Re: [Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden
Thanks. I have discovered some estimations of lakes for more countries, but no datasets. Belarus: 11,000+ Canada: 31,752+ larger than 3 km² (2-3 million in total) Estonia: 1,000+ Finland: 187,888 lakes 500 m² or larger (56,000 over 10,000 m²) Latvia: 3,000+ Lithuania: 3,000+ Norway: 450,000+ 2013/5/17 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se Sorry not, and what we have learned is how hard is to to define what a lake is In Swden some mention there are 200 000 lakes, and that the Hydrology authority has data of over 150 000 but where less then 75 000 has a name and many with just rudimentary data. The lakes with environment impact data are 7 233 and in this project data with 100 dataitems per lake are collected from three authorities, and articles are generated into sv:wp for 57 648 (not 30 000) lakes. Only around a few percent of these are without name and the most common name is used by 645 unique lakes... (just to take care of the forkpages is a science in its own) Anders Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada skrev 2013-05-17 18:06: Very cool project. Do you know how many lakes are there in other European countries (or website/datasets)? It is for this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**User:Emijrp/All_human_**knowledge#Lakeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge#Lakes 2013/5/16 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se A new major botgenerating effort is now under way on sv:wp. All lakes (3, all down to ones of pondsizes with no name) is now produced based on lake data from Swedish metereology institute and all lake environment data from a newly set up authority demanded by EU, in order to register and track all data of lakes in all Europe. The articles are generated by AWB and with some manual effort to take care of text in existing articles and a major effort taking care of all with the same name (Little lake, Black lake etc) Examples http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96ren,_Sm%C3%A5landhttp:** //sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%**96ren,_Sm%C3%A5landhttp://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96ren,_Sm%C3%A5land http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunnhttp://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Bunn http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Bunn http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunn Also on maps from Google or Bing you can localize all lakes if you do not know the name (and for the ones missing name) https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://toolserver.org/~**para/**https://maps.google.com/maps?**q=http://toolserver.org/~para/** cgi-bin/kmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%** 253AInsj%2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3% 2525B6pings_kommunhttps://**maps.google.com/maps?q=http://** toolserver.org/~para/cgi-bin/**kmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%** 26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%**2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%** 2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_**kommunhttps://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://toolserver.org/~para/cgi-bin/kmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_kommun or http://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=http%3A%2F%** 2Ftoolserver.org%2F%7Epara%2Fcgi-bin%2Fkmlexport%** 3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%2525C3%** 2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_kommunhtt** p://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=**http%3A%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%** 2F%7Epara%2Fcgi-bin%**2Fkmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%** 26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%**2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%** 2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_**kommunhttp://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%2F%7Epara%2Fcgi-bin%2Fkmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_kommun As you can see the text is substantial around 5000 characters and even thing like fisharts in the lakes are generated from databases. We are now starting to contemplate to put these type of basedata in Wikidata (we are experimenting with this for some adm units), and to generate the articles from that as a base instead of from database extracted from the authorities and put on personal PCs We have excellent relations with involved authorities that are really happy with the result, and we are now being approached by other authorites who wants to follow and get their data from theirs databases used to generate qualified Wp articles (like all runestones, all archaeological excavations sites, all artworks placed on official grounds etc) Are there any other effort like this going on, especially if any one come further in establish links from authorities databased to wikidata? Anders ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**orgWikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/ mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)
* Hey all, For the last 18 months, the Engineering Product Development department has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between those who write code and those who write articles. While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a lot of promise. We have a number of large projects coming down the pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged. We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams and focuses. In particular we’re looking for people with a strong history of contributions to our projects who can provide sound and reasoned judgment and are trusted to do so by their community. Speaking other languages in addition to English is a major plus, as one of the objectives here is to ensure we can properly interact with and support non-English projects. I’ve included the full job description below. Our immediate need is for help with the Visual Editor. We’d like to hire a few community liaisons to help inform different Wikipedia language communities of the upcoming launch, create spaces for feedback and discussion, synthesize feedback for the Visual Editor team, and other activities required to support the Visual Editor launch later this year. If this is a role that would interest you, please e-mail Philippe Beaudette at pbeaude...@wikimedia.orghttps://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cmfs=1tf=1to=pbeaude...@wikimedia.org. And if you know someone else who might fit the role, let them know about it :-). We’re provisionally interested in hiring 2-3 liaisons, at an hourly rate commensurate with experience. This can be a part-time role, but we’ll need at least 15 hours/week for the length of the engagement (minimum 3 months). Please do apply if you think it’s a role that suits you, and if you find places we haven’t notified, spread the word! Thanks. Howie * _ Howie Fung Director of Product Development Wikimedia Foundation * Community Liaison Job Description Background Information and Statement of Purpose The Wikimedia Foundation’s Engineering Product Development Department is looking at ways to more effectively incorporate broad community perspectives in decisions and hold dialogues with our editors about the scope, pace and features of upcoming changes to Wikimedia projects. As part of this, it is hiring additional Community Liaisons from our volunteer community. Scope of Work Support and improve our ongoing software development projects, in particular: - Building up a network of volunteers from both English language and non-English language wikis, increasing the number of projects we can interact with; - Engaging the community in the software development process, by acting as a conduit for community questions, bugs and and feature requests, talking to editors about our work and how they can participate in it effectively, and recruiting them for workgroups and studies; - Being available from time to time to provide expertise and knowledge about our projects, including but not limited to training externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis; - Ensuring that our community is represented in the decision-making process and that our planned software adequately reflects user needs; - Monitoring Wikimedia projects, with the assistance of a network of volunteers, for emerging issues that have an impact on Engineering programmes; and - Other duties as needed. Requirements Effective Community Liaisons will be: - Experienced users of Wikimedia projects, capable of representing our community within the Foundation and vice-versa. - Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to explain our products to different groups of users with different levels of technical understanding. - Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding which concerns and views are widespread and which are marginal or individual. - Approachable, as both users and product developers must be able to trust these people for the relationship to function. - Self-motivated - they will be given important projects and expected to execute with little to no supervision. - Strongly empathetic - they excel at understanding the perspectives of others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world. - Willing and able to
