[Wikimedia-l] ¿Qué te esta haciendo feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 August 2019)

[Pine W]

*Content*


The English Wikiquote of the day for 8 August is from American poet Sara
Teasdale . The quote is a
poem, "Alchemy
,"
from her collection *Rivers to the Sea* that was published in 1915. A few
years later and for another poetry collection, Teasdale received a Pulitzer
prize .


The Commons picture of the day for 2 August was of a butterfly, a Spotted
fritillary (Melitaea didyma
),
in Galichica National Park, Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia), by
photographer Charles J. Sharp from Scotland.



*Products and technologies*


The oldest “unbreak now” task on Phabricator as of 1 August was 0 days
.
(This could mean that there were no unbreak now tasks at the time that the
Phabricator report was generated, which would be good news.)


Cross-posting thanks from Legoktm on Wikitech-l
:

   -

“Daimona, bawolff, and sbassett for their work on v2.0 of the
   phan-taint-check-plugin, which has been instrumental in catching real
   security issues.


   -

   “James_F for picking up a lot of CI maintenance
   -

   “MatmaRex for seeing through a patch to allow skins to have custom OOUI
   themes, 2 years after beginning work on it!”


*Wikidata*

A summary of interesting links, adapted from Wikidata Weekly Summary #376
:


   -

   "Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier"
   , Theo van
   Veen, *Information Technology and Libraries*, 38(2), 72-81.
   -

   "Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured
   Knowledge Base Wikidata"
   ,
   Adelheid Heftberger et al, in *Digital Cultural Heritage*, pp 401-410.
   -

   "Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and
   distributed representations"
   
,
   Pierpaolo Basile, et al, *Information Systems*, Volume 86, December
   2019, pp 1-8.
   -

   "Open Refine Beginners Tutorial"
   ,
   video tutorial by Emmacarroll3 demonstrating how to import a dataset with
   OpenRefine.


*Affiliate organizations*



   -

   Wikimedia Medicine
   
   was elevated from User Group to Thematic Organization.
   -

   Wikimedia Colombia 
   was elevated from User Group to Chapter.
   -

   User group recognitions: Hausa Wikimedians User Group
   
,
   Wikipedians of Goa User Group
   
,
   Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group
   
,
   and Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
   

   .
   -

   Wikimedia Portugal has signed a new chapter agreement with WMF
   
   .



*Legal topics*

"The European Commission chooses truly free licenses for its content
",
by Dimitar Dimitrov, Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU



*Closing comments*


What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.


Translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta
.

Yours in service,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research + Chapters, User Groups, Affiliates at Wikimania

[Leila Zia]

Hi all,

I heard from 13 folks. Thank you for that. Based on the feedback on
the time and day of the event, the best time to schedule it seems to
be Friday, August 16, 16:00-17:20. So that's it. :) The meet-up page
is at 
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Meetups/Research_chapters_affiliates_usergroups_meetup
and I will update the room information once I have it secured. :)

I am behind on finalizing the agenda based on your responses to the
survey. You will see the finalized one by August 12.

Thanks,
Leila


On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:07 PM Leila Zia  wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> My apologies for posting this message here as I don't know of a better
> place to reach out to many chapters, user groups and affiliates at
> once. This message is for these groups [0] and in case their
> representatives will be attending Wikimania 2019.
>
> ---
> One of the empowering aspects of attending Wikimania for me in the
> past years has been to be able to connect to many of you in person: to
> build lasting relationships, to understand the challenges that you
> face in your Wikimedia related efforts, and brainstorm with you about
> how/if research can help you answer some of your open questions. These
> conversations have been a source of inspiration for at least a few
> projects that the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation has picked up
> over the past years [1]. As our team is planning for our presence in
> Wikimania 2019 [2], I only hope that we can have even more of this
> kind of interaction together while we're in Stockholm.
>
> To this end and in order to make the best use of our collective time
> together, I'd like to propose an experimental meet-up during this
> year's Wikimania where the interested representatives of chapters,
> user groups, affiliates and the members of the Research team to meet.
> In order to organize this session, we need your input and I have put
> together a few questions at
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1YZmgxkJJA2lO6jl_nmOL9pwhbNu5GKVZ2klAqxRIG674Gw/viewform
> that I'd appreciate if you answer if you find the idea of meeting up
> interesting. If you do not want to go to the link above and still want
> to provide your input, please send your responses to the questions at
> the end of this email to me privately.
>
> Whether the meet-up idea ends up being a useful one for you or not
> will be determined by your responses. Independent of that, I look
> forward to touch-basing with many of you soon. :)
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> [0] From earlier conversations with chapters, user groups, and
> affiliates I've got the impression that it's useful to have a
> dedicated session focused on these groups and their
> needs/perspectives. This being said, this is not a hard rule. :) If
> you are not a representative of these groups and you'd like to attend,
> you're welcome to. Please fill out the survey.
>
> [1] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
>
> [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T229267
>
> 
> Survey questions if you don't want to fill out the survey by going to
> the link provided in this email:
>
> Description:
> [The following is a tentative description of the event and it may
> change based on your responses to this survey. The agenda for the meet
> up will be finalized on 2019-08-07.]
>
> Let's use the opportunity of being in Wikimania to get together and
> discuss the following and beyond:
> * [10-min] An update about what the Research team at Wikimedia
> Foundation has done since we met last year in Wikimania. We will
> provide updates on "Addressing Knowledge Gaps" and research
> contributions to "Knowledge Integrity".
> * [5-min] What stopped us from doing more? What challenges did we face?
> * [15-min] Let's talk longer term: what does it take to have a global
> network of researchers around Wikimedia projects? Why is having such a
> network important? Can we work together on this?
> * [30-min or more] What are some of the most pressing needs/questions
> that chapters, affiliates, and user groups face? (with an eye for
> converting them to research questions.)
> * ...
>
> ---
> To learn more about the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation and what
> we do, please visit https://research.wikimedia.org/ .
>
> ---
> Question 1. Are you interested to attend a meet-up with Wikimedia
> Foundation's Research team?
> Question 2. If your answer to the above question is Yes or Maybe,
> please let us know which affiliate, user group or chapter do you
> represent or are a member of?
> Question 3. What is a good outcome of the meet-up for you if you
> choose to attend it?
> Question 4. If you have specific times and days that you cannot attend
> the meet-up, please indicate them below.
> Question 5. Anything else you'd like to share with us and we should
> take into account when planning for this event?
>
>
> --
> Leila Zia
> Principal Research Scientist, Head of Research
> Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Indaba 2019 Scholarship List is Out

[kayode yussuf via Wikimedia-l]

Dear Community Members,
I am happy to inform you that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved the Wiki 
Indaba 2019 scholarship recipients list. The Scholarship Review Committee has 
contacted scholarship recipients.
Due to the short time available to plan Wiki Indaba 2019, applicants for the 
scholarships are encouraged to check their email and confirm their acceptance 
of the scholarship within 7 days. Deadline for scholarship acceptance is August 
14th, 2019.
Scholarship recipients are required to please reply with a scanned copy of 
their international passport data page  and notify us if  they need a Visa to 
Nigeria. 
If you require further information, please contact i...@wikimedia.org.ng.
Thank you.
Kayode YussufCommunications LeadWiki Indaba 2019 LOC

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