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Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign
Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign
From September 1st to October 6th, Wikimedians of the Albanian Language User Group organized and developed the Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign, featuring two online workshops. The campaign focused on strengthening the position of Diaspora in the countries where it lives. It also aimed to expand and feature the Albanian language, culture, sports, art, traditions, and the respective homelands of Albania and Kosovo.
Therefore, people that registered for the training session to learn how to use the translation tools and edit articles on Wikipedia translated and improved articles from the Albanian language into the languages of local Wikipedia accordingly.
For this project, we closely collaborated with the Prishtina-based GERMIN organization, which works with the Diaspora. Together, we created a google form for participants to register online, and we contacted many important institutions to get them involved and spread the word in the Diaspora community.
Additionally, we promoted this campaign using social media and other groups online by posting about this project and workshops. After the workshops, we followed up with people by offering our help or other training sessions. To be more connected with participants, we created two groups, one on Facebook and one on Whatsapp, to communicate and discuss participants’ questions throughout the campaign.
As a result, our Group is happy to share the results we have had so far. Here you can find the statistics.
Social Media: wikimediashqip.org, @sqwikimediansug, FB/sqwikimediansUG, ig/sqwikimedians_ug YoutubechannelWikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
New parnership agreements and more training!
New partnership agreements
This month Wikimedia Argentina has signed an important partnership agreement with the Archivo General de la Nación (National General Archive) with the aim of working together on training programs, offering technical support and sharing knowledge and resources for preserving, making accessible and socializing our country's historical documents and heritage. Our Digitizing project will start working on 21 conservation units that hold inside the Caras y Caretas' photograph collection. Created in 1898, Caras y Caretas magazine is considered a historical document of public interest and was the first magazine that applied the technique of photoengraving in Argentina.
Another relevant agreement was signed during August-September with the Comisión Nacional de Monumentos, Lugares y Bienes Históricos (National comission for monuments, historical places and heritage) to work on digitizing the commission's historical monuments photographs, original handwritten minutes and several publications.
On the other hand, new agreements were formalized with two ministries of Buenos Aires City's Government: Culture and Education, with the aim of boosting cultural training programmes toghether and promoting activities around the city's heritage inside museum, libraries and also historical schools. This adds to the recently signed agreement with Santa Fe City's Cultural and Education Office, with whom we continue working on opening up archives like important musician and composer's Ariel Ramirez photo collection: 94 pictures released on September 4th for his 100th birth anniversary.
More training for archivists
During September we carried on four virtual training sessions about archival organization, preservation and digitalization, focusing on how to guarantee access to different types of archives across time. For this, we developed a series of conversations with specialists on managing paper documents, photographies, audiovisual and sonorous/musical archives. We brought toghether 24 experts from a diversity of archives -for example indigenous and trans archives- as well as institutions from all over the country. More than 600 people signed in for the discussion panels. You can watch them by clicking here.
First collection of historical documents fully digitized
For the last 4 months we have been working on digitizing a collection called "Colección Cabodi", which is part of the library's collection at the National Academy of History. These are 106 documents written between the years 1500 and 1820, related to Argentine's colonial period and its independence. This was a "test-drive" for the digitization of more than 6,000 documents to be carried out in 2022.
Preserving paralympic history
Following the recent 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Australia Paralympics History project was back in full swing this month with an edit-a-thon held by City of Sydney to increase and improve content relevant to our diverse communities.
Held online due to COVID-19 restrictions on 25 September, participants worked to improve the pages of a wide range of Australian paralympians, adding their recent results from the Tokyo Paralympics, held in 2021.
Highly decorated wheelchair basketball player and passionate advocate Sarah Stewart spoke at the event about the importance of diverse voices in documenting Australian Paralympic history.
One Australia's longest running and most successful Wikipedia equity projects, Wikipedians Tony Naar, Greg Blood and Ross Mallett have worked since 2010 to create and improve pages about Australian paralympics, also partnering with the Australian Paralympics team to release images under an open license for use across Wikimedia platforms.
The project is responsible for the creation of 1095 Wikipedia articles that were viewed more than 2.5 millions times during the Tokyo Paralympics.
Supported by Wikimedia Australia's Toby Hudson and Caddie Brain who offered Wikipedia training and advice, around 12 former paralympians and other participants worked on pages such as:
- Angie Ballard
- Alissa Jordaan
- Michael Roeger
- Jayden Sawyer
- Christie Dawes
- James Turner
- Australian Paralympic Boccia Team
- Scott Reardon
Since the edit-a-thon, all Australian Paralympians listed have had their pages updated to reflect their performances at the 2020 Games.
See the full results of the event at the dashboard here.
City of Sydney is partnering with Wikimedia Australia to hold regular edit-a-thons addressing Wikipedia's many diversity issues, by improving content relevant to marginalised communities and growing a increasingly diverse local editing base.
Wikimedia Belgium GLAM report September 2021
Photo contest Wiki Loves Heritage
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Winner 2020: Johan Allard
Wiki Loves Heritage is an annual national photo contest from Wikimedia Belgium that is a spin-off and extension of the global Wiki Loves Monuments to include photos of movable and intangible heritage, landscapes, folklore, crafts, and museum collections.
The competition runs until 31 October 2021.
Exhibition Cathedrals of Industry
The Ghent Industrial Museum held a temporary exhibition Cathedrals of Industry, on the history of the textile industry in Ghent.
On 2 September, a Wikipedia writing session took place at the Industry Museum about Ghent's textile past. We want to make the Wiki Café a repeated meeting of Wikipedians motivated to help document Ghent's industrial past on the Wikimedia platforms, using the archive and the library of the Industry Museum.
Study Day Linked Open Data
The Royal Library of Brussels organised an international study day on Linked Open Data on 17 September.
Botanical Garden Meise
The Botanical Garden Meise organised an international conference on 20-24 September to use Linked Open Data as a means to share knowledge and to describe e.g. (female) botanists and plant collectors.
Planetarium Brussels
The Planetarium of Brussels organises monthly meetings to write about female astronomers and planetary scientists.
Successful annual project Wiki Women Design completed
The Wiki Women Design project was successfully completed with the aim of describing women designers on Wikipedia and related platforms (Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata). It was an initiative of the Flemish Architecture Institute and Wikimedia Belgium. The activities ran in cooperation with dozens of partners, mainly universities and museums.
For each session, a training course was provided. Afterwards, the participants could consult the museum archives and received assistance from the facilitators to help them edit their (first) Wikipedia article.
On 23 September, the International Congress on "Women, Design and Heritage" took place in the Brussels Museum of Art & History. A final session followed on 24 September at the ULB Library, Faculté d'Architecture La Cambre, on the subject of "Women who have contributed to the designed environment in Belgium".
The participating organisations look forward to a follow-up to this campaign.
WikidataCon's right around the corner: find out how to participate
WikidataCon 2021: a sustainable future for Wikidata
In 2021, Wiki Movimento Brasil and Wikimedia Deutschland are organizing WikidataCon, the biannual conference for the Wikidata international community. The event will take place online on October 29-31st and you can register here to participate. For this year, the conference will get around Wikidata's sustainability in the axis of technical infra-structure, data quality, community health and diversity.
The first day of the conference will have a program curated by the organization team and traditional celebrations, such as the Wikidata Community Awards and the Wikidata Birthday presents session. You can expect sessions on GLAMs in Brazil, decolonizing Wikidata, Igbo and Abstract Wikipedia and more.
Days two and three of the conference are dedicated to community tracks that will tackle different themes as GLAMs, Science & Education, Tips & Tools, Reusable Data and more. You can submit a presentation proposal up to October 20!
Find some links of interest below:
- Call for proposals: Thematic tracks spread across different time zones. Check out more information here.
- Wikidata Community Awards: To celebrate the work of people and groups involved in Wikidata, you can nominate projects to be awarded in different categories. Let's lift up especially the work of those who usually are not in the spot, but that deserve our appreciation!
- Wikidata Birthday presents: Wikidata turns 9 years old in 2021 and you can give gifts: from new tools and features to creative works of art!
- Helper roles: To be announced soon - there will be plenty of room for your collaboration at the event!
The organization team has been working on preparatory events, especially for Latin America and Caribbean, in order to bring more people from those communities to the center of the discussion around Wikidata's future and sustainability. Aligned with the Reimagining Wikidata from the margins process, affiliates of the region received a grant for organizing local capacity building events to prepare for the conference, in a novel grant format in the Wikimedia Movement.
September was also dedicated to the Transbordados event, a pre conference organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil and Goethe-Institut São Paulo for Latin America. The three sessions with speakers from Argentina, Brazil, México and Uruguay approached Wikidata and decoloniality, knowledge organization and digital dissemination of collections and they are available in Brazilian Portuguese and in Spanish on YouTube and Wikimedia Commons.
GLAM Wiki Dashboard improvements
Éder Porto and Veronica Stocco from Wiki Movimento Brasil have fixed a bug on GLAM Wiki Dashboard that didn't allow the download of the data in the user-contribution page. They also recently added the option for the user to download a JSON that easily describes the data using the frictionless data protocol: for each downloaded column, it specifies now the data type and describes what it contains. You can find more information on GitHub.
New Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros upload
In September, Wiki Movimento Brasil uploaded the first batch of metadata from the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB-USP) - the institute of Brazilian studies. This is a set of all 79 articles published in the musical culture magazine Ariel. The publication circulated between 1923 and 1924, highlighting the work of prominent names of Brazilian Modernism, such as Antônio de Sá Pereira, Antônio Paim Vieira e Mário de Andrade. Check out the metadata in this timeline.
Wikidata training in Musée de Grenoble
Wikidata training in Musée de Grenoble
On September, 28th, Guillaume Allègre, a member of the local Grenoble group, held a training session on Wikidata basics for the staff of Musée de Grenoble (5 people) and Grenoble public library (2 people), all civil servants for the Grenoble city. With the Musée de Grenoble, there are plans for a batch upload of picture contents, on both Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. We must therefore work on data reconciliation. Tweet by Catherine Gauthier
Call for Italian museums, archives and libraries
Call for italian museums, archives and libraries
Wikimedia Italia has published a call for cultural institution and the deadline to apply was the 30th of September. This call, addressed to Italian museums, archives and libraries, issued thanks to the important collaboration of ICOM Italy, was open to all cultural institutions based in Italy. It wants to involve in particular museums, archives and libraries that intend to collaborate with volunteers active on Wikimedia projects. The total budget available for the call is 30,000 euros and institutions can submit a request for funding from 2,000 to 8,000 euros, to cover all or part of the costs of carrying out the project.
The aim is to support the sharing and enhancement of cultural content, enhancing the digital content of the available museums, their visibility and their impact; to encourage more and more cultural institutions to collaborate with volunteers from the Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap communities and with Wikimedia projects, to make sure that wiki platforms, who have a wide and varied audience, represent the best source of information available on their areas of interest.
The collaboration strengthens the mission of the institutes and access to their collections and sources of knowledge.
Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign
Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign
From September 1st to October 6th, Wikimedians of the Albanian Language User Group organized and developed the Diaspora Edits Wikipedia Campaign, featuring two online workshops. The campaign focused on strengthening the position of Diaspora in the countries where it lives. It also aimed to expand and feature the Albanian language, culture, sports, art, traditions, and the respective homelands of Albania and Kosovo.
Therefore, people registered for the training session to learn how to use the translation tools and edit articles on Wikipedia translated and improved articles from the Albanian language into the languages of local Wikipedia accordingly.
For this project, we closely collaborated with the Prishtina-based GERMIN organization, which works with the Diaspora. Together, we created a google form for participants to register online, and we contacted many important institutions to get them involved and spread the word in the Diaspora community.
Additionally, we promoted this campaign using social media and other groups online by posting about this project and workshops. After the workshops, we followed up with people by offering our help or other training sessions. To be more connected with participants, we created two groups, one on Facebook and one on Whatsapp, to communicate and discuss participants’ questions throughout the campaign.
As a result, our Group is happy to share the results we have had so far. Here you can find the statistics.
Social Media: wikimediashqip.org, @sqwikimediansug, FB/sqwikimediansUG, ig/sqwikimedians_ug YoutubechannelWikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
GLAM at WikiconNL2021, ISA-campaign Tag the species Naturalis en Rijksmuseum
Focus on equality and cooperation between heritage institutions and Wikimedia volunteers at WikiconNL2021
Wikimedia Nederland is organising the annual WikiconNL on Saturday 13 November. The annual, this year virtual, conference is about Wikipedia, Wikimedia and free access to information in the broadest sense of the word. Volunteers and heritage institutions will share their knowledge and experience with Wikimedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons on the basis of practical examples.
Keynote Kelly Foster will kick off WikiconNL and will talk about Knowledge as liberation? Reflections on equity, labour and encyclopedism. The keynote will be followed by sessions on marginalised groups and gaps in Wikimedia projects.
Sharing collections through Wikimedia
During WikiconNL staff from Dutch universities, libraries, museums and other heritage institutions will present practical examples of how they work together with Wikimedia projects and what the benefits are. Het Nieuwe Instituut will present the Architectuur Dichterbij (Closer to Architecture) programme, which aims to make the architecture collection accessible via Linked Open Data, including Wikidata. Olaf Janssen of the Royal Library of the Netherlands (KB) will present new functionalities for the KB's masterpieces, made possible by collaboration with Wikimedia. Maastricht University shares experiences from their project "Making Special Collections findable, visible and reusable in Wikidata".
The programme offered by WikiconNL is broad - from Automatic image recognition for museum collections and the use of Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata in a contribution by Naturalis Biodiversity Center to From holiday snapshot to main page: how to get your pictures onto Wikimedia projects by volunteer Hay Kranen.
The sessions are mainly in Dutch, but there will be some sessions in English. The draft programme can be viewed on the Wikimedia Nederland website and will be supplemented in the coming period. Interested to participate? Please register for participation via the registration form.
ISA-campaign Tag the species Naturalis en Rijksmuseum
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Anselmus De Boodt (1550-1632), physician to Emperor Rudolf II, was commissioned by the emperor to create Historia Naturalis; twelve albums with more than 750 watercolours of animals, plants and shells made and collected between 1596 and 1610. In 2017, these albums were given on long-term loan to the Rijksmuseum. The names of the animals, plants, shells and fungi are often given in several languages on the drawing, but sometimes not. The name may also be out of date or incorrect for the species depicted.
ISA campaign
The Rijksmuseum and Naturalis are now asking the public for help in adding the most specific species name possible to the files on Wikimedia Commons via the ISA Tool. Would you like to help? Go to the ISA campaign!
New WiR and presentation of our activities
Wikipedian in residence at the National Library of Pirot
The Wikipedian in residence project has started in cooperation with the National Library of Pirot. The project will last from September 13 to November 13, and by the end of September, 9 new articles have been written, while 38 photos have been released. Thanks to this cooperation, the Pirot region will be more covered on Wiki projects.
#Digital2021
At the regional conference #Digital2021, the work of Wikimedia Serbia and the position of Wikipedia in the regions were presented. The conference focused on Wikimedia Serbia's programs, its importance for the digitization of cultural heritage in Serbia and the results achieved. Also, the position of Wikipedia in the region through its influence was presented.
CC Summit
GLAM manager of Wikimedia Serbia participated in the CC Summit. During the session "CC as an indispensable part of GLAM", the Manager for Cooperation with Cultural Institutions presented the importance of CC licenses in the GLAM program, the most important projects in which licenses are used, in what way they facilitated cooperation with cultural institutions, but also the impressions of representatives of cultural institutions on free content and CC licenses.
Preparation of large donations of content
In cooperation with the Society for Culture, Art and International Cooperation Adligat, Wikimedia Serbia worked on obtaining a donation of a large number of photographs of Egypt, which will be processed and placed on Wikimedia Commons in the coming period.
Women Gastronomes Edit-a-thon
Women Gastronomes Edit-a-thon
On 14 and 15 September, the Women Gastronomes Edit-a-thon took place, promoted by the Los Recetarios collective, the National Library of Spain, Wikimedia Spain and the Madrilenian Academy of Gastronomy, with the support of the University of Cadiz and The Foodie Studies. The aim was to create, complete and disseminate Wikipedia articles by women chefs, recipe writers, writers, scientists, businesswomen, artisans, journalists, sommeliers, agronomists, nutritionists and technologists, and in short, gastronomes.
The activity was set within the framework of the life of Emilia Pardo Bazán, who left a profound mark on the construction of culinary and gastronomic writing in Spain. As part of the exhibition "Emilia Pardo Bazán: the challenge of modernity", the National Library of Spain wanted to showcase one of the writer's great passions, gastronomy.
The event was twofold: on the 14th an online introductory and training session was held on how to edit on Wikipedia, and on the 15th the editing session was held in two venues, the National Library of Spain and the Regional Archive of the Community of Madrid. The activity was both face-to-face and online, and a total of 26 people participated and 57 articles were edited, 49 of which were new.
Wiki Loves Monuments
During September we organised the local edition of Wiki Loves Monuments. In total, 4758 images were obtained thanks to the participation of 117 people. On this occasion we had the sponsorship and support of the Autonomous National Parks Organisation, which collaborated in the dissemination of the competition and sponsored several of the prizes. Among these, there were those dedicated to the best images of monuments and biosphere reserves, part of the competition for the cultural heritage they include. At the same time, throughout the month we proposed an online editing challenge focused on monuments in which 13 people participated and more than 40 articles were created.
Wiki Takes Ávila
In the framework of the International Congress on Socialisation of Heritage in the Rural Environment, which was held between 13 and 19 September in various locations in the province of Ávila, we participated with a session on "Wikitakes. How to show what there is in the rural world", in which our experience in organising this type of activities to document rural heritage and make it visible through Wikimedia projects was presented. In addition, several of the participants toured several places in Avila and Salamanca to continue reducing the number of municipalities without photographs on Wikipedia, as part of the project that we have been developing since 2015.
Cultural History in High School; Uploads from museums in Göteborg; Wiki Loves Monuments; LGBTQIA+ edit-a-thon
Cultural history in High School (Kulturhistoria som gymnasiearbete)
For the sixth time, Wikimedia Sverige has started our collaboration with Nordiska Museet around having high school students writing Wikipedia articles. We are very happy to welcome Centrum för näringslivshistoria into the cooperation this year! This is the center for business history in Sweden, keeping archives for around 7 000 Swedish companies. We hope that this will broaden the scopes on cultural history even more, seeing that some of Sweden's major companies open up their archives as source material. And this is on top of the fact that we are using the archive and museum at the Nordic Museum. 35 students have enrolled for the project this year, who will publish their articles in February 2022.
Uploads from museums in Göteborg
Wikimedia Sverige has been working together with several museums in Göteborg to help them involve the Wikimedia projects in their work. We have run a series of workshops where we introduced them to Wikimedia Commons and Pattypan, with the goal of the museums' staff to be able to work with the platform on their own and upload images from their collections. This partnership is part of the museums' initiative 2021 pictures for 2021 aimed at enriching the Wikimedia projects with 2021 new files in celebration of the city's jubilee year – Göteborg has turned 400, which is a great opportunity to showcase the collections of the local museums.
The participants have started working on the images' metadata and uploading them to the category Göteborgs museer – 2021 bilder år 2021.
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November Evening at Hisingsvassen, Gothenburg by Berndt Lindholm, Göteborgs konstmuseum. -
Viktoria by E. A. Hernberg, Sjöfartsmuseet. -
A punch bowl from 1750, Röhsska museet.
Wiki Loves Monuments
September is as always, or at least for the last ten years, the month for Wiki Loves Monuments. Partnering with the National Heritage Board, the Maritime museum and the Council of Working Life Museums Wikimedia Sverige organized another round this year and got 1972 images 48 users, of which 14 did their first uploads during September. As there was also a weekly contest with the topic cultural heritage extra attention was given to both articles and images. During the week 20 new (or translated) articles were created, several more improved with both text and images from this and previous WLM, and several hundred images had ID templates added to them on Commons to allow for easier identification.
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Painting of the devil at Garde kyrka -
Anchors at light ship Finngrundet
LGBTQIA+ edit-a-thon
During 2020 and 2021, Pride parades and festivals would have taken place in around 100 locations in Sweden. Due to Covid-19, many of these events have been canceled, postponed or reshaped in different ways. "You have the right to be yourself" was the message when Region Sörmland for a Pride Week at the turn of the month August and September this year paid attention to the rights of LGBTQIA+ (HBTQIA+ in Swedish) people digitally. Pride Week is an opportunity to manifest the equal value and rights of all people, but also to draw attention to the fact that we have a long way to go to fulfill the rights of LGBTQIA+ people. In Sweden and in the world. Both physical and digital. During the week Projekt HBTQI, which is a collaboration between Sörmlands Museum, Biblioteksutveckling Sörmland, both part of Region Sörmland and Wikimedia Sverige, held a Wikipedia competition and a digital edit-a-thon.
The focus of the Wikipedia competition was to improve content about Pride. Although the theme also included all within LGBTQIA+. That is, laws, events, situations, people, regardless of whether it is in Sweden or other parts of the world. We encouraged writing new articles, translating from other languages, expanding or adding sources. In total, the competition participants improved 16 articles, of which several were completely new and comprehensive articles.
We also organized an associated edit-a-thon with an introductory inspirational lecture with Susanne Hedlund, founder of Swedish Pride. Sörmland's museum also showed a film they had made about material from their collections linked to Pride.
The next edit-a-thon within this subject is planned for October 14 and in anticipation of it there is Projekt HBTQI, so just continue there with good edits.
British Library and Khalili Collections
British Library
We coordinated a panel for National Libraries Now, presenting a panel on Wikimedian Residences throughout the four nations, featuring Jason Evans (National Library of Wales), Rebecca O'Neill (Wikimedia Ireland) and Ruth Small from the National Library of Scotland.
Khalili Collections
Images uploaded by this partnership are now getting more than two million views per month (2.3 million for September), excluding those from single-day events like Did You Know. The BaGLAMa2 stats tool is overstating the total for some months, so I am putting corrected numbers on the project page. The two images uploaded this month are just cropped versions of previous images. The main focus this month was on categorising images on Commons and including them in Wikipedia articles. There are now Khalili Collections images in more than 600 non-hidden categories on Commons. I have also been adding Wikidata statements about Khalili objects which, among other things, has enabled this Histropedia timeline of Quran manuscripts in the Khalili Collections.
The Muhammad Sadiq (photographer) article appeared on the English Wikipedia home page as the project's 19th Did You Know article. Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage and Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents passed Good Article review, taking the number of GAs produced by this project to six. The 31st new article from this project was created by a volunteer who translated the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art article into Italian.
New page patrol not assuming good faith towards workshop editors
New page patrol is not assuming good faith towards workshop editors
The attitude is: “More than 80% of the new articles that come in are paid for.” [1]
Kensho Technologies and WikimediaDC held a workshop, Kensho Edit-a-thon, and hilarity ensued.
Newpage patrollers repeatedly moved new articles to draft, sometimes under rationales of "not WP:SPS, WP:PRIMARY", and "References are a mix of press-release and PR" [2] [3] [4] [5] This is the summary process in practice, contrary to the New pages patrol - Drafts, apparently since they are tired of losing notability discussions at articles for deletion, a consensus process;
And they then warned editors moving drafts to article space, not to do that, but to submit to Articles for Creation, a broken non-consensus process, per Incubation;
And they warned editors about paid editing without evidence;[6]
And they applied inappropriate tags to articles; [7] [8] [9]
And an article was taken to deletion, Madeline Bell (hospital executive), and kept.
Be advised. Glam event organizers may want to organize counter patrollers, to engage in the emotional labor of defending the inclusion of notable content.
History of Statistics 2021
American Statistical Association and Wikimedia DC held a workshop, HistofStats2021.
Balboa Park
Wikimedians in San Diego County help a meetup, San Diego/September 2021
Black Lunch Table
Black Lunch Table hosted an online edit-a-thon, Black Lunch Table/online September 2021
WikiConference North America 2021
WikiConference North America 2021 reporting next month.
Working towards a thematic hub on content partnerships
Working towards a thematic hub on content partnerships
Wikimedia Sverige wants to cooperate with the worldwide Community around content partnerships. We think that the best possible way of doing this is through the creation of a thematic hub, and WMSE is currently focusing on identifying the needs of the Movement in this area. There are a lot of needs that can be fulfilled, and a lot of knowledge that can be shared when it comes to content partnerships. Our hope is that the movement can use a hub to tie those knots together. Read more about our thoughts on the Meta Portal page!
The hub will focus on a helpdesk where you can ask for help about anything from batch uploads to the process of partnership agreements, needs assessment, capacity building, international partnerships, software development and strategic data uploads.
This work aims to strengthen the entire Movement, as we will learn from each other how to work with partners to make more knowledge available on our platforms. In this section of the newsletter, you will be able to follow our work and progress.
Needs assessment interviews
We have started to do interviews with Chapters and User groups to discuss needs and what possible support could look like in some of the work of the Content Partnerships Hub. It has been very rewarding and interesting conversations. We are grateful for the generous attitude we meet from colleagues around the world. There is a great interest in working more together internationally and helping each other where there are similar issues that need to be resolved. The discussions are gradually reported on Needs assessment interviews.
The discussions have been based on some questions around partnerships and we want as many as possible to give their views on how the area can be developed. If you have time for a conversation, feel free to send an email to tore.danielsson
wikimedia.se
SDC for Wiki Loves Monuments
One of the areas the Hub team has been involved in are strategic uploads of data, including Structured Data on Commons.
Over September and early October, we worked with photos from the Wiki Loves Monuments competitions around the world. We added data on what the photos depict and which edition of the competition they participated in. You can read more about our workflow in Wikimedia Sverige's White Paper on SDC, which was published earlier this year after our pilot uploads.
This fall so far, we have updated over 188,000 photos with 498,000 new statements. See an example here.
The countries we've worked with include Australia, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Malta and Serbia. The workflow of adding the statements looks like this:
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The contents of the Heritage site in Israel template are converted to depicts and location of creation statements after locating the monument on Wikidata.
Why are we doing this? Structured Data on Commons makes it possible to learn more about the photos uploaded by WLM participants. The data we've been adding is a complement to the data that have been added by other community members, such as Multichill, who has been converting the information about the authors of the photos and their geographical coordinates into structured data statements. With all these puzzle pieces together, you can use the Wikimedia Commons Query Service to find all the photos that participated in Wiki Loves Monuments in a certain country, and plot them on a map if they have coordinates.
Here's such a query for WLM in Malta, with the photos color-coded by the year of the competition.
Wiki Loves Monuments on Wikidata
In order to tag photos on Commons with the WLM edition they participated in, we first need to create Wikidata items for the editions!
This had not been done in a systematic way before, so it was something we had to include in our workflow. And here's the result – the Wikidata items of the WLM editions in several countries. The list will be updated automatically when new items are created.
First steps for Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service
OpenRefine and Structured Data on Commons
Software development
- Eugene Egbe started working as a junior developer (contractor) for Wikimedia-specific features in this project. Eugene is experienced in Structured Data on Commons development, as he was also the developer behind the popular ISA Tool. For OpenRefine, Eugene develops the Wikimedia Commons reconciliation service and a batch upload tool.
- First code has been written for the Wikimedia Commons Reconciliation Service. This service will allow OpenRefine (and tools outside of OpenRefine) to take a list of file names from Wikimedia Commons and to convert these file names to their corresponding entity identifiers (“M numbers” or M-ids - the Wikimedia Commons equivalent of Q-ids). Next, it will then be possible to retrieve Wikitext and structured data from these files, so that this can be processed further. Code is available on Gerrit and the service itself will be available at https://commonsreconcile.toolforge.org/
- Antonin has ported the EditGroups tool (which is already quite popular on Wikidata) to Wikimedia Commons: https://editgroups-commons.toolforge.org/. This makes it possible for Commons contributors to undo certain batch edits on Wikimedia Commons, including future 'faulty' batch edits by OpenRefine.
Community outreach
- There is now a landing page for OpenRefine on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine. For now, this page will point to information about the development process. As features are deployed, the page will point to general information and documentation.
- Are you interested in receiving notifications about this project? You can sign up with a talk page of your choosing at meta:Global message delivery/Targets/OpenRefine and SDC.
- We have written down first thoughts on batch editing and upload workflows. Feedback on this document is welcome.
Updates on grant-funded technical projects
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) together with its Wikimedian in Residence, Dominic Byrd-McDevitt, had a grant application approved back in June 2020 to extend the DPLA digital asset pipeline in order to improve the quality and discoverability of the institution's files. This would be accomplished by the upload of Structured Data on Commons to media files the institution had already contributed, but also on new files, and by the constant maintenance of the information, updating data when needed.
In October 2020, only fours months after the grant application was approved, more than 1,8 million files on Commons from DPLA already have Structured Data incorporated. It's easy to identify that with the DPLA ID (P760), which was one of the first properties uploaded by the institution's bot and together with copyright status (P6216) and RightsStatements.org statement according to source website (P6426) made 4.8 million statements added just in the initial round of uploads.
Since then, DPLA is working on adding source of file (P7482), title (P1476), copyright license (P275), Commons media contributed by (P9126), and creator (P170). Every property was chosen after making it available on the DPLA's modeling page for community input.
DPLA's Wikimedian in Residence, Dominic, also recently proposed DPLA as an interwiki link and has been very active in the discussion about if and how references should be used in the Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons's files, both on the SDC talk page and on the proposed phabricator ticket.
Byrd-McDevitt has also shared, during a Wikimania 2021 panel, his "image citation pilot". The idea is to use Structured Data on Commons in an experimental Lua-based template to automatically generate captions and citations for media files on Wikipedia. In September, during the Creative Commons Global Summit, Fiona Romeo from the GLAM and Culture team, participated in the Attributing Public Domain Materials: From Best Practices to Standardization, a session in which she also mentioned Dominic's idea and the Wikimedia community members present really liked the idea.
OpenRefine
OpenRefine received a grant to add Structured Data on Commons functionalities to the tool. Right now, there's a team working on the project, among them Sandra Fauconnier who is leading the initiative. The WMF GLAM and Culture team is helping in the project participating in regular meetings, discussions, activities, and providing feedback.
Other stakeholders are involved in contributing with comments for the project and a few GLAM and technical people are involved in providing general feedback. If you happen to be interested in participating in this second option, you can do so by filling out this form.
The project also has a draft timeline and a workboard on phabricator with a few tasks available.
In September, the OpenRefine was presented during the Creative Commons Global Summit, in the Hack4OpenGLAM track, and the team is also planning to present a session during WikidataCon.
A more detailed and up-to-date description of the activities done in this OpenRefine project so far is available in the latest SDC report in this same newsletter.
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