Thanks Giovanni for the update, both the products will further help to enrich the Wikimedia Projects.
Best Regards, Rajeeb. (U: Marajozkee) (Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity). > On 08-Apr-2021, at 4:00 PM, Giovanna Fontenelle <gfontene...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > This is Giovanna, from the GLAM & Culture team at the Foundation. I'm here to > share some really exciting news with you: the launch of the new Media Search > and the Image Suggestion API. > > Making cultural content more visible > > Several product teams at the Foundation are working hard to improve image > discovery and reuse on Wikimedia projects. Two new releases show the > potential of these developments for libraries and cultural institutions. The > first is the new Media Search on Wikimedia Commons, by the Structured Data > Across Wikimedia team, and the second is a proof-of-concept Image Suggestion > API, by the Platform Engineering team. > > Searching across languages > Media Search (or Special:MediaSearch) is an image-focused interface that > makes it easier to find what you’re looking for on Wikimedia Commons. Most > importantly, the search results are language agnostic. Given a search term > like "zonnevlek" (Dutch for “sunspot”), Media Search won’t just return the > one file on Commons that uses that term, it will search Wikidata for relevant > entities and then find all files with that term and any of its aliases or > translations. For the “zonnevlek” example, the number of images returned > increased from one file to more than six hundred files. Media Search will > make the millions of images contributed by libraries and cultural > institutions much more accessible to a broad global audience. > > You can try the new search here. It became the default search landing page > for anonymous users on 1 April 2021, and for all users in May 2021. > > To increase the search relevance of your files, you should include a > descriptive title and detailed description, use the relevant Commons > categories, and add depicts statements and a caption as Structured Data. > Suggesting images for Wikipedia > The Image Suggestion API is a service that will generate a list of > unillustrated articles for any language version of Wikipedia, and then > suggest up to 10 images for placement on those articles. The API will be > powering a planned ‘add an image’ structured task for newcomers to Wikipedia > but could also be used to drive image reuse campaigns, such as Wikipedia > Pages Wanting Photos. > > Right now, the API is only a proof of concept and is still being developed. > You can try it at API Documentation and learn more on the MediaWiki page. If > you can imagine using this API in your work with images, share your ideas on > the Talk page. > > The API uses algorithms that simply aggregate existing information from > Wikidata and Commons, drawing on connections already made by experienced > contributors. There are four main ways that it suggests matches to > unillustrated articles: > Look at the Wikidata item for the article. If it has an image (P18), choose > that image. > Look at the Wikidata item for the article. If it has a Commons category > associated (P373), choose an image from the category. > Look at the articles about the same topic in other language Wikipedias. > Choose a lead image from those articles. > Search MediaSearch for the title of the article. If an image ranks high > enough in the results, choose that image. > > To make your files available to the Image Suggestion API, you should use the > relevant Commons categories and add depicts statements as Structured Data. > > Learn more about the benefits of using Structured Data on Commons by > reviewing the updated documentation and joining our April office hours on > Monday, 26 April, 3.30-4.30pm UTC, and on Tuesday, 27 April, 11.00-12.00 UTC. > > > This was also published in the WMF This month in GLAM newsletter. You can > read the rest of it here. > > Hope to see you all during the April office hours. > > Best, > > Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her) > Program Officer; GLAM and Culture > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-Library mailing list > Wikipedia-Library@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-library
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