Just a short reminder that if you want to make use of the financial support mentioned in the last e-mail then please get in touch with me today as registration closes this week.
*Taking off my Wikimedia Sverige hat for a minute. Whatever you are intending to work on, if you are attending the hackathon it would be nice to meet up!* Cheers, André Costa (Lokal_Profil when not wearing my Wikimedia Sverige hat) On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, 09:19 André Costa, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Wikimedia Sverige has been running the FindingGLAMs project > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs> over the last year which > has identified two areas (amongst others) where technical development is > needed to unblock GLAM contributions. The first is support for Structured > Data on Commons in the major upload tools (of which Pywikibot is a big > one), the second is support for uploading Lexicographical data to Wikidata. > > I’ve seen some Pywikibot activity and discussion on both of these issues > but neither seems to have taken off. To try and get either, or both, of > these kickstarted I think it would be useful to get some of the active > Pywikibot developers together. I believe that even just a joint schematic > understanding of how these new features should be implemented would be a > good outcome as this would aid actual implementation (as well as subsequent > code review). Since Wikimedia Sverige is also hosting Wikimania this year > the attached Hackathon > <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Hackathon> provides an > excellent opportunity for this. > > If you are attending and interested in joining up for this I’d love to > hear from you. Wikimedia Sverige also has a travel budget which can be used > for bringing a few selected people working on these areas to the Wikimania > Hackathon (this is outside of the scholarship process). > > Since our budget is limited I’d kindly ask that if you would be interested > in receiving some financial support for the travel, please contact me off > list and answer the following questions (each answer should be no longer > than 100 words): > > 1. > > What would you be interested working on? > 2. > > What relevant experience do you have? > 3. > > What is the expected travel cost you would need support with? > > > > Related tasks > > - > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223820 - SDC on Commons > - > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189321 - Lexicographical data > - > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186200 - Rethink Wikibase data > model implementation (may or may not be a blocker to either of the above) > > > Cheers, > > André Costa (also Lokal_Profil when not wearing my Wikimedia Sverige hat) > André Costa | Chief Operating Officer, Wikimedia Sverige | > [email protected] | +46 (0)733-964574 > > Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. > Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se >
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