from Least Heat-Moon's research as well as historical facts are included about each area visited, as well as conversations with characters such as a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist hitchhiker, a teenage runaway, a boat builder, a monk, an Appalachian log cabin restorer, a rural Nevada prostitute, fishermen, a Hopi Native American medical student, owners of western saloons and remote country stores, a maple syrup farmer, and Chesapeake Bay island dwellers.”
"Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels *Downbelow Station* (1981) and *Cyteen* (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe. She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology. Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies."
*Wikidata discussions*
Regarding the concept known as Federation:
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https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-September/013405.html -
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-September/013406.html
Regarding multilingualism on Wikidata:
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https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-September/013407.html
*Grant report regarding the development of the Timeless skin*
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Timeless/Post-deployment_supp...
*Off wiki*
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How data analytics has reduced the risk of opioid addiction in the City of Philadelphia: https://www.phillymag.com/healthcare-news/2019/07/17/data-analytics-opioid-e...
*A request for contributions to this publication*
I enjoy writing WMYHTW, and I am grateful for the feedback that I occasionally receive. However, there are a few things that are lacking. One is participation from others. I am trying to avoid WMYHTW threads effectively being "What's making Pine happy this week?" instead of "What's making you happy this week?". I cannot know everything good that happens in the Wikiverse, and I would love to see greater diversity of stories in WMYHTW. Also, writing WMYHTW in this level of detail is surprisingly time consuming for one person, which is another reason that I would be appreciative if other people would add small pieces of good news to the content of WMYHTW. Regrettably, I cannot continue to have this publication require so much time from me that it effectively a part time unpaid job, including adapting the content of these emails for *The Signpost*. Your participation would be very much appreciated.
*Closing comments*
Translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations. Thanks to Alexandros Kosiaris for the Greek translation https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-April/090130.html.
What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
Pine
I failed to include some text, including a link for proper attribution, that I should have included in the description of William Least Heat-Moon. Sorry about that. Here's a revised description.
William Least Heat-Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Least_Heat-Moon “is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry”. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri and worked as a professor of English. He wrote an autobiographical travel book, *Blue Highways*, that was well received. According to the article about the article about *Blue Highways* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Highways, "Stories that arose from Least Heat-Moon's research as well as historical facts are included about each area visited, as well as conversations with characters such as a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist hitchhiker, a teenage runaway, a boat builder, a monk, an Appalachian log cabin restorer, a rural Nevada prostitute, fishermen, a Hopi Native American medical student, owners of western saloons and remote country stores, a maple syrup farmer, and Chesapeake Bay island dwellers.”
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