[Talk-us] Slides and video of Wikimedia Foundation presentations at State of the Map US

[Pine W]

Hi OSM,

Here is the link to the slides that Katherine Maher presented at State of
the Map US:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katherine_Maher%27s_keynote_presentation_at_OSM_State_of_the_Map_US_2016.pdf

Video of Katherine's presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywGuz1586M0

Here is the link to the slides that Yuri Astrakhan presented at State of
the Map US:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10D8Q0w8gwMqOvciDDFZSBuRKxFpGsdwM0D5QcBFmTyA/edit?usp=sharing

Video of Yuri's presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kscsp0YS7nw

Regards,

Pine

Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Wikimedia community. I'm not employed by
the Wikimedia Foundation and I don't speak for it. I have a grant from the
Wikimedia Foundation that is a little related to OSM but OSM isn't a focus
of the grant. I am interested in in developing the relationship between
Wikimedia and OSM. The opinions of the Wikimedia Foundation may or may not
reflect my own, and vice versa (:
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Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

[Pine W]

Hi Clifford,

Let me clarify that we're discussing OSM tagging with Wikidata IDs, not
Wikipedia articles. They are two related but different concepts.

Pine

On Aug 8, 2016 22:05, "Clifford Snow" <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Speaking as an OSM novice but an experienced Wikimedian, having Wikidata
>> ID tags makes sense to me. This sounds like something that could benefit
>> Wikidata, Wikipedia, and other projects that recognize Wikidata IDs. There
>> might be no need to have multiple external ID tags in OSM if the Wikidata
>> tag is included and if other projects can recognize the Wikidata ID.
>> However, this assumes that Wikidata agrees that objects that get tagged in
>> OSM are worthy of having a Wikidata item; an unremarkable McDonald's might
>> be below that threshold for Wikidata even if the store is worthy of
>> inclusion on OSM. Pinging Lydia and Yuri to ask if they have thoughts about
>> this.
>
>
> Pine,
> It was great meeting you at sotmus.
>
> Wikipedia tags should only be used on objects that have a wikipedia
> article. McDonalds fastfood locations wouldn't normally have an article.
> Similarly, something I can relate better to is Starbucks. We had a problem
> where people were adding the starbucks wikipedia tag to every location. As
> far as I could tell, only one starbucks has an article, the one by Pike
> Place Market. Having the wikipedia tag was creating a problem with
> Nominatim which gives a higher rank to locations with a wikipedia article.
>
> Most likely many brand name stores are tagged wrong. Someone with good
> skills could write a script, after approval from the community, to remove
> those tags.
>
> Clifford
>
>
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Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Building a free/open reviews community w/ OSM support

[Pine W]

Speaking as an OSM novice but an experienced Wikimedian, having Wikidata ID
tags makes sense to me. This sounds like something that could benefit
Wikidata, Wikipedia, and other projects that recognize Wikidata IDs. There
might be no need to have multiple external ID tags in OSM if the Wikidata
tag is included and if other projects can recognize the Wikidata ID.
However, this assumes that Wikidata agrees that objects that get tagged in
OSM are worthy of having a Wikidata item; an unremarkable McDonald's might
be below that threshold for Wikidata even if the store is worthy of
inclusion on OSM. Pinging Lydia and Yuri to ask if they have thoughts about
this.

Pine

On Aug 8, 2016 20:22, "Marc Gemis"  wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Erik Moeller  wrote:
> >> - add an external ID to OSM. This would be analogue to the current
> wikidata
> >> tag.
>
> It's better not to add external IDs to OSM. It would be OK if there is
> only 1 project in the world that would do this, but if every pet
> project will start doing this ...
> Also, in general, there is no way for contributors to verify the IDs
> added by third parties, which makes it hard to verify whether they are
> still valid.
> Furthermore there is no guarantee that someone might remove this tag.
> So you will need a fallback method anyway.
>
> So please do not use this method
>
>
> regards
>
> m
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[Talk-us] SHA-1 collision announced by Google

[Pine W]

If you develop or run software that uses SHA-1, here's another reason to
upgrade to a more secure algorithm:

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html

Pine
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[Talk-us] Fwd: [Analytics] February 15, 2017 Research Showcase

[Pine W]

The first presentation mentioned below may be of interest to OSM folks, as
well as Wikimedia maps people. These talks are presented by the Wikimedia
Foundation and are live-streamed.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
From: Sarah R 
Date: Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:49 PM
Subject: [Analytics] February 15, 2017 Research Showcase
To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org, analyt...@lists.wikimedia.org,
wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this February 15, 2017 at
11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6smzMppb-I

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
.

This month's presentations:

Wikipedia and the Urban-Rural DivideBy *Isaac Johnson*Wikipedia articles
about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced
content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and
intelligent technologies. We explore the effectiveness of the peer
production model across the rural/urban divide, a divide that has been
shown to be an important factor in many online social systems. We find that
in Wikipedia (as well as OpenStreetMap), peer-produced content about rural
areas is of systematically lower quality, less likely to have been produced
by contributors who focus on the local area, and more likely to have been
generated by automated software agents (i.e. “bots”). We continue to
explore and codify the systemic challenges inherent to characterizing rural
phenomena through peer production as well as discuss potential solutions.


Wikipedia Navigation VectorsBy *Ellery Wulczyn
*In this project, we
learned embeddings for Wikipedia articles and Wikidata
 items by applying
Word2vec  models to a corpus of
reading sessions. Although Word2vec models were developed to learn word
embeddings from a corpus of sentences, they can be applied to any kind of
sequential data. The learned embeddings have the property that items with
similar neighbors in the training corpus have similar representations (as
measured by the cosine similarity
, for example).
Consequently, applying Wor2vec to reading sessions results in article
embeddings, where articles that tend to be read in close succession have
similar representations. Since people usually generate sequences of
semantically related articles while reading, these embeddings also capture
semantic similarity between articles.

-- 
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodl...@wikimedia.org

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[Talk-us] University of Washington "to host global center for disaster reconnaissance and research"

[Pine W]

Perhaps of interest:
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/uw-will-host-global-center-for-disaster-reconnaissance-research/

"NSF-funded disaster reconnaissance teams from across the country will be
able to draw on the UW center’s tools, expertise and personnel. All data
will be freely shared."

Pine
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Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Hunting area tagging

[Pine W]

Whoops, wrong list! Sorry.

On Oct 25, 2016 08:41, "Pine W" <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think you misunderstood my purpose. I was not contacting OSM to complain
> about illegal signs. I was responding to the original poster and urging
> caution about relying on signs. At least in my jurisdiction, official
> databases seem to me to be more reliable than signage regarding property
> rights.
>
> Perhaps there are parts of the world in which official databases are
> incomplete, outdated, or nonexistent, in which case mappers could adapt to
> local conditions as best as possible.
>
> Pine
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Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Hunting area tagging

[Pine W]

I think you misunderstood my purpose. I was not contacting OSM to complain
about illegal signs. I was responding to the original poster and urging
caution about relying on signs. At least in my jurisdiction, official
databases seem to me to be more reliable than signage regarding property
rights.

Perhaps there are parts of the world in which official databases are
incomplete, outdated, or nonexistent, in which case mappers could adapt to
local conditions as best as possible.

Pine
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[Talk-us] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Research Scientist position at WMF

[Pine W]

Forwarding in case there are statisticians or scientists in OSM that would
be interested in this job posting.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
Hi all,

The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has just opened a full-time
research scientist position
.
In the past years, the team has worked on a variety of projects, including:
building ML-based scoring systems for Wikipedia and Wikidata

, recommendations systems for article creation
,
models
to detect harassment and personal attacks
,
and more. we are looking to add one more full-time role to our team to
expand our research capacity and strengthen our collaborations with
academia and industry.

If this is the kind of job you're interested in, please consider applying.
If you know people in your network who may be a good fit, please encourage
them to apply.

Best,
Leila

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[Talk-us] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] [fellowship] Opportunity for people working on "open projects that support a healthy Internet."

[Pine W]

Forwarding.

Pine


-- Forwarded message --
From: Melody Kramer 
Date: Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 2:26 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [fellowship] Opportunity for people working on "open
projects that support a healthy Internet."
To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi all,

I wanted to pass along an opportunity that I saw earlier today via Twitter:
https://medium.com/read-write-participate/work-in-the-open-
with-mozilla-1410be0a83b2

It sets up people working on "open projects that support a healthy
Internet" with a mentor, a cohort of like-minded people from all over the
world, and a trip to Mozfest, which is a London-based open Internet
conference I've attended/presented at in past years and found really
mind-expanding due to the cross-disciplinary conversations that take place.

You can see previous projects here: https://mozilla.github.
io/leadership-training/round-3/projects/ — it looks like there's quite a
broad cross-section and many of the projects across the movement might be
applicable. The post notes participants will learn about "best practices
for project setup and communication, tools for collaboration, community
building, and running events."

Thank you to Leila for suggesting I pass this along to this listserv. Feel
free to share it broadly.


- Mel


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Read a random featured article from Wikipedia!


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Re: [Talk-us] State Open Data

[Pine W]

I'm interested in this subject. An issue is that the copyright might be
owned by the government entity that created it, even if the records are
open for the public. If something is public record in California, does that
also mean that it's not copyrighted by the government entity that created
it?

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 5:55 PM OSM Volunteer stevea <
stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote:

> In California, we are quite fortunate to have not only a great deal of
> open data, but an explicit (two, actually) state Supreme Court cases which
> unambiguously assert that data created by the state in the name of the
> People belong to, yup, We, the People.  In other words, if the data are
> public, created by a state agency, the data are "ours" to use as we see
> fit, including a hand-in-glove fit with OSM's ODbL.  The web's "initial
> entry point" can be considered https://data.ca.gov although there are
> MANY more online sources of such data which can be freely used.
>
> Please see:
>
> Government Code §11549.30 (the California Open Data Act),
>
> County of Santa Clara v. California First Amendment Coalition, 170 Cal.
> App. 4th 1301
>
> Sierra Club v. County of Orange, 57 Cal.4th 157 (2013) and
>
> California Public Records Act (Statutes of 1968, Chapter 1473; currently
> codified as California Government Code §§ 6250 through 6276.48)
>
> Hooray for open data, hooray for how it continues to improve OSM!
>
> SteveA
> California
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[Talk-us] State of the Map US and Wiki Conference North America in 2019?

[Pine W]

Hi OSM US,

Wikipedians and other participants in the other source universe have had a
conference in the past few years called Wiki Conference North America. For
2019 the WCNA's frequent major financial sponsor, the Wikimedia Foundation,
is not making funding available, so the organizers of Wiki Conference North
America are interested in possibly co-locating the conference with another
organization that has mutual interests and is willing to collaborate. Would
the OSM US organization be willing to have a conversation with the Wiki
Conference North America organizers about possibly collaborating on a
single conference for 2019?

Even if OSM US has no dedicated funding available for Wikimedia activities,
if both events could happen together so that WCNA activities would require
less funding than if WCNA had a separate conference, that would be of
interest to the WCNA organizers.

Thanks,

Pine
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