[Wikimedia-l] A collaboration between three Wikimedia affiliates to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata

2022-06-21 Thread Maria Heuschkel
Dear everyone, As presented at last year's WikidataCon , Wikimedia Deutschland has set out to find new ways for collaboration around Wikidata software development to enhance the diversity of our movement, increase Wikibase’s scalability and robustness a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: what do we do with all this opportunity?

2022-06-21 Thread Tim Moody
The question of support goes beyond financial. As the volunteer who wrote and deployed the mirror of Our World in Data used by WikiProjectMed and deployed the VideoWiki application, I have to say that, unfortunately, I have not found WMF technical staff very supportive. This is all the more surpr

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Enterprise API project

2022-06-21 Thread Liam Wyatt
Dear all, TL;DR: Today the Wikimedia Foundation published a press release[1] about the “Wikimedia Enterprise” API project - announcing our first set of customers, as well as a new self-signup system. This is a significant milestone because it fulfills several promises we have made to ourselves a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikidata] A collaboration between three Wikimedia affiliates to advance the technical capacities of the movement around Wikidata

2022-06-21 Thread Samuel Klein
Hurrah! Lovely work, thank you for the update. ///S On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 4:35 AM Maria Heuschkel < maria.heusch...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Dear everyone, > > As presented at last year's WikidataCon > , Wikimedia Deutschland has > set out to find ne

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Enterprise API project

2022-06-21 Thread Samuel Klein
Beautiful work. ~ Are there plans to make the credibility signals visible somehow (in sparklines? in the header?) to readers who visit articles? ~ As you add wikidata, please consider also working with dbpedia (which has expanded its range of source material) to see how we can make their integratio

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Enterprise API project

2022-06-21 Thread Liam Wyatt
Thank you SJ! To your questions in order: 1) This is all metadata that is already publicly available (e.g. ORES, page-protection status change, high % pageviews changes...). Crucially - it is not creating some "value judgement" about an article or particular edit but taking the information that Wik

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Enterprise API project

2022-06-21 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Dear Liam, There seem to be (at least) two types of presentations on Wikimedia Enterprise here: a PR-optimised one for public consumption, given here, and an internal one. I'd like the difference between the two to be smaller, ideally, and for the community (also) to be given the internal one, as

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Enterprise API project

2022-06-21 Thread Samuel Klein
Andreas, Relax. There are three slides in that deck about Enterprise, much less detailed than the summary Liam just shared. There is no contradiction involved, and the transparency of sharing quarterly slides is all I could imagine wanting. In its context, they focus on OKRs and specific metrics,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia

2022-06-21 Thread Mathias Damour
Hi Ziko, Samuel and everybody,   De: "Ziko van Dijk" Hello Samuel,   Thank you for your mail. I would like to see more attention from the Wikimedia movement for the target group children age ca. 8-14.   I am afraid there is no real comprehensive study about the best way to provide ency

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Enterprise API project

2022-06-21 Thread Liam Wyatt
Thank you SJ, I think you've said it better than I could. As I hope everyone can appreciate - different audiences are interested in different pieces of information and look for that information in different places. Today's 'press release' is differently formatted to, and with different focus from,