[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: February 2021

2021-03-15 Thread The 'This Month in GLAM' team 
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings
within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and
more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums.
You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org.

*This Month in GLAM – Issue II, Volume XI – February 2021*
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Albania report: Recruiting two PMs; Budget Report 2020; Wikipedia 20th Bday
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Albania_report


Australia report: Who do we think we are?
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Australia_report


Brazil report: New GLAM tutorials in Portuguese
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Brazil_report


Estonia report: WikiMuseum
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Estonia_report


Finland report: Focus on learning
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Finland_report


Indonesia report: PD Day 2021 in Indonesia, #1lib1ref, Wikisource workshop
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Indonesia_report


Netherlands report: Historical Maps; Share your Data on colonial heritage;
Knowledge platform for heritage institutions
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Netherlands_report


Serbia report: Amazing results of the January #1Lib1Ref campaign
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Serbia_report


Sweden report: Medieval ballads; Project HBTQI
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Sweden_report


Switzerland report: 50 Years Women's Suffrage in Switzerland & More
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Switzerland_report


UK report: Khalili Collections
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/UK_report


USA report: Black History Month and Smithsonian anniversary
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/USA_report


WMF GLAM report: Project Grants, Analytics for GLAMs, and Shared Citations
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/WMF_GLAM_report


Calendar: March's GLAM events
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/February_2021/Contents/Events



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] March 17: Curiosity

2021-03-15 Thread Janna Layton 
Reminder that this will be happening on Wednesday.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:49 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> In this showcase, Prof. Danielle Bassett will present recent work studying
> individual and collective curiosity as network building processes using
> Wikipedia.
>
> Date/Time: March 17, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/17:30pm CET)
> Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw2s_Y4J2tI
>
> Speaker: Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvania)
>
> Title: The curious human
>
> Abstract: The human mind is curious. It is strange, remarkable, and
> mystifying; it is eager, probing, questioning. Despite its pervasiveness
> and its relevance for our well-being, scientific studies of human curiosity
> that bridge both the organ of curiosity and the object of curiosity remain
> in their infancy. In this talk, I will integrate historical, philosophical,
> and psychological perspectives with techniques from applied mathematics and
> statistical physics to study individual and collective curiosity. In the
> former, I will evaluate how humans walk on the knowledge network of
> Wikipedia during unconstrained browsing. In doing so, we will capture
> idiosyncratic forms of curiosity that span multiple millennia, cultures,
> languages, and timescales. In the latter, I will consider the fruition of
> collective curiosity in the building of scientific knowledge as encoded in
> Wikipedia. Throughout, I will make a case for the position that individual
> and collective curiosity are both network building processes, providing a
> connective counterpoint to the common acquisitional account of curiosity in
> humans.
>
> Related papers:
>
> Hunters, busybodies, and the knowledge network building associated with
> curiosity. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/undy4
>
> The network structure of scientific revolutions.
> http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08381
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#March_2021
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she/her)
> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Cloud] [Cloud-announce] New Wikireplicas available, timeline update, and Quarry migration

2021-03-15 Thread Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 
Hi,

These changes are not arbitrary, they are a necessity to keep the replicas
functioning. With the growth experienced in the last years (commons,
wikidata) the current technology used by Wikireplicas is not feasible. I’ve
outlined more technical details in a cloud mailing list response: [1]

We have been keeping track of all the code posted that uses cross-wiki
joins, and are planning to analyze more from logs. [2] was made to figure
out common use cases and possibilities to enable them.

If you need help evaluating how you will be affected or migrating your code
please reach out in the #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel,
cl...@lists.wikimedia.org mailing list or make a task in Phabricator
#Data-Services [3].

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud/2021-March/001436.html
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215858
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2874/

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 12:15 AM Daniel Schwen  wrote:

> This is the next step after disallowing user databases on replicas. It
> broke some of my tools but I recently rewrote them to move joining logic
> into my application. I also replicate small amounts of data (e.g. page
> titles for a subset of pages) into my user db for joins.
> I found it quite off-putting at first. Volunteers are effectively forced
> to do substantial amounts of extra work after creating tools that "work
> perfectly fine".
> But I can understand the need to provide more scalable infrastructure with
> the ever growing projects.
>
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 3:46 PM Yetkin Sakal via Cloud <
> cl...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> I completely agree with Maarten. It would be a step backward to stop
>> supporting cross-database joins on wiki replicas. This is a breaking change
>> and should not be applied unless a feasible solution to the problem is
>> found.
>> On Saturday, March 13, 2021, 8:17:39 PM GMT+3, Maarten Dammers <
>> maar...@mdammers.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Joaquin,
>>
>> Completely nothing was done with the community input about not being able
>> to do cross wiki joins anymore [1]. In the past the WMF would do something
>> with community input. I guess the new strategy is to just give the
>> appearance of community input to legitimize a decision. Nice way to
>> alienate the volunteers.
>>
>> Maarten
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud/2020-November/thread.html#1309
>> On 12-03-2021 19:16, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez wrote:
>>
>> TLDR:
>> - Instead of `*.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` use `*.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud` to
>> use the new replicas
>> - Quarry will migrate March 23 to use the new cluster
>> - In a ~month (April 15) the old cluster will start retiring. See
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign#Timeline
>> for more details
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm happy to announce that the new replicas cluster is available for use
>> after a few weeks open for testing.
>>
>> To use the new cluster, you will only need to change the hostname when
>> connecting to the databases. Instead of `*.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` you can
>> use `*.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud`. See:
>>
>> -
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign#New_host_names
>> -
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign#How_can_I_test_the_new_replicas_before_the_switchover?
>> - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Database
>>
>>
>> This brings us to the timeline updates:
>>
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign#Timeline
>>
>> - March 2021
>>   - Announce new cluster domains for all users - March 12
>>   - Migrate Quarry to use the new cluster - March 23
>> - April 2021
>>   - PAWS migration - Estimated first week of April
>>   - Migrate the old cluster to utilize new replication hosts. Replication
>> may stop. - April 15
>>   - Redirect old hostnames to the new cluster - April 28
>>
>> Quarry is ready so it will transition first to use the new replicas. This
>> will happen on March 23, at which point we will deploy the changes and
>> update the docs. We are publishing a note on Tech news but if there are
>> other venues where this information would be useful please help us spread
>> the word.
>>
>> PAWS is in the process of being migrated. We estimate it could be ready
>> to use the new cluster at the beginning of April, and will publish more
>> details as soon as we know.
>>
>> On April 15 the old cluster will be moved under the new replication
>> hosts, at which point there may be side effects and replication may stop.
>> We recommend you update your code earlier to use the new hostnames to
>> verify things are working normally.
>>
>> Not long after, the old hostnames (`*.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs`) will be
>> redirected to the new ones (`*.db.svc.wikimedia.cloud`), at which point the
>> old cluster will effectively be inaccessible.
>>
>>
>> If you have questions or need help please reply to
>> cl...@lists.wikimedia.org, join the #wikimedia-cloud IRC channel, or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proofread contest in collaboration with British Library on Bengali Wikisource

2021-03-15 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal 
Hello all,


The contest has started today and it will go on for next one month.

Tom Derrick, the digital curator of the Two Centuries of Indian Print
project of British Library, has published a blog post about it on BL
website.

https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2021/03/wikisource-competition-to-proofread-indian-books.html

BL has also tweeted:
https://twitter.com/BL_IndianPrint/status/1371427115850215424

Regards,

Bodhisattwa

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, 20:07 Bodhisattwa Mandal 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are happy to announce that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group [1]
> will run a proofread contest [2] from 15 March 2021 to 14 April 2021 on
> Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with Two Centuries of Indian Print
> project (TCIP) [3] of British Library.
>
> The TCIP project officials are uploading the public domain books under
> their collection on Wikimedia Commons [4]. From the user group, we are
> working on the next steps like renaming files, indexing, metadata related
> work on Wikidata etc. and will be organizing the event.
>
> The top five winners will receive T-shirts and/or books from the user
> group and digital certificates from British Library.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
> On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians
> [2] https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gpia
> [3] https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print
> [4]
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Two_Centuries_of_Indian_Print
>
>
>
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