I liked the Metrics and Activities Meeting in Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzqTxTfq2Y that was hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland. The change in focus to affiliates was interesting. Perhaps affiliates would like to hold meetings like this in parallel to the WMF meetings in the future.
I also liked this post in the WMF Blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/29/glam-multimedia-metadata-commons/ about structured data on Commons.
This overview https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/30/community-digest-wikipedia-day-17/ of Wikipedia birthday celebrations was fun to read. There were reports from Armenia, Poland, Israel, India, Tunisia, Macedonia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Ghana, Algeria, Bulgaria, and the United States.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine
P.S. Do people like these "What's making you happy this week" emails? Few people respond to them, so I don't know whether people like them, feel that they are a nuisance, or are indifferent. If you would like to share feedback, you can email me off-list or leave a message on my Meta talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pine. If you like these threads then you are welcome to contribute your own Wikimedia-related good news to them, which I would be glad to read.
On 4 February 2018 at 06:13, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
What's making you happy this week?
I discovered we got an article on a ridiculously obscure media format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiPac ) due to a techmoan episode:
https://youtu.be/Q_9IBIcsYj4?t=996
Now we just need a photo of the thing.
Meanwhile Norwich continues to be Norwich:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_urination_devices_in_Norwich
Hoi, Carla Hayden received an award [1] and as I do so often I added it to Wikidata. I could not find info on the award and was only able to add two award winners. A friend found more information and added several more winners. It is an award relating to libraries and librarians, I am confident more information will become known. Thanks, GerardM
[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=47542681
On 4 February 2018 at 07:38, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 February 2018 at 06:13, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
What's making you happy this week?
I discovered we got an article on a ridiculously obscure media format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiPac ) due to a techmoan episode:
https://youtu.be/Q_9IBIcsYj4?t=996
Now we just need a photo of the thing.
Meanwhile Norwich continues to be Norwich:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_urination_devices_in_Norwich
-- geni
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They are harmless and occasionally interesting. Greatly preferable to a lot of the other messages. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: 04 February 2018 08:14 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 February 2018)
I liked the Metrics and Activities Meeting in Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzqTxTfq2Y that was hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland. The change in focus to affiliates was interesting. Perhaps affiliates would like to hold meetings like this in parallel to the WMF meetings in the future.
I also liked this post in the WMF Blog https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/29/glam-multimedia-metadata-commons/ about structured data on Commons.
This overview https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/30/community-digest-wikipedia-day-17/ of Wikipedia birthday celebrations was fun to read. There were reports from Armenia, Poland, Israel, India, Tunisia, Macedonia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Ghana, Algeria, Bulgaria, and the United States.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine
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On 4 February 2018 at 06:13, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. Do people like these "What's making you happy this week" emails? Few people respond to them, so I don't know whether people like them, feel that they are a nuisance, or are indifferent. If you would like to share feedback, you can email me off-list or leave a message on my Meta talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pine. If you like these threads then you are welcome to contribute your own Wikimedia-related good news to them, which I would be glad to read.
I like them and on the whole are informative. <grumpy> It makes a change to read positive messages which have content, as most other positive messages tend to be pile on congratulations-spam, which can be pretty irritating if they make your email ping ten times in the same day. </grumpy>
What's making me happy this week is finding my upload project stopped by getting IP blocked by the Library of Congress, but then discovering their rather good improvements to making all records publicly available in JSON format, in turn making the upload project give better results on Commons.[1]
Links 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/LOC
I think it is good to let them going for the time being.
Cheers Yaroslav
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 February 2018 at 06:13, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. Do people like these "What's making you happy this week" emails? Few people respond to them, so I don't know whether people like them, feel
that
they are a nuisance, or are indifferent. If you would like to share feedback, you can email me off-list or leave a message on my Meta talk
page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pine. If you like these
threads
then you are welcome to contribute your own Wikimedia-related good news
to
them, which I would be glad to read.
I like them and on the whole are informative. <grumpy> It makes a change to read positive messages which have content, as most other positive messages tend to be pile on congratulations-spam, which can be pretty irritating if they make your email ping ten times in the same day. </grumpy>
What's making me happy this week is finding my upload project stopped by getting IP blocked by the Library of Congress, but then discovering their rather good improvements to making all records publicly available in JSON format, in turn making the upload project give better results on Commons.[1]
Links
-- faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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