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thanks
thanks for the 15th! JarrahTree 13:45, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, was a good evening! Thanks for the positivity re the sometimes non-positive aspects of wiki whatnot. See you in Feb. Sam Wilson 00:35, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * it is who turned up who made it - it was good to see how we can keep going in the face of everything, roll on February indeed !!! JarrahTree 00:49, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

please note
change of arrangements, thanks JarrahTree 05:32, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up! :) See you then then. Oh and it's odd that you're not allowed to redirect a user talk page isn't it? Ah well. I'll put it back how it was. Sam Wilson 06:18, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * nah it is just me, I dont know what the official version is... looks odd, but hey, you freo people always do things different hey!  :)    JarrahTree 12:41, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Workers Club
grrr. notability, no comment JarrahTree 23:59, 28 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Ha! Yes, good to get it cleared up :) Sam Wilson 00:05, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Wikimania 2016: IdeaLab Workshops
Wikimania 2016 is almost here! Mjohnson (WMF) and I are running two workshops for IdeaLab during the conference, and you are invited to join us for either (or both!)

If you have a proposal or idea you are thinking about, and would like a space to work on it on your own or with others, please consider joining us for either the Thursday or Saturday sessions. We'll discuss a little about IdeaLab and how it works, and the rest of the time is space for idea building. You can also use this session to ask questions about Wikimedia Foundation grants that are available if your proposal or idea may need funding. Thanks, and see you at the conference! I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Greetings
G'day, Sam!

Pleased to meet you at dinner yesterday. As we talked about visualisation, here's my (slightly-obsolete) write-up of my dynamic illustration work and more up-to-date but brief slide deck. Looking forward to working with you!

Cheers, cm&#610;&#671;ee&#9094;&#964;a&#671;&#954; 14:39, 23 June 2016 (UTC)


 * That's very cool! And yes, was good to meet you. See you tomorrow probably. :-) —Sam Wilson 14:40, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the instruction
It is really nice to know there is a such extension in all wikisource now! Hope you have a great time with Michael and there in Milan! --Liang (WMTW) (talk) 13:46, 27 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm very glad that there's more wikisources working with proofreadpage! Good to meet you. Hope your travels are going/gone well. :-) —Sam Wilson 05:21, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Meetup/Perth
New portal on meta outlining various Perth/WA activities related to wikimedia projects. Any ideas for it, or help in adding/editing/updating it, would be appreciated. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 09:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks ! Looks good. I'll add what I can to it. —Sam Wilson 09:17, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

wow
Sf already? enjoy your trip and your time there - we need a very big report on your return!! :) JarrahTree 13:40, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes for sure!! :-) Will see you at Perth open days. —Sam Wilson 03:14, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Your NR class loco question
I saw your question about the NR Class and its fuel efficiency. Your best bet is to post at rail page.com.au and see what answer you get. Lots of knowledgable people there.Jamesbushell.au (talk) 11:29, 8 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Cool, thanks for the link! I'm afraid I've rather forgotten to follow up on that... for a decade! :-) —Sam Wilson 00:18, 9 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Haha, yep i know. Better late than never I guess!!Jamesbushell.au (talk) 02:09, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

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Mediawiki feeds error
I get the following error for http://tools.wmflabs.org/mediawiki-feeds/feed.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2F&category=Category%3AWikipedia+Signpost+RSS+feed&title=The+Signpost in Chrome, and in Firefox I get a blank feed with just the title. This page contains the following errors:

error on line 26 at column 37: Encoding error Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

The Signpost https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3AWikipedia+Signpost+RSS+feed Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2017-02-06/Traffic report https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53078760 The category used is Category:Wikipedia Signpost RSS feed, which I created last night. It was working then, except that it only showed pages in the 2017-01 subcategory. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 02:35, 24 February 2017 (UTC)


 * hm, thanks for finding this bug. :) It seems there's some wierdness going on. I'll investigate further. Sam Wilson 02:39, 24 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Okay, it should be fixed now. It was breaking a character in the middle, resulting in an invalid character. Switched to using mb_substr for producing the description (first 400 characters of the post). I think a better system for description could be devised! Probably should get around to supporting https://schema.org/BlogPosting but that's more work. :-) Let me know how it goes now. Oh, and great idea there of making an explicit feed category! Sam Wilson 03:10, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Having a feed category just seemed like an obvious thing to do, given the way the tool works. - Evad37 &#91;talk] 03:54, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * yes, true, but I'd tried it a while ago just using Category:Wikipedia Signpost archives, and of course all the old stuff in there made it not work (for earlier Signposts not using the current header template). Sam Wilson 04:20, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hey Sam, it would be awesome if we could get better descriptions for the RSS feed – that would allow the Signpost feed to be republished on sites such as Planet Wikimedia. If it's not too much work, can you look into that BlogPosting schema you mentioned? Or is there way to get the tool to grab content that is hidden from humans, like within a void template, or in a  element? - Evad37 &#91;talk] 02:04, 26 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay, so you should now be able to define a description by adding a  (can be a div or whatever else as well). Sam Wilson 00:47, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

we do not have one yet
but that map deserves a fremantle project/freopedia barnstar!! or medal, or something - thanks! JarrahTree 09:30, 12 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks! :-) And a massive thank you for organising today!!! It was a great thing to do. I'll start uploading my pics tomorrow. Sam Wilson 10:14, 12 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I am kicking myself I didnt ask him to go out just a little beyond the north mole a bit - will have to go to rottnest just for that sometime soon i think JarrahTree 10:29, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

New blue section
at freopedia needed - see my nobot/knownothing page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JarrahTree/Other  :)   please add it to the freopedia line up - thanks JarrahTree 12:57, 18 March 2017 (UTC)


 * wow - one your fellow tech geeks has made my life on wp better again - I can see all of the edit summary text in the box for the first time in months !!! yippee JarrahTree 10:41, 24 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your presence at the meetup - appreciate your involvement JarrahTree 14:50, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Mark Clements
Hello Sam, Thanks for the page on Mark Alwin Clements. I have written (and red-linked) that name hundreds of times - all fixed now by you. Much appreciated. Gderrin (talk) 10:04, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * no worries! :-) I'm glad it's useful. I hope I got it all right. And I tried to track down the source for the mis-speling of Alwyn/Alwin but couldn't find it (I also added a redirect). Sam Wilson 10:07, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Yep - fading memory. Sometimes wrote Alwyn, others Alwin (mostly the latter tho). Will gradually go back, correct and wikilink the ones I missed. Making a couple of small changes to the Clements page. Gderrin (talk) 10:18, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Ah, cool; I thought perhaps there was two people somehow, but all good! :-) Thanks. Sam Wilson 10:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

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 * Hi Samwilson! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
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Xtools timecard
Hello! I understand that you are a maintainer of Xtools. I'm looking for the documentation for the Xtools timecard, which is part of the general user statistics. I haven't been able to find it on toolforge, Phabricator, or elsewhere! I'm hoping to look at the documentation, potentially contribute, and also look into what data I can get from it. Any info you can provide on where to find the timecard documentation would be appreciated! Hexatekin (talk) 01:07, 7 September 2017 (UTC)


 * The docs are at https://xtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/editcounter.html#timecard (and their source is on GitHub). We definitely would love any contributions! What are you trying to do? If you're on IRC, come and chat with us on . —Sam Wilson 01:15, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

For your edification and exploration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Southern_newspapers JarrahTree 12:22, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

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Editorial: Annotations
Annotation is nothing new. The glossators of medieval Europe annotated between the lines, or in the margins of legal manuscripts of texts going back to Roman times, and created a new discipline. In the form of web annotation, the idea is back, with texts being marked up inline, or with a stand-off system. Where could it lead? ContentMine operates in the field of text and data mining (TDM), where annotation, simply put, can add value to mined text. It now sees annotation as a possible advance in semi-automation, the use of human judgement assisted by bot editing, which now plays a large part in Wikidata tools. While a human judgement call of yes/no, on the addition of a statement to Wikidata, is usually taken as decisive, it need not be. The human assent may be passed into an annotation system, and stored: this idea is standard on Wikisource, for example, where text is considered "validated" only when two different accounts have stated that the proof-reading is correct. A typical application would be to require more than one person to agree that what is said in the reference translates correctly into the formal Wikidata statement. Rejections are also potentially useful to record, for machine learning.

As a contribution to data integrity on Wikidata, annotation has much to offer. Some "hard cases" on importing data are much more difficult than average. There are for example biographical puzzles: whether person A in one context is really identical with person B, of the same name, in another context. In science, clinical medicine requires special attention to sourcing (WP:MEDRS), and is challenging in terms of connecting findings with the methodology employed. Currently decisions in areas such as these, on Wikipedia and Wikidata, are often made ad hoc. In particular there may be no audit trail for those who want to check what is decided.

Annotations are subject to a World Wide Web Consortium standard, and behind the terminology constitute a simple JSON data structure. What WikiFactMine proposes to do with them is to implement the MEDRS guideline, as a formal algorithm, on bibliographical and methodological data. The structure will integrate with those inputs the human decisions on the interpretation of scientific papers that underlie claims on Wikidata. What is added to Wikidata will therefore be supported by a transparent and rigorous system that documents decisions.

An example of the possible future scope of annotation, for medical content, is in the first link below. That sort of detailed abstract of a publication can be a target for TDM, adds great value, and could be presented in machine-readable form. You are invited to discuss the detailed proposal on Wikidata, via its talk page.

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 * Jon Udell, blogpost Annotating to extract findings from scientific papers, 15 December 2015
 * TDM and Libraries, Virginia Tech report
 * Magnus Manske, The Whelming: Scaling up Wikidata editing
 * OCLC and Internet Archive collaborate to expand library access to digital collections, metadata and linking exchange
 * GLOW week in November: Wikidata workshops on politician info

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WikidataCon Berlin 28–9 October 2017
Under the heading rerum causas cognescere, the first ever Wikidata conference got under way in the Tagesspiegel building with two keynotes, One was on YAGO, about how a knowledge base conceived ten years ago if you assume automatic compilation from Wikipedia. The other was from manager Lydia Pintscher, on the "state of the data". Interesting rumours flourished: the mix'n'match tool and its 600+ datasets, mostly in digital humanities, to be taken off the hands of its author Magnus Manske by the WMF; a Wikibase incubator site is on its way. Announcements came in talks: structured data on Wikimedia Commons is scheduled to make substantive progress by 2019. The lexeme development on Wikidata is now not expected to make the Wiktionary sites redundant, but may facilitate automated compilation of dictionaries. And so it went, with five strands of talks and workshops, through to 11 pm on Saturday. Wikidata applies to GLAM work via metadata. It may be used in education, raises issues such as author disambiguation, and lends itself to different types of graphical display and reuse. Many millions of SPARQL queries are run on the site every day. Over the summer a large open science bibliography has come into existence there.

Wikidata's fifth birthday party on the Sunday brought matters to a close. See a dozen and more reports by other hands.

Links

 * Wikidata statistics
 * I4OC progress in its first year, with 47% of scientific citation data now open (announced two days ago)
 * The flowering ORCID, Magnus Manske blogpost on identifying authors of scientific papers
 * @querybook, a Twitter feed devoted to SPARQL queries
 * Massive progress on Wikidata coverage of the UK parliament
 * Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM

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Facto Post – Issue 7 – 15 December 2017
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A new bibliographical landscape
At the beginning of December, Wikidata items on individual scientific articles passed the 10 million mark. This figure contrasts with the state of play in early summer, when there were around half a million. In the big picture, Wikidata is now documenting the scientific literature at a rate that is about eight times as fast as papers are published. As 2017 ends, progress is quite evident.

Behind this achievement are a technical advance (fatameh), and bots that do the lifting. Much more than dry migration of metadata is potentially involved, however. If paper A cites paper B, both papers having an item, a link can be created on Wikidata, and the information presented to both human readers, and machines. This cross-linking is one of the most significant aspects of the scientific literature, and now a long-sought open version is rapidly being built up. The effort for the lifting of copyright restrictions on citation data of this kind has had real momentum behind it during 2017. WikiCite and the I4OC have been pushing hard, with the result that on CrossRef over 50% of the citation data is open. Now the holdout publishers are being lobbied to release rights on citations.

But all that is just the beginning. Topics of papers are identified, authors disambiguated, with significant progress on the use of the four million ORCID IDs for researchers, and proposals formulated to identify methodology in a machine-readable way. P4510 on Wikidata has been introduced so that methodology can sit comfortably on items about papers.

More is on the way. OABot applies the unpaywall principle to Wikipedia referencing. It has been proposed that Wikidata could assist WorldCat in compiling the global history of book translation. Watch this space.

And make promoting #1lib1ref one of your New Year's resolutions. Happy holidays, all!



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 * WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge, report by Peter Kraker of Open Knowledge Maps
 * This is a story of my knowledge adventure in New Zealand moths via Wikicommons, Wikipedia and Wikidata, @SiobhanLeachman
 * Wikidata and Arabic dialects, research paper, DOI: 10.1109/AICCSA.2017.115
 * c:Commons:British Library/Mechanical Curator collection/georeferencing status, Mechanical Curator project on Commons hits 50K maps milestone
 * Historical dataset on the provenance of Wikipedia text: Who wrote this?, by Tilman Bayer, WMF blogpost
 * "Anyone can edit", not everyone does: Wikipedia and the gender gap (PDF), journal paper, Heather Ford and Judy Wajcman
 * Alpha Zero’s "Alien" Chess Shows the Power, and the Peculiarity, of AI, MIT Technology Review, by Will Knight, December 8, 2017
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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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Facto Post – Issue 9 – 5 February 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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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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