[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset

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Forwarding to project email lists.

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From: Ilana Fried 
Date: Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:01 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset
To: 


Hello everyone,


The Community Tech team[1] has released a new feature: Enhanced Password
Reset[2]. We developed this feature in response to the #3 wish[3] from the 2019
Community Wishlist Survey[4]. With this feature, you can prevent password
reset emails from being sent unless both your username and email address
are provided on Special:PasswordReset. This is an optional feature,
available in the “Email options” section of Preferences. If you enable the
feature, you can reduce harassment through unsolicited password reset
emails. For more information, you can visit the Help:Password Reset page[5]
and the project page[6].


Thank you,


Ilana Fried

Product Manager, Community Tech


[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech
[2].
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Reset_password#I%E2%80%99m_getting_password_reset_emails_that_I_didn%E2%80%99t_request._How_do_I_prevent_this_from_happening?
[3].
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Anti-harassment/Add_an_option_to_require_email_address_and_username_to_reset_password
[4]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Results
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Reset_password
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Talk-us] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications

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From: Clifford Snow 
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:06 PM
Subject: [Talk-us] OSM Foundation’s Call for Microgrant Applications
To: talk-us 


In case you missed this announcement, I'm reposting it on talk-us mailing list.


2020 will be the first year that the OSM Foundation operates the new
microgrants project. In the coming weeks, we hope to hear from you
about a bold, community-driven, and impactive OpenStreetMap project
idea that will benefit from a microgrant of up to 5000 euros. We
welcome a broad range of projects, with the minimum requirement being
a clear connection to OpenStreetMap.


What is a microgrant? In our case, it is a modest amount of funds
awarded to applicants in order to fund direct expenses of a project.
For an idea of successful projects, you can take a look at the
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s 2019 microgrant awardees. Keep in
mind that the OSMF has a wider focus than the humanitarian sector,
spanning our global community, and welcomes applications with any
focus that relates to OpenStreetMap. We particularly encourage
applicants to consider the core values from the OSMF’s mission
statement and how any microgrant work can incorporate them.

The OSMF Microgrant Program focuses on simple grant proposals, and we
will swiftly decide on what to fund. Our goal is to avoid a
complicated and long application and decision process. You should
submit a brief and concise proposal, and we plan to quickly announce
the awardees.

We encourage submissions from individuals, groups, and organizations
who have a clear idea they want to pursue. Each project should be
completed within 12 months of the microgrant being awarded this
spring. Microgrants are open to all OSMF members, and can be submitted
in any language. If you are not yet a member of OSMF then you can
apply to join up until the time you submit a microgrant application,
and be eligible for an award. Please note there is a fee waiver
program that may allow you to join the OSMF at no cost.


In light of the ongoing health crisis regarding COVID19, we will not
be awarding microgrants for projects which require offline group
gatherings and in person meetings, although these ideas are certainly
valuable for future rounds.

Funding can be used for a variety of purposes. You may need tools and
supplies for mapping activity, funds for training materials,
technology expenses for a series of virtual mapathons, prizes for an
online coding, mapping, or writing contest, and many more examples.
Please embrace your own creativity and not feel limited by the range
of examples.


We encourage you to consult with your local OpenStreetMap community
when planning a microgrant application, and make sure you adhere to
community guidelines in the scope of the project. If accepted for a
microgrant, you will be responsible for reporting progress, signing a
grant agreement, and making sure to follow the detailed microgrant
rules. It is strongly suggested that your project uses the funding to
enable volunteer work to have a wider and stronger impact than it
would without funding.

The call for microgrants will open on April 19th, 2020 and we will
continue to accept applications through May 10th, 2020. In order to
submit,  visit the OSM Wiki page and click on “Start your application”
to enter the template. When this is complete, send a message to
microgrants at osmfoundation.org. We also encourage sharing your
application on osmf-talk when it is submitted. If you need help with
the submission process, please feel free to contact the Microgrants
Committee for help. If you don’t have enough time to prepare your plan
and application, please consider submitting it in a possible future
round of microgrants.


Once the submission period closes on May 10th, we invite the community
to review the complete list of submissions and provide feedback on the
wiki page. We also will accept feedback by email to microgrants at
osmfoundation.org and via osmf-talk.


Complete timeline:

April 19: call for microgrant applications opens

May 10: final date for submission (23:59 Pacific Time Zone, USA).

May 10-TBD: community feedback period

Late May: announcement of awards

For more details, see the complete rules and guidelines on the OSM
wiki and contact us at microgrants at osmfoundation.org with any
questions. This is the first time the OSMF is sponsoring such an
activity, and we look forward to learning together about how this
benefits our community and how to build a transparent, effective, and
inclusive microgrants program for everyone involved. We are grateful
for the opportunity to make funds available to the community and hope
to hear your ideas in the coming weeks.


Clifford

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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The Corona dead

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I'm forwarding this, although I wish that the circumstances were better.

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From: Gerard Meijssen 
Date: Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 2:46 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Corona dead
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Hoi,
Obviously with a pandemic people die including notable people. As I am used
to do, I have a query, a Listeria list that will update the latest
information based on what we know in Wikidata.

Given that it is not restricted to any one Wikipedia, we will know the
notable dead from any and all Wikipedias.

It is easy enough to have this list on your Wikipedia..
Thanks,
   GerardM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM/The_Corona_dead
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Analytics] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] March 18, 2020: Topic Modeling

[Pine W]

Thanks, Janna . I'm forwarding this to a few more lists.

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From: Janna Layton 
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:30 PM
Subject: [Analytics] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] March 18, 2020:
Topic Modeling
To: ,
, 


Hi all,


The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, March
18, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation on topic
modeling by Jordan Boyd-Graber. A question-and-answer session will
follow.


YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiD9QTHNVVM


As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase


This month's presentation:


Big Data Analysis with Topic Models: Evaluation, Interaction, and
Multilingual Extensions


By: Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland


A common information need is to understand large, unstructured
datasets: millions of e-mails during e-discovery, a decade worth of
science correspondence, or a day's tweets. In the last decade, topic
models have become a common tool for navigating such datasets even
across languages. This talk investigates the foundational research
that allows successful tools for these data exploration tasks: how to
know when you have an effective model of the dataset; how to correct
bad models; how to measure topic model effectiveness; and how to
detect framing and spin using these techniques. After introducing
topic models, I argue why traditional measures of topic model
quality---borrowed from machine learning---are inconsistent with how
topic models are actually used. In response, I describe interactive
topic modeling, a technique that enables users to impart their
insights and preferences to models in a principled, interactive way. I
will then address measuring topic model effectiveness in real-world
tasks.


Overview of topic models:
https://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/papers/2017_fntir_tm_applications.pdf

Topic model evaluation: http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/nips2009-rtl.pdf

Interactive topic modeling: http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2014_mlj_itm.pdf

Topic Models for Categorization:
http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2016_acl_doclabel.pdf

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Re: [Wikidata] Weekly Summary #404

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Hah! I like the joke. :)

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Re: [Wikidata] Status of Wikidata Query Service

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Hello Amirouche,

Regarding "most cell phone plans" being unlimited, here in the United
States there are many phone plans which are not unlimited. I don't
know what the proportion of unlimited to limited users are.

My understanding is that Twitter charges money for the use of their
API under some circumstances. See
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/twitter-developer-review/. If
Twitter can be successful with this then I would think that WMF can
too, although in WMF's case the goals do not include profits for
shareholders.

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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 3:37 PM Amirouche Boubekki
 wrote:
>
> Le ven. 7 févr. 2020 à 19:01, Pine W  a écrit :
> >
> > I don't know if this is helpful, as I'm not very familiar with
> > Wikidata's infrastructure, but I think that an idea that was discussed
> > in the Wikimedia Strategy 2030 process is charging real money to
> > organizations that consume large amounts of data from the Wikimedia
> > API. By extension, an idea to consider is charging real money to
> > consumers that want to use Wikidata services in resource-intensive ways.
>
> I was told that charging on an API request basis is very difficult to
> get correctly in terms of software because measuring things is in
> general difficult.  Take, for instance, the case of a failed query it
> should not be charged, should it?  That is the reason why most cell
> phone plans are unlimited.
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Re: [Wikidata] Status of Wikidata Query Service

[Pine W]

I don't know if this is helpful, as I'm not very familiar with
Wikidata's infrastructure, but I think that an idea that was discussed
in the Wikimedia Strategy 2030 process is charging real money to
organizations that consume large amounts of data from the Wikimedia
API. By extension, an idea to consider is charging real money to
consumers that want use Wikidata services in resource intensive ways.
That would have several potential benefits. Charging money for
resource intensive requests could make consumers be more value
conscious when deciding which queries to run, it would probably reduce
the workload on WMF's end, the reduced workload on WMF's end could
lead to faster performance, and the money could be used for the
maintenance and/or upgrade of Wikidata services. I think that offering
free services to consumers who are not making resource intensive
requests is good, but I am also fine with charging real money for
resource intensive requests by consumers. For anyone who wants to make
a resource intensive request and is unwilling or unable to pay
accordingly, an option is to put them into a "slow lane" where there
requests will be fulfilled but at a slower pace than paid resource
intensive requests will be fulfilled.

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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] PyCon Financial Assistance and Development Sprints Info

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From: Brooke Storm 
Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 1:03 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] PyCon Financial Assistance and Development Sprints
Info
To: , Foundation Optional <
foundation-optio...@wikimedia.org>, 


Hello Folks!
For the Python enthusiasts on these lists, I’m signal boosting this message
with info on PyCon dev sprints and financial assistance for the conference
from a former Wikimedia colleague.
I plan to attend PyCon this year and am also hoping to figure out setting
up a development sprint around some Wikimedia Cloud Services and Toolforge
code.

Brooke Storm
SRE
Wikimedia Cloud Services
bst...@wikimedia.org 
IRC: bstorm_

- Forwarded message 


I wanted to mention - feel free to pass this on publicly and in personal
invitations - that PyCon North America, mid-April in Pennsylvania,
offers financial assistance to people who would like to attend:

https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/ <
https://us.pycon.org/2020/financial-assistance/>

The deadline for requesting financial assistance is 31 January.

PyCon loves to cross-pollinate with other free and open source
movements, and I know there are many Python developers in Wikimedia
tech. If Wikimedians want to use the April 20-23 in-person sprints

https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/ <
https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/> (will be editable soon)

to work on Wikimedia-related Python tools together, that would be cool!

Best wishes.

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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Tech Talks] Cormac Parle, Structured Data on Commons, 11 December 2019 at 6 PM UTC

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From: Sarah R 
Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:44 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia Tech Talks] Cormac Parle, Structured Data
on Commons, 11 December 2019 at 6 PM UTC
To: 


Hi Everyone,

It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2019 Episode 11! This talk will take
place on *11 December 2019 at 6 PM UTC.*

Title: Structured Data on Commons

Speaker: Cormac Parle, Senior Software Engineer

Summary:

The talk will cover Structured Data on Commons:


   - what structured is
   - the structured data we store for a media file on commons
   - where we store it
   - how it helps with search
   - the UI and the API calls we use to manipulate it


The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9LmFAkDnx0

During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at
#wikimedia-office

You can watch past Tech Talks here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks

If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more
here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Tech_talks

Note: Please feel free to distribute this email to any lists that you feel
are appropriate!

Many kindnesses,

Sarah R. Rodlund
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Analytics] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] October 16, 2019 at 9:30 AM PDT, 16:30 UTC

[Pine W]

Forwarding in case this is of interest to others.

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From: Janna Layton 
Date: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 9:58 PM
Subject: [Analytics] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] October 16, 2019 at 9:30
AM PDT, 16:30 UTC
To: , , <
wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hi all,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past Research Showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

This month's presentations:

Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
Campaigns

By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
Without Fake  and developed a
few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.

More info on second talk by Francesca Spezzano to come


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Re: [Wikidata] Several primary database masters switchovers scheduled (read-only required)

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Thanks for the updates and for the short maintenance windows.

Pine
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 5:13 AM Manuel Arostegui 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> s4 (commonswiki) was done:
>
> Read-only start: 05:00:51
> Read-only stop: 05:01:42
> Total read-only time: 51 seconds
>
> Thanks,
> Manuel.
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:00 AM Manuel Arostegui 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The last switchover, from this batch, s4 (commonswiki), will start in 1h
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230784
>>
>> Thanks
>> Manuel.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:49 PM Manuel Arostegui <
>> maroste...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The following primary database masters will be switched over during the
>>> next few weeks (more details at
>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788):
>>>
>>> Impact:
>>> *Writes will be blocked*
>>> *Reads will remain unaffected*
>>>
>>> These are the concrete days, hours and affected wikis:
>>>
>>> * s8: 10th Sept from 05:00-05:30 UTC. The affected wiki is: wikidatawiki
>>> - tracking task: T230762
>>>
>>> * s2: 17th Sept from 05:00-05:30 UTC. The list of affected wikis is at:
>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/master/dblists/s2.dblist
>>>  - tracking task: T230785
>>>
>>> * s3: 24th Sept from 05:00-05:30 UTC. The list of affected wikis is at:
>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/master/dblists/s3.dblist
>>> - tracking task: T230783
>>>
>>> * s4: 26th Sept from 05:00-05:30 UTC. The affected wiki is: commonswiki
>>> - tracking task: T230784
>>>
>>> If everything goes well, we do not expect to use those 30 minutes of
>>> read-only and rather just a few minutes.
>>>
>>> We will email send an email the day of each failover before and after it
>>> is done.
>>>
>>> Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.
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Re: [Wikidata] Useful resources for Scholia

[Pine W]

This looks interesting. Thanks for sharing. I'm cross-posting this to
Research-l.

Pine
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On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 10:10 PM Houcemeddine A. Turki <
turkiabdelwa...@hotmail.fr> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I thank you for your efforts. I invite you to use several useful resources
> available in https://shubhanshu.com/awesome-scholarly-data-analysis/ to
> enrich Scholia project.
> Yours Sincerely,
> Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
> Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
> Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
> GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
> Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
> Member, Wiki Project Med
> Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
> Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
> Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
> Founder, TunSci
> 
> +21629499418
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [OpenAccess] Fwd: Job Posting: Opportunity at the NIH Library: Data Services Informationist

[Pine W]

Forwarding a job announcement that may be of interest to some list
subscribers. The announced pay range is $69,581 to $128,920 per year.

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Federico Leva (Nemo) 
Date: Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:55 PM
Subject: [OpenAccess] Fwd: Job Posting: Opportunity at the NIH Library:
Data Services Informationist
To: Wikimedia & Libraries , Open Access
discussions 


This looks like something where an experienced wikimedian with interest
in libraries and/or open access could fit.

Federico

  Messaggio inoltrato 
Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Job Posting: Opportunity at the NIH Library: Data
Services Informationist
Data: Thu, 23 May 2019 13:43:48 +
Mittente: "Belter, Christopher (NIH/OD/ORS) [E]"

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library is pleased to announce
an exciting employment opportunity for an exceptional candidate to serve
as an informationist and lead the Library’s data services program.  If
you have experience providing information and data services in a
biomedical library setting and want to play a significant role in a
dynamic organization, then consider joining the NIH Library team. This
is a GS-11/12/13, Technical Information Specialist position.  For more
information, visit https://www.nihlibrary.nih.gov/services/data.

We expect to announce this vacancy on USAJOBS.gov on May 28, 2019, and
the application will be open for 10 calendar days.  The application
period reflects the NIH’s effort to hire talented people quickly.  You
may preview the draft announcements now at
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https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/534056100/ but you will not
be able to apply until May 28th.

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Thank you for helping spread the word to others who may be interested.

Major responsibilities of the position are as follows.

Responsibilities
•   Serves as lead and subject matter expert for the Library’s data
services program
•   Assesses NIH researchers’ training needs in the areas of data
management, data visualization, data analysis, and R and Python programming
•   Develops and delivers graduate-level training to meet identified
needs
•   Provides one-on-one advice and consultations in the areas of data
science
•   Assists NIH researchers in using the NIH Library’s data sciences
workstation, which offers a suite of tools for data analysis,
processing, and visualization for a variety of different types of data
•   Consults and collaborates with NIH staff to aid them in locating,
accessing, identifying, and managing information
•   Performs outreach across NIH and HHS to understand users’
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—March 6th

[Pine W]

 Hi,

I don't usually forward Search Platform meeting announcements to project
lists, but I'll do so this month while I'm thinking about it. If you're
interested in future meeting announcements and other news from the Search
Platform team then you can subscribe to the Discovery email list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery.

Pine
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-- Forwarded message -
From: Trey Jones 
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Upcoming Search Platform Office Hours—March 6th
To: Wikimedia developers 


This is a reminder that the Search Platform Office Hours are tomorrow!

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:34 AM Trey Jones  wrote:

> The Search Platform Team
>  usually holds
> office hours the first Wednesday of each month. Come ask us anything about
> Wikimedia search!
>
>
> We’re particularly interested in:
>
> * Opportunities for collaboration—internally or externally to the
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> * Challenges you have with on-wiki search, in any of the languages we
> support
>
>
> But we're happy to talk about anything search-related. Feel free to add
> your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
>
>
> Details for our next meeting:
>
> Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2018
>
> Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-9:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET
>
> Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
>
> Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vyc-jvgq-dww
>
>
> *N.B.:* Google Meet System Requirements
> 
>
>
> Trey Jones
> Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led projects

[Pine W]

 Forwarding in case people are interested in seeing what was funded.

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From: Chris "Jethro" Schilling 
Date: Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 9:06 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Project Grants program will fund 20 community-led
projects
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Hi folks,

In the latest round of Project Grants, the committee has recommended 20
projects for a total of approximately $678,666 USD in funding.  We received
42 proposals for review, the largest round of proposals we’ve received in a
single round. Please join me in congratulating the applicants! I’d also
like to express my thanks to all applicants this round for their hard work
and engagement with their proposals, and to the Project Grants Committee
for their careful diligence in reviewing and providing crucial feedback
during this round. Without further ado, here’s what we’re funding:[1]

==Software: five projects funded==* Commons Android app v3: This third
version of the Commons mobile uploader app aims to increase app stability,
improve a recommendations feature for nearby places, maintain a limited
connectivity mode, and provide better outreach to underrepresented
communities. [2]

* Scribe: Scribe is an editing tool to support underserved Wikipedia
editors, helping them to plan the structure of their new articles and to
find references in their language.[3]

* Culture Gap Monthly Monitoring: The Wikipedia Cultural Diversity
Observatory (WCDO) proposes a set of solutions to regularly assist
communities and individual editors to increase the cultural diversity in
their language editions’ content.[4].

* GlobalFactSyncRE: GlobalFactSyncRE will extract all infobox facts and
their references to produce a tool for Wikipedia editors that detects and
displays differences across infobox facts in an intelligent way to help
sync infoboxes between languages and/or Wikidata. The extracted references
will also be used to enhance Wikidata.[5]

* Wikidata & ETL: This project aims at improving management and increasing
automation of processes loading data into Wikidata, and proposes a tool as
a platform for creation of repeatable processes for bulk loading data into
Wikidata and other Wikibase instances from various data sources.[6]

==Online organizing: four projects funded==* Wiki Loves Monuments
international team/2019 coordination: The international coordination team
for Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) [7] proposes to strengthen the foundation
for healthy and sustainable WLM competitions across the world. In this
grant, the team will focus considerable effort on increasing the
sustainability of these events by addressing known issues around developing
best practices, resourcing local teams to run successful events, and
adapting to mobile engagement.[8]

* CEE Spring 2019: This annual international article writing contest
generates
content from every country and region in Central and Eastern Europe on 30+
Wikipedias.  CEE Spring’s remarkable community spirit plays a central role
in fostering a thriving, collaborative volunteer base in the region. The
grant will continue incentivizing content creation focused on similar
themes from last year, including closing the gender gap, and expanding
minority language Wikipedias, and showcasing the cultural heritage of
Central and Eastern Europe. [9]

* WM HU/Editor retention program: This grant will fund the editor retention
program in the Hungarian Wikipedia. The project helps the Hungarian
Wikipedia community in decreasing the negative experiences and
strengthening the positive experiences of the contributors; improving the
community atmosphere and strengthening the community cohesion, the
Wikipedia identity, the sense of mission and pride in Wikipedia.[10]

* VisibleWikiWomen2019: Whose Knowledge?, in partnership with Wikimedians
and women’s and feminist organizations around the world, is organizing a
campaign to add more diverse and quality images of women to Commons and
Wikipedia throughout March 2019 to celebrate International Women’s Month.
This year, the organization plans to take what they have learned from 2018
#VisibleWikiWomen and grow the campaign, creating more materials and
connections that will be useful for this year’s campaign and many more
years to come.[11]

==Offline outreach: ten projects funded==* Smithsonian
Wikimedian-in-Residence for Gender Representation: This project will
establish a Wikimedian-in-Residence for the Smithsonian Women's History
Initiative, and increase the representation of women on Wikimedia projects,
and seek ongoing support for a permanent Wikimedian-in-Residence at the
institution.[12]

* Action Plan for Wikipedia + Libraries Training in Mexico: OCLC will
investigate the viability of and approach to a Wikipedia+Libraries training
program for library staff in Mexico, to leverage the libraries in support
of the Wikimedia Foundation’s New Readers initiative. This project will
identify a Mexico-based 

[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Developing instructional material for Wikidata Query Service

[Pine W]

Forwarding an announcement to other lists that may be interested in this
development.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


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From: Michal Lester 
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 9:40 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Developing instructional material for Wikidata Query
Service
To: , 


Dear all,
One recurring phenomenon we encounter when we present Wikidata to various
audiences, is the enthusiasm with they react to the Wikidata Query Service,
and the possibilities it offers for extracting specific information from
the vast network of linked and structured data contained in Wikidata. This
enthusiasm is not surprising, as the query feature of Wikidata is quite
unique within the landscape of information services available today.
The Wikidata Query Service is powered by SPARQL – a semantic query language
for databases. Unfortunately, for users who are new to Wikimedia platforms,
there is currently little instructional material on how to learn SPARQL for
use in Wikidata. At Wikimedia Israel we believe that a user-friendly
tutorial to Queries/SPARQL will attract new users to engage with Wikidata
and help build a community around the project.
In recent years, Wikimedia Israel has developed online instructional
materials, such as the Wikipedia courseware and the guide for creating
encyclopedic content. We plan to use our experience in this field, and in
collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, we intend to develop a website
with a step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use the Wikidata Query
Service. The instructional material will be available in three languages
(Hebrew, Arabic and English) but it will be possible to add the same
instructions in other languages. We are quite confident that having a
tutorial that explains and teaches the Query Service will help expand
Wikidata to new audiences worldwide.

*Best regards,*


*Michal Lester,*
*Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
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Re: [Wikidata] Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup

[Pine W]

Sorry, I started the meeting but the meeting ID number was wrong. I don't
know how that happened. I think that this problem has been corrected, so if
you were trying to connect, please try again.


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On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 12:49 PM Pine W  wrote:

> Hi, the Wikimedia Café for January will be on Wednesday the 23rd at 11 AM
> Pacific / 7 PM UTC. The Zoom link is below. Because of the monthly limit
> for emails from any one person to Wikimedia-l and my wish to conserve my
> remaining emails to that list for other topics, I likely will not send a
> reminder about this event, so please mark your calendars now if you want to
> attend. Thanks!
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 3:07 PM Pine W  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The next "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on Wednesday the 23rd of
>> January, on a time to be chosen via Doodle poll:
>> https://doodle.com/poll/5mf5cfkuxpprk727. The plan is that for January's
>> meetup we will focus on Wikidata. Bluerasberry
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry>, who works extensively
>> with Wikidata at the University of Virginia's Data Science Institute, plans
>> to participate.
>>
>> The Zoom online meeting link will be the same link that we have used for
>> previous Wikimedia Café meetups; see below.
>>
>> The Café meetups are usually small, so they are a good place to ask
>> questions or to discuss ideas, regarding Wikidata or other Wikimedia topics.
>>
>> Pine
>> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite
>>> people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics
>>> and Activities Meeting.
>>>
>>> There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that
>>> you would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and
>>> ideas from other Wikimedians.
>>>
>>> I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with
>>> software or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone
>>> number will be visible to other participants.
>>>
>>> The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would
>>> like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can
>>> facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are
>>> multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live
>>> interpretation also.
>>>
>>> Here is information about how to connect:
>>>
>>> Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210
>>>
>>> Or iPhone one-tap :
>>> Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210#
>>> Or Telephone:
>>> Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current
>>> location):
>>> Argentina: +54 341 512 2188
>>> Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088  or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149
>>> Canada: +1 647 558 0588
>>> Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088
>>> France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188  or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048
>>> Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188  or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800
>>> Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688
>>> Italy: +39 069 480 6488
>>> Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488  or +81 524 564 439
>>> Mexico: +52 229 910 0061  or +52 554 161 4288
>>> Spain: +34 84 368 5025  or +34 91 198 0188
>>> Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434  or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488
>>> Russia: +7 495 283 9788
>>> United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874  or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088
>>> US: +1 408 638 0986  or +1 646 558 8665
>>> Meeting ID: 136 978 210
>>> International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy
>>>
>>> The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00
>>> UTC / 10:00 Pacific.
>>>
>>> Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_reform_town_hall_meeting,_2009-09-02.jpg>,
>>> so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking.
>>> (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating,
>>> then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere
>>> else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like
>>> this
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg>
>>> or this
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488.jpg>.
>>> I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you
>>> come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.
>>>
>>> Until next time,
>>> Pine
>>> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>>>
>>
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Re: [Wikidata] Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup

[Pine W]

Hi, the Wikimedia Café for January will be on Wednesday the 23rd at 11 AM
Pacific / 7 PM UTC. The Zoom link is below. Because of the monthly limit
for emails from any one person to Wikimedia-l and my wish to conserve my
remaining emails to that list for other topics, I likely will not send a
reminder about this event, so please mark your calendars now if you want to
attend. Thanks!

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 3:07 PM Pine W  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The next "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on Wednesday the 23rd of January,
> on a time to be chosen via Doodle poll:
> https://doodle.com/poll/5mf5cfkuxpprk727. The plan is that for January's
> meetup we will focus on Wikidata. Bluerasberry
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry>, who works extensively
> with Wikidata at the University of Virginia's Data Science Institute, plans
> to participate.
>
> The Zoom online meeting link will be the same link that we have used for
> previous Wikimedia Café meetups; see below.
>
> The Café meetups are usually small, so they are a good place to ask
> questions or to discuss ideas, regarding Wikidata or other Wikimedia topics.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W  wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite
>> people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics
>> and Activities Meeting.
>>
>> There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that
>> you would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and
>> ideas from other Wikimedians.
>>
>> I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with
>> software or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone
>> number will be visible to other participants.
>>
>> The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would
>> like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can
>> facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are
>> multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live
>> interpretation also.
>>
>> Here is information about how to connect:
>>
>> Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210
>>
>> Or iPhone one-tap :
>> Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210#
>> Or Telephone:
>> Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current
>> location):
>> Argentina: +54 341 512 2188
>> Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088  or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149
>> Canada: +1 647 558 0588
>> Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088
>> France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188  or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048
>> Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188  or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800
>> Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688
>> Italy: +39 069 480 6488
>> Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488  or +81 524 564 439
>> Mexico: +52 229 910 0061  or +52 554 161 4288
>> Spain: +34 84 368 5025  or +34 91 198 0188
>> Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434  or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488
>> Russia: +7 495 283 9788
>> United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874  or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088
>> US: +1 408 638 0986  or +1 646 558 8665
>> Meeting ID: 136 978 210
>> International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy
>>
>> The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC
>> / 10:00 Pacific.
>>
>> Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_reform_town_hall_meeting,_2009-09-02.jpg>,
>> so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking.
>> (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating,
>> then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere
>> else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like
>> this
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg> or
>> this
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488.jpg>.
>> I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you
>> come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.
>>
>> Until next time,
>> Pine
>> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>>
>
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Re: [Wikidata] Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup

[Pine W]

Hi,

The next "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on Wednesday the 23rd of January,
on a time to be chosen via Doodle poll:
https://doodle.com/poll/5mf5cfkuxpprk727. The plan is that for January's
meetup we will focus on Wikidata. Bluerasberry
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry>, who works extensively
with Wikidata at the University of Virginia's Data Science Institute, plans
to participate.

The Zoom online meeting link will be the same link that we have used for
previous Wikimedia Café meetups; see below.

The Café meetups are usually small, so they are a good place to ask
questions or to discuss ideas, regarding Wikidata or other Wikimedia topics.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite
> people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics
> and Activities Meeting.
>
> There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that you
> would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and ideas
> from other Wikimedians.
>
> I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with software
> or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone number will be
> visible to other participants.
>
> The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would
> like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can
> facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are
> multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live
> interpretation also.
>
> Here is information about how to connect:
>
> Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210
>
> Or iPhone one-tap :
> Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210#
> Or Telephone:
> Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current
> location):
> Argentina: +54 341 512 2188
> Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088  or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149
> Canada: +1 647 558 0588
> Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088
> France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188  or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048
> Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188  or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800
> Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688
> Italy: +39 069 480 6488
> Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488  or +81 524 564 439
> Mexico: +52 229 910 0061  or +52 554 161 4288
> Spain: +34 84 368 5025  or +34 91 198 0188
> Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434  or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488
> Russia: +7 495 283 9788
> United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874  or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088
> US: +1 408 638 0986  or +1 646 558 8665
> Meeting ID: 136 978 210
> International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy
>
> The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC
> / 10:00 Pacific.
>
> Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Hartford,_Connecticut_health_care_reform_town_hall_meeting,_2009-09-02.jpg>,
> so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking.
> (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating,
> then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere
> else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like
> this <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caf%C3%A9_M%C3%A9lange,_Wien.jpg>
> or this
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takamatsu-Castle-Building-Interior-M3488.jpg>.
> I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you
> come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.
>
> Until next time,
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Translators-l] Fwd: AdvancedSearch announcement: looking for translation support

[Pine W]

 Forwarding to the Discovery list and more project email lists so that
people know that this feature change is coming.


Pine
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-- Forwarded message -
From: Johanna Strodt 
Date: Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:14 PM
Subject: [Translators-l] Fwd: AdvancedSearch announcement: looking for
translation support
To: 


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_Deployment_everywhere

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


-- 
Johanna Strodt
Project Manager Community Communications Technical Wishlist

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0https://wikimedia.de

Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment.

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] November 30 deadline for new Project Grant proposals

[Pine W]

Cross-posting.

Pine
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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 


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

Chris "Jethro" Schilling
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 8:08 PM Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschill...@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.
>
> We are also seeking additional volunteer candidates to expand the Project
> Grants Committee.  More information is provided at the end of this email.
>
> Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups and
> organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether
> focused on building a new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on
> your wiki, researching an important issue, coordinating an editathon
series
> or providing other support for community building.
>
> We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and
> complete a grant proposal:
> * Tutorials for writing a strong application: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Tutorial>
> * General planning page for Project Grants:  <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Plan>
> * Program guidelines and criteria: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Learn>
>
> Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal
> support upon request.  Contact us at projectgra...@wikimedia.org if you
> would like feedback or more information.
>
> We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
> make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects.  Put your idea into
> motion, and submit your proposal by November 30th! <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
>
> Volunteering for the Project Grants Committee
> We are also seeking candidates to participate in the Project Grants
> Committee, the volunteer decision-making body that reviews all Project
> Grant proposals and decides which projects to fund.  Committee members
have
> diverse backgrounds with skill sets like:
> * On-wiki editing and experience
> * Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an intended
> on-wiki or online impact.
> * Background in handling externally provided money and working within
> budgets, preferably in a non-profit context.
> * Any grants you've applied for or worked in grant programs (in the
> Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world).
> * Expertise in areas like knowledge equity or knowledge as a service, that
> will help us move toward our movement strategic direction
> * Software or research expertise
> If you are interested in serving as a committee member, you cand find more
> information and submit your candidacy here by November 15th: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Committee/Candidates>
>
> Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with
> your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee.
> Contact us at projectgra...@wikimedia.org.
>
> Take care,
>
> Chris
>
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[Wikidata] Fwd: Was macht dich diese Woche glücklich? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 28 October 2018)

[Pine W]

Forwarding to the Wikidata list for this week. Happy birthday, Wikidata.

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From: Pine W 
Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:49 PM
Subject: Was macht dich diese Woche glücklich? / What's making you happy
this week? (Week of 28 October 2018)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List ,
wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org 


User:SuperHamster <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster> has
done a remarkable amount of volunteering for Wikimedia in the United States
this year. In addition to supporting the Ohio Wikimedians User Group
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091277.html>,
this year he was an organizer for both Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in the
United States
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_the_United_States>
(which had over 10,000 entries and almost 2,000 participants), and
WikiConference
North America 2018 <https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Main_Page> which
took place at the Ohio State University Libraries and the Columbus
Metropolitan Library.

Deb <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:DTankersley_(WMF)> sent two emails
to Wikitech-l with many links regarding the events at the Wikimedia
Technical Conference. [1
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-October/091041.html>]
[2
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-October/091048.html>].
I encourage anyone who would like to know what happened at the conference
to read Deb's emails.

Wikidata's sixth birthday
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday> is on 29 October
2018. I will take this opportunity to say that, from my perspective, I
think that Lydia <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)>
has done a lot of good work on Wikidata, and I think that the project is
flourishing partly due to her consistently good execution. She doesn't call
a lot of attention to herself, but I think that what she has done is
impressive.

What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.

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Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons

[Pine W]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 4:41 PM Daniel Kinzler 
wrote:

> Hi Pine, sorry for the misleading wording. Let me clarify below.
>
> Am 19.10.18 um 9:51 nachm. schrieb Pine W:
> > Hi Markus, I seem to be missing something. Daniel said, "And I think the
> best
> > way to achieve this is to start using the ontology as an ontology on
> wikimedia
> > projects, and thus expose the fact that the ontology is broken. This
> gives
> > incentive to fix it, and examples as to what things should be possible
> using
> > that ontology (namely, some level of basic inference)." I think that I
> > understand the basic idea behind structured data on Commons. I also
> think that I
> > understand your statement above. What I'm not understanding is how
> Daniel's
> > proposal to "start using the ontology as an ontology on wikimedia
> projects, and
> > thus expose the fact that the ontology is broken." isn't a proposal to
> add poor
> > quality information from Wikidata onto Wikipedia and, in the process,
> give
> > Wikipedians more problems to fix. Can you or Daniel explain this?
>
> What I meant in concrete terms was: let's start using wikidata items for
> tagging
> on commons, even though search results based on such tags will currently
> not
> yield very good results, due to the messy state of the ontology, and hope
> people
> fix the ontology to get better search results. If people use "poodle" to
> tag an
> image and it's not found when searching for "dog", this may lead to people
> investigating why that is, and coming up with ontology improvements to fix
> it.
>
> What I DON'T mean is "let's automatically generate navigation boxes for
> wikipedia articles based on an imperfect  ontology, and push them on
> everyone".
> I mean, using the ontology to generate navigation boxes for some kinds of
> articles may be a nice idea, and could indeed have the same effect - that
> people
> notice problems in the ontology, and fix them. But that would be something
> the
> local wiki communities decide to do, not something that comes from
> Wikidata or
> the Structured Data project.
>
> The point I was trying to make is: the Wiki communities are rather good in
> creating structures that serve their purpose, but they do so pragmatically,
> along the behavior of the existing tools. So, rather than trying to work
> around
> the quirks of the ontology in software, the software should use very simply
> rules (such as following the subclass relation), and let people adopt the
> data
> to this behavior, if and when they find it useful to do so. This approach,
> over
> time, provides better results in my opinion.
>
> Also, keep in mind that I was referring to an imperfect *improvement* of
> search.
> the alternative being to only return things tagged with "dog" when
> searching for
> "dog". I was not suggesting to degrade user experience in order to
> incentivize
> editors. I'm rather suggesting the opposite: let's NOT give people a
> reason tag
> images that show poodles with "poodle" and "dog" and "mammal" and "animal"
> and
> "pet" and...
>
> --
> Daniel Kinzler
> Principal Software Engineer, Core Platform
> Wikimedia Foundation
>

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the explanation. I think that I now better understand what
you're proposing. This explanation of the proposal sounds reasonable to me
in a way that my earlier understanding of the proposal did not.

By the way, I don't know what your normal work schedule is, but I usually
don't expect staff to respond to non-urgent emails over the weekend,
although I appreciate it. :) Waiting until Monday is usually fine.

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Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons

[Pine W]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:47 AM Markus Kroetzsch <
markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de> wrote:

> On 19/10/2018 07:09, Pine W wrote:
> > I would appreciate clarification what is proposed with regard to
> > exposing problematic Wikidata ontology on Wikipedia. If the idea
> > involves inserting poor-quality information onto English Wikipedia in
> > order to spur us to fix problems with Wikidata, then I am likely to
> > oppose it. English Wikipedia is not an endless resource for free labor,
> > and we have too few skilled and good-faith volunteers to handle our
> > already enormous scope of work.
>
> You are right, and thankfully this is not what is proposed. The proposal
> was to offer people who search for Commons media the (maybe optional)
> possibility to find more results by letting the search engine traverse
> the "more-general-than" links stored in Wikidata. People have discovered
> cases where some of these links are not correct (surprise! it's a wiki
> ;-), and the suggestion was that such glitches would be fixed with
> higher priority if there would be an application relying on it. But even
> with some wrong links, the results a searcher would get would still
> include mostly useful hits. Also, at least half of the currently
> observed problems with this approach would lead to fewer results (e.g.,
> dogs would be hard to include automatically to a search for all
> mammals), but in such cases the proposed extension would simply do what
> the baseline approach (ignoring the links) would do anyway, so service
> would not get any worse. Also, the manual workarounds suggested by some
> (adding "mammal" to all pictures of some "dog") would be compatible with
> this, so one could do both to improve search experience on both ends.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Markus
>
>
Hi Markus, I seem to be missing something. Daniel said, "And I think the
best way to achieve this is to start using the ontology as an ontology on
wikimedia projects, and thus expose the fact that the ontology is broken.
This gives incentive to fix it, and examples as to what things should be
possible using that ontology (namely, some level of basic inference)." I
think that I understand the basic idea behind structured data on Commons. I
also think that I understand your statement above. What I'm not
understanding is how Daniel's proposal to "start using the ontology as an
ontology on wikimedia projects, and thus expose the fact that the ontology
is broken." isn't a proposal to add poor quality information from Wikidata
onto Wikipedia and, in the process, give Wikipedians more problems to fix.
Can you or Daniel explain this?

Separately, someone wrote to me off list to make the point that Wikipedians
who are active in non-English Wikipedias also wouldn't appreciate having
their workloads increased by having a large quantity poor-quality
information added to their edition of Wikipedia. I think that one of the
person's concerns is that my statement could have been interpreted as
implying something like "it's okay to insert poor-quality information on
non-English Wikipedias because their standards are lower". I apologize if I
gave the impression that I would approve of a non-English language edition
of Wikipedia being on the receiving end of an unwelcome large addition of
information that requires significant effort to clean up. Hopefully my
response here will address the concerns that I heard off list, and if not
then I welcome additional feedback.

Thanks,

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Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata considered unable to support hierarchical search in Structured Data for Commons

[Pine W]

I would appreciate clarification what is proposed with regard to exposing 
problematic Wikidata ontology on Wikipedia. If the idea involves inserting 
poor-quality information onto English Wikipedia in order to spur us to fix 
problems with Wikidata, then I am likely to oppose it. English Wikipedia is not 
an endless resource for free labor, and we have too few skilled and good-faith 
volunteers to handle our already enormous scope of work.

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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

[Pine W]

Forwarding because this (ambitious!) proposal may be of interest to people
on other lists. I'm not endorsing the proposal at this time, but I'm
curious about it.

Pine
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From: Denny Vrandečić 
Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 6:32 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a
way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize the
shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and widespread
languages that we know of are human natural languages, and the largest
knowledge base we have is the wealth of text written in human languages.

We looks for a path to bridge the gap between knowledge representation
languages such as OWL and human natural languages such as English. We
propose a project to simultaneously expose that gap, allow to collaborate
on closing it, make progress widely visible, and is highly attractive and
valuable in its own right: a Wikipedia written in an abstract language to
be rendered into any natural language on request. This would make current
Wikipedia editors about 100x more productive, and increase the content of
Wikipedia by 10x. For billions of users this will unlock knowledge they
currently do not have access to.

My first talk on this topic will be on October 10, 2018, 16:45-17:00, at
the Asilomar in Monterey, CA during the Blue Sky track of ISWC. My second,
longer talk on the topic will be at the DL workshop in Tempe, AZ, October
27-29. Comments are very welcome as I prepare the slides and the talk.

Link to the paper: http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia.pdf

Cheers,
Denny
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Captioning Wikidata items?

[Pine W]

I don't have enough knowledge about neural nets to evaluate the email
below, but I'm forwarding it in case it's of interest to others on two
relevant lists.

Pine
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From: John Erling Blad 
Date: Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 6:23 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Captioning Wikidata items?
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Just a weird idea.

It is very interesting how neural nets can caption images. Quite
interesting. It is done by building a state-model of the image, that is
feed into a kind of neural net (RNN) and that net (a black box) will
transform the state-model into running text. In some cases the neural net
is steered. That is called an attention control, and it creates
relationship between parts in the image.

Swap out the image wit an item, and a virtually identical setup can
generate captions for items. The caption for an item is whats called the
description in Wikidata. It is also the first sentence with a lead-in in
Wikipedia articles. It is possible to steer the attention, that is to tell
the network what items should be used, and thus the later sentences will be
meaningful.

What that means is that we could create meaningful stub entries for the
article placeholder, that is the "AboutTopic" special page. We can't
automate this for very small projects, but somewhere between small and mid
sized languages it will start to make sense.

To make this work we need some very special knowledge, which we probably
don't have, like how to turn an item into a state-model by using the highly
specialized rdf2vec algorithm (hello Copenhagen) and verifying the stateful
language model (hello Helsinki and Tromsø).

I wonder if the only real problems are what do the community want, and what
is the acceptable error limit.

John Erling Blad
/jeblad
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Re: [Wikidata] Register for FORCE2018 by this Friday and save $100

[Pine W]

I'm going to ask the opinion of the Wikidata list moderators here. This email 
appears to be a soloicitation to pay for attendance to an event, which I would 
consider to be a junk email and would treat accordingly including by 
blacklisting the sender. Do the Wikidata list moderators agree?
Thanks,
Pine
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Analytics] Wikimedia Research Showcase August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

Pine
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From: Sarah R 
Date: Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:46 PM
Subject: [Analytics] Wikimedia Research Showcase August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM
(PDT) 18:30 UTC
To: , ,



Hi Everyone,

The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday,
August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPMS4YGDMk

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here.


Hope to see you there!

This month's presentations is:

*Quicksilver: Training an ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles
and Wikidata entries simultaneously*

John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka, Primer

The automatic generation and updating of Wikipedia articles is usually
approached as a multi-document summarization task: Given a set of source
documents containing information about an entity, summarize the entity.
Purely sequence-to-sequence neural models can pull that off, but getting
enough data to train them is a challenge. Wikipedia articles and their
reference documents can be used for training, as was recently done
 by a team at Google AI. But how do you
find new source documents for new entities? And besides having humans read
all of the source documents, how do you fact-check the output? What is
needed is a self-updating knowledge base that learns jointly with a
summarization model, keeping track of data provenance. Lucky for us, the
world’s most comprehensive public encyclopedia is tightly coupled with
Wikidata, the world’s most comprehensive public knowledge base. We have
built a system called Quicksilver uses them both.


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Re: [Wikidata] NCI Thesaurus ID links not working

[Pine W]

You might consider filing a bug report in Phabricator. :)

Pine
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Thad Guidry  wrote:

>
> Level 2 HELP needed from Wikidata Tech team... :)
>
> Ettore,
>
> I saw you experimented with adding it to Identifiers, and I also did... it
> seems it did not help give a clickable link via Formatter URL.
>
> Another interesting thing I saw was that it threw a Single Value
> Constraint error...even though it is a single value "C81239"
>
> So I think something is buggy somewhere with this P1748 propertyand
> why I am asking for help from Wikidata Tech team. :)
>
> -Thad
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Re: [Wikidata] [Wikitech-l] GSoC 2018 Introduction: Prssanna Desai

[Pine W]

Welcome, Prssanna. Because your project involves WDQS, I am cross-posting your 
introduction to the Wikidata mailing list.
Good luck with your project.

Pine
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 Original message From: prssanna desai  Date: 
5/5/18  5:56 AM  (GMT-08:00) To: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: 
[Wikitech-l] GSoC 2018 Introduction: Prssanna Desai 
Greetings,
I'm Prssanna Desai, an undergraduate student from NMIMS University, Mumbai,
India and I've been selected for GSoC '18.

*My Project:* *Improve Data Explorer for query.wikidata.org
*

The project consists of making usability improvements to the Explorer
Dialog and the Graph Explorer of WDQS.
You can read my full proposal here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189669

I’d like to thank my mentors Jonas Kress, Stas Malyshev and Lucas
Werkmeister for giving me this wonderful opportunity!

Regards,
Prssanna Desai
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OSM+Wikidata intro video

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
From: Yuri Astrakhan 
Date: Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:07 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM+Wikidata intro video
To: OpenStreetMap talk mailing list , "
tagg...@openstreetmap.org" 


The RDF/SPARQL database that has both OpenStreetMap and Wikidata data in
the same table is alive and well, and getting considerable usage. To make
it better understood by even wider community, I made an intro video with
some examples.  This database mostly benefits the object tag validation and
research at this moment, as its geometry support is still in the works.

The wiki page has also seen a lot of cleanup, explaining how quality
control can be done. I hope that other tools such as JOSM and especially
MapRoulette will be able to use it directly. Also, please contribute your
SPARQL queries to the wiki page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDiKzbuIhts
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata_RDF_database

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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE

[Pine W]

Perhaps this would interest some Wikidatans and software developers.

Pine


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From: Michael Maggs 
Date: Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:58 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software
- a proposal for HRE
To: "Discussion about the Wikimedia genealogy project." <
wikimedia-geneal...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: John Lubbock 


There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the
Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests in
family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1] has been
set up on Meta.

I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who would
be interested in joining an open source project to create a free platform
independent application called History Research Environment [2] (‘HRE’) for
the serious genealogist or historical researcher.  Considerable effort has
been put into high-level planning over several years, and we are now ready
to start writing code.

While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia project,
if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming integrated or
affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that the software should
be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to the agreement of the
Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of structured data including
verified and fully sourced family trees.

I'd be happy to answer queries.

Michael Maggs


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project

[2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org

(please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the
[wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)

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Re: [Wikidata] Documentation sprint for Wikidata during the Wikimedia Hackathon

[Pine W]

Perhaps of interest:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Welcome, particularly
the content that is placed on user talk pages in the welcome templates. (:

Erika, perhaps remotely you could collaborate on those templates and the
pages to which they link?

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[Wikidata] "2016 – A busy year for Gene Wiki and WikiData"

[Pine W]

This was encouraging to read. Forwarding for others who may be interested:
http://sulab.org/2016/12/2016-a-busy-year-for-gene-wiki-and-wikidata/

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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Localizable data for Graphs and Templates on Commons

[Pine W]

Perhaps of interest to other lists.

Pine


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From: Yuri Astrakhan 
Date: Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:46 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Localizable data for Graphs and Templates on Commons
To: Wikimedia developers 


Following the localizable maps example, here is a structured tabular data
example that also supports localization, shared data, and can be used
directly from the graphs or from Lua scripts on any wiki. Note that the
graph itself is in English wiki (labs), but data comes from Commons. Feel
free to add translations.

English:
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Dimpvis_-_
Fertility_vs_Life_Expectancy
Russian:
https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Dimpvis_-_
Fertility_vs_Life_Expectancy?uselang=ru



On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:46 PM Yuri Astrakhan 
wrote:

> I would like to show one of the projects that Interactive team has been
> hacking on: localizable maps data (GeoJSON), stored on Commons, and usable
> from multiple wikis. I hope we can get it polished and enabled in
> production soon enough - so far, lab's beta cluster only:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Maplink-page
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Re: [Wikidata] [Wikimedia-l] GPS data shift

[Pine W]

Just wondering: would tighter integration between Wikidata and OSM help
with this situation, for example, if a set of coordinates is adjusted in
Wikidata then it is automatically adjusted in OSM and vice versa? Would
that be a good idea?

Pine

On Oct 4, 2016 22:17, "Sam Klein"  wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Joseph Seddon 
> wrote:
>
> > currently there is no clear indication within Wikipedia articles
> > and as far as I can tell within Wikidata as to both what *datum* and what
> > *version* any particular coordinate relates to, there is no guarantee
> that
> > any particular coordinate would be any more correct than it was before.
> >
>
> This definitely should be fixed on the wikidata side.  Whether article
> editors are savvy enough to know and enter this data is another question;
> but at least the geotemplates should have fields for it and you can assume
> that if those are empty some {person/bot hybrid} that understands that
> nuance should fill them in.
>
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[Wikidata] Wikidata Query Service demo video

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Video demo of Wikidata Query Service:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jHoUkj_mKw

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Re: [Wikidata] Puzzling Wikidata edits appearing on Commons watchlist

[Pine W]

Understood. Is there an existing Phab ticket for this somewhere? If not I
can create one.

Thanks,

Pine

On Aug 2, 2016 01:25, "Lydia Pintscher" <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Wikidatans,
> >
> > On Commons, I have been seeing some puzzling Wikidata edits appearing in
> the
> > properties for Commons files on my watchlist.
> >
> > For example: for File:Ada Lovelace portrait.jpg (Q736316) I see the edit
> > (‎Created claim: Property:P18: Chalon Portrait of Queen Victoria -
> 1837.jpg;
> > ‎Added reference to claim: Property:P18: Chalon Portrait of Queen
> Victoria -
> > 1837.jpg)
> >
> > This portrait of Ada Lovelace is decidedly not a portrait of Queen
> Victoria.
> > Upon further investigation, I see that the artist for both paintings is
> the
> > same. Still, why is this edit appearing for File:Ada Lovelace
> portrait.jpg?
> > I don't know why I should be seeing this edit on my watchlist for the
> > Lovelace portrait.
> >
> > Similarly, for File:John Jay (Gilbert Stuart portrait).jpg (Q100), I see
> on
> > my Commons watchlist (Language link added: eml:Boston). Further
> > investigation reveals that Boston was the place of death of artist
> Gilbert
> > Stuart.
> >
> > Can someone clarify why these Wikidata edits would be appearing in my
> > watchlist on Commons? These edits appear to be related to the artists
> rather
> > than to the image files.
> >
> > I do have "Show Wikidata edits in your watchlist" checked, but I would
> think
> > that this would refer to Wikidata edits about the files themselves or the
> > original artwork from which the photos were derived, rather than the
> artist
> > who created the artworks from which the files on Commons were derived.
> > Noting that the artist who created a particular image also created
> another
> > image that we have on Commons seems to be particularly far-removed from
> > information that I need to know as someone who would be interested in
> > knowing about Wikidata changes about the particular file that I'm
> watching
> > (as opposed to the Wikidata information about the artist.)
>
> Data from the item for the artist and Boston are included in the file
> pages. So changes to those pages can have an influence on the file
> page and are therefore shown to you. (The granularity of the change
> tracking is not good enough to tell those cases apart from the ones
> where it isn't useful meaningfully.) We need to improve this but I
> don't have the plan yet for how to do it properly.
>
>
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[Wikidata] Puzzling Wikidata edits appearing on Commons watchlist

[Pine W]

Hi Wikidatans,

On Commons, I have been seeing some puzzling Wikidata edits appearing in
the properties for Commons files on my watchlist.

For example: for File:Ada Lovelace portrait.jpg
 (Q736316
) I see the edit (‎Created claim:
Property:P18 : Chalon Portrait
of Queen Victoria - 1837.jpg; ‎Added reference to claim: Property:P18
: Chalon Portrait of Queen
Victoria - 1837.jpg)

This portrait of Ada Lovelace is decidedly not a portrait of Queen
Victoria. Upon further investigation, I see that the artist for both
paintings is the same. Still, why is this edit appearing for File:Ada
Lovelace portrait.jpg
? I
don't know why I should be seeing this edit on my watchlist for the
Lovelace portrait.

Similarly, for File:John Jay (Gilbert Stuart portrait).jpg (Q100
), I see on my Commons watchlist (Language
link added: eml:Boston ). Further
investigation reveals that Boston was the place of death of artist Gilbert
Stuart.

Can someone clarify why these Wikidata edits would be appearing in my
watchlist on Commons? These edits appear to be related to the artists
rather than to the image files.

I do have "Show Wikidata edits in your watchlist" checked, but I would
think that this would refer to Wikidata edits about the files themselves or
the original artwork from which the photos were derived, rather than the
artist who created the artworks from which the files on Commons were
derived. Noting that the artist who created a particular image also created
another image that we have on Commons seems to be particularly far-removed
from information that I need to know as someone who would be interested in
knowing about Wikidata changes about the particular file that I'm watching
(as opposed to the Wikidata information about the artist.)

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[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Individual Engagement Grants program will fund 8 community-led projects

[Pine W]

Forwarding good news.

Pine
On Jun 18, 2016 08:45, "Marti Johnson"  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> In the latest round of Individual Engagement Grants
> , 28 eligible proposals were
> submitted for review. The committee recommended 8 for funding, with 9
> grantees selected to receive $87,332 overall.  WMF has now approved all 8
> grants.  Here’s what we’re funding.[1]
>
>
> Online Community Organizing - 2 projects funded
>
>
> * Health images for all
> :
> User:CFCF , a veteran
> Individual Engagement grantee from Medicine Translation Project Community
> Organizing
> ,
> will return to IEG to coordinate a multi-strategy initiative to bring
> quality medical images to Wikipedia across many languages.[2][3][4]
>
>
> * Effective Engagement with Health Topic Experts using Guided Checklists
> 
> :
> This project will create infrastructure to make it easier for health
> specialists to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia.  Through interviews
> and research, User:FloNight
>  will develop a robust
> health topic quality checklist that medical experts would use to guide
> their review of health content on Wikipedia, directing them to make high
> quality edits. [5][6]
> Tools - 6 projects funded
>
>
> * Improve ‘Upload to Commons’ Android App
> 
> :
>
> This project will further enhance ‘Upload to Commons
> ,’
> making the Android app more user-friendly by improving categorization tools
> and providing tutorials to help new users create more useful content for
> Commons.[7][8]
>
>
> * Enhance the ProveIt gadget
> :
>
> The ProveIt gadget is a reference manager that creates a visual interface
> for easily adding and editing references to a Wikipedia article.  This
> project will optimise the gadget by connecting it with Wikidata to allow
> for autocompletion of references with existing data.[9]
>
>
> * Alt text tools:
> Alternative
> texts provide in-context descriptions of images to increase accessibility
> for vision-impaired users.  This project would create a collection of tools
> to allow volunteers to efficiently add and improve text alternatives on
> English Wikipedia.[10]
>
>
> * A graphical and interactive etymology dictionary based on Wiktionary
> 
> :
> This project will extract etymological relationships from Wiktionary to
> build a database designed for integration into Wikidata.  The database will
> allow extraction of interesting information like how pronunciations or
> semantics evolved through time across etymological trees and across
> languages.[11]
>
>
> * Wikiscan Multi-wiki
> :
>
> This project will expand the Wikiscan site ,
> currently focused on French Wikipedia, to include all Wikimedia wikis with
> more than 100,000 edits.  It will provide many  daily-updated statistics,
> such as most active pages and users for each day and month since a project
> was created.[12][13]
>
>
> * Lua libs for behavior-driven development
> 
> :
>
> This project will create an extension to support testing of Lua-modules in
> a behavior-driven development
>  style
> using spec-like tests.[14]
>
>
> More information about this round will be covered shortly on the Wikimedia
> Foundation blog.
>
>
> The open call for Project Grants
> , which will replace IEG
> in the next round, is scheduled for 1 July-2 August, 2016.[15]
>
>
> Congratulations to the successful grantees!
>
>
>
>1.
>
>
>2.
>
>
>3.
>
>
>4.
>
><
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Community_Organizing
>>
>5.
>
><
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Effective_Engagement_with_Health_Topic_Experts_using_Guided_Checklists
>>
>6.
>
>
>  

[Wikidata] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] 12-May-2016 CREDIT, going back to Hangouts on Air/YouTube

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] 12-May-2016 CREDIT, going back to Hangouts on
Air/YouTube
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Foundation Multimedia Team <multime...@lists.wikimedia.org>, mobile-l <
mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org>


FYI, this week's presentations, according to the Etherpad, are:

* *Derk-Jan Hartman:* Video.js progress
* *Dmitry Brant*: Wikidata infoboxes in Android app
* *Joaquin Hernandez*: Vicky chat bot
* *Baha*: mobile printing for offline reading
* *Monte*: "smart random" content service endpoint
* *Erik*: Geo boosting search queries

Cheers,

Pine


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Adam Baso <ab...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Reminder...
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Adam Baso <ab...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The next CREDIT showcase will be Thursday, 12-May-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100
> > SF).
> >
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
> >
> > For this one we'll use Hangouts on Air for presenters, and the customary
> > YouTube stream for viewers.
> >
> > See you next month!
> > -Adam
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikidata] Random item: Q14829494

[Pine W]

>From what you've described, this sounds like impressive detective work. (:

Pine

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Denny Vrandečić 
wrote:

> Just a little story I wanted to share.
>
> As I sometimes do, today I hit the “Random item” link on Wikidata. Almost
> always I can find something I can improve, and almost always I learn some
> random fun fact that I usually forget within a few moments.
>
> Today might be different. The link took me to Q14829494, the beetle
> species Linsleychroma monnei. The species didn’t have much information on
> it: it is a species, it had the genus, Linsleychroma. A link to the
> Encyclopedia of Life and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
> There were links to seven different Wikipedia language editions - the usual
> suspects for species, Cebuano, Indonesian, Waray-Waray, Minangkabau,
> Vietnamese, Dutch and Swedish. If you’re around on Wikidata you recognize
> this list as the language editions who have used bot created articles
> extensively.
>
> The articles had hardly more information than Wikidata. Two of them had a
> sentence about the larvae being damaging to wood, some included that the
> species lives in Panama. They all listed the taxon author, Giesbert 1998,
> which was missing in Wikidata, so I thought, let’s add that to Wikidata.
> All I need is to find or create an item for Giesbert. Shouldn’t be too hard.
>
> OK. A bit of Googling and the name of Giesbert seems to be Edmund F.
> Giesbert. Now there seems to be an actor that usually uses the name Ed
> Gilbert, but who might have been born as Edmund Giesbert. Probably just a
> coincidence. Although, English Wikipedia doesn’t say so anymore - that
> changed in just two months ago, when the user fixed the typos on this page
> and changed Giesbert to Gilbert. [
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed_Gilbert=712105192=712096468
> ]
>
> I also reached out to the Raidohist, the editor who fixed the name
> difference.
>
> But many other sources on the Web still claim that Gilbert’s name was
> Giesbert. Unfortunately, many of them seem to be copies from Wikipedia, and
> thus prone to citogenesis. IMDB doesn’t say Giesbert, but Gilbert, so do a
> few of the other sources. So maybe Wikipedia sourced that error?
>
> Gilbert died in 1999 in Beverly Hills. Giesbert’s papers had no
> institution, but listed his private address - this happens rarely, for
> researchers without affiliation. Giesbert’s address? Beverly Hills. And
> then stumbled upon this obituary for Frank Hovore [
> http://oldsite.the-signal.com/?module=displaystory_id=33168=print],
> mentioning that Frank’s old friend of thirty years, Edmund Giesbert, had
> died in 1999.
>
> Are Gilbert and Giesbert the same person? Was the actor who voiced in a
> number of Disney’s shows and played in Dallas and Knight Rider, the same
> person describing Linsleychroma monnei and other bugs and beetles?
>
> Wikidata also has a number of identifiers for Gilbert, including for the
> Library of Congress and VIAF - and finally, the Library of Congress seems
> to give the best clue: “Edmund F. Giesbert, educ. at the Univ. of Chicago;
> works in the film, TV and radio industries in Los Angeles, and pursues the
> study of Coleoptera (Cerambycidae) as a serious avocation.”
> Based on that, I decided to merge the newly created Gilbert into the
> long-existing Giesbert.
>
> If I am wrong - which I might easily be - feel free to fix it.
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[Wikidata] Wikimedia Blog post: "TED is partnering with the Wikimedia community..."

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Good news blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/ted-wikimedia-collaboration/

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Re: [Wikidata] How can someone get code reviews from the Wikidata dev team?

[Pine W]

Hi Sjoerd,

Lydia gave permission off-wiki to post the photo under CC0.

Cheers,

Pine
On Apr 16, 2016 15:24, "Sjoerd de Bruin" <sjoerddebr...@me.com> wrote:

> Where is a indication of the CC0 release?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sjoerd de Bruin
> sjoerddebr...@me.com
>
> Op 16 apr. 2016, om 23:12 heeft Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> het volgende
> geschreven:
>
> A concise illustration from Lydia Pintscher that shows an innovative way
> to notify the Wikidata dev team that patches are ready for review:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_get_Wikidata_code_review_done.jpg
>
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A concise illustration from Lydia Pintscher that shows an innovative way to
notify the Wikidata dev team that patches are ready for review:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_get_Wikidata_code_review_done.jpg

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Re: [Wikidata] Status and ETA External ID conversion

[Pine W]

This use of a WMF email account raises some legal and wikipolitical
ambiguities that are best avoided. I strongly recommend using a non-WMF
email account for anyone who is speaking outside of a WMF role. Pinging
James to ask for clarification on the policy. And let's fork this portion
of the discussion. (:

Pine
On Mar 7, 2016 00:39, "Stas Malyshev"  wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Yes, sure, your free time is a different matter. I just thought you are
> > speaking as a WMF employee here, since you were using this email. I am
>
> It's Sunday here, so no :) I do use two separate logins for WMF official
> and volunteer work on Wiki, but using two emails is too cumbersome for me.
>
> > probably over-sensitive there since I am used to the very strict
> > policies of WMDE. They are very careful to keep paid and private
> > activities separate by using different accounts.
>
> Surely, it is common in WMF too. But again two email accounts seems
> excessive to me. Usually it's pretty clear from the context but if
> needed, I will clarify.
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[Wikidata] Fwd: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of the Map US Conference

[Pine W]

(Cross-posting)

For Wikimedia folks who are interested in possible collaborations with OSM,
now seems like a good time to start thinking about possible presentations.

Staff from the Wikimedia Foundation, and/or Wikimedia volunteers from
around the US outside of the Seattle area, may want to start thinking about
travel plans.

For Wikimedia volunteers outside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory, you
might consider applying for WMF Travel and Participation Support grants [1].

If you're inside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory and would like to attend
the conference, we may have funds in our budget that can support your
attendance. Contact me off-list for details.

Regards,

Pine

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS


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From: Clifford Snow 
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:18 PM
Subject: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of
the Map US Conference
To: opensource-107-annou...@meetup.com


I am excited to announce that Seattle was chosen to host the OpenStreetMap
2016 State of the Map US Conference. The conference will take place July
23-25 on SeattleU's campus. We chose SeattleU for their low cost, proximity
to Seattle and access to public transit.  The food trucks near by didn't
hurt either.


We are looking for help! Let us know if you want to help. Request for
presentation proposals should be coming fairly soon. Start thinking about
what you want to present or teach.

The formal announcement can be found at:
https://openstreetmap.us/2016/02/sotmus-2016/

Clifford
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