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Wikidata weekly summary #315

This Month in GLAM: May 2018





Headlines
  • Armenia report: GLAM meetings and collaborations
  • Australia report: GLAM Peak having impact & International Museum Day edit-a-thon
  • Belgium report: Public domain month celebration; Edit-a-thon Amnesty International Vlaanderen; Upcoming photo contest: Wiki Loves Heritage
  • Brazil report: New milestones for Brazilian GLAMs
  • France report: Bibliothèque universitaire de la Sorbonne; Laboratoire Latmos; Study day on photographic as heritage
  • Germany report: Two fantastic weekends with science fiction literature and the history of mining made audible
  • Ireland report: First Irish GLAM upload to Wikimedia Commons; Hunt Museum is first Irish GLAM to donate images to Wikimedia Commons
  • Italy report: Contests, webinair and meetings
  • Macedonia report: GLAM activities
  • Netherlands report: Women Tech Storm, GWToolset workshop and Wiki goes Caribbean
  • Norway report: Bodil Biørn and human rights
  • Portugal report: FEM's GLAM and Guinea-Bissau
  • Russia report: GLAM in Russia: need more contests
  • Serbia report: Wikipedian in residence in the Museum of Yugoslavia
  • Sweden report: Democracy; Museum of World Culture
  • UK report: Scottish Library and Information Council
  • USA report: AfroCROWD Wikipedia Editor's Article on Doria Ragland Tops Wiki Search List For UK Royal Wedding: Libraries Key in her Wikipedian Journey
  • Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes
  • Wikidata report: EuropeanaTech conference, Lexicographical data, plus all your usual news
  • WMF GLAM report: Recent travels; Structured Data on Commons updates
  • Calendar: June's GLAM events
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Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018

The Editor is Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him, on his User talk page.
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Respecting MEDRS

Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

Evidence pyramid leading up to clinical guidelines, from WP:MEDRS
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Wikidata weekly summary #319

This Month in GLAM: June 2018





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Notice

The article Huang Hsin has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Don't see other sources, birth date is certainly incorrect.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. GZWDer (talk) 20:53, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018

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Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report

Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.

Hackathon mentoring table wiring

Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".

Plugbar buildup at the Hackathon
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That thing for that thing you were thinging

Thing. -— Isarra 06:26, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

@Isarra: - Thanks so much! Very slick! -- Fuzheado | Talk 07:44, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: July 2018





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Your draft article, Draft:Union Square Partnership

Hello, Fuzheado. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Union Square Partnership".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Sam Sailor 08:36, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #325

Impromptu Meetup on 22 August (Hari Raya Haji, Wednesday)

Hello Andrew, appreciate if you can come at Han's Cafe, #01-01 National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street (S)188064 on 22 August 2018 (Wednesday, Hari Raya Haji) 1700hrs/ 5pm. Should you wish to reach me directly in real time, please contact me using the Telegram mobile app @Exec8 or Facebook @bustria --Exec8 (talk) 02:17, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #326

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018

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Neglected diseases
Anti-parasitic drugs being distributed in Côte d'Ivoire
What's a Neglected Disease?, ScienceSource video

To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

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Wikidata weekly summary #327

ANI discussion

I have started a discussion at WP:ANI#Personal attacks, a block and an unblock: review requested. Fram (talk) 05:51, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Precious

serve

Thank you for quality articles such as Ta Prohm, Seven Sisters (colleges), Time shifting and Birthday cake, for participating in meet-ups from 2004, including every conference, for instructing students, for quoting "You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Reaching out

Hi Andrew. I'm Elliott. I'm reaching out because you are well researched in the field of Wiki/PRC relationships, and my main contribution to Wikipedia so far (IMHO) has been organizing one (relatively impromptu) off wiki-talk, in which I addressed a seminar on feminism in Shanghai about the importance of Chinese women editing the English and Chinese Wikipedia, along with some advice on how to do this.

I was not even aware of edit-a-thons at this time, nor did I have any support or endorsement from Wikipedia to conduct the talk. I simply gave the talk because a friend of mine who was running the small seminar, had a free spot and asked me, "why don't you talk about something?" while we were having a drink. I had nothing to actually contribute beyond a certain aptitude for judging the right distance between a mouth and a microphone and what to do with my left hand while holding something in my right. I picked the Wikipedia topic out of a hat and prepared a series of slides on the subject of "getting started". After that I joined project Asia and project feminism and begun talking to a couple of people briefly, but nothing more happened.

I haven't had much time to edit Wikipedia constructively since then, but I got a good feeling from having done the talk and would like to repeat the experience. I'm having difficulty finding forums in which a talk on the subject of Wikipedia would be usefully delivered, and am shopping for advice on the subject. I found out about you and your involvement in the project while reading Jim's essay on smartphone editing Thanks for your time and hope you have a great day. Edaham (talk) 04:06, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #328

Username Change for personal security

Dear Mr Lih I am posting this message in order to ask for a change of user name. As I am aware only Admins can change people's usernames. I have made the regrettable mistake of using my real name. I would like to change this for personal cyber security reasons. If it would be possible for you to contact me via my talk page so this can be discussed that would be great. Sincerly L.H — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lochlan Hanham (talkcontribs) 09:47, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Please note that my tablet auto corrected Li to Like L.H. (talk) 09:55, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@Lochlan Hanham: to change your username please see Wikipedia:Changing_username#Venues. — xaosflux Talk 04:40, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
@Xaosflux: Thanks for the help my good internet neighbour

This Month in GLAM: August 2018





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Nomination of Milkshake Duck for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Milkshake Duck is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milkshake Duck (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. North America1000 06:53, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018

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The science publishing landscape

In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.

The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.

The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act.

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Question about Glenstone

Hey Fuzheado -- thank you so much for adding a photo to the Glenstone Museum article! I was hoping someone would have a photo. I have a couple questions that I hope you can help with:

  • I noticed that after you edited, the Kartographer map showed up in the infobox. I had been trying to get that to show up, but couldn't figure it out. Is it because you added the authority control template?
  • I had originally created the article with title "Glenstone", and not "Glenstone Museum". Another editor moved it to "Glenstone Museum", and I'm considering moving it back. It's referred to as "Glenstone" in all the sources I've found, and is also referred to that way on the museum's website. There are other museum articles that are named similarly, like this one for The Broad. Do you have a recommendation on this?

Thank you. -- Cloud atlas (talk) 05:57, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

@Cloud atlas: - Hi, I also feel that the title should move to "Glenstone." I'll actually be meeting the head communications person of the museum this week, so I'll ask her specifically. I've already changed it in Wikidata. Hopefully I'll have the chance to take some new photos of the place. I believe the appearance of the map was actually related to your edit. It had to do with the addition of the Wikidata coordinates, and the en.wp template will key off that. See Template:Infobox_museum#Mapframe_map. -- Fuzheado | Talk 15:15, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
@Fuzheado: thanks for moving the title back. That sounds like an interesting (and relevant) meeting. I hope you bring back some good photos! -- Cloud atlas (talk) 05:14, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2018





Headlines
  • Albania report: Collections of Museums in Albania
  • Armenia report: GLAM+Wikidata
  • Australia report: WikiTour AU
  • Brazil report: Developing tGLAM: a landing-page generator for GLAM initiatives
  • France report: European Heritage Days; Linked data for archaeology; Paris: Edit-a-thon at Mobilier National
  • Germany report: History of Women and Democracy, Wikipedia-Culture-Ambassadors and two GLAM-on-Tour-stations in just four weeks
  • Macedonia report: Wiki camps in Macedonia
  • Malaysia report: Wikipedia for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum
  • Mexico report: Open GLAM Mexico 2018
  • Netherlands report: >20,000 press photographs 1940-1990 uploaded, GLAM Wiki Meeting, Aerial Photographs, GLAM-Wiki Manual & Wikipedia Course for Historical Societies
  • Norway report: Women in Red; Researhers Days 2018; The 2019 edition of #wikinobel
  • Poland report: Archival photographs and literary knowledge enrich Polish Wikipedia
  • Serbia report: Impact of GLAM seminars: Decentralization of GLAM activities
  • Sweden report: Wikidata P3595 Biografiskt lexikon för Finland; Student Project at the Nordic Museum; Learning about sources on Swedish Wikipedia
  • UK report: Botanical illustrations and Wiki Loves Monuments in Scotland
  • USA report: Back to school
  • Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 30, August–September 2018
  • Wikidata report: Wikidata Tour Down Under
  • Calendar: October's GLAM events
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