Wikidata weekly summary #183
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
- Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
- Semantic Cities
- Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
- Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
- Past: semwebpro (slides)
- Past: ODI Summit
- Past: MozFest (etherpad)
- Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of Teknopedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
- Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
- Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
- Ever noticed ranks?
- Development
- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
- Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
- Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
- Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
- Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
- Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
- Worked more on making search work on mobile
- Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
- 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.
This Month in GLAM: October 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #184
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
- Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
- Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
- Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
- Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: constraint, minimal lethal dose, PPP GDP per capita, NSDAP membership number (1925–1945), employment by economic sector, money supply, net profit, current account balance, genetic association, consumption rate
- Newest WikiProjects: Education
- Newest Database reports: Items without claims by site
- Find Wikidata-only infoboxes in the Czech Teknopedia
- Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
- Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
- Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
- Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
- Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
- Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #185
Wikidata weekly summary #114
- Discussions
- New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Ubuntu Party, Paris
- Upcoming: Wikidata editathon, National Library of Wales
- More mixin’, more matches
- Impact of Wikimania Mexico 2015 on Wikidata
- Myanmar coordinates on Wikidata by Lockal & Widar
- Tasty translations for the Taste of Stockholm food festival
- Bachelor thesis about generating quiz questions from Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
- MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
- What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
- You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
- Alpha release of Teknopedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
- Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
- Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
- Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
- Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
- Decreased size of html of item pages
- Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
- More work on making the search on mobile work
- Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
- Fixing size of table of content on mobile
- Prevented merging of items which link to each other
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #186
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Koavf
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Teknopedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
- Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
- Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
- Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
- WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
- Workshop i Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
- New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
- A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
- example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
- Development
- Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
- Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
- Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
- Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
- Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
- 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.
Wikimedia Education Newsletter: December 2015
- 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 Teknopedia an answer?
- Armenia: Armenian students inspire their teachers to join Teknopedia
- Armenia: Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia
- Greece: Two Wikimedian adult educators and an adult student present paper on Wikimedia editing at CIE2015 in Greece
- Hong Kong: The very first Teknopedia Education Program of Wikimedia Hong Kong
- Israel: Teknopedia in Higher Education in Israel: A new for-credit elective course focusing on contributing to Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia
- Serbia: What I Learned: Wiki Photo School in Serbia
- Serbia: Teachers in Serbia professionally trained to use Teknopedia in the classroom by Wikimedians
- Sweden: Science Outreach on Teknopedia has impact on the Education Program in Sweden
- Uruguay: Education students in Uruguay reflect on Teknopedia as a learning tool
- Global: The Teknopedia Education Program now on Twitter
- Global: Recent improvements to the Teknopedia Education Collaborative bear fruit
- Global: Articles of interest in other publications
Wikidata weekly summary #187
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
- Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
- Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
- Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
- Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
- Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
- Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
- Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
- The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
- Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
- We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
- I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
- Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
- Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
- Map of narrative locations in Denmark
- Experimental REST API for Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
- Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
- Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
- Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
- Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
- Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
- Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
- Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
- Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Teknopedia and co
- Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
- Worked on PHP7 support
- 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.
This Month in GLAM: November 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #188
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
- The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
- Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
- Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Teknopedia editing at Museo Soumaya
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
- Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
- Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
- query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
- WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: JMDb film identifier, British Council artist ID, MLSSoccer.com ID, YouTube channel ID, image of function, MGI gene symbol, NCBI Locus tag, teaching method, OKPO ID, Ballotpedia ID, organisation directed from the office, office held by head of the organisation, Elonet actor ID, diameter, French diocesan architects ID, statement describes, CTHS person ID, Chemins de mémoire ID, Academic Tree ID, French Sculpture Census ID, deprecated in version, issued by
- Query example: Which "Lincoln" was "Lincoln" named for?, places by elevation span, people who died in 1945 (for upcoming 2016 public domain day)
- Newest Database reports: List of films without article in Teknopedia of the same language
- Development
- Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Further work on a separate section for identifiers
- Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
- Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
- Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
- Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
- Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Getting ready for the holidays :)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #189
Wikidata weekly summary #186
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
- Events/Blogs/Press
- World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
- You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
- Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
- Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
- WikiBrowser - semantically browse Teknopedia with the help of Wikidata
- WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
- Chronas is a history project linking Teknopedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
- Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
- Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
- Development
- <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
- We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
- Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
- Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
- Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
- Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
- More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #190
Wikidata weekly summary #186
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: 32C3
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
- Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
- Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
- Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
- The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Did you know?
- Development
- Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
- Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
- 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.
Censimento progetto Patrolling
Ciao Franciaio/Archivio4, nell'ambito del Progetto:Patrolling, al quale ti sei iscritto/a tempo fa come persona interessata, stiamo verificando il reale livello delle forze in campo contattando tutti gli utenti registrati con il progetto. Ti pregherei pertanto di farci sapere se sei ancora interessato/a a partecipare, andando in questa pagina e confermando il tuo nominativo nell'elenco dei partecipanti seguendo le istruzioni indicate. Se non riceviamo alcuna tua notizia entro 14 giorni, ossia il 14 gennaio 2016, provvederò io stesso a togliere il tuo nominativo dall'elenco. Potrai sempre tornare a iscriverti al progetto quando vuoi. Per qualunque domanda o suggerimento puoi lasciare una nota nella pagina di discussione del progetto (questa la discussione aperta riguardo la conferma dell'adesione). Cordiali saluti,
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Wikidata weekly summary #191
- Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
- Events/Blogs/Press
- The Reference Wars
- Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
- Wikidata references from Microdata
- Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
- From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
- Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
- Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
- The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
- IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Teknopedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
- Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: BugGuide ID, elibrary.ru organisation ID, member of the deme, ComLaw ID, Persons of Ancient Athens, IBU biathlete identifier, Mackolik.com footballer ID, Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number, dblp identifier, Species Profile and Threats Database ID, KNAW past member identifier, nominee, GeoNames feature code, MAME ROM, Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier, Turkish Football Federation manager ID, Turkish Football Federation player ID, transfermarkt manager id, transfermarkt footballer id, metasubclass of, homoglyph, stage reached, conversion to standard unit, literal translation, transliteration, language, narrator, number of seasons, voltage, PORT person ID, Panarctic Flora ID, gender of a scientific name of a genus, J. Paul Getty Museum artist id, Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id, takeoff roll, expected completeness, RePEc Short-ID, grid global research id, Xeno-canto species ID, service ribbon image, Berlin cultural heritage ID, FIE identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Broadcasting
- New feature/gadget requests: disambiguator tool, tool to move statements from one item to another
- Development
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
- More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
- Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
- We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
- Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
- More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
- Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
- References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
- SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
- 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.
This Month in GLAM: December 2015
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Wikidata weekly summary #192
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Teknopedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
- Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
- Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
- Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
- Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
- Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
- Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
- Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
- Teknopedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
- Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
- Did you know?
- Development
- Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
- Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
- Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
- Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
- Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
- Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #193
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
- Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Teknopedia articles
- Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
- Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
- Wikidata Graph Builder
- Help with matching up Teknopedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
- You can give input on WMF's strategy
- Looking for small Teknopedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
- Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
- French Teknopedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Ramsar Sites Information Service ID, SEED number, victory, female form of label, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url, Scope.dk person ID, Scope.dk film ID, category for recipients of this award, Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number, costume designer, Jamendo artist ID, Jamendo album ID, spin-off, MSK Gent work PID, National Discography of Italian Song ID, Movie Walker film ID, KINENOTE film ID, Corrigendum / Erratum, INSEE canton code, carries, Norwegian municipality number, Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID, classification of, results, level below, level above, Biographical Dictionary of Women, Latvian National Address Register identifier, Latvian toponymic names database identifier, Latvian cultural heritage register identifier, OM institution ID, MTMT author ID, Radzima.org ID, page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki, page at hram.by, page at Belarus Globe website, page at website of Belarus Geocenter, Fashion Model Directory brand ID, Fashion Model Directory photographer ID, NCES School ID, NCES District ID, SABR ID, Eliteprospects.com player ID, IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32), SPDX identifier, Railways Archive event ID, TBRC Resource ID, HNI person/institution ID, NAVA ID, CDLI ID, Asset of Local Relevance ID, ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier, Models.com ID, Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
- Query example: List of countries by age of the head of government
- Newest database reports: Missing properties by number of sitelinks/P26 (spouse: item or novalue)
- Development
- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
- Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
- Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
- Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
- Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
- Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
- Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
- Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
- More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #194
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Teknopedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
- WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
- Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #195
- Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
- Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
- Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Teknopedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
- What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
- We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
- Andrew updated his maps
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: matrices
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
- Did you know?
- Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
- 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.
This Month in GLAM: January 2016
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Wikidata weekly summary #196
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #196
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
- Did you know?
- Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #197
Wikidata weekly summary #186
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
- The museum map now works for all countries
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
- Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Teknopedias
- Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
- Query example: natural numbers
- Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Teknopedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
- Input needed on caching for the query service
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
- 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.
Wikidata weekly summary #198
- Events/Blogs/Press
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
- Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
- Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
- Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
- The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
- Query example: battles
- Development
- Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
- Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
- More groundwork for Commons support
- Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
- More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
- 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.
This Month in Education: [March 2016]
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Teknopedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
Snippet: Education Leaders at WISE Doha 2015 introducing Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia for students in WEP in Egypt and everybody who would like to edit Teknopedia without problems, The Arabic version of Welcome to Teknopedia reference guideline, PDF of brochure handed out during Arabic Teknopedia Convening, Doha, Qatar, 2011 and Introduction to Teknopedia. These contributions are related to show a case study of Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia. Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia Education Program in Egypt here.
Read more about the Teknopedia Education program in the Arab World here (in Arabic).
Snippet: A first-of-its-kind, for-credit, elective course that focuses on contributing to Teknopedia 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 "Teknopedia: Skills for producing and consuming knowledge"[1] 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.
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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia, 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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia Education Program, as it is the first time a higher institution acknowledges the importance of a course focusing on Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia Education Program in Israel here.
By Melina Masnatta, Wikimedia Argentina
Snippet: University professors become Teknopedians in an online course during just a week.
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 Teknopedia by first-hand or Teknopedia 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 Teknopedian and the importance of the movement at the local and regional level.
With only seven days and without being mandatory, different educators discovered how to edit on Teknopedia, 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. (…) Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Vojtěch Dostál (Wikimedia Czech Republic)
Snippet: The second largest university in the Czech Republic has employed a Teknopedian in residence, leading to a boom of Wikimedia activities in the city of Brno.
Collaboration between Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia by Masaryk University alumni society, demonstrated as early as March 2013.
In February 2015, the university employed one of the most experienced Czech Teknopedians – Marek Blahuš (Blahma) – who was appointed to become the university's first "Teknopedian in residence". Marek Blahuš has been in the center of the Wikimedia community in Brno for about two years, organizing regular Teknopedia meetups, the 2014 edition of the annual WikiConference (more in English here) and creating the Czech-Slovak Teknopedia translation tool, which has famously led to the creation of >9000 articles on Czech and Slovak Teknopedias (more in English here). His current work as Teknopedian 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, Teknopedia has taken a prominent role within Masaryk University. Marek Blahuš started a "Masaryk University Teknopedians team", gathering local Teknopedians 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. Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia" took place on university grounds, featuring the experienced Teknopedian Jan Sokol (Sokoljan), who is a philosopher, university teacher and a former presidential candidate. The talks focused on the use of Teknopedia in university education, in line with the successful Czech "Students Write Teknopedia" program. One of the teachers, Jiří Rambousek, expressed his desire to organize a Teknopedia Club as a regular meetup where articles would be improved in a collaborative effort and new editors introduced to Teknopedia.
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 "Teknopedian 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 Teknopedia into the curriculum, public presentations of Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia Education Program in the Czech Republic here.
By Leigh Thelmadatter (Wiki Learning-Tec de Monterrey)
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.
Some student photos:
Some video clips of the event:
Animation clips with the Museo de Arte Popular
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 Teknopedia
- 3,098 edits to the mainspace of Spanish Teknopedia
- 367 pages created in the mainspace of Spanish Teknopedia
Manual count
- 302 student and teacher participants
- 281 Spanish Teknopedia articles created or expanded
- 6,057 photographs
- 10 videos
- 9 articles in English Teknopedia
- 2 articles in French Teknopedia
- 1 article in Swedish Teknopedia
- 1 article in Danish Teknopedia
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 Teknopedia Education Program in Mexico here.
By Christian Cariño (Wikimedia México) and Melina Masnatta (Wikimedia Argentina)
Snippet: Aprender para Educar writes about Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia in the classroom because teachers ignore how Teknopedia is built.
Everybody reads Teknopedia, 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 Teknopedia Education Program in Argentina here.
By Walaa Abdel Manaem (Teknopedia Education Program Egypt) & (Egypt Wikimedians user group)
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 Teknopedia. 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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia". 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 Teknopedia and the education program. At the same time Walaa was assigning her Spanish department students of the first and second year to edit Teknopedia.
This term, Prof. Abeer let the chance to her students to choose any articles they would like to translate from the Spanish Teknopedia to the Arabic Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia, with the help of the online ambassador, who also participated as a student.
See the course page of this group on the Arabic Teknopedia here.
Read more about the Teknopedia Education Program in Egypt here.
By Jorid Martinsen (Wikimedia Norge)
Snippet: This fall masters students in History and Archeology at the University of Oslo take on the task of Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia 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 Teknopedia editing and using the ways of Teknopedia to discuss how knowledge is formed.
Read more about the Teknopedia Education Program in Norway here.
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- ^ Link to the course page at the TAU website (in Hebrew) - http://www2.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?course=1880180101&year=2015