User:Alhassan Mohammed Awal/sandbox


 * Library Carpentry has a Wikidata lesson in development (details above)
 * Wiki Ed Wikidata workshops and courses starting in July
 * If others know of and want to share other training opportunities please do
 * Merrilee Proffitt - describing volunteer activities with Wikimedia
 * For folks interested in the intersection between Wikimedia projects and libraries you can join the Wikimedia and Libraries User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Libraries_User_Group
 * Email list, E.g. recent discussion getting libraries represented in Wikidata
 * Also Facebook Group
 * Wikimania (Stockholm meeting), CFP is open until the end of May. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2019
 * Encourage others to submit if you are unable to yourself.
 * Goals and desired outcomes for the Wikidata Affinity Group (can we call it WAG?)
 * Discussion today and then condense it into an outline, later finalize this draft
 * Check in every three months to see if the goals need to be adjusted.
 * goals and desired outcomes for the Wikidata Affinity Group
 * Paul Burley
 * How to help other institutions begin working with Wikidata
 * What are the skill levels needed? (detailed in link above)
 * Would this be sequential, building up to advance?
 * A list to make clear what you would need to know based on your goals.
 * Scott MacLeod what is the role of html to make such lists
 * Mediawiki for versions, editing
 * Making interoperable with Wikibase (SF-sorry, my audio is cutting out)
 * Here’s the MediaWiki visual editor - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor - which is in development, and will work with HTML - hyper text markup language (the code for web pages). As a visual editor, and interoperable with Wikidata, it will make lists and editing Wikidata too potentially easy, via HTML and front end Wikipedia article pages
 * Jeff Young - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Listeria (from chat) as an option
 * Harvard: If it's not out of scope, might we want to include an item in here about basic understanding of wikidata in the context of the wiki community/ecosystem and its norms?
 * In scope, the goal of integrating Library data with Wikidata while respect norms is a goal
 * Meg Wacha - important to make competencies clear, and also to make sure that folks engaging with this work aren’t limited to the Harvards and Cornells,
 * How can we be institutionally diverse, what open source tools and community support is required to make this work possible at scale  e.g. public libraries to participate
 * Hilary - What pathways are available for institutions without teams of developers
 * Michelle Rago - (from chat) In addition to examples about adding data to Wikidata, I would like to see the ability to get data out of wikidata to power other websites represented.
 * Hilary - Some of this will be covered in using Wikidata via QA and Sinopia. Can also make clear other ways, e.g. data dumps, APIs.
 * Ongoing support and coding network - and re Wikidata in multiple languages, for libraries +
 * Is there a need for networking beyond the WAG meetings?
 * Will Sinopia have lookups for Wikidata?
 * Currently working on this. A definite goal.
 * Some of the goals are seed form
 * Harvard (from chat) Re: diversity of institution types: How do we learn more about what smaller institutions need in order to participate in the work we're interested in pursuing?
 * Affinity group could be a forum for smaller groups could share their work, and what tools were missing, what hindrances did they face
 * Chris - (from chat) Hi Harvard Room, I’m hoping we can discuss the diverse needs of other libraries in the Library Carpentry Wikidata lesson development :)
 * Joy - LD4 can provide the model for other libraries on how Wikidata can be incorporated into cataloging & metadata and also in the discovery tools.
 * Focus on the competencies
 * Meg - acknowledge the communities and resources already in the Wikidata community, become part of the community
 * Define what LD4’s goals. Will this work be given back to the community to engage with
 * For instance in the IR work, open source development occurred, and when there was a technical gap, vendors swooped in. How can we head this off?
 * Hilary -  plan to document carefully, outline implementation paths, stumbling blocks.
 * Harvard (via chat) we're glad that these venues are open to everyone, but should we be inviting folks to represent those perspectives specifically? (Apologies if you've already thought about this.)
 * Hilary - interested in bringing in smaller public archives projects.
 * Scott - unfolding brainstorming, can we keep the Outcomes’ document even after the synthesis of the outline for next steps?
 * Joy- (from chat) To let the wider community to test drive Sinopia sandbox as promised, would be one way to include the wider community.
 * Hilary still under active development, will follow up on who will have access when
 * F. Tim Knight (from chat) I don't know a lot about this project but my colleague Stacy Allison-Cassin sent a note around about the Wikidata Shape Expressions project which might be of interest https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_ShEx
 * Data shape references for domains being modeled
 * Hilary will share with WAG how to get involved
 * Wikidata WikiProjects
 * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProjects
 * If there are any specific Wikidata Wiki projects you have found helpful or contributed to and would like us to talk about, list them here
 * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books
 * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Libraries
 * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archival_Description
 * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData/Indexes
 * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_heritage
 * Overview of Wikidata WikiProjects Slides (Hilary Thorsen)
 * Wikidata WikiProject for Linked Data for Production https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Linked_Data_for_Production
 * Projects often organized by tasks
 * If you search in Wikidata for wikidataproject (plus other search terms to see projects)
 * See Hilary’s slides for useful information to include in the description of a project
 * E.g. Astronomy, notes sources of good data, and property list
 * Music project has property list, people, relevant identifiers, current tasks, SPARQL queries

Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.

Project Goal
''Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.''
 * We want build a full language support for the Moore Wikipedia incubator, create more articles and translate all the most commonly used messages on media as one of the requirements for a new language Wikipedia request.
 * We want to build the foundation that the Moore community may rely on to start new projects for their dialect in future.
 * We want to start translating all the media Wiki messages from English to Moore on translatewiki.net.

Activities
''Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:''
 * We will be organizing online and offline training workshops to equip the community with the skills they will need to be able to participate in the translations. We will use this project as an opportunity to translate all the most commonly used media Wiki messages in Moore on translate Wiki.
 * We will invite interested groups and organizations to participate in as translators or advisors.
 * We will reach out to students and teachers who are currently learning or teaching the Moore language.

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?


 * One (1) training for two sets of groups and two online editathons sessions

'''2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.'''

You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.


 * Dagbani WIkimedians subpages
 * Moore Wikimedia Community
 * Facebook:Dagbani Wikimedians
 * Mailing lists
 * Dagbani Wikimedians Usergroup


 * Targeting these groups will enable us to:
 * Recruit native speakers of the Moore language to participate in the project
 * Provide general Translatewiki.net training for people who have indigenous knowledge about the community language and are inspired to digitize these valuable orthographies on wikipedia.
 * Establish collaborations with Moore language department writers and teachers in Burkina Faso.

'''3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?'''

For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.


 * We would share the link on our social media platforms and Wikimedia mailing list not excluding;
 * Dagbani WIkimedians subpages
 * Dagbani Wikimedians


 * WhatsApp group:Dagbani Wikimedians
 * Mailing lists
 * Dagbani Wikimedians Usergroup

'''4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.'''

For example: User:I JethroBT


 * The project will focus on translating the most commonly used messages on media Wiki at ranslatewiki.net. We plan to do this using the active membership of the Gurenɛ Wikimedians which currently has around 209 membership.


 * The sub-project leads are as follows:
 * Shahadusadik - Will provide technical and general support
 * Alhassan Mohammed Awal - Will facilitate and lead training sessions
 * Hasslaebetch - Project lead, will coordinate all project activities including communication and logistics
 * - Moore language professional and expert

'''5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high-quality content? If not, how will you support them?'''


 * No!

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?


 * We would continue discussion on the social media group especially the WhatsApp and Telegram page
 * Dagbani WIkimedians subpages
 * Dagbani Wikimedians |
 * Dagbani Wikimedians
 * Mailing lists
 * Dagbani Wikimedians Usergroup

'''7. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:'''


 * Yes. Risk Assessment protocol

8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?


 * This project will serve as a breaking-ground to improve the content of the Moore language on Wikimedia projects.


 * By the end of the exercise, the group would have translated 100% of the most commonly used messeges on Media Wiki as a requirement for requesting for a new language Wikipedia.

Impact
''How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets: ''
 * 1) Number of total participants 20
 * 2) Number of articles created or improved (if applicable) n/a
 * 3) Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable) n/a
 * 4) Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable) n/a
 * 5) Number of phrases to be translated 1000

Resources
''What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).''


 * The project will focus on translating the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net beginning with the core MediaWiki that is currently made up of around 4000 phrases. We plan doing this using the active membership of Moore Wikimedians which currently has around 130 membership.


 * The sub-project leads are as follows:
 * Alhassan Mohammed Awal - Facilitator
 * Hasslaebetch - Project manager
 * User: - Moore language professional and expert


 * Other general support
 * Shahadusadik - Experienced and technical support officer, provides general support to tasks leads, co-facilitate training, strategy, and communications etc.

''What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.''

Endorsements
Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!