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New material on Wikimedia Commons
New material on Wikimedia Commons
During august we received the donation differents cultural institutions of Argentina.
- The Argentine Academy of Letters release 22 news books to Wikimedia Commons.
- The INTA release 25 new quality images.
- The office of the Ombudsman release 141 files about the city of Buenos Aires.
In the following links you can see the different campaigns:
Category:Files from Academia Argentina de Letras-
Torre Monumental y Edificio Kavanagh -
Estación Coghlan -
Grupo de productoras apicultoras en Los Charruas, Concordia, Entre Rios. Capacitación de INTA en cuanto al control de varroa. -
Tecnica del Instituto de Floricultura del INTA Castelar con una de las variedades de flores desarrolladas por el INTA, Estrella INTA Jica.
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Edit-a-thons to spread mathematics and neuroscience; Women of Culture and other activities
Edit-a-thons to spread mathematics and neuroscience
I have had the opportunity to work as a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the RIDC NeuroMat, in Brazil, and in this context I have contributed to organize and animate thematic edit-a-thons focusing on Neuroscience and Mathematics. So far, NeuroMat has held four of such edit-a-thons, and this newsletter piece is meant to provide a context to this sequence of outreach activities.
Founded in 2013 and located at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat) has among its goals the integration of mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience and the diffusion of scientific knowledge through open educational resources, in this case, Wikimedia Foundation projects. Started in July 2014, its Wikipedia Initiative has been working in many areas, such as uploading images in Wikimedia Commons, adding spoken articles about mathematics, creating and improving pages related to neuroscience, mathematics, accessibility and mathematical education.
During the First NeuroMat Young Researchers Workshop, the Brazilian research center held its first edit-a-thon Neuroscience and Mathematics. From May 5th to 7th, 2015, seven students worked on articles directly related to the main areas of study of NeuroMat, for instance, somatotopic arrangement, stochastic processes, stochastic chains with memory of variable length and probability density function. The event was organized in partnership with the User Group Wikimedia in Brazil.
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On August 29th, 2016, helped by the same group, NeuroMat hosted its second edit-a-thon, this time with 13 participants. The user ThiagoTVarella created the article about symmetric difference. Improved pages included phase transition, complement (set theory), metric (mathematics), luteinizing hormone, altered state of consciousness and numerical base conversion.
The third edit-a-thon on neuroscience and mathematics was preceded by a lecture on the Year of Science experience, given by LiAnna Davis, from the Wiki Education Foundation. On March 13th, 2017, there were 24 participants and their contributions may be seen with details in this Outreach Dashboard report. They improved articles related to important people in the history of mathematics and neuroscience, such as Maryam Mirzakhani, Lauretta Bender and Alois Alzheimer, topics in neuroscience, for instance, neurosociology and neuropsychoanalysis, and mathematics, such as prime factor, Cartesian coordinate system, height (geometry), triangle and the number five.
Participants were stimulated to improve articles related to statistics, a considerably underexplored domain in Portuguese Wikipedia, during the fourth edit-a-thon on neuroscience and mathematics. As a result, the articles on beta distribution, gamma distribution and F distribution of Fisher-Snedecor received significant attention. The 16 registered editors also improved pages about the mathematicians Lev Pontryagin, Anatoli Vitushkin, Norman Johnson, Max Dehn, and other subjects in mathematics, for example, Cholesky decomposition, braid theory, prime knots, the zero to the zero power problem, Hilbert’s problems, genus-two surfaces, tangrams. Besides the article geometry itself, participants added content to other pages in the same area, such as cuboctaheadron, sphenocorona and icosahedron.
So far, NeuroMat held four edit-a-thons, with a mean of 15 registered editors each one. At least, 39 articles in neuroscience and mathematics are now considerably better due to this initiative. Taking into account only the third and the fourth edit-a-thons, more 38,000 words were added and 25 files were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. The articles edited have been viewed more than 256,000 times. Edit-a-thons are helpful not only because of their impact. During events of this kind, it is possible to teach basic edition skills to a great deal of users at the same time. Also, teachers and students are stimulated to collaborate in a more egalitarian way compared to the hierarchy in classroom. They are also very useful to suggest topics and make editors aware of underdeveloped themes.
Women of Culture and other activities
Women of Culture
On June 10 we held the first planning meeting of the Women of Culture project. Three attendees and two online attended the meeting. During the meeting we discussed strategies for articulating stakeholders and possible partners for the project and the first pilot plan was outlined, in order to distribute activities within the ‘working group’. The second meeting happened in July 22 and was focused on presenting the Wikimedia projects, their basic editing rules and how to work with some of them in order to reach the objectives of the project, e.g., to improve content about women on Wikipedia PT and Wikidata. We also talked about the need to gather sources about women, meet and apply style of writing more appropriate to gender equality in women's articles, e.g. Over the next few months all volunteers should start their first editions on Wikipedia with some article from the Women of Culture list, prioritizing articles with spelling or grammar problems or those marked for deletion or as a sketch. The deadline for completing this first challenge is September/October 2017.
Other activities
During the month of June we finalized a project developed together with the students of the technical course in Museology of the Etec Parque da Juventude. The project started in October 2016 and was extended throughout the first half of 2017. Based on research carried out by the group of students at four museums in the state of São Paulo (Paulo Setúbal Museum, Visconde de Mauá Historic and Pedagogical Museum, Dom Pedro I and Dona Leopoldina Historic and Pedagogical Museum and Prudente de Morais Museum), students have been able to improve and develop the available content on institutions on Wikipedia. On June 28th and 29th, the students presented their work to complete the course and highlighted the results of the project, with the process of researching, writing and structuring the articles on Wikipedia and inserting images of the collections and institutions in Wikimedia Commons.
At the end of June, we also had a meeting with the staff of the Pro Dean of Culture and Extension of the University of São Paulo (USP) to discuss possibilities of having Wikimedia activities during the Art and Culture Week of USP in September.
In the months of June, July and August, we also completed the translation of the publication How to work successfully with Wikipedia: a guide to galleries, archives, libraries and museums and articulate institutions interested in integrating the report of their experiences with GLAM projects to the new version of publication. The launch is scheduled for November 2017.
Presenting about West African context at Wikimania 2017
Highlighting constraints and opportunities regarding GLAM
During learning days, a short presentation was made regarding GLAM-related activities in West Africa. This 5-minute, talk labeled "GLAM in West African context: constraints and opportunities", underscore some of the challenges faced by the User Group of Cote d'Ivoire while approaching GLAM institutions: skepticism, low awareness of open licenses, etc. The talk also underscored some benefits of these collaborations in terms of content liberation articles creation, references collection, awareness among GLAM actors, etc. More photos can be found on commons.
Strengthening User Groups by partnering with GLAMs
On Friday, 11 August, a joint panel, labelled "Growing a User Group, a roadmap for survival", featured representatives from Brazil (Rodrigo Padula), Macedonia (Kiril Simeonovski) and Cote d'Ivoire (Samuel Guebo). This 55-minute length session aimed at underlining good practices as well as common constraints faced when it comes to building new User Groups and others local affiliates. "Partnership" was the focus of the representative from Cote d'Ivoire.
Basing on the lessons learned from collaborating with GLAM actors in Cote d'Ivoire, he explained how partnering with GLAMS could have a tremendous impact on User Groups' capacities in terms of content creation but also logistics (spaces for activities, internet, snacks for events, etc).
Overview in pictures
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Our GLAM coordinator, sharing the constraints faced in Cote d'Ivoire -
Attendees during the lightning talk about GLAM in West African context -
Participants sat in circle during the second part of the joint panel for further discussions with Kiril, a co-panelist. -
Samuel, moderator and Rodrigo, co-panelist
First Art Exhibition in the Estonian Wikipedia is now opened
First Art Exhibition in the Estonian Wikipedia
In the early days of August an exhibition The decisive years prior to Independence: Moments from the Estonian art of 1914–18 was opened as a part of Europeana project. It contains works from both of Tartu Art Museum and Art Museum of Estonia, and therefore carries on the cooperation with TARTMUS and marks the start of cooperation with Art Museum of Estonia.
Merli-Triin Eiskop, a curator of collections of TARTMUS, has said that she is glad for the supportive and active collaboration from the side of Wikimedia Eesti. She believes that this kind of format helps to spread the knowledge both inside Estonian and abroad about the art classics that the Estonian museums have in their collection. "Both museums made an independent selection of works and that has formed an interesting mosaic - a glimpse into a fascinating period in the Estonian art and history."
- Example images from the exhibition
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Herbert Lukk. Haystacks (1914) -
Välko Tuul. Viking Ships (1915) -
Konrad Mägi. Landscape from Estonia (1915–16) -
Jaan Koort. Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1916) -
Balder Tomasberg. Heroic Landscape (1916) -
Johannes Einsild. Otepää landscape (1917) -
Aleksander Uurits. Portrait of a Lady (1917) -
Herbert Lukk. Self-Portrait (1918) -
Kuno Veeber. Potato Harvesters (1918)
Images from Jean-Auguste Brutails
2,500 images from Jean-Auguste Brutails
Jean-Auguste Brutails (1859-1926) was a French archivist with a great interest for places of worship in South-West of France. ~2,500 of his pictures have been given to Bordeaux Montaigne University after his death. These pictures which have been digitized by the university are now available on Commons: commons:Category:Fonds Brutails - Université Bordeaux Montaigne.
Collaboration with volunteers and how to "wikify" GLAM-institutions
Collaboration with the public library of the city of Duisburg
On the 10th of July 2017 six Wikipedians met with Jan-Pieter Barbian, a cultural historian and director of the library of the city of Duisburg, and Petra Dobler-Wahl, artist, head of public relation and marketing director of the library.
Duisburg is a city of 500,000 inhabitants. The central library has 300,000 media items and a collection of 3,500 books from the 14th to the 19th century.
On the 28th of October 2017 a library day will be held throughout Germany (see Tag der Bibliotheken). Almost all German libraries will have open days or even an information week with presentations and talks. The Wikipedians offered to organize an information booth about Wikimedia projects at the library day and a Wikimedia/Wikipedia consultation hour as well as a presentation on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects. The representatives of the library showed interest in Wikipedians taking part in their information week.
The coordination page for the project can be found at de:Wikipedia:Duisburg/Stadtbibliothek Duisburg.
GLAM on Tour in Wuppertal
When volunteers visit a museum or a gallery for modern art licensing is a central hurdle to cope with. In July Atamari had arranged the volunteer & staff meet up named GLAM on Tour at the Skulpturenpark Waldfriede. The later is a private initiative of the famed sculptor Tony Cragg who bought the Villa Herberts and its park to exhibit both his own sculptures and those of befriended artists. The result is a charming landscape filled with art. But - all of it protected by copyright. Never the less GLAM on Tour is more than a fotosafari. Together with the staff of the museum we aim to edit articles on topics related to the museum referring to their expertise and reference literature. It turned out to work well. Among the dozen participants 24 new articles were published. The results will be presented in book form on the coming WikiCon in Leipzig. Learn more about the format GLAM on Tour in its learning pattern.
The project is documented here.
Prepare Your Data
When museums like to contribute content to Wikimedia projects they often lack know-how and skills in order to act on an equal footing with volunteers. The hackathon Coding da Vinci motivates GLAM institutions to free their content. But in the last years not all of that content reached Wikimedia Commons. Thus 2017 we invited participating GLAM of Coding da Vinci to take part in a two-piece workshop. We call it Prepare Your Data. We want to empower GLAM staff and volunteers to use open license, to edit their metadata until it fits to the right template within Wikimedia Commons and then to use a tool for bulk upload to Wikimedia Commons. The first part took place in July. The second part in September will focus on the upload. We keep you posted.
Find out more on Coding da Vinci hackathon, a partner project of Wikimedia Deutschland, OKF; DDB and digis.
Edit-a-thons & goals
WikiDonne's August activities
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Members of the Native American Women Warriors -
Eva Ault, canadian ice hockey player -
Emira Woods -
Celina Jaitley, Bollywood Actress -
Iulia Hasdeu, romanian writer -
Christiane Rochefort, writer -
Pia Wurtzbach, Miss Universe 2015 -
Joan Robinson, economist
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- From August 1th, WikiDonne is hosting 1day1woman online edit-a-thon for write or improve articles about notable women in any field and any time. To celebrate Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, this edit-a-thon without end date focuses mostly on ethnic groups, Indigenous women, Canadian women and peace activists.
- From August 16th WikiDonne participate to the international #100wikidays challenge: 100 days to write wiki articles/items in Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikiquote or upload files in Commons.
- August 19th started Interwiki Women, a new collaboration between users from WikiDonne and users from Armenia and Argentina for the reciprocal writing of missing women biographies. Organizer: Camelia Boban.
10,000 pages with contents from BEIC
In August, we reached more than 10,000 pages of Wikimedia projects with contents from Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura (BEIC). The BEIC wiki-GLAM project is running since 2014. Pages containing images from BEIC now are seen more than 11 million times a month on 200+ Wikimedia projects, on 180+ languages - that is 260 million potential image views from the beginning of the project! Many of the images are digitized frontispieces from ancient books, but a big part comes also from the 16,900 photographs of the Paolo Monti online collection, the largest release of a notable contemporary photographer's collection ever, and the biggest one-shot donation from Italy.
WikiWine project; Two days of edit-a-thons
Following the traces of the "Mastika" spirit drink - with the WikiWine project in Strumica
On 24 August, we have started our first phase of the project WikiWine and other spirits, whereas we visited the biggest winery in Strumica region „Grozd Strumica“ in southeastern Macedonia. We had opportunity to make photos of different variety of wines, such as Muscat, Chardone, Vranec and the famous Macedonian spirit „Mastika“, that is special and most renown product of this winery which is famous nationwide in Macedonia and throughout the Balkans. On this visit we had 4 participants: Иван Ж, Македонец, Kiril Simeonovski and Тивериополник who is a longstanding and one of the most valuable contributors to the Macedonian language Wikipedia, from Strumica thus he had organized the entire visit of that day. The project will continue during the grape harvesting and autumn months with visit of several other wineries and distilleries in Macedonia.
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Participants in the project during the visit of "Grozd" factory in Strumica -
Products of "Grozd" Strumica -
Distillery for the Mastika spirit drink
Two days of edit-a-thons
On 25th and 26th of August, our two Wikipedians in Residence organized edit-a-thons, with the members of GLAM Macedonia. The materials were provided by the State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia, and by the City Library "Braka Miladinovci" - Skopje. The edit-a-thons were thematic. 15 participants edited 22 articles, while Wikipedian in Residence at the City Library added 14 references to the new created articles.
The first day, six participants created 10 articles about Macedonian voivode, which were missing on the Macedonian language Wikipedia. The second day, nine participants created 10 articles about the mythology, plus 2 articles were edited with a new content.
As from the June, GLAM Macedonia user group sent Wikipedians in Residence in the State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia and in the City Library "Braka Miladinovci" in Skopje.
Public Domain Photos Donation
Fragments of the past on Wikimedia Commons
An artist and a collector, Milorad Stokin, donated to Wikimedia Commons 100 photos from his collection of history and art images. All of the photos are in public domain and they represent significant moments and notable people from Serbian history.
Royals and their residences, Serbian monarchs, politicians and artists, scans and sketches of one of the most significant artworks, and book press announcements are shown in these images representing fragments of Serbian past.
“It is very important for these images to be stored on Wikimedia Commons, and to be visible to all the people who find them interesting. It’s crucial for them to be a part of the biggest collection of knowledge - Wikipedia - especially the very rare and valuable images” - Mr. Tokin said.
Some of the images were not present on Serbian Wikipedia for a long time, such as the photo of Pasko Vucetic, famous Serbian sculptor and painter. A lot of images were already used by Serbian Wikipedians on Wikipedia and other Wiki projects.
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Ivan Meštrović -
Katarina Ivanović birth certificate -
King Aleksandar Obrenović as a child -
Princ Aleksandar and princess Persida Karađorđević -
Princess Natalija Obrenovic -
Skull Tower -
The wedding of Prince Pavle and Princess Olga -
Žiča Monestery -
Đura Knežević, the assassin of King Milan -
Stevan Knićanin -
Russian wounded at military hospital -
Serbian artillery during Serbian–Ottoman wars
Connected Open Heritage; Tekniska museet template migration; Stockholm Pride week
Connected Open Heritage
During the month of July, we organized the Connected Open Heritage Challenge. The idea was to make use of as many as possible of the images on cultural and world heritages uploaded as part of the Connected Open Heritage project. The rules were straight-forward: the more views an article had had the month prior to the challenge, the more points you got for adding an image to it. We expected the number of participants to be lower, though, than in the UNESCO Challenge, where 96 participants contributed to one of the largest competitions in Wiki-history, as the COH Challenge required use of an external tool and more steps, but we did not expect the stunning results of the dozen of users who took part: 547 images were added to articles that had been viewed altogether almost 14.5 million times in June. We are indeed as happy as our partner in UNESCO that the images have been used, but it is equally a success for Wikipedia: about 14.5 million viewers will monthly see qualitative and newly uploaded images on our common, cultural heritage.
Photo exhibition
Journeys Through Our Fragile Heritage, a photo exhibition organized as part of the Connected Open Heritage project, was displayed in two venues in August: at the Sheraton Hotel in Montreal during Wikimania, as well as at the Gothia Towers hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden. The exhibition, prepared jointly by Wikimedia and UNESCO, showcases freely licensed photographs of cultural heritage in danger, aiming to raise awareness of the challenges it faces in today's world.
Wikidata migration
Our progress in migrating the Wiki Loves Monuments data to Wikidata received a lot of interest at Wikimania, and not surprisingly so, considering that this year's edition of the world's largest photo competition was approaching fast. In order to take advantage of the fact that many community members with a keen interest in cultural heritage data were gathered in one place, we invited them to a mini edit-a-thon and matching workshop. It was an exciting opportunity to learn more about heritage data from countries as different as Iran, Chile and the Netherlands. Thanks to the help in mapping the data, we have recently finished migrating the Austrian dataset – over 37 thousand items – and are getting ready follow up with, among others, Germany, Belgium and Latin America.
Tekniska museet template migration
Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology has made changes in their image database, and are looking for help with doing some template migration as a preparation for uploading more images to Wikimedia Commons. Feel free to help out there.
Pride
During the Stockholm Pride week the National Museum of Fine Arts hosted an edit-a-thon in cooperation with The Royal Armoury, Swedish History Museum and The Unstraight Museum. The afternoon had both time for editing articles and some presentations that included questions about if a person with a trans background, from before the term existed, should be defined as given or self identified gender. Researcher Sam Holmqvist argued that the editing community (at least for Swedish language Wikipedia) might avoid the questions and moves on to other articles based on an attempt to edit the article about Andreas Bruce a few years back and a still unanswered question on the talk page.
Wikimania & Wikiconference North America, Beer, Hip Hop
BAnQ scanathon
As a part of Wikiconference North America, which was a pre-conference to Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, there was a Scan-a-thon at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. [1] Wikimedians and new volunteers worked with staff at BAnQ to scan documents, upload high resolution TIFF files to Wikimedia Commons, and add metadata. Tours were also given by BAnQ to see their "New France" archives, which contain genealogical records not just for French Canadians, but for territories before the Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803.
DC Beer Week Edit-a-thon
Wikimedia DC had an editathon at Heurich House Museum, which is a private museum often called the Brewmaster's Castle. The event was one of the signature events of D.C. Beer Week, and saw more than a dozen participants, including scholars, historians and museum studies majors in the DC area.
Black Lunch Table/Brooklyn Hip Hop
There was a Black Lunch Table/Brooklyn Hip Hop meetup on August 20 at the Brooklyn Public LIbrary's Central Library branch.
National Book Festival 2017
At the annual D.C. National Book Festival, hosted by the Library of Congress, more authors' photos were taken by User:Slowking4.
DACA defenders 2017
Local D.C. chapter folks covered the demonstrations about the DACA rescission by adding photos to Commons.
Meeting Europeana; Conference News
Special Reports
WikidataCon is coming
- With 200 attendees, WikidataCon the Wikidata Conference, on 28 & 29 October, is now fully booked. The WikidataCon programme is also published. If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
Wikimania Roundup
- Videos and notes from Wikimania are now collated, see the Wikimania 2017 summary blog post. Those relevant to Wikidata include:
- You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
- Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
- Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
- List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
- Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
- Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
- Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
- New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
- Talk: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge/5306122/1 WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
- Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
- Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
Europeana R&D and Wikidata meeting
Liam Wyatt (GLAMwiki Community Manager, Europeana), and Sandra Fauconnier (WMF's community liaison) met with Europeana R&D staff to explore collaboration possibilities around the forthcoming Structured Data on Commons project. Europeana has worked closely with many Wikimedia affiliates and projects over the years, including development of the GLAMwiki Toolset mass upload tool, organising the Art History Challenge - the largest ever GLAM-Wiki competition (and also the largest to be hosted on Wikidata), and the recently concluded Europeana 1914-1918 challenge (winners to be announced shortly).
Europeana is currently developing its own knowledge graph, the Entity Collection. A selection of more than 300,000 shared resources (people, locations and general subjects) that interlink the GLAM collections available through their services. Europeana is interested in connecting this entity collection to (and getting more data from) Wikidata, for mutual benefit, and has also recently published a case study that encourages its data partners to link their own vocabularies to Wikidata.
Valentine Charles (Europeana's Data R&D coordinator) and Liam Wyatt will be present at WikidataCon (see above), leading a round-table discussion on GLAM data and Wikidata.
GLAM news
- New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
- New external tool: official map for Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 displays cultural heritage monuments worldwide, using Wikidata
- More than eighty thousand locations in Belgium have been added to Mix'n'Match
Further reading and viewing
- Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (by Mapbox)
- Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata
- What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references
- A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata, (Wikidata has item Q37859976 representing this paper)
- Doctoral Advisor or Medical Condition: Towards Entity-specific Rankings of Knowledge Base Properties
- ctj rdf: Part One, linking text-mined data to Wikidata with SPARQL.
- Creating parliament charts with Wikidata
- The great Wikipedia bot-pocalypse
- When Westminster Was Wikified
- Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
Tech developments
- New user scripts
- Overpass - adds a map showing features tagged, in OpenStreetMap, with the ID of the current Wikidata item, if any
- moveClaim.js - allows claims to be moved across items.
- Language codes
fr-ca,eya,fuf,ood,pjt,yap, andzunare now available for monolingual text values - New external tools
- WD edits stats counting edits made on a certain dataset between two dates
- d3-sparql allows you to query a SPARQL endpoint and get the data in a d3js-useful format
- Language fallback indicators hidden on variant fallback languages
- Citation.js: Endpoint on RunKit shows a demo REST API to convert Wikidata entries into BibTeX, Bib.TXT, citations, and CSL-JSON.
- Releases:
- version 2.0.0 of the DataValues base component.
- DataValues Interfaces component in version 0.2.3.
- ValueView component in version 0.20.0
- WIGOS station ID
- muzzle velocity
- Treasury of Lives ID
- National Assembly of Nigeria ID
- energy storage capacity
- Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID
- RIWAQ Registry of Historic Buildings in Palestine ID
- Finnish List of Lights ID
- Atheneum artwork ID
- Atheneum person ID
- Atheneum museum ID
- weather history
- National Forest Foundation ID, offset
- Czech Registration ID
- MEG ID
- autores.ar id
- WeRelate person ID
- Michelin Restaurants ID
- Michelin Voyages ID
- magnification
- National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID
- CODECS ID
- Georgian National Register of Monuments ID
- Dagens Næringsliv topic ID
- eParks unit ID
- World Heritage Tentative List ID
- America's Byways road ID
- Instagram location ID
- Wikimedia username
- Patreon person ID
- effective firing range
- Finnish National Gallery person ID
- Beazley Archive Pottery Database ID
- tabular population
- GujLit Person ID
- GujLit Book ID
- National Natural Landmarks site ID
- iconographic symbol
- Australian Women's Register ID
You are invited to comment on all open property proposals.
GLAM-Wiki team, Wikimania, and updates
Onboarding a Team
The second expansion to the GLAM-Wiki team at the Wikimedia Foundation after the addition of User:SandraF (WMF) as part of the Structured Commons project, came with the addition of Ben Vershbow (User:BVershbow_(WMF)) as Lead Programs Manager for the Community Programs team. Though Ben will support all of the GLAM, Education, and Wikipedia Library teams, Ben’s background over the past decade-plus is in large part in the cultural heritage sector, working at both the Institute for the Future of the Book, and more recently leading the New York Public Library Labs.
Ben brings a deep network within libraries, museums, and digital humanities, and will be helping the team to evaluate, prioritize and advance support of the larger cultural heritage community. It’s exciting to have additional minds working on the GLAM-Wiki program space!
With Ben and Sandra on board, we are beginning to evaluate the where we want to focus GLAM-Wiki support, in light of the movement strategy process.
Wikimania and Structured Data on Commons Offsite
Ben, Sandra and Alex all attended Wikimania, the preconference for Wikimania and an off-site for the Structured Data on Commons project. The conference offered a great opportunity to learn from, reflect on, and gauge the interest of for various needs within the GLAM-Wiki community.
Alongside our own presentations, we noticed a number of trends in the conversation:
- The Library space was vibrantly represented by the community, in part being supported by the great work being done in the Wikipedia + Libraries User Group
- Wikidata use for cultural heritage applications has an ever-increasing global community that will be really well situated to advance GLAM-Wiki into a closer working relationship with GLAMs and other heritage communities. One of the highlights in this, was the gathering of folks for the Cultural Heritage + Wikidata “Birds of a Feather” session.
- Structured data on Commons saw a lot of support from both GLAM-related and other contributors within the Wikimedia community.
- The Wikimedian in Residence Birds of a Feather session was well attended, and highlighted how diverse and challenging the role of “Wiki(p/m)edian in Residence” can be for practitioners, and how challenging it is to make sure that new roles successfully join the community of WIRs. As an outcome of the meeting, a group of WIRs are proposing a user group that can help with onboarding and developing best practices for the roles.
- To find notes and slide decks related to GLAM-Wiki sessions, see the notes page on the Wikimania Wiki.
Following the conference, the Structured Data on Commons team gathered for an offsite that reflected on what we learned over the course of the conference, and worked on a shared plan going forward. We were very happy to share with the team working on the project its importance for institutional partners and how they work with the Wikimedia community. At the meeting, we also saw some of the early outcomes of the meta:Research:Supporting Commons contribution by GLAM institutions being led by User:Jmorgan (WMF).
Updates will soon be made to the Structured Data on Commons portal at commons:Commons:Structured data. We recommend everyone to also subscribe to the Structured Data on Commons newsletter!
Other updates
Other work by the team, has included collaboration, outreach and consultation on:
- Reviewing grant requests to the Community Resources team at the foundation
- Supporting and consulting on several incoming contacts from external orgs to WMF
- Revising the Edit-a-thon training-- feedback still welcome
- Development of upcoming blog posts for the WMF blog on several different community-led projects.
- Review of contextual materials for the Wikimedia Strategy Process
- Short visits with Europeana and DPLA, to better understand how Structured Data on Commons, and Structured data more generally will impact their work. For a report on the Europeana visit, see the section in the Wikidata report.
- Followup from several Wikimania conversations.
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