*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_Hea…
*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_HighSpee…
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Commons picture of the day: "Columns in Turkish baths, Salamis, Northern
Cyprus",
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columns_in_Turkish_baths,_Salamis,_…,
by User:Podzemnik <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Podzemnik>,
who is a native speaker of Czech and identifies as "Librarian,
photographer, nomad, hiker".
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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.>
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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>
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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_States>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. 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
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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_sup…
*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-…
*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
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )