Hello all,
Is there any discussion happening about who is going to represent tremedous
wiktionary user group in wikimedia summit in 2019?
Regards,
J. Balaji.
(User:Balajijagadesh)
Forwarding to some project email lists so that people know that this
feature change is coming.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Johanna Strodt <johanna.strodt(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:14 PM
Subject: [Translators-l] Fwd: AdvancedSearch announcement: looking for
translation support
To: <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
the Advanced Search interface will soon become a default feature on
all wikis. Its deployment is planned for November 28.
The feature adds an advanced parameter form to the Special:Search page
in order to make already existing advanced search options such as
"intitle" or "subpageof" more visible and accessible for everyone. It
also changes the way namespaces can be selected.
We want to announce the upcoming deployment on village pumps with this
short message: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Johanna_Strodt_(WMDE)/Advanced_Search_…
The feature has already been deployed to deWP, arWP, faWP and huWP, so
we're now looking for translations in other languages.
We're planning to publish the message on Monday, Nov 26, around 11 am
UTC. Therefore it would be great to have the translations ready by
Monday November 26, 7 am UTC.
Thanks a lot. Any support is very appreciated!
Johanna
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Re-launch Wiktionary on G-play Store.
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> Hope everyone knows that the community wishlist survery for this year is
> underway and today NOV. 11 is the last date to propose and make comments.
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> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Wiktionary
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> Also recently the old wiktionary app from the wikimedia foundation was
> withdrawn form the google playstore for some odd reasons. Now there is a
> wishlist proposal for the wiktionary app. Please leave your feedback
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Hello all,
Hope everyone knows that the community wishlist survery for this year is
underway and today NOV. 11 is the last date to propose and make comments.
Kindly leave your proposals or comments for the already made proposals for
the wiktionary here.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Wiktionary
Also recently the old wiktionary app from the wikimedia foundation was
withdrawn form the google playstore for some odd reasons. Now there is a
wishlist proposal for the wiktionary app. Please leave your feedback
regarding that.
Regards,
J. Balaji
(User:Balajijagadesh)
Cross-posting.
Pine
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From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] November 30 deadline for new Project Grant
proposals
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi folks,
The open call for Project Grants is officially underway! As you prepare
your proposals this month, please keep in mind that the final deadline is
November 30th, and that this will be only the only open call for Project
Grants during this fiscal year, which ends on June 30th, 2019. To learn
more about this grant program and how to prepare an application, please
visit our landing page on Meta. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>
In addition to the resources mentioned in the prior announcement, we have
scheduled some proposal clinics where applicants will be able to discuss
their proposals or ask questions with Wikimedia Foundation staff using
Google Meet or using IRC. Some of these will be themed toward specific
topics (such as proposals involving a GLAM-related project), and others
will be more general. For a list of scheduled proposal clinics, please
review the Project Grants landing page on Meta. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project#Upcoming_events>. Additional
clinics may be added throughout the month.
Thanks,
Chris
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 8:08 PM Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The open call for the Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program will
> begin on November 1, when we begin public review of new proposals. The
> final deadline is November 30th for all submissions. <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>. Importantly, this will
> be the only open call for Project Grants in the current fiscal year, which
> ends on June 30th 2019.
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> We are also seeking additional volunteer candidates to expand the Project
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> focused on building a new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on
> your wiki, researching an important issue, coordinating an editathon
series
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> We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and
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Hello everybody,
The Wikitrace project aims at gathering a perinially acknowledged
community of lexicologists around a relational lexicological data bank
and related consultation services.
This project find its root in members of the TWUG willing to provide
services around Wiktionaries which can hardly be provided direcly by the
Wikitionary instances themselves, especially when it comes to cross data
relations within and between Wiktionary instances.
Concretely the roadmap so far include :
* create a Wikibase instance to host the data bank
* integrate Wiktionary dumps in the instance
* build querying external services for
* make the database queriable from Wiktionaris and Wikimedia projects
You are kindly invited to make all your feedbacks on the dedicated RFC
thread of the project talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikitrace
Cheers,
Mathieu
Forwarding.
Pine
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-------- Original message --------From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de> Date: 10/18/18 3:20 AM (GMT-08:00) To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikidata] Senses are now part of Lexicographical Data
Hello all,
As previously announced, the next big piece of Lexicographical Data on Wikidata is now deployed: Senses.
Senses will allow you to describe, for each Lexeme, the different
meanings of the word. By using multilingual glosses, very short phrase
giving an idea of the meaning. In addition, each of these Senses can
have statements to indicate synonyms, antonyms, refers-to-concept and
more. By connecting Senses to other Senses and to Items, you will be
able to describe precisely the meaning of words with structured and
linked data. But the most important thing is that Senses will be able to
do is collect translations of words between languages.
Thanks to Senses, you will be able to organize and connect the
existing Lexemes better, and to provide a very important layer of
information. With Senses support, we now have all the basic technical
building blocks to allow structured machine-readable lexicographical
data, that can be reusable within and Wikimedia projects and by other
stakeholders.
Feel free to try editing Senses. You can use the sandbox to make some tests. Let us know if you have questions or find bugs.
Note: there are still issues with sorting the IDs of Senses,
Forms and sorting the glosses, that will be solved later this week.
Thanks for your understanding.
Cheers,
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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Forwarding news.
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( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 5:02 PM
Subject: [Translators-l] MassMessage translation: Commons and GFDL
To: Wikimedia Translators <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
If the wikis in your language allow local uploads, they probably want
to know that Commons has decided not to allow single-license GFDL
licensing for most files:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alexis_Jazz/GFDL_MassMessage
I will send this out in a couple of days.
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*# Vocarnival*
The Vocabulary Carnival (Vocarnival) at SEMANTiCS 2018 is a unique
opportunity for vocabulary publishers to showcase and share their work,
meet the growing community of vocabulary publishers and users, and build
useful semantic, technical and social links. The Vocarnival forms part
of the SEMANTiCS programme with the Carnival Minute Madness and the
marketplace.
*Which are the expected vocabulary types? *
All types! A very wide vocabulary definition applies to this
competition, including ontologies, classifications, thesauri, concept
and metadata schemes, independently of their format, be it RDF or not.
*When is the submission deadline?*
The submission deadline is set for September 3, 2018, 23:30 CET time.
Get familiar with the technical requirements and the presentation format
for your vocabulary submission. Afterwards, follow the steps below and
get honored by a special prize if you have one of the best three
posters. The winners will be announced during the respective Vocarnival
Session at SEMANTiCS 2018. Please find all information here:
_https://2018.semantics.cc/vocabulary-carnival_
*How to submit your Vocabulary to the Carnival? *
*Step 1:*Make sure your vocabulary is accessible on the Web via a public
URI.
*Step 2:*Submit your vocabulary here:
_https://2018.semantics.cc/submit-vocabulary-vocarnival_
*Step 3:*Register to SEMANTiCS 2018: _https://2018.semantics.cc/prices_
*Step 4:*Every poster will be presented in our exhibition area. The
organising committee will select the best vocabulary poster and
presentation for the awards.
*# DBpedia Day - Call for Participation*
At the beginning of SEMANTiCS 2018, the DBpedia Community will get
together on the**10th of September for the DBpedia Day. Besides the
following highlights, we want you to be a part of the day by telling us
what cool things you do with DBpedia. Submit your proposal in our form:
_https://goo.gl/forms/ngRWCjgH9ocDCrEb2_!
*Highlights*
- Keynote #1: Dealing with Open Domain Data by Mathieu d’Aquin (NUI Galway)
- Keynote #2: Linked Open Data cloud - act now before it’s too late by
Javier Fernández García (WU Wien)
- DBpedia Association hour
- DBpedia Chapter Session
*Important Facts*
- Web URL: _http://wiki.dbpedia.org/meetings/Vienna2018_
- When: September 10th, 2018
- Where: Gußhaus Campus of Vienna's Technical University, Gußhausstraße
27-29, 1040 Vienna, Austria
- Call for Contribution: Submit your proposal in our form
_https://goo.gl/forms/ngRWCjgH9ocDCrEb2_
- Attending the DBpedia Community Meeting costs €50 (excl. registration
fee and VAT). DBpedia members get free admission, please contact your
nearest DBpedia chapter or the _DBpedia Association_
<mailto:holze@infai.org>for a promotion code.
/We are looking forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the
SEMANTiCS in Vienna! /
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Oggetto: [Wikidata] First experiment of lexicographical data is out
Data: Wed, 23 May 2018 14:33:39 +0200
Mittente: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de>
Rispondi-a: Discussion list for the Wikidata project
<wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
A: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
After several years discussing about it, and one year of development and
discussion with the communities, the development team has now released
the first version of lexicographical data support on Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data>.
Since the start of Wikidata in 2012, the multilingual knowledge base was
mainly focused on concepts: Q-items are related to a thing or an idea,
not to the word describing it. Starting now, Wikidata stores a new type
of data: words, phrases and sentences, in many languages, described in
many languages. This information will be stored in new types of
entities, called Lexemes, Forms and Senses. It will allow editors to
describe precisely all words in all languages, and will be reusable,
just like the whole content of Wikidata, by multiple tools and queries,
everything that the community creates to play with words.
Lexicographical data can be reused inside and outside the Wikimedia
projects, and can provide support for Wiktionary.
The first release
A new namespace and several new entity types have been created in order
to model words and phrases. If you’re new to this project, you can learn
more by looking at the documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation>,
briefly describing the data model and the interface. The technical
structure is set, but the editors remain free to model and organize data
as they prefer, with the usual open discussions and community processes
that we apply on Wikidata. Some discussions about new properties
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lexemes> to
create have already started: if you want to be involved in the early
stage of the project to shape it, please participate!
Please note that the version that is now deployed is a first experiment,
that will be continuously improved in the future. Some features are
missing, some bugs may certainly occur. Here are the features that are
included in the first release:
* Add, edit and delete Lexemes, Forms, statements, qualifiers, references
* Link between the different entity types (Item to Lexeme, Form to
Item, etc.)
* Entity suggestion when adding a property or a value
And the following features will not be included in the first version,
but are planned for the future:
* Find Lexemes and Forms via Special:Search
* RDF support (which also means: the ability to query it with
query.wikidata.org <http://query.wikidata.org>)
* Support for Senses
* Merging of Lexemes
* Including the data on other Wikimedia projects, such as Wiktionary
How to try it?
The features described above are now deployed on Wikidata.org. Here are
some suggestions of what you can do to explore this new territory:
* If you’re not familiar with the structure of Lexemes, have a look at
the documentation
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation>
* Look at what is already existing
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=146>.
Please note that Special:Search and the search bar on the top right
corner of pages is not supporting Lexemes yet. We’re working on this.
* Create a new Lexeme with Special:NewLexeme
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewLexeme>
* If a property that you need is missing, you can suggest it here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Lexemes>
* Discuss about how to model words and ask questions on Wikidata
talk:Lexicographical data
* Report bugs or issues that you may encounter: either on the talk
page or on Phabricator, if you’re comfortable using it (create a
task, add the tag |Lexicographical data|, and add Lea_Lacroix_(WMDE)
as a subscriber)
About mass imports and tools
We kindly ask you to *not plan any mass import from any source for the
moment*. There are several reasons behind that: first of all, like
mentioned above, the release is a first version and we need to observe
how our system reacts to the manual edits before starting considering
automatic ones. The system may not be ready for big massive imports at
the beginning. Second reason is legal. Lexicographical data in Wikidata
is released under CC0, and the responsibility of each editor is to make
sure that the data they will add is compatible with CC0. For more
information, you can have a look at the advice of WMF Legal team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Lexicographical_Data>.
Finally, we strongly encourage you to discuss with the communities
before considering any import from the Wiktionaries. Wiktionary editors
have been putting a lot of efforts during years to build definitions,
and we should be respectful of this work, and discuss with them to find
common solutions to work on lexicographical data and enjoy the use of it
together.
We also suggest you to wait a bit before building tools or scripts on
the top of lexicographical data. The interface and its API are probably
going to evolve during the next months, and the system may not be stable
enough to support such tools. We will inform you as soon as it will be
possible.
Next steps
After this first release, some improvements will be made on a very
regular basis (new deployments every week). Once you tried playing with
the new data, feel free to give us feedback. We’re looking especially to
know what are the most important features for you to be worked on next.
* What did you experiment while editing lexicographical data? What
went wrong or was unexpected?
* What bugs or troubles during the process did you encounter?
* What are the features that are, in your opinion, the most important?
Which one should we work on next?
If you’re interested in following the discussions and further
announcements about lexicographical data, I encourage you to follow
Wikidata:Lexicographical data
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data> and its
talk page, where we will discuss about how to organize and structure
data, new features to be added, ideas of tools and queries, and a lot of
other things.
Additional note: with this new kind of data enabled on Wikidata, we
expect some new editors to get interest in it, edit Lexemes, suggest
properties or ask questions. They may not be familiar with all of our
community processes and our ways to organize content. They will need
help and support as well as links to useful resources to understand how
the Wikidata community works. I hope that we will all be kind and
patient, both with other editors and with the software that may not work
exactly as we want it to at the beginning :)
Thanks to the people who tested the model and the interface before the
release, who showed support and curiosity about lexicographical data on
Wikidata!
If you have any question or idea, feel free to write on Wikidata
talk:Lexicographical data or contact me.
--
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de>
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.