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Visserstrui
Jane, ik zag dat je foto's had geüpload op commons van het Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen. Weet je toevallig ook of jij een foto hebt van een visserstrui (voor het artikel visserstrui op nl:wiki?) Ecritures (talk) 23:05, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Ha nee, maar de IJmuider Zee- en Havenmuseum heeft een visserij gedeelte met vele mannekins met klederdracht enz. Je kan een keertje daar heen gaan (ook leuk als de stoom motoren draaien!). Of stuur ze een mailtje. Jane (talk) 09:35, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Supertip, dank je. Daar ga ik zeker een keer naar toe. Ik ken dat museum niet eens. Ecritures (talk) 12:17, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: December 2017
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Hoe dan?
Hoi Jane, how does one convert this Draft:Night Mayor of Amsterdam into an article? I fixed a few details. As an article it can link to the Dutch version. --VanBuren (talk) 19:45, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Geen idee. Ik zou het gewoon met een "Move" naar "namespace 0" zetten, maar tegenwoordig met het huidige proces rondom de "draft namespace" weet ik niet (nooit gebruikt). Probeer het eens, zou ik zeggen. De link naar Wikidata kan je met behulp van de nlwiki item in de gewone manier doen. Groet, Jane (talk) 20:01, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Helaas weigert Move Draft:Night Mayor of Amsterdam de titelverandering near (Article). Nou ja, misschien komt er een oplossing langs, geen haast. (Het origineel is trouwens niet door mij gemaakt, ik kwam deze draft tegen omdat ik aan de NL versie werkte.) --VanBuren (talk) 20:47, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * OK Prima. Dank voor het proberen! Jane (talk) 15:51, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

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Metadata on the March
From the days of hard-copy liner notes on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the GLAM sector, the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.

Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a recent article by, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The controlled vocabulary — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost. Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The schema crosswalk, in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.

For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.

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 * 1lib1ref campaign starts today, see The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref: also #1lib1ref introductory video by
 * Funders should mandate open citations, article 9 January 2018 in Nature by David Shotton
 * From snowflake to avalanche: Possibilities of using free citation data in libraries, translation from the German original of Annette Klein, Mannheim University Library
 * GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/WMF GLAM report
 * Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won't happen again: Copyrights from the 1920s will start expiring next year if Congress doesn't act, Timothy B. Lee, 8 January 2018, Arstechnica
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Deletion for Template:Mbabel/RKD?
Hi. I see you created Template:Mbabel/RKD a while ago, but it seems to be incomplete and unused. It's throwing a citation error. Can we delete this page?

Thanks. --Mathieu ottawa (talk) 01:59, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Well I might use it at some point, since we have potentially thousands of paintings with the proper properties now. What citation error is it throwing? It seems more sensible to fix it, not delete it. Jane (talk) 03:35, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2018
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m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource is the new ContentMine proposal: please take a look.

Wikidata as Hub
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the semantic web concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of linked structured data, and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites. Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

External links speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The Wikidata Resolver tool, these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The hub tool by takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

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 * What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
 * The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect, 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
 * Newspeak House queries, created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by
 * Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative, Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by
 * What is the Last Question?, 5 February 2018
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No gender Wikidata list
Hi Jane. The list is now too long and is not updating. Could you shorten it by specifying only articles in the EN Wikipedia and no species. You could also change the dates to cover only the last two weeks. Thanks for your trouble.--Ipigott (talk) 17:21, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * OK I got a message that it times out and so I upped the Q nr. Then it told me there were too many, so I put a limit of 7500 on it. The sitelink count doesn't work at all anymore, so I took that out too. It runs now again. Jane (talk) 18:37, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much, Jane. Lots of new stuff to work on.--Ipigott (talk) 08:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
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Milestone for mix'n'match
Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author,, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. Mix'n'match/Manual for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite!

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 * Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference, Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018
 * WikiCite report (video)
 * Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset, see Twitter post, February 23 2018
 * Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters, workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation
 * Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos, Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018
 * Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata! Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
 * Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?, George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018
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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Spring 2018
''Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!''


 * Community updates
 * Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat
 * Several Commons community members are working on ways to integrate Wikidata in Wikimedia Commons. While this is not full-fledged structured data yet, this work helps to prepare for future conversion of data, and helps to understand how Wikidata and Commons can work better together.
 * Thanks to Jarekt and other contributors, some Commons templates can now be filled via Wikidata: (Phabricator) and  (Phabricator). Work is ongoing on the  template (Phabricator).
 * Thanks to Mike Peel and others, Wikidata-powered infoboxes can now be added to Commons categories, with the template . ( Example)
 * Multichill is working on an experimental workflow to upload images to Commons via Wikidata (and using metadata from Wikidata). See a part of it here.


 * Things to do / input and feedback requests
 * Join the community focus group!
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 * Contribute to the next newsletter.
 * Discussions held
 * Conversation about licensing and copyright modeling.
 * High-level discussion on ontology for Commons.
 * Review first designs for multilingual captions.
 * IRC office hour, 13 February


 * Events
 * Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, 20-22 April (+ Learning Days 18-19 April): several sessions and workshops around Structured Commons
 * EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, 15-16 May: several presentations + a full workshop day on Monday 14 May about Wikidata and Structured Commons
 * Wikimedia Hackathon, Barcelona, 18-20 May: Structured Commons as a focus area.


 * Partners and allies
 * We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!


 * Research
 * The research about GLAM contributions to Wikimedia Commons is concluded. A blog post on the Wikimedia blog provides a summary, and you can read the full results on meta.wikimedia.org.


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 * Prototypes will be available for Multilingual Captions soon.


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This Month in Education: March 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
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The 100 Skins of the Onion
Open Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron.

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

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 * Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus, CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
 * Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset
 * Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!, Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by Sandra Fauconnier
 * Village pump discussion, Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are reaches conclusions
 * The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia, Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
 * Tracing stolen bitcoin, blogpost 26 March 2018 by Ross J. Anderson
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Jan Hope
Beste Jane, de Engelstalige pagina over Jan Hope meldt dat Hope een volgeling van de Schotse Verlichting was en lid werd van genootschappen die de Schotse Verlichting propageerden. Kunt u mij vertellen waar deze informatie op gebaseerd is? Ik ben hier erg benieuwd naar omdat ik een artikel schrijf over Hope. Is het na te gaan wie deze informatie heeft toegevoegd aan de pagina (ik ben nog niet zo bekend met Wikipedia-achter-de-schermen)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhengstmengel (talk • contribs) 18:14, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Het is lang geleden maar ik denk de meest informatie over deze tak van de oorspronkelijke Schotse familie staat uitgebreid beschrijven in Buist. Hij is lid van diverse herenclubs die bezig waren met allerlei experimenten waarvan Teylers nu als tegenhanger daarvan overgebleven is. Zijn clubs waren in Haarlem en Rotterdam en de Haarlemse club is later opgegaan in Felix Meritus. Om te zien wie allemaal geschreven heeft op de paginas kan je op de geschiedenis tab klikken en scrollen langs alle edits. Best en succes met het artikel. Jane (talk) 20:59, 30 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Bedankt voor de informatie! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.211.23.163 (talk) 08:25, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2018
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Cultural Partnerships mailing list request
Hi, just left a request to be added to cultural-partnerships-l mailing list Thanks! MassiveEartha (talk) 23:31, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello MassiveEartha, I'm sorry to bump in, what are the cultural partnerships about? Who is eligible? Danidamiobi (talk) 08:34, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * hi, it's a GLAM-Wiki community mailing list, since I'm not a member I don't know much more than what's on the site. In answer to your second question, I'm not even sure if I'm eligible, haven't been accepted yet! MassiveEartha (talk) 08:48, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your warm response. MassiveEartha. Keep up the good work. Would you be probably interested in Wiki Loves Food 2018? Danidamiobi (talk) 08:55, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Food
Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's  going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 08:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Claudia Virginia Samayoa
Hoi Jane!

Zou jij eens naar deze draft van Daphne willen kijken? Zij heeft het gisteren geschreven op de wiki-a-thon in Amsterdam, maar het is nog niet goed genoeg, begrijp ik uit het commentaar. Ik heb zoals gesuggereerd een bericht achtergelaten op de talkpage van het Guatemale Wikiproject, maar de activiteit is daar niet heel hoog, vandaar dat ik hoop dat jij ook even tijd hebt om haar te helpen.

Vriendelijke groet, Ciell (talk) 15:20, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Ja ik heb net gekeken. Jammer maar in deze staat bijna kansloos, schat ik. Ik ben vooral bezig met vrouwen die al eeuwen dood zijn en je hebt zowiezo problemen met engelstalige bronnen voor niet US-UK vrouwen, maar deze is voornamelijk gebaseerd op een organisatie die nog niet bestaat in de Wikiverse. Ik roep al jaren dat om één vrouw toe te voegen moet ik minstens 5 mannen toevoegen, en dit is een prima voorbeeld. Dus eerst een lemma voor "Unidad de Protección a Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos" volgens mij voordat deze aangemaakt kan worden. Ik zal een bericht achterlaten op de WiR overleg pagina. gr, Jane (talk) 15:46, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Jammer dat het zo moeilijk is! Draft:Maudilia López is ook ingediend en afgelopen zaterdag geschreven: zou je er een blik op willen werpen? Je hulp wordt op prijs gesteld! Ciell (talk) 11:59, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * En Draft:Manya Riche. Ciell (talk) 12:02, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

Tja, je moet kennelijk een soort cursus volgen om iets uit "Draft" daadwerkelijk gepubliceerd te krijgen op enwiki. Ik ga het niet eens proberen, maar nogmaals, levende lui is niet mijn ding. Ik ben trouwens verbaasd dat er kennelijk geen enwiki pagina was voor deze (internationale) edit-a-thon! Jane (talk) 12:22, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Er is een overzichtspagina op meta: hier, maar die is heel slecht gecommuniceerd. Ciell (talk) 16:33, 21 May 2018 (UTC)

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ScienceSource funded
The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.
 * A medical canon?

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

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Women in Red tools and technical support
As you know, we are preparing a list of tools and techncial support for Women in Red. I have tentatively added your name as you have provided a range of assistance, especially in connection with Wikidata. Please let me know whether you agree to be listed. You are of course welcome to make any additions or corrections.--Ipigott (talk) 07:16, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Newest female writers in Wikidata
I’ve been working to sort out various redlists for Women in Red, and I had a couple of questions about WikiProject Women in Red/Newest items about women writers from some language Wikipedia, which you set up last year. First of all, was this set up for a certain use? The columns are not congruent with other WiR redlists, nor are the links actually red. I don’t want to modify it if it should be kept the way it is.

Also, in the introduction, it says “This is a list of 1000 most recently created human women writer items on Wikidata who have an article in English Wikipedia on Wikidata....” But there are women both with and without English articles in the list...?

And I have a technical question, which I hope you have time to answer. I’m new to SPARQL, and I’ve been trying to puzzle out the statement, with no luck. What is it doing and why is it there?

Thanks, NotARabbit (talk) 20:31, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking an interest in the redlists! The sparql query in this list basically takes the Q number and strips off the Q in order to be able to list the number in descending order. The logic is that only high Q numbers will be for recently created articles. If the Q number is recent and sparql thinks there is a corresponding article in English Wikipedia and there isn't, then that article may have been renamed or even deleted, I suppose. So long story short, the variable "?qid" is filled with the result of the value of "?item" (which is the Q number), but instead of using the whole Q number, only the "string after" (STRAFTER) the letter "Q" is stuffed in there. Hope it helps, Jane (talk) 21:02, 14 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Jane, that’s a clever method! I love learning new ways to sift through the data.


 * I take it that the list is okay to be modified? I especially want to make it red-links-only for any editors that want to pounce on new writers. NotARabbit (talk) 22:48, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliment, but I didn't figure this out, someone else did! You are welcome to modify away. I noticed that I took out the restriction for english Wikipedia and it only checks for any project. You can copy paste the raw query into the listeria template in your own user space of course. I am not a sparql specialist - I am just really good at copy/pasting the ideas of others. Also, if you have a specific query you would like to run, you can always post a question at the "request a query" page d:Wikidata:Request a query. Jane (talk) 11:03, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (De Vriendt) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating De Vriendt, Jane023!

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Dorothy Ann Thrupp
Yesterday, following a redlink from WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Songwriters, I created Dorothy Ann Thrupp (Q4982698) as a translation from the Swedish article. Today, I found this article, Dorothea Ann Thrupp, which is the same person (Q18527806). I successfully merged the Wikipedia articles, but could not merge the Wikidata items. Help? Thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:00, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. The problem is you need to actively delete the redirect from the item on Wikidata, since Wikidata can't tell the difference between a redirect and an article. Once I removed the sitelink, I could merge the items. Happy editing! Jane (talk) 17:13, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * That makes sense, and I'll remember it for next time. Thanks! --Rosiestep (talk) 17:14, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018
''Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!''


 * Community updates
 * Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat
 * Since our last newsletter, the Structured Data team has moved into designing and building prototypes for various features. The use of multilingual captions in the UploadWizard and on the file page has been researched, designed, discussed, and built out for use. Behind the scenes, back-end work on search is taking place and designs are being drawn up for the front-end. There will soon be specifications published for the use of the first Wikidata property on Commons, "Depicts," and a prototype is to be released to go along with that.


 * Things to do / input and feedback requests


 * A workshop on what Wikidata properties Commons will need. This workshop will be open for the entire month of July 2018 at minimum.


 * Join the community focus group!
 * Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
 * Contribute to the next newsletter.
 * Discussions held


 * In late February there was a discussion around how Commons generally sees data being modeled.


 * The first discussion on copyright and licensing with Commons was held in March. This was a "high level" discussion, there will be a consultation later this summer about the deeper mapping of copyright and licensing in a structured way.
 * In April there was an exercise for GLAM partners in metadata and ontology mapping.
 * A discussion about the design for Multilingual Captions on the file page took place in May. You can still review the designs and leave feedback.
 * There was an IRC office hour in June to discuss progress so far and future plans.


 * Wikimania 2018
 * Three sessions about Structured Commons are officially scheduled for Wikimania 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa - July 2018.
 * Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world (Friday 20 July, 10:30 local time)
 * Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity (Friday 20 July, 14:00 local time)
 * Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons? (Friday 20 July, 14:30 local time)
 * Structured Data on Commons is also a focus area during the Wikimania 2018 Hackathon. We will, among other things, do 'live' modelling of Wikidata properties for Commons - an offline spin-off of the community consultation taking place on wiki.


 * Partners and allies
 * We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
 * Structured Data on Commons was presented to GLAM audiences during EuropeanaTech 2018 in Rotterdam (15 May 2018) and at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Forum in Berlin (4 June 2018).


 * Research

Two research projects about Wikimedia Commons are currently ongoing, or in the process of being finished:


 * 1) Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
 * 2) Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.




 * Development
 * Prototypes will be available for Depicts soon.


 * Stay up to date!
 * Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
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 * Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.

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Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix
Greetings,

The newsletter omitted two interwiki prefixes, breaking the links on non-meta wikis as you might see above. Here are the correct links:


 * 1) m:Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
 * 2) m:Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

My apologies, I hope you find the corrected links helpful.

- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Women in Red /Wikidata
Hi Jane,

recommended that I contact you when I mentioned that I would be happy to help (with our new project-- its not public yet) with Wikidata, tools, coding, etc. I joined Wikipedia in January 2017, and I have been working only on content. I would like to learn more about Structured Data for Commons, tools and anything else you think I should look at. I know nothing about these technical areas on Wiki as the subject has rarely been brought up in discussion.

''I would like to see this group build out a presence over other projects though, since there is so much happening right now with Structured Data for Commons. I would also like to see a WiR presence in some sort of tooling workgroup.'' (your talk comments on our project page)

My background is a BS in Business/Economics (1976) and a Post Baccalaureate BS in Information Systems (1991). I worked for Philip Morris Inc (4 years), Microsoft (1 year), and a few smaller companies. I had responsibilities in the areas of systems analysis, database management, database design, software development and design and user testing. Please point me in the direction of where I can learn more to be able to assist our new project. thanks MauraWen (talk) 12:30, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

thanks MauraWen (talk) 12:30, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Wow that's a lot of credentials. You are more than welcome to work on this stuff. So to start getting a feel for the type of tooling I am talking about, it helps to orient yourself with our pain points. First of all, it is hard to run a project when the only thing you can measure is "number of articles created" against a running total of articles created randomly through organic growth. Also, once you have poked around at the types of articles that are created, you start to realize that quality is all over the map and it would be nice to be able to capture and highlight the hidden gems in all the stuff that comes streaming in. On the other hand, it would also be nice to be able to highlight the weaker articles for people to work on before they get nominated for deletion or merged into something else. Next, since creating an article these days involves more that one project, and references and images tend to come from elsewhere (Wikidata and Commons), it is handy to get familiar with how Wikidata fits into the mix. You can learn all about Structured Data on Commons here: c:Commons:Structured data. To start lending a hand with tooling, you can take a look at the Wikidata and Sparql presentations created by User:Ijon. I started a d:Wikidata:WikiProject Women project to help try to better define the items for the articles created (in any language) so that we can better show our progress by birth period, occupation, citizenship, etc. If there is anything specific you would like to work on, let me know. If I can't answer your questions I may know someone who can. Jane (talk) 14:19, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jane!. I am going to be exploring these pages later this week. I am correcting my 2nd BS in Info Systems to 1991 instead of 1994. It was all so long ago, that I forget my dates. It has been suggested that our user group also create a web page. I have not stayed current on web development, leaving the profession in 2003. My webpage design skills are still current--those guidelines are still the same. Is web page development  an area of skill or interest for you? MauraWen (talk) 14:57, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
 * No, not at all. I tend to work mostly on Dutch 17th-century art. You can check out the pages other user groups have created though for inspiration. Jane (talk) 16:48, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Jane, Kind regards from Osdorp;
 * I feel alone there;

Klaas `Z4&#x241f;` V who started to work on the Lebanese-Belgian singer Lara Chedraoui; do you know somebody who may assist to make her blue on enwiki since I'm not a native speaker of English? It would be fun to start here as happened to some other previously missing females. 08:50, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not sure what you mean. There are no links on Wikidata, so I don't think you can start a community of contributors there along the lines of Category:WikiProject_Women_in_Red_members. Maybe you meant to do it on the Dutch wiki? In that case I would give the category a Dutch name, however. Good luck with the article! Jane (talk) 18:37, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition
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 * Community updates
 * Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
 * Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
 * Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
 * Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
 * Log for 4 October
 * Log for 1 November
 * Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd webchat

Current:
 * Things to do / input and feedback requests
 * Help determine and propose properties on Wikidata for Commons
 * Review designs for structured licensing and copyright
 * Join the community focus group!

Since the last newsletter:
 * Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
 * "Good coverage" for depicts tagging (Sept. 2018)
 * Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
 * Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
 * Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)


 * Presentations / Press / Events
 * Presentation by Keegan on the first features to be released for Structured Data, presented at Wikiconference North America, Columbus, Ohio, October 2018.
 * Sandra presented a project update at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2018, as part of an update and panel discussion.
 * Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.


 * Partners and allies
 * The info portal on Structured Commons now includes a section on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
 * We are currently planning the first GLAM pilot projects that will use structured data on Wikimedia Commons. One project has already started: the Swedish Heritage Board researches and develops a prototype tool to provide improved metadata (translations, data additions...) from Wikimedia Commons back to the source institution. Read the project brief.
 * The documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons will be improved in 2019, as part of preparing for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. To prepare, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use, and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. Fill in a short survey to provide input!


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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.6
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 * Newsletter Nr 6, 2018-12-25, for  WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)

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This is the sixth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise.

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Now 100 supporters
At 3 December 2018, the list of users who support the potential Wikimedia genealogy project, reached 100!

A demo wiki is up and running!
You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records.

And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2019!

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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Mbabel/RKD
Template:Mbabel/RKD has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Pkbwcgs (talk) 12:08, 2 January 2019 (UTC)