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Welcome to Meta!

Hello Amqui!, and welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). Happy editing! Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 06:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks you, merci Amqui 21:11, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Global sysop requests

Hi,

There is no global sysops noticeboard so probably the best is to ask on Talk:Global sysops or to ask one privately. You can of course always ask a steward as well. fr33kman 18:47, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Lenguas Indígenas

Hola Amqui, here is the page in Spanish translation, named Wikipedia Lenguas Indígenas. See you!!.--Marrovi (talk) 23:32, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Wow, thank you, now I must do the French one. Amqui (talk) 23:34, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Línguas Indígenas

Now in Portuguese, is very necesary in this language.--Marrovi (talk) 00:31, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

I added the translation feature, so we don't use tons of different pages and its very easy to keep track of. thanks for you translation. Amqui (talk) 00:36, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I'm looking for a User that delete articles in Nahuatl Wikipedia [1], we need clean space. Greetings!. --Marrovi (talk) 16:44, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

I'll make that happen for you. Amqui (talk) 19:07, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much!--Marrovi (talk) 02:04, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

I have got a mistake in Portuguese Portal, it says marginalizados línguas, but is correct línguas marginalizadas, greetings!!--Marrovi (talk) 02:16, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Indigenous Languages

Thanks!! --Jewbask (talk) 02:36, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Indigenous Languages

Sorry Amqui for the very late reply. Yes, that's true that I was a committee trainer of two project was.

Creatin of Wikimedia Indigenous Langauages?could you more explain it? I think, it seems I'm interested. :) Best regards, Hendra.Prastiawan (talk) 23:32, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply, I've read the whole page and I strongly agree with the vision and mission because a lot of indigenous languages ​​in Indonesia and around the world that are endangered existence and need to be rescued. Best regards, Hendra.Prastiawan (talk) 00:11, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Medicine

Thank you for your interest in Wikimedia Medicine. We hope to create a non profit corporation to promote the aims of the Wikimedia Movement within the topic domain of medicine. This means we plan to promote the creation and release of "health care information in all languages" under an open license. This will be done primarily via speaking and collaborating with both individuals and organizations who share our goal. We are working on a number of collaborations already and are open to more ideas. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 09:42, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

porte-fenêtre

Pouvez-vous enregistrer la prononciation du mot porte-fenêtre S.V.P ? 64.18.87.72 17:28, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Si vous avez le goût de l'enregistrer, je vais être super content. 65.38.92.122 00:02, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

passes

Vous avez fait une erreur dans l'article passes dans Wiktionnaire. La prononciation du mot passes doit être /pas/, pas /de.pas/. 65.38.92.122 00:07, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Mais mon Wiktionnaire est déjà bloqué. 65.38.92.122 01:54, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Si un jour, vous serez sur Wiktionnaire, vous pouvez marquer /pɑs/ au lieu de /de.pɑs/ dans l'article passes. 65.38.92.122 13:24, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

tard et tort

Est-ce que vous prononcez les mot tard et tort de la même façon ? 65.38.92.122 18:43, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

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Félicitations!

Salam Amqui. Sizi stüard seçkisində müvəffəqiyyət qazanmağınız münasibətilə səmimi qəlbdən təbrik edirəm. İnanıram ki, vikidəyərlərə sadiq qalacaq və vikicəmiyyətin daha da operativ və daha da ədalətli fəaliyyətində Sizin xüsusi əməyiniz olacaq. Dərin hörmətlə, --►Cekli829 06:31, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Question

Quote from Wikimedia Indigenous Languages:

For the purpose of this project, an "indigenous language" is a language that is native, or aboriginal to a region and spoken by indigenous people, but has been reduced to the status of a minority language. In some instances, this may include an island of speakers removed from their language communities by trauma and diaspora. Synonyms are "small languages", "endangered languages", and "autochthonous languages"; some regions also use "aboriginal languages". Wikimedia Indigenous Languages focuses on languages which are under-represented on Wikimedia projects.

What does "reduced to the status of a minority language" mean exactly? Does it mean that the local or national government says it's a minority language, or does it mean that only a minority of people in the region (or country) speak it? How is "endangered language" a synonym of this? πr² (t • c) 18:39, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

This definition is loosely taken from the article on English Wikipedia (with some additions, mainly about the diaspora portion). By "reduced to the status of a minority language", we mean that only a small number of speakers exists compare to bigger languages, because, by strict definition, all languages (or almost, since there are always exceptions such as esperanto) are indigenous somewhere (for example, French is indigenous to France). Minority and endangered are synonyms in the sense that an endangered languages is a minority language, however, the inverse is not always true. In most cases, your are right with "only a minority of people in the region (or country) speak it", but sometimes there are speakers of minority languages that moved into other regions/countries (for example, there are projects in New York City about many worldwide small languages that immigrants can speak). I hope this answer your question, don't hesitate if you want more info. Also, if you think this definition should be rephrased, feel free to open the discussion on the project's talk page. Thanks, Amqui (talk) 19:28, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

native-languages.org

Salut, tout d'abord merci pour ton "strong support" pour OmegaWiki :). En cliquant un peu partout pour découvrir mes supporteurs, je vois que tu t'intéresses aux "native American languages".

Je voulais savoir si tu connais le site http://www.native-languages.org , et si tu penses que le vocabulaire qui y est présent est fiable (i.e. je peux l'importer les yeux fermés dans OmegaWiki), ou si au contraire il vaut mieux que je n'y touche pas. Merci. --Kip (talk) 09:46, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Fundraising translation feedback

Hey Amqui,

I wanted to ask for your help. As you may be aware we have been running banners on many language wikis. We have a lot of new content this year and I really want to conduct a thorough review of our translations. This is a combination of feedback from the community, readers, donors as well as those with professional translator experience. This will help us ensure the highest quality of translations used in our messaging.

To help us out with this I wonder if you would be willing to give us feedback in french using This Link

Simply follow the simple instructions on that page and if you have any questions feel free to contact me on my talk page.

Many Thanks

Jseddon (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Global Unblock request

Hi Amqui, Please globally unblock dynamic IP 68.33.8.192. I'm not a vandalizer. Thank you. (68.33.8.192 05:35, 29 March 2013 (UTC))

Revert edit

Hi. I saw that you undid my edit here. Can you be sure that it's the correct user that signed the list when the contribution was from an IP-address? -- Tegel _(Talk) 17:03, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Do you have any reason to believe it is not the correct user that added his username while not log in? Amqui (talk) 19:52, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

I have seen IP-addresses adding accounts on similar pages where the account doesn't exist on Meta, or even exist at all. So until the user add the signature logged in I can't be sure. -- Tegel _(Talk) 22:13, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikilang Main Page

Do you prefer Main Page or the alt? PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:50, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

I was about to write you about scraping the first one and only using alt. What do you think? Amqui (talk) 21:51, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Well, they're both great because I created them. :P But, seriously, I think alt (based on Wikidata's Main Page) looks nicer. PiRSquared17 (talk) 21:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Done PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:00, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

The Main Page's "Welcome!" box ("WikiLang is...") should have a link to your About page, maybe we can write an introduction/tutorial page too. PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:42, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Sure, I have put a link to the About page from the tagline already, but you are right it should be in the intro box too. Amqui (talk) 22:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

WikiLang is on Main Page

Feel free to translate it by editing Template:Main Page/WM News. I'll try to do the Na-Dene thing, but I think I can't finish the map now. PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:02, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Fr added. Amqui (talk) 03:04, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

WikiLang/Map/Langs_N.Amer.png. You can transclude it if you want. PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:43, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Note

See the edit. PiRSquared17 (talk) 02:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

You might be interested...

...in Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Atikamekw. PiRSquared17 (talk) 01:59, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I was in fact very interested. The Atikamekw Wikipedia is part of the existing Cree Wikipedia and doesn't require a new project. Amqui (talk) 16:59, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

The user has replied on User talk:Nastasia. PiRSquared17 (talk) 17:00, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, saw that. Amqui (talk) 17:03, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Started WikiLang/WikiLang:Introduction. PiRSquared17 (talk) 18:21, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

The Stethoscope: A Wiki Project Med Foundation Review (Issue 1)

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Un peu de pub

Tu as vu que WikiLang est mentionné dans le Signpost de Wikipedia? [2]. --Kip (talk) 08:43, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Re: Logo for crwiki

Hi Amqui, just as small reminder: has there been any updates on the status of the logo for cr.wikipedia? I'd like to update some logos around next week, and it'd be helpful if I knew whether I could include a logo for your Wikipedia or not. Thanks :) odder (talk) 18:37, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I understand and appreciate that. Good luck with finding consensus :) odder (talk) 19:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Abusive reasons for block on Romanian Wikipedia by administrators

If you translate the Village pump of the Romanian Wikipedia you realize that the language used is abusive therefore there are making fun in a rude way about the fact that I graduated the school of engineers, they pretend that I have different gender identities, the use two double sens arguments either "I am a child" or "I am too smart to be a child". There is only one fair comment about me that I have done a lot of good work on reverting vandalism.And maybe this is the reason why some people are so upset with me that not only that they dedicated to have a rude attitude about with an abusive vocabulary but also to block me.I think that you have to check through the proper translation of the discussions that are going on the Reclamation page and also the Village Pump. Receptie123 (talk) 05:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Editor @ ar.wiki

Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato (talk) 12:25, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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SC statement

Please create an SC statement. PiRSquared17 (talk) 06:50, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

I just did. Thanks, but I don't have much time for Wikimedia these months, I'm going through a lot. Amqui (talk) 23:50, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

Hope everything gets better. --Rschen7754 00:42, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

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Superprotect status

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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue X, October 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: National Library Conference; Feminist Art Edit-a-thon Finland report: Edit-a-thon Course "Bring Culture to Wikipedia" France report: Edit-a-thon & Mass upload Germany report: GLAM on tour Sauerland; WMDE World Café at the Conference of National Cultural Institutions Italy report: War Books; EAGLE project; National Library Conference Netherlands report: Images donated by Nijmegen municipality archive; World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Sweden report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Europeana Task Force UK report: The breadth of UK GLAM work: chemistry, ballet, tanks and more USA report: News from Philadelphia & New York City Open Access report: Open Access Week; peer-reviewed OA journal publishes Wikipedia article Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: November 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XI, November 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: ALIA partnership goes countrywide Belgium report: Workshops for collection holders across Europe; Founding event of Wikimedia Belgium; Wiki Loves Monuments in Belgium & Luxembourg; Plantin-Moretus Museum; Edit-a-thon at faculty library in Ghent University; Image donation UGentMemorie; Upcoming activities France report: Wiki Loves Monuments; mass upload; Musée de Bretagne Germany report: Facts, fun and free content Ireland report: Ada Lovelace day in Dublin Italy report: National Library Conference; Wiki Loves Monuments; Archaeological Open Data; BEIC Netherlands report: Video challenge; Wikidata workshop and hackathon; Wikipedia courses in libraries; WWII editathon Norway report: Edit-a-thon far north at the Museum of Nordland (Nordlandsmuseet) Spain report: Picasso, first Galipedia edit-a-thon, course in Biblioteca Reina Sofía and free portraits South Africa report: Wiki Loves GLAMs, Cape Town Sweden report: Use, reuse and contributions back and forth UK report: Medals, maps and multilingual marvels Special story: ORCID identifiers Open Access report: Open proposal: Wikidata for Research; Open Access signalling Tool testing report: Tools for references, images, video, file usage; Popular Pages Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: December 2014

This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue XII, December 2014 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Trove in the encyclopedia Germany report: Out now: GLAM on Tour film; Looking back: WMDE discussion rounds 2014 Norway report: Seminar at the NTNU University Museum: uploading images to Wikimedia Commons Spain report: Edith-a-thon about Spanish scientists in six museums Sweden report: Central Museums and Glöggmingel UK report: Going for Gold, map tagging and Histropedia USA report: Wikipedia in New York City Update Special story: Wikidata for cultural heritage Open Access report: Wikidata for research; Open Access Media Importer rewritten; JATS-Con Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: January 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue I, January 2015 Headlines Belgium report: SOIMA 2015; Wiki Loves Art; European Commission; FOSDEM Czech Republic report: Czech GLAM discusses why institutions are afraid to release their media France report: Celebrating public domain and more Germany report: GLAM on Tour in Wuppertal Italy report: 1600 usages for BEIC images in 165 wikis Netherlands report: Europeana Sounds edit-a-thon; Symposium & Erasmus Prize; Honorary doctorate for Wikipedia; New years drink Spain report: Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon; Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 Awards ceremony; Benito Prieto Coussent Sweden report: Europeana; Working Life Museums UK report: Armenian Genocide; Diversity in Film; Residency Hat-Trick USA report: Philadelphia & New York Open Access report: Wikidata for research: proposal submitted; Open Access Media Importer: featured media Catalan areas report: Catalan Network of Public Libraries Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: February 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue II, February 2015 Headlines Africa report: Photo Hunt in museum in Uganda Armenia report: Free Book for Wikipedians Belgium report: Conferences & workshops Catalan areas report: Edit-a-thons about archaeology in Gavà and biochemistry in Barcelona Finland report: Hacking Heritage France report: From prehistoric era to pirates: an usual month at WMFR Germany report: Open GLAM is one thing - open funds quite another Greece report: 10th Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon organised by Athens' Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation Italy report: OCLC conference in Florence; Wiki Loves Monuments exhibition; continued BEIC activities Netherlands report: Report of activities: February Poland report: Developing GLAM collaborations in Poland Spain report: Workshops at Reina Sofía Library in Valladolid Sweden report: Strange noise, public art and old maps Switzerland report: First Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon UK report: Continued Catalan Collaboration; Steam Sounds; Glasgow GLAMs; Edinburgh Editathons USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia (and Ocean City, MD!) Special story: Europeana's Wikimedia Task Force reports Open Access report: Tracking recent uploads; Wikidata for research meetups; Ant-decapitating flies, Lego and a new frog Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue III, March 2015 Headlines Africa report: Closing the gap of the Global South Belgium report: Gendergap and Belgiumgap Catalan areas report: One day at the radio France report: A very busy month! Germany report: 1 topic, 2 talks, 3 hours Italy report: Agreements with national cultural institutions and professional associations Mexico report: Wiki rides the subway editathon and second edition of the Editatona gender gap marathon Netherlands report: Nature, Art, Feminism and a GLAM-WIKI conference Poland report: Six months in Spain report: Women's edit-a-thons, Workshops and Miguel Delibes Sweden report: Fashion; BARK; Council of Central Museums UK report: GLAM activities in the UK USA report: Wikipedia in Philadelphia & New York Open Access report: Wikimania Open Access policy; Wikimania; Wikipedia Science Conference; Punch-card microfluidics Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue IV, April 2015 Headlines Africa report: GLAM activities in Africa Catalan areas report: First Ever edit-a-thon in Andorra; Libraries project shared in L'Alguero; Archives time! France report: No spring break for Wikimédia France! Germany report: Fresh and GLAMmy datasets for Wikimedia projects to harvest Italy report: Wikimedia Italia Training Day and another one Bibliohackathon! Macedonia report: Collaboration with Holocaust Memorial Center Netherlands report: GLAM-WIKI; a new brochure; Wikipedia in the Museum Poland report: Modern art onto Wikimedia Commons Spain report: Women in Science edit-a-thon and other stories Sweden report: Conferences and edit-a-thons Taiwan report: Hackathon for Mandarin-Taiwanese Dictionary UK report: Around the world, in peace and war USA report: GLAM-Wiki US Consortium moving forward Special story: GLAM-WIKI 2015 in The Hague; Muse Awards for three GLAM-WIKI projects ! Wikipedia Library report: Wikipedia Library report Wikidata report: New feature: GLAM activities in Wikidata Open Access report: Wikiproject Open Access on Wikidata; Wikimedia Sverige at Meeting Place Open Access in Malmö; JATS-Con GLAM Survey report: Preliminary Results from Poland and Finland Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: May 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue V, May 2015 Headlines Arabic region report: World Digital Library, Arab Peninsula Regional Group meeting Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Catalan areas report: ORCID France report: GLAM, all over the place! Germany report: Make a (GLAM) change! Italy report: Wikimedia Italia still works with BEIC Library and bibliographic data Macedonia report: Wikiexpedition on bicycles and visiting one of the most remote areas in Macedonia Netherlands report: Birds and Expeditions Poland report: The Józef Burszta Digital Archives donation Spain report: Edit-a-thons about Contemporary artists and St. James's Way Sweden report: Slow GLAM-month in Sweden UK report: Progress on an image release from the Bodleian; National Library of Scotland residency comes to an end; and Glasgow Museums develop a Wiki Working Group USA report: Wikipedian at the Centers for Disease Control - NIOSH Open Access report: New Topic Page; Open Access and the humanities; Wikimania & Wikidata Wikidata report: SPARQL and arbitrary access are coming Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: June 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Uruguay: A Wikipedia project in foreign languages receives a teaching award
• Hong Kong: The First Wikipedia Education Program in Hong Kong
• Greece: Adult school graduates learn to edit Wikipedia and inspire their peers
• Sweden: Mid-year Summary from the Wikipedia Education Program
• Mexico: New video tutorial for Commons created by students
• Armenia: Wikimedia Armenia New Office, Annual Conference, and WikiCamp 2015
• Argentina: Argentina contributes to a massive cross-border course of free knowledge in Spanish-speaking countries
• Israel: Education Program Extension enabled on Hebrew Wiktionary
• Global: New recognition certificates for program students, teachers and leaders
• Media Articles of interest in other publications: Uk, India, Palestine and more

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This Month in GLAM: June 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VI, June 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina Czech Republic report: Memorandum of Cooperation between the National Heritage Institute and the Wikimedia Czech Republic Finland report: Capturing public art with drones France report: Surfing on GLAMs' agenda Germany report: Open GLAM - How to create true participation Italy report: From Italian Parliament to libraries and Company Museums. And a Training Day too! Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence Netherlands report: Historical images of Dutch water works Sweden report: Maritime Sweden UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: Wikidata for Mappers Special story: Europeana 1914-1918 Open Access report: Wikipedia is an amplifier of open access; 20,000 media files uploaded from PubMed Central Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wikimania report: GLAM presentations at Wikimania Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: July 2015

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• Israel: Wikimedia Israel's annual conference helps expanding its education activity
• Community: Join the Community Health learning campaign on Meta
• Global: Wikimania 2015: education highlights
• Education Collaborative: Wikipedia Education Collaborative is changing. Be part of the movement!
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This Month in GLAM: July 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VII, July 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Wikimedia Argentina France report: A GLAMourous summer Germany report: Fancy new apps based on GLAMorous data Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments at Toscana Foto Festival and two new GLAM projects Netherlands report: Radio broadcasts; historic atlases; GLAMetrics Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth, municipalities and concerts Sweden report: Hedemora; Mapillary UK report: Royal Society of Chemistry; Thinktank; Oxford USA report: GLAM in Philadelphia Special story: Share what you know about Photo Events Open Access report: Wikimania: Citations and video Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Wiki Loves Monuments report: Wiki Loves Monuments Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in Education: August 2015

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• Sweden: The benefits of teaching with Wikipedia broadcasted on Swedish National Radio
• Mexico: Summer term ends with great success and Fall begins at Tec de Monterrey
• Newsletter: On its third birthday, a retrospective of This Month In Education and proposed changes to the publication process
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This Month in GLAM: August 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Two edit-a-thons France report: August in Brittany Germany report: Sharing is Caring Mexico report: Pilot program to make freely licensed animation clips Spain report: Museum of African Art "Jiménez-Arellano Alonso"; Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain Sweden report: Odd submarines, new strategy and an old contest UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: September 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue IX, September 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon & editing challenges Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art; Publications; SOIMA 2015: Unlocking Sound and Image Heritage France report: Clever September Germany report: Opening up (with) the Prussians! Italy report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2015 Italian edition and photographic archives Macedonia report: Bringing Wikipedia closer to animal lovers Netherlands report: Who's afraid of Jacob van Ruisdael? Various gifts from Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden Spain report: Wiki Loves Monuments; Wiki Takes Ayora; Glaming Madrid; Wikimedia Connection; Creative Commons Valladolid Film Festival Sweden report: Books, exhibitions, maritime connections and monuments UK report: Wake me up, when September ends... USA report: Edit-a-thon in Seattle Open Access report: Homo naledi; Wikigate; Open Access Week Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: October's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: October 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue X, October 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon & editing challenges Belgium report: Flemish institutions start with Wikidata project France report: From Brittany to Provence Italy report: The history of Fascism in Italian libraries Macedonia report: Wikipedian in residence at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, libraries and free images Sweden report: 55 000 links to Wikipedia; Exhibits, concepts and biographies UK report: 'Hywel Dda' edit-a-thon & Pic-a-thon USA report: GLAM activities in Philadelphia & Seattle Open Access report: Open Access Week; Recent uploads Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015

Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.

• Arab World: Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015
• Argentina: Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities
• Argentina: The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?
• Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Wikipedia
• Armenia: Wikipedia Education Program participants commemorated the creation/discovery of the Armenian alphabet in Beirut
• Bangladesh: Wikimedia Bangladesh's new secondary school education program aims to increase Bangla Wikipedia readers
• Bulgaria: First Wiki Education Workshop in Bulgaria
• Central and Eastern Europe: Education Program at Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2015 in Estonia
• Czech Republic: Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official
• Egypt: Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content
• France: A portal for teachers and education institutions on the French Wikipedia
• Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
• Hong Kong: The very first Wikipedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
• Israel: Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University
• Israel: Dozens of articles were created by dint of a structured teaching process that incorporates new training tools and involvement of scientists
• Mexico: Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico
• Norway: Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia
• Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
• Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Wikipedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
• Sweden: Science Outreach on Wikipedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
• Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Wikipedia as a learning tool
• Global: The Wikipedia Education Program now on Twitter
• Global: Recent improvements to the Wikipedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
• Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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This Month in GLAM: November 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue XI, November 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and Digitization project France report: November comes and November goes, Wikimedians stay! Germany report: GLAM and copyright Italy report: Food images donation and much more! Mexico report: Rock and movies in Wikipedia Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, Wiki Loves Earth and Carmen Thyssen Museum Sweden report: Exhibitions and more images UK report: November in the UK USA report: GLAM activities in Seattle Special story: Guerrilla GLAMː An alternate way of doing GLAM in indie-way Open Access report: OpenCon; Robots, oysters and amber Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: December's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: December 2015

This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue XII, December 2015 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and Editing Challenges Basque Country report: Local Library weaves a community at Iurretapedia Bulgaria report: Archives Challenge; 100 ancient coins from Philippopolis Germany report: Wallraf Art and Focus on Zeiss Italy report: Fondazione Giorgio Cini donation and a new education project Macedonia report: Physics experiments in glorious HD! Netherlands report: Donation of videos; about Wikimedia during 3 conferences; image donation from Dutch Parliament; workshop at City Archive Rotterdam Spain report: GLAMing Madrid and Wiki Loves contests Sweden report: Riksutställningar UK report: National Library of Wales; Bodleian Libraries of Oxford Open Access report: Open Access stats; recent uploads Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: January's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: January 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue I, January 2016 Headlines Africa report: #OpenAfrica15 Argentina report: New Editing Challenges and Design the guidelines for cultural institutions Australia and New Zealand report: WiR at State Library of Queensland Belgium report: Heroines Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Public Domain Day Celebration; Wikidata meeting & workshop; FOSDEM: MediaWiki, Wikidata and more France report: New year, new start Germany report: GLAM on Tour at Technische Sammlungen & Verkehrsmuseum Dresden Italy report: BEIC Library Project goes on, and Wikipedia for Press and Media Freedom in Europe Macedonia report: Wikipedia 15 Netherlands report: Wiki loves artists - We need your help; Two Wikipedia edit-a-thons Spain report: GLAMing Madrid, Wiki Loves Folk & Gobernantes de Chile Sweden report: New year, new projects UK report: Audio-describing London Landmarks, celebrating Wikipedia 15 Special story: Pre-production starts for Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons tutorial videos Open Access report: Open Access stats; data citation, dino jaw, dozens of beetles Wikidata report: Wikidata this month Calendar: February's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Inspire Campaign on content curation & review

I've recently launched an Inspire Campaign to encourage new ideas focusing on content review and curation in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia volunteers collaboratively manage vast repositories of knowledge, and we’re looking for your ideas about how to manage that knowledge to make it more meaningful and accessible. We invite you to participate and submit ideas, so please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 28th.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive feedback on ideas is welcome - your skills and experience can help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign to improve review and curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and accessible! I JethroBT (WMF) 05:38, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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This Month in Education: [March 2016]

Arab World Education Program at WISE Doha 2015

By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)

Walaa with Mr. Rashid El Telwaty and Ms. Suad Alhalwachi

Walaa with Dr. Sherifa Atallah

Walaa with Mr. Rashid El Telwaty, Ms. Bonnie Chiu, Mr. Jake and Ms. Naadiya Moosajee.

Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt to WISE Conference attendees, as an example of a program in the Arab World, to share their experience to inspire other universities and institutions starting new programs in the area.

WISE 2015 Sessions and Plenaries were designed around three main pillars such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals; education and the economy; fostering innovation in education systems. Each pillar examined a variety of key topics including: the linkages between education, employment, and entrepreneurship; education reform and innovation in the MENA region and Qatar; emerging models of education financing, attracting, rewarding and retaining quality teachers; and the importance of investing in early childhood development.

Representatives of Wikipedia Education Program Walaa Abdel Manaem and Reem Al-Kashif participated in WISE Doha 2015 in Qatar, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education is the premier international platform dedicated to innovation and creative action in education where top decision-makers share insights with on-the-ground practitioners and collaborate to rethink education. Also, WISE 2015 was the first global education conference following the ratification of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. Contributions ranged from Arabic Brochure of Editing Wikipedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Wikipedia without ‎problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Wikipedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Wikipedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Wikipedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Wikipedia Education program in Egypt and how it worked since February 2012 till the November 2015, as the seventh edition ended last October. All discussions were about the program's mechanism and what were the motivations keeping it going. The program helped increasing gender diversity and supported the featured content on Arabic Wikipedia. Wikipedia Education Program, like any other initiative, has achievements and dark sides, for that reason, the representatives had to locate both of them and how they influence the Arabic community and how the community interact with this phenomenon.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).

Wikipedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Wikipedia at Tel Aviv University

By Shani Evenstein (WMIL)

Amir explains about the new translation tool to students

Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Wikipedia has opened at Tel Aviv University and is now available to all B.A. students on campus

On October 19th a new for-credit elective course called "Wikipedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge" has opened at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The semester-long course (13 weeks) is available to all B.A. students on campus and this semester about 50 students from various disciplines are taking part in this first-of-its-kind course in Israel.

Working in small groups to correct copyrights and Non-NPOV violations

The course draws from "flipped classroom" concepts and uses "blended learning" methods, which practically means combining in-class lectures, workshops and small-group activities, as well as online individual learning. Both the Moodle learning management system (LMS) and the Wikipedia Education Extension are used to monitor the students' work and progress throughout the course.

The course has 2 main assignments - expanding an existing stub, as well as writing a new article, in the hopes that the content added during the course will assist not only the students themselves, but also future generations of learners as well as the general public. Though the course focuses on adding quality content to Wikipedia, it also aims to help students sharpen their academic skills and their 21st century skills, highlighting collaborative learning, joint online research and interdisciplinary collaborations in the process of constructing knowledge.

This course was initiated and is led by Shani Evenstein, an educator, Wikimedian and member of the Wikipedia Education Collaborative, in collaboration with the Orange Institute for Internet Studies, as well as the School of Education at TAU. The syllabus for the new course builds on the success of Wiki-Med, a for-credit elective course, which was designed in 2013 and is led by Evenstein at the Sackler school of Medicine for the third consecutive year. While Wiki-med is focused on contributing medical content to Wikipedia and is only available to Medical Students on campus, the new course is designed to accommodate students from different academic disciplines and varying backgrounds.

The course was chosen to be part of TAU's cross-discipline elective courses system ("Kelim Shluvim") and was approved by the Vice-Rector, who heads the program. In that, the course marks an important precedent in the collaboration between Academia and the Wikipedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Wikipedia on a university level, offering it to all students, rather than a faculty level or individual lecturers as mostly practiced. It is our hope that other higher education institutions will follow this example and offer similar courses to students both in Israel and around the world.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Israel here.

The collaborative production in open educational environments: Is Wikipedia an answer?

By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina

Snippet: University professors become Wikipedians in an online course during just a week.

How to be a Wikipedian in a week (educactional MOOC for university professors)

Educators with different profiles and from different latin america countries, but most of them professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from different faculties, have just participated in the online training and free course "Educational scenarios with technology. Among the real and the possible" organized by the Center for Innovation in Technology and Pedagogy (CITEP) of this university.

Different educational activities were carried out simultaneously. During the week and under the topic “Open movement”, Wikimedia Argentina participated with three different proposals: starting with an interview of Patricio Lorente accompanied with a short text to know more about the movement. To make an immersive experience we designed " Knowing Wikipedia by first-hand or Wikipedia in the first person" to work directly on the platform translating articles from english to spanish from a list created especially for that purpose. Along with this specific proposal, educators participated in a videoconference with Galileo Vidoni (available in Spanish), where participants could talk and learn more about how are the first steps to become a Wikipedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.

A professor´s educational experience with Wikipedia explained with a tweet. He said: "I´m translating, enjoying and learning with Wikipedia". Know more experiences on Storify.

With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Wikipedia, indeed many of them mentioned that they had it as a pending to learn and participate on the free encyclopedia, but never had the time or the real chance. The enthusiasm was also present on social networks, where they shared the experience with the hashtag #escenariostec.

The result

More than 100 educators got involved and exchanged their experience in an online forum with more of 280 messages that reflected their learning process while experiencing with the activity. 80 of them were new users, and they created 61 new articles in spanish. An important fact: 78 of them were women, which means that working with educators is a key issue to continue closing the digital gender gap.

Finally from CITEP, they shared the following insights regarding the question that ran through all the activities that took place during the week dedicated to the open movement. Some thoughts can be sum up as follows:

The collaborative production in open environments: chaos or construction? (...) For the teacher also means accepting new challenges: encourage students to produce knowledge in an environment of divergent nature, it requires permanent operations and convergence. In a space that fosters interventions unmarked, the teacher needs to frame depending on the purpose of education and teaching purposes. (…) Wikipedia is the best example of the challenges posed by the digital era in the educational field, it forces us to rethink the relationship between technology and the production of knowledge and allows us to confirm that the collaborative work does not lead to chaos, if not to the construction. (. ..) [Authors: Angeles Solectic and Miri Latorre]

We share some of the voices of the protagonists in social networks with storify (available in Spanish). Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.

Collaboration with Masaryk University turns official

By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)

Masaryk University employees are being trained in using and editing Wikipedia

Marek Blahuš, Wikipedian in residence at Masaryk University

Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Wikipedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.

Collaboration between Wikipedia and Czech institutions has always been a priority for Wikimedia Czech Republic, but the year 2015 has taken this to another level. First, an official memorandum of collaboration with the National Heritage Institute (NPÚ) was signed in May 2015, to be followed by official collaboration with Masaryk University in Brno (the second largest city and university in the Czech Republic), which was contracted in November 2015. In fact, Wikimedia activities in Brno have been blooming for several years now, mainly as a result of the community's own development, but aided substantially by the external interest in Wikipedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.

In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Wikipedians – Marek Blahuš (Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first "Wikipedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Wikipedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference (more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Wikipedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9500 articles on Czech and Slovak Wikipedias (more in English here). His current work as Wikipedian in residence is funded by Masaryk University and runs under the patronage of Wikimedia Czech Republic as well as Masaryk University's rector Mikuláš Bek.

Since February, Wikipedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Wikipedians team", gathering local Wikipedians and facilitating contacts with the university, aided by his status of a graduate and current employee in its language center. Articles about Masaryk University alumni and faculties have been identified and improved after consultations with Masaryk University archives and libraries which provided helpful resources. Wikipedia citation templates can now be directly generated from the university's on-line archive of theses. In September, a public conference called "Masaryk University Is Getting High on Wikipedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Wikipedian Jan Sokol (Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Wikipedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech "Students Write Wikipedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Wikipedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Wikipedia.

The program is actively preparing for 2016 when we expect Wikimedia Czech Republic to take a more active role in overseeing the initiatives as well as the creation of a position of a "Wikipedian in Brno" – person officially in charge of the wide array of Wikimedia activities happening in the city. The chapter's annual plan includes initiatives to increase the number of university courses which incorporate Wikipedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Wikipedia at various events, scanning and uploading of images from institutional and personal archives, and much more. Let's wish that our plans come true!

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.

Wiki expeditions, animation clips about alebrijes and more at the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico

By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)

Group photo of Reto Wikimedia participants at Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus

Snippet: Student participation is more than just text!

For the Fall 2015 Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey held two wiki expeditions in Mexico City and began a collaboration with the Museo de Arte Popular. We also received our first grant!

Wiki expeditions

The 32-campus Tec de Monterrey system has each semester an event called "Semana i" (i Week), when students forego normal classes for an entire week to work on challenging projects called "retos." For the Mexico City and Santa Fe campuses, one option for students was to work with Wikimedia, with the aptly named projects "Reto Wikimedia." Both campuses opted to do wiki-expeditions to different parts of Mexico City. The Mexico City campus had the larger group with almost 90 students registered, who covered the two southern boroughs of Xochimilco and Tlalpan. The Santa Fe group had 35 participants, and covered the San Ángel neighborhood found not far from this campus.

Both campus took photos of landmarks with the Mexico City campus also focusing on photos of everyday life in the south of the city. The Mexico City campus tallied 5264 photos, 8 videos and 36 articles, including articles related to the area into French, Swedish and Danish. The Santa Fe group tallied 605 photos, and ten articles in Spanish on landmarks in San Ángel.

In addition, the Mexico City campus had a special speaker the borough chronicler of Xochmilco, Sebastián Flores Farfán. A short montage video of the event is in the works.

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Some video clips of the event:

Animation clips with the Museo de Arte Popular

Animation about alebrijes

Wikiservicio, students working with Wikimedia for their community service requirement, added a new component. To attract more students and encourage more students to do all of their community service hours with Wikimedia, a collaboration was set up with the Museo de Arte Popular (MAP)... the first of many we hope! Six students from the digital art and animation major (see last newsletter) have continued working with Wikimedia, but focusing their efforts in creating short animation clips in relation to the mission of promoting and preserving Mexican folk art. One clip has been completed and can be see to the right of this text. So far, the video has subtitles in English, German, French and Punjabi. A second clip is nearing completion at the time of this writing.

Classes and Wikimetrics

Fifteen students completed work with Wikiservicio doing translations, writing new articles and doing photography projects. As of this date, 7 have indicated interest in working with Wikiservicio on campus and another six with MAP.

Five university level classes and one high school class on the Mexico City (South) campus have had projects, all in writing and translation, with some video work.

Wikimetrics for the semester are:

According to Wikimetrics tool....

• 9,589,918 bytes to Spanish Wikipedia
• 3,098 edits to the mainspace of Spanish Wikipedia
• 367 pages created in the mainspace of Spanish Wikipedia

Manual count

• 302 student and teacher participants
• 281 Spanish Wikipedia articles created or expanded
• 6,057 photographs
• 10 videos
• 9 articles in English Wikipedia
• 2 articles in French Wikipedia
• 1 article in Swedish Wikipedia
• 1 article in Danish Wikipedia

First grant Wiki Learning received its first grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. The long-term goal of this grant is to establish a system for financing Wiki Learning. The grant, which totals a modest 12,500 Mexican pesos, will be used for swag, such as t shirts, stickers, buttons, etc, especially for Semana i activities and promotion of wiki activities to other campus. The money will also be used for incidental travel expenses, especially for projects needing to move expensive camera equipment.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico here.

Wikimedia Argentina, about the global and local in the digital and academic communities

By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)

Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina

Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina.

The digital free magazine Aprender para Educar (Learning to educate) of the National Technological University (UTN) is recognized in the community of education and technology in Argentina to write about innovation issues in Spanish, which is not common in the academic dissemination and teacher training field.

Cristina Velazquez, general editor of the magazine invited Wikimedia Argentina to write an article that generally describes their activities in the Education Program, after reading the proposal she decided to publish it as the main article of the 12th edition.

To describe the education program, WMAR wrote two notes completing one another, as doing a zoom: from the local to the global and from the global to the local, showing how a movement of this magnitude does not stand alone, it is part of a huge network.

Melina Masnatta, education manager in WMAR and Patricio Lorente, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees wrote those two notes.The first one focuses on the Education Program, implementation, challenges and obstacles that they had at the beginning, plans to integrate it into the classrooms in Argentina and how different Wikimedia Projects are also relevant in education. The most important thing, Melina adds, is to strengthen the values that inspire them, show how the free culture give meaning to education in general and digital culture in particular.

Meanwhile in the second part, Lorente focuses on the global movement, the community pillars, the agenda of today's challenges and the effort of their volunteers as protagonists. It is not easy show the world what drives us and why we work as volunteers in different countries. In education very few people understand the value of building free knowledge. There is still a great prejudice or negative perceptions of Wikipedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Wikipedia is built.

Everybody reads Wikipedia, but few people edit it. We can change this fact by spreading in spaces such as the Journal of the UTN and inviting more people to collaborate and be the protagonist of this huge collective work for humanity.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Argentina here.

Online ambassador played a prominent role in helping Egyptian students to nominate their excellent content

By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Wikipedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)

Bassem Fleifel

Snippet: Online ambassador helped spanish students course in Cairo University to nominate their articles, scoring an exceptional record of WEP excellent content.

Bassem Fleifel, an online ambassador of Cairo university spanish course, played a prominent role to help all students to encourage them to nominate their excellent content to be a featured and good articles in Arabic Wikipedia. Those articles are History of bread (Featured article); Walt Disney; Daniel Radcliffe; Al-Andalus; Poet in New York; and Popol Vuh.

The seventh term, the program started in Cairo University with promoting posts on Wikipedia and social media websites to help new participants understand the general idea of the program as well as holding meetings with professors from the departments of History, chinese, English language and Spanish language. Walaa Abdel Manaem (program leader in Cairo University) and Bassem Fleifel (online ambassador) have held some workshops in campus and online for the whole students to teach them "How to edit Wikipedia". On the other hand, Prof. Abeer Abdel-Hafiz has exerted great efforts with her students in addition to introducing Walaa to new classes of senior students for whom she has organized general seminars about Wikipedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Wikipedia.

This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia or working on articles about history. They already have chosen some articles to translate with the target of nominating them to be a featured and good articles.

Most of students worked on articles about different topics like history, writers, actors, history of food and drink, mayan literature, islam and politics, etc. This course itself achieved an exceptional record of Wikipedia Education program excellent content and the best term ever in the history of WEP in Egypt in general and in the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in specific. Walaa has held 2 online webinars to follow up with her students in addition to the workshops held at the campus. Regarding numbers, 38 students joined this course, of which 35 are female and 3 are male students. They worked on 1748 articles adding more than 12,282,943 million bytes to the article namespace on the Arabic Wikipedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.

See the course page of this group on the Arabic Wikipedia here.

Full statistics of WEP in Egypt the first term in 2012 till the seventh term in 2015 which include numbers of created articles, featured and good articles, featured portals and lists.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt here.

Norwegian Masters students in History and Archeology twists their brains on Wikipedia

By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)

Jorid Martinsen teaching students at the University of Oslo about Wikipedia.

Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Wikipedia editing as one of the main parts in a subject on communication of History.

The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest higher education institution, and it is the first time Wikimedia Norway collaborates with this University in forming and using Wikipedia editing as a integrated part of higher education. The collaboration started by Wikimedia Norway contacting assistant professor John McNicol, who already had gotten some media attention on his eagerness to make students skilled in knowledge sharing.

Starting off with a two hour lecture on the secret world of Wikipedia and a two hour editing workshop in mid-September, and in October the students will evaluate the life of their articles. Has there been many additional edits on their articles? Discussions? Request to delete everything? For Wikimedia Norge it is fun to see the students both engaging in Wikipedia editing and using the ways of Wikipedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.

Read more about the Wikipedia Education Program in Norway here.

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• Argentina: Educational hackathon about digital sources, big data, and Wikipedia
• Argentina and Mexico: First mentoring program between the Argentine and Mexican chapters
• Czech Republic: Czech education program turns professional with a new education manager
• Egypt: Egyptian Wikimedians celebrate the seventh conference of WEP
• Nigeria: Wikipedia workshop for students of Fountain University
• Sverige: Teacher celebrated for excellent pedagogy with Wikipedia
• Taiwan: Taiwanese students use Spoken Wikipedia as their service learning
• Global: Education Program Historic Data Campaign
• Global: Articles of interest in other publications

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This Month in GLAM: February 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue II, February 2016 Headlines Australia and New Zealand report: Wikidata Tour Down Under Austria report: GLAM activities for libraries and archives in the DACH region Belgium report: Gender Redirect Wikipedia workshop addressing the Gender Bias; Open Belgium 2016 France report: Getting technical...! Germany report: 30 GLAM volunteers in museums and libraries Italy report: Four new Wikipedians in Residence, and Food! Macedonia report: Theatre actors of Macedonia Mexico report: Towards to our first Art and Feminism 2016 Netherlands report: Naturalis' Wikipedia project; Open Culture Data Spain report: Free pictures, classical music & libraries Sweden report: Maps, planes and metadata on artists UK report: Wales Report; Wikidata Tour Down Under; Museums Galleries Scotland report; Oxford USA report: One month, dozens of events: Black History Month, Art Feminism and more Special story: Lightning talk overview of upcoming video series Open Access report: Gravitational wave detection; viral biomechanics, anglerfish, smart dining table Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes: A Wikipedia Library Newsletter Wikidata report: Wikidata Tour Down Under Calendar: March's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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This Month in GLAM: March 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue III, March 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires Asia report: Wikidata tour visits Jakarta Belgium report: Just For The Record: March France report: Zoology, feminism and contemporary art Germany report: Wiki loves librarians Greece report: Edit-a-thon in Athens Italy report: Biggest donation of photos from an Italian institution Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Riga Macedonia report: Editing competition about the villages in Aegean Macedonia Netherlands report: Open Culture Data Lab Republic of Srpska report: First GLAM project in the Republic of Srpska Serbia report: GLAMers opened their doors to Wikimedia Serbia Spain report: Libraries, free pictures and audios & new partners UK report: GLAM Marches on in the UK Open Access report: BartBotje; Rats as dino models; Auditory illusion; Crab-hunting octopus Wikipedia Library report: Hashtags, Campaigns and New Access donations Wikidata report: A really busy month all round Calendar: April's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #207

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Wikidata's coverage as of April 2016

Difference of Wikidata's coverage between April 2016 and 6 month before

• Discussions
  • Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
  • Upcoming: CSVconf
  • Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Commons now has arbitrary access
  • Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
  • Wikimind
  • New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
  • We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.)

    

    Show the rest of the world you're using data from Wikidata!

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
  • Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
  • Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
• Development
  • Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
  • Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (phab:T132662)
  • There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
  • Removed unsupported sort and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (phab:T119856).
  • Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
  • Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
  • Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
  • Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (phabricator:T132645)
  • Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (phabricator:T132839)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #208

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: OpenTechSummit

    

    slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit

  • Past: CSVConf
  • Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
  • More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
  • Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
  • Freebase has been shut down
  • Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
  • The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
  • The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
  • Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
  • Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
  • Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
• Development
  • Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
  • More work on initial Commons prototype
  • Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
  • Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
  • Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
  • No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
  • Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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This Month in GLAM: April 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue IV, April 2016 Headlines Africa report: Wiki Loves Women in Africa Argentina report: Edit-a-thons in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Writing weeks in and about Brussels Bulgaria report: Meeting lots of museum directors Germany report: Learning in the GLAM field & how to edit the GND Italy report: MUSE Edit-a-thon and Backstage pass and Small Museums in Italy Macedonia report: ArchiWiki edit-a-thon; Wikimedian-in-residence Netherlands report: Edit-a-thon Attic Nights Norway report: Photographic portraits Poland report: Faras discoveries, Carpathian ethnography, and a spreadsheet-based uploader Spain report: Free pictures, edit-a-thons and new partners Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Offentligkonst.se; Digkult; ArbetSams museidagar; VISS; Museernas vårmöte; GLAM/ED collaboration UK report: GLAMwiki work in Yorkshire; Mitchell Arts Centre Special story: Halfway point of the Europeana Art History Challenge Open Access report: Hypercycle; Wikipedia Year of Science; Snake envenomings Wikidata report: Wikimedia Commons gets arbitrary access Calendar: May's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #209

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Panama Papers and Wikidata made quite a splash online
    • Occupations of persons from Panama Papers
    • Panama Papers bubble chart shows politicians are most mentioned in document leak database
  • EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
  • Random item: Q14829494
  • Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
  • Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
  • Wikidata Map May 2016 (Belarus & Uganda)
  • Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
  • Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
  • The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
  • Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
  • Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
  • PetScan now has query examples
  • d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: professional name (Japan), month number, highest income threshold, lowest income threshold, individual tax rate, ARKive ID, Joint Electronics Type Designation Automated System designation, totem, Online World of Wrestling ID, Internet Wrestling Database ID, corporate officer
  • Query examples: longest rivers (source), map of places mentioned in travel stories with text in French accessible online (source), things located where the equator meets the prime meridian (source), people who acted with Brad Pitt (source), Italian mountains higher than 4000mt (source), who died by burning (source), age at date of death for musicians (source), universities of main programming language authors (source), hashtags (source), Pokemon! (source)
  • Showcase items: Iron Man 2 (Q205028)
• Development
  • Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
  • Incident report of issues with the query service
  • Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
  • More work on Commons prototype
  • Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
  • Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
  • We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
  • Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #210

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Gotta catch 'em all if they are prime
  • Paper: Are Superstar Artworks also Digital Superstars? Online Popularity of Worldfamous Artworks
  • Upcoming: Wikicite (session proposals)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • In about 2 weeks we will get the ArticlePlaceholder to more Wikipedias. Let us know if yours wants to be in.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google , wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
  • Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), Law & Order episodes (source), things/people with most children (source)
• Development
  • Performance improvements in query service map display.
  • Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008)
  • Further groundwork on Commons support
  • Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
  • Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485)
  • Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:50, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Survey on content curation & review Inspire Campaign

Thanks for your participation in IdeaLab during the Inspire Campaign focused on improving content curation & review processes from February to March 2016. I'm interested in hearing your feedback about your participation during campaign, so if you're able, I invite you to complete this brief survey to describe how you contributed to the campaign and how you felt about participating.

Immediate results of the campaign can be found here. Please feel free to review them and let me know if you have any questions about the campaign or the survey. Thanks! I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 02:31, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #211

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
  • Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
    • interview with Open Science Radio
  • Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
  • Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
  • Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
  • Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
• Other Noteworthy Stuff

  

  • Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
  • Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
  • Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
• Development
  • Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
  • More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
  • Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
  • Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Through June, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas focusing on addressing harassment toward Wikimedia contributors. The 2015 Harassment Survey has shown evidence that harassment in various forms - name calling, threats, discrimination, stalking, and impersonation, among others - is pervasive. Available methods and systems to deal with harassment are also considered to be ineffective. These behaviors are clearly harmful, and in addition, many individuals who experience or witness harassment participate less in Wikimedia projects or stop contributing entirely.

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This Month in Education: [June 2016]

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• Argentina: A New Online Course in a New Virtual Campus
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Wikidata weekly summary #212

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: OpenData.ch
  • Upcoming: HackHPI
  • Upcoming: ELAG
  • Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
  • Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
  • wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
  • It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
  • Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
• Development
  • Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
  • Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
  • Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
  • Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
  • Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
  • Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
  • More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
  • Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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This Month in GLAM: May 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue V, May 2016 Headlines Africa report: Joburg, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana Brazil report: Immigration Museum of Sao Paulo: first steps towards an open access policy France report: Photography, a true hobby! Germany report: "Licence hint generator" at WMDEs event series about legal issues Italy report: A full month of activities Latvia report: Edit-a-thon in Latvian Academy of Culture Macedonia report: 1963 Skopje earthquake 300 photos Mexico report: Forestry and the Longest Edit-a-thon in history Netherlands report: Colonial images; Coutinho collection; Open Cultural Data; Netherlands and the world; NL Art History challenge Norway report: International Memory of the world register; Speak Norwegian? Access to The National Library's bokhylla.no? Spain report: Wiki Loves Earth; free resources; Pentathlon Wikimedia Sweden report: LSH upload; World Wide Wikipedia; Nationalmuseum Switzerland report: ETH-Bibliothek commences mass uploading campaign for photographs from the Image Archive UK report: Oxford and Scotland USA report: Archivist Award Special story: Ted Speakers Challenge - Win Books! Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves report: UNESCO and Wiki Loves Earth partner to run Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves in 120 countries throughout June Open Access report: WikiCite; Fluorescent vertebrates; Insights into a singer's head WMF GLAM report: WMF GLAM report Wikidata report: We feel used (and that makes us happy) OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey report: Survey results presented at conferences in Hong Kong and Montreal Wikimania report: GLAM at Wikimania Calendar: June's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #213

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool
  • Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates, P2893_-_wrong_datatype
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
  • Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
  • Past: HackHPI
  • Past: ELAG (slides)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
  • Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
  • Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
  • Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
• Development
  • Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
  • Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
  • Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
  • Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
  • Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
  • Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
• You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
  • Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
  • Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:25, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #214

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Upcoming: Wikimania
  • Upcoming: WikiConvention francophone
  • Past: GLAM Wiki Boot Camp
  • Past: Silicon Mountain Conf
  • Past: OpenData.ch
  • Past: Semantic Web Wikidata
  • Wikidata beim Hackathon HackHPI in Potsdam
  • Data Ex Machina
  • Op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
  • New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
  • Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
  • Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
  • We are looking for people who work on list articles.
  • You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
  • Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
  • Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
  • First beta release of StrepHit
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
  • Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
  • ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
• Development
  • Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
  • More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
  • Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
  • Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
  • Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
  • Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
  • Started concept work for automated list generation
  • Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:29, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #215

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
  • TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
  • Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
  • SQID now shows references (example)
  • INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
  • PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
  • Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)
• Development
  • The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
  • You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
  • Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473)
  • Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500)
  • Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269)
  • Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #216

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
    • Europeana blog post
    • video
    • Wikimedia blog post
  • The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
  • Wikidata auf der GPN
  • Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
  • Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
  • Upcoming: office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
  • Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
  • Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
  • Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), composers and their most-used tonality (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
  • Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
• Development
  • More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
  • Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
  • Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
  • Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
  • Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
  • Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:51, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #217

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
  • Past: office hour on IRC (log)
  • Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
  • Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
  • Upcoming: OpenSym
  • Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
  • An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
  • Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
  • Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
  • Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
  • TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
  • Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
  • Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
  • There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
  • Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
  • Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
• Development
  • Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
  • Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
  • Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
  • Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
  • Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
  • Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
  • Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
  • Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814)
  • Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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This Month in GLAM: June 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thons and contest in Buenos Aires Belgium report: Just For The Record; Wiki Loves Art preparations Brazil report: New steps for the GLAM movement in Brazil France report: « Veni, vidi, wiki ! » Germany report: GLAM on Tour is a format, is a statement, is a tag Italy report: Contemporary art images from BEIC Macedonia report: National library collaboration and Contemporary art on Wikidata Mexico report: 3 continuous days of art; Efforts against the Wikipedia Gender Gap Netherlands report: Image donation by the Museum Catharijneconvent; 1300 Dutch underground newspapers from WW2; Collaboration with public libraries Spain report: Involving libraries in Wikimedia projects Sweden report: World Wide Wikipedia; Royal Library; Monuments database to Wikidata migration; Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon 2016 UK report: Wellcome USA report: June is busting out all over Open Access report: Open Science Fellows Program; OA Signalling Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes Wikidata report: Wikidatamania WMF GLAM report: A Wikimania Reflection, GLAM Phabricator Queues, and a WMF Update Calendar: July's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #218

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • From Damascus to Berlin: A very special internship at Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikidata als Universalbibliographie: ein Kommentar
  • First image, good image?
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
  • TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
  • The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
  • The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
  • Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
  • StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
  • Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
• Development
  • Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
  • A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
  • More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
  • Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (phabricator:T138413)
  • More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
  • Added Cape Verdean Creole (phabricator:T127435)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:06, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #219

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Playing with Wikidata: communities over water
  • Interview with Lydia for her upcoming keynote at the DBpedia conference
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The Olympic Games are coming up soon. Let's make Wikidata a good place to get open data about the Olympics!
  • StrepHit's grant is up for renewal and could use your endorsement
  • There is a sub-reddit for Wikidata
  • We now have P3000 and Q26000000!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: marriageable age, age of consent, age of candidacy, age of majority, partition coefficient water/octanol, software quality assurance, IBSF ID, FIL ID, has grammatical case, GOST 7.67 cyrillic, Taekwondo Data ID, aircraft registration prefix, DSBE ID, Snapchat username, UNDP country code, UIC numerical country code, UIC alphabetical country code, ARLHS Lighthouse ID, Maritime identification digits, wheel arrangement, LBT person ID, patronym or matronym, host, habitat, Spenserians person ID, SNAP ID
  • Query examples: most cited Danish people (source), most self-citing authors (source), topics of series (source), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source), poles of inaccessibility (source), people with the same family and given name (source), compositions for organ and orchestra/compositions for organ and anything else (source), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source), causes of death for noble people (source), long-running noble families (source)
  • Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
• Development
  • Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
  • We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
  • When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
  • Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
  • Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #220

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Notability of items for templates
  • One or more property examples?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: Repository Fringe
  • Ongoing: ICBO (slides)
  • Upcoming: CCBWIKI
  • Localités au fil de l'eau
  • WDQ, obsolete?
  • BigQuery, Wikidata & AgreeList — idea
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now see the very first steps towards structured data support for Wikimedia Commons.
  • You can now translate all sister project pages to your language, like Wikidata:Wikipedia. Please, link to them from your projects to give your fellow users chance to learn Wikidata basics.
  • You can now enable the CoordinateDiffMap Gadget in your preferences to get a map for coordinate changes.
  • There is a new command line tool to extract taxonomies from Wikidata
  • Simple guide to help Wikipedia editors find Wikidata IDs. In English - please translate into other languages!
  • You can now use Wikidata to do cool things in Mapbox with the Mapbox iOS SDK
  • IPTC's NewsCodes Working Group has mapped the top two levels of hierarchical terms of Media Topics to Wikidata
  • WMDE's progress report for the annual plan grant with a focus on Wikidata has been published
  • Need to query Wikidata, but lack SPARQL skills? There is now Wikidata:Request a query for you!
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: residence time of water, railway signalling system, located in protected area, Rolling Stone artist ID, French national research structure identifier, backup or reserve team or crew, laws applied, surface tension, Standard Geographical Classification code, World Archery ID, Conservatoire du littoral ID, Australian Heritage Database Place ID, Cadw Monument ID, Marine Regions Geographic ID, valid in place, Galiciana ID, zanikleobce.cz abandoned objects ID, Untappd brewery ID, retirement age
  • Query examples: frequency of Romans' praenomen (source), movies by number of actors who studied at RADA (source), actors directed by Tony Scott number of appearances (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director (source), actors directed more than 20 times by the same director with years (source)
  • Newest database reports: list of Romans, minimum ages by country
• Development
  • Got the demo system for structured data on Commons ready for first show (see above)
  • Wikipedia editors will soon get a notification when an article they created was connected to a Wikidata item. Thanks Matej! (phabricator:T110604)
  • Worked on improving handling of -1 etc in quantities (phabricator:T115269)
  • Added a message to the suggester that pops up when you search for items or properties. When no matching property or item is found it will now tell you. (phabricator:T140085)
  • Considerably improved our browser tests to find more issues before You ever see them.
  • Added Haida as a language available for monolingual text properties (phabricator:T138131)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #221

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Repository Fringe (slides)
  • Past: WikiConference India 2016
  • Upcoming: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic is SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: SMWCon (call for contributions)
  • Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia Wikidata BigQuery
  • Livin’ on the edge
  • Communes orphelines?
  • Paper: Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • Paper: Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases
  • Paper: WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We now have two new pages to find property proposal discussions that need input: Property proposal/Overview, Property proposal/Attention needed
  • WSDM2017 Cup on knowledge base quality and search including tasks about vandalism detection in Wikidata (announcement)
  • Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
  • Wikidata Toolkit 0.7.0 has been released
  • Several grant proposals that could use endorsements or discussion: Wikidata module, StrepHit IEG renewal, Librarybase, WikiFactMine
  • 15% of items connected to articles on Japanese Wikipedia have no statements (report with categories on these pages)
  • Wikidata descriptions on mobile web version of Wikipedia
  • Job opening at TIB
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: wheelbase, IWM memorial ID, spatial reference system, precipitation height, ISBN publisher prefix, Indonesian ethnicity code, package management system, adjacent building, EPPO Code, sheet music, UK National Archives ID, open period to, open period from, closed on, open days, ITU letter code, Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID, flag bearer, Iranica ID
  • Query examples: places of worship in France (source), former capitals (source), Edinburgh-born authors and their notable works (source), movies by David Lynch by duration (source), descendants of Gustav Vasa, people sharing the same name, the other way around, Tony awards nominees and winners (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
  • Newest database reports: List of Roman dictators
• Development
  • Glorian joins the team for 6 months as a product management intern
  • Example dialog on query.wikidata.org now shows categories (phabricator:T140576)
  • Map result view now allows layers and multi colored dots (preview)
  • Made the tatus bar messages in the Query Service translatable (phabricator:T140383)
  • Made it easier to notice that embedded Query Service results can be edited and are coming from Wikidata (phabricator:T138766)
  • Improved the way error messages are displayed while editing items (phabricator:T141880, phabricator:T141879)
  • Worked on layout improvements to have a better visual separation of qualifiers and references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Added a line to the suggester to indicate when no matching item or property was found (phabricator:T142034)
  • Fixed and issue with scroll bars in the logo section of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T139977)
  • Worked more on making it possible to translate an article in the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T124036)
  • Worked on fixing link in in other languages section for ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T137933)
  • Worked more on groundwork for multi content revisions which we need for structured data support for Commons in order to have structured and unstructured data on the file page at the same time (phabricator:T141878)
  • Worked on automatically creating a mediainfo entity when adding a statement - so far it is only possible by adding a label or description (phabricator:T140760)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 09:40, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Edit-a-thon in a historic building in Buenos Aires Basque Country report: Basque spring-summer blooming Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art halfway Brazil report: Cultural Mapping: knowing better the Brazilian museums scenario France report: Bons baisers de France Macedonia report: 290 photos by Manaki brothers Mexico report: Wikipedia in Mayan; GLAM in Aldea Digital Spain report: Attending the Peace Treaties in Art Edit-a-thon Sweden report: Connected Open Heritage; Critiquing social norms with free images Switzerland report: Open Cultural Data Hackathon UK report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers USA report: Engaging the experts & training the trainers Open Access report: Wikimedian in Residence opening; Ancestral reconstruction; A swimming centipede Wikidata report: Pokémon and more WMF GLAM report: Grants; New Content Donation Evaluation Report; WMF Updates Calendar: August's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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Wikidata weekly summary #222

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: Data quality framework for Wikidata
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Wikidata-Hackathon (topic was SPARQL) in München on 11th of August
  • Upcoming: a Wikidata workshop in French will be conducted by Ash Crow and Harmonia Amanda during the French-speaking Wikiconvention on 21st August 2016 in Paris
  • History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Léa joins the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata
  • ArticlePlaceholder is now live on Welsh and Kannada Wikipedia
  • You can now render sparql queries using the Histropedia timeline engine. Example : Structures in London, colour coded by heritage status

    

    Structures in London on Histropedia

  • The Wikidata image search tool can now show Commons images around items (example)
  • Job offer : Textmining, Hochschule Hannover
  • New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • UK Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register has been added to Mix'n'Match
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: SIMBAD ID, destroyed, damaged, game artist, standard enthalpy of formation, Cineplex film ID, Open Beauty Facts category ID, official religion, Grace's Guide ID, CosIng number, Storting person ID, standard molar entropy, dynamic viscosity, UN document symbol, WIPO ST.3, GS1 country code, GLAM ID, RERO ID, LepIndex ID, gestation period, Basisregistratie Instellingen number, ButMoth ID, Architectuurgids building ID, Architectuurgids architect ID, Charity Commission no., Turner Classic Movies person ID, NAQ elected person ID, Ontario MPP ID, K League player ID, Bloomberg person ID, Kindred Britain ID, CMFS player ID, Scottish FA player ID, racing-reference driver ID, footballzz ID, Fora De Jogo player ID, HanCinema person ID, College Football HoF ID, scoresway soccer person id, CageMatch wrestling stable id, luminous intensity, SoundCloud ID
  • Query examples: 2016 Olympics flag bearers (source), Composer that scored more than 100 films (source), churches using the same image (source), Challenge: Find a class with more fictional instances than real ones (source), items on human genes with unreferenced statements (source), Women elected to the UK Paliament (via WD:RAQ), Treaties of Paris (source), fictional thoroughfares (source), map of sports teams, with layers for different sports (source), big cities grouped into map layers by population (source), Free software with/without license (source), treaties with/without a date (source), capitals that aren’t capitals (soure), works of art depicting many people (source)
• Development
  • mw:Wikibase/DataModel/JSON#time was revised, clarifying the use for dates before year 1.
  • Language code "non" for Old Norse is now available for monolingual text (phabricator:T137115)
  • Worked more on better visual layout of references (phabricator:T141862)
  • Fixed issue with references not being expanded in diff view (phabricator:T129836)
  • Added link to Wikidata item from ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T126873)
  • Enabled ArticlePlaceholder on knwiki and cywiki
  • Removed collapsing behaviour from error messages (phabricator:T141879)
  • Started writing out next steps for how to use Wikidata items and properties on Commons
  • Drafting interface stability policy (phabricator:T142084)
  • Worked more in making it possible to create mediainfo entities by adding a statement to a non-existing one (phabricator:T140760)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

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Americalang/en

Welcome, This a new project for Indigenous languages and Minority languages in the Americas, thank you for your participation in this program, you can to contact other Native-American people in Wikimedia and Wikipedias, See you next time.--Marrovi (talk) 18:01, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #223

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open request for adminship: ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2
  • Closed request for comments:
    • Category commons P373 and "Other sites"
    • Adopt Help:Classification as an official help page
    • Review of "change datatype to monolingual" actions for some properties
    • Refining "part of"
    • Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
    • Wikidata:Notability overhaul
    • RfP voting eligibility
    • Standards for property proposal discussions
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • August 17-19 : VIVO conference, see also the keynote about collaboratively created, linked open knowledge.
  • August 20-21 : the Wikiconvention in Paris. Check the notes taken during the Wikidata workshop
  • Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM, on the Wikimedia Foundation blog
  • All your locations are belong to us on Magnus' blog
  • Paper: An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
  • Paper: Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Job offer : PHP software developer for Wikidata, Wikimedia Deutschland
  • Wikidata has now a stable interface policy to guarantee the stability of the tools
  • Enabling Wikidata data access in user language
  • COOL-WD now includes a gadget to show completeness information in Wikidata
  • Mix'n'Match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items. A new catalogue for ContentMine has been added!
  • WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
  • Extracting Wikidata annotations to create DBpedia mappings project during Google Summer of Code
• Did you know?

  

  Popular surnames among humans

  • Newest properties: develops from, recovered by, film crew member, mount, flight number, Flags of the World ID, ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, fiscal/tax revenue, speed limit, qualifies for event, freedom of panorama
  • Query examples:
    • A famous Italian song, Tanti Auguri by Raffaella Carrà, states "Com'è bello far l'amore da Trieste in giù" (literally, in English: "How great it is to make love from Trieste to below"). This is a query to find out where you shouldn't make love.
    • Common occupations of heads of state (source).
    • Murderers by region in France (source).
    • Authors with a known location and an ORCID (source).
    • Popular surnames among humans (source).
    • Movies that won all the Oscars they were nominated for (source).
    • Colors with multiple RGB statements (source)
    • Filmography of Jean Gabin (source)
    • Cities as big as Antwerp (source)
    • Cities connected by the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian Railway (source)
    • Histropedia timeline of Europeana280 artworks (source)
  • Newest gadgets: Sort the statements on items, prefill "access date" with current date
  • New templates: {{Belgium properties}}, {{France properties}}, {{Italy properties}}, {{Spain properties}}. Please add labels in your own languages, and consider making a similar template for your country or region. Also, add P17-statements to property entities.
  • Newest database reports: list of riders and their horse
• Development
  • Continuing to work on the concepts for the automatic list generation
  • Enable allow data access in user language will come on Wikidata soon
  • Menus are now internationalised on the query service
  • Clarified error message when adding a URL without a protocol
  • Created a gadget to try out global sort order in items
  • Fixed a bug where the input field for a value was not loaded
  • Worked on the interface stability policy
  • Made possible to create mediainfo entity by adding a statement
  • Worked on showing from which items a given Wikipedia article uses data
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #224

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • We need your input about how you edit lists on Wikipedia

• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Upcoming: First Wikidata workshop in the Czech Republic, 3rd September, University of Pardubice
  • Past: Wikidata workshop by Asaf Bartov during the CEE WikiConv in Dilijan, Armenia
  • Past: Wikidata presentation during Django Girls in Berlin
  • GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick
  • Modeling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
  • Paper: Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Planet to Earth: this tool uses data from Wikidata to visualise the links between places on an astronomical body named after a place on planet Earth.
  • WikiDataScape is a Cytoscape app for interactive browsing of Wikidata.
  • The property "KML file" was created last week (see list below) and has already a full list of values, sample LUA module and property documentation page available (Property talk:P3096)
  • enabling data access in user language will be deployed on Wikidata on August 29

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: Tela Botanica ID (Metropolitan France), Gare & Connexions ID, has tense, Plantarium ID, FloraBase ID, Flora of Australia ID, Internet Bird Collection species ID, ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier, ISBN identifier group, KML file, practiced by
  • Query examples:
    • RADA alumni with a good or featured article on Wikipedia (source)
    • Historians with links to French Wikipedia or Wikisource, but missing VIAF ID (source)
    • Unicorn taxa, including the Indian rhinoceros (source)
    • Mithras shrines, as a map (source)
    • 2.300 Wikidata archaeological sites without coordinates (source)
    • All items on Wikidata whom we know we don't know their sex or gender: (source)
    • Drug-disease interactions (source)
    • Nicknames of serial killers (source)
    • Dynamic data map of all U-bahn lines in Berlin with colors (source)
    • Timeline of internet services by type to celebrate 25 yrs of the web (source)
    • Network of color (source)
    • Dynamic data map of all country by year of joining the United Nations (source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Theatre
  • Newest gadgets:
  • Newest external tools: Wikidata Class Browser (includes subclass counts and instance counts)
  • Newest database reports:
  • New feature/gadget requests:
  • Showcase items:

• Development
  • Fixed a but where the text field doesn't always load when trying to add a statement (phabricator:T115267)
  • We're now also creating mediainfo entities when a statement is added to a non-existent media info entity (phabricator:T140760)
  • Fixed a but where the suggester would show information twice (phabricator:T143645)
  • The ArticlePlaceholder now also shows the links to other projects in the In Other Projects sidebar (phabricator:T141771)
  • Worked more in figuring out how to show usage tracking data (phabricator:T103091)
  • Made progress on Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add useful and complete references (phabricator:T141856)
  • Worked on restore "purge without confirm" user right (phabricator:T143435)

• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 13:41, 29 August 2016 (UTC)