Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/2021-05-05

This meeting[edit]

Wed 2021-05-05 16:00 UTC

12 noon – 1pm Eastern Time - New York

Join Wikimedia Meet Meeting in this brand new videoconferencing system on Wikimedia servers!

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Attendees[edit]

Richard Knipel
Mary Mark Ockerbloom
Susanna Anas
Elysia Webb
Andrew Lih
John Cummings
Doreva Belfiore - user:dorevabelfiore. Philadelphia WikiSalon
Jamie Flood
Lane Rasberry
Kim Gile
Miranda Pratt
John Cummings
Luca Martinelli [Sannita]
Kelly Doyle (joined late)

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This meeting

Conferences coming up?
- translation and Wikipedia
  - December 2021
  - submissions due May
  - Hong Kong and online
GLAM newsletter deadline soon - https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom
Lane shares a video draft
- What does a Wikipedian in residence do?
- theory of Wikipedian in Residence:
  - does communication
  - uploads media collections
  - event organization
  - exports information from Wikipedia ecosystem
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Introductions, projects, announcements
- Andrew
  - Wikidata: creation of new Smithsonian ARK ID (P9473), Creation of "artists file at" (P9493)
  - Bot creation - adding Met depiction info, adding Smithsonian ARK ID
  - NMAI edit-a-thon with Kelly - team/co-pilot approach worked
- Jamie - Jamie-NAL, U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library
  - May 20th (11am-3:15pm EST) - National Invasive Species Awareness Week edit-a-thon, we'll have guest speakers to talk about Invasive Species and citizen scientist opportunities (for identification & reporting) and we'll be editing articles related to IS and related laws.
  - My role is now apart of the Agricultural Law program at NAL I'm working with the National Agricultural Law Center and Vermont Law School
- Mary & Doreva - Philadelphia WikiSalon
  - Philadelphia WikiSalon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia
  - Continued work with Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) teaching editing Wikidata with information from archival finding aids.
  - Future possibilities for Wikidata-oriented editing - maybe training on OpenRefine, Mapping work with Digital Humanities
  - Doreva is using OpenRefine to add info about all Fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (Q61745062) and presidents of the Linguistic Society of America (Q66552274). Fellows of LSA TBD.
  - Doreva & Mary attended LD4 training session on Vanderbot - a Python application for uploading CSV data to Wikidata, taught by Steven Baskauf:
  - http://baskauf.blogspot.com/2019/05/getting-data-out-of-wikidata-using.html
  - Wikidata LD4 Project Wikidata Affinity Group
  - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group
- Mary
  - Used OpenRefine to add info to Wikidata for all Fellow of the American Craft Council (Q106595976) and Pew Fellowships in the Arts (Q7179538), 300+ recipients for each award, many not previously on Wikidata, almost none of the existing Wikidata entities connected to the award (5 Pew, 0 ACC)
  - As of May 4, 2021, I became Wikipedian in Residence for Annual Reviews, "Keeping science current on Wikipedia"
  - For work with AR I will be using the login MaryMO (AR) for tracking purposes. I will continue to use Mary Mark Ockerbloom for personal editing
- Elysia
  - Got Annual Reviews to make a full time extended position, referred Mary for that position
  - Learning coding, maybe a tie in to Wikimedia Hackathon
- Susanna
  - Geodata and wikimaps. The Wikimaps group wants to start organizing more activities. For anyone who is interested, please join the telegram group. https://t.me/wikimaps
  - I have been preparing a public domain project in Finland. In all member states of the European Union, there is new regional policy to unify copyright status and the rules for media entering the public domain. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market ? DSM Directive?)
  - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1m98DD-FAI0E_-UgNGsRWaX68RI3ALQmC2IP8dWEXztI/edit#slide=id.p
  - In Finland we are seeking funding to create educational materials related to the public domain
  - We are also planning to participate at the Wikimedia Hackathon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281420
- Lane
  - What does it mean to be a WIR - https://vimeo.com/539166670
  - 1 Use WP for dist and dissem of knowledge
  - 2 Put media archives in WM space
  - 3 Events
  - 4 Taking info out of WP for the host org
- John Cummings
  - seeking a visa to stay in Europe as a UK citizen
  - doing more structured data on commons projects
  - collaborating with experts to create Wikipedia articles about national labor sectors
  - offer to present on structured data on commons
  - Wikipedia now has a dark mode, this is a gadget in the preferences
- Kim Gile and Miranda Pratt (first public library WiR in the US [cn])
  - this is at Kansas City public library
  - Recommendations for helping to track measure/progress
  - Wikidata property P5008 (on focus list of Wikimedia project) to track items
  - Make a dashboard, use logic models to plan and track progress - Mary Mark
  - https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/
  - Campaigns - Richard Knipel
  - Dashboards you can make - example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:GLAM/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
  - Listeria and Mbabelz
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mbabel
  - https://listeria.toolforge.org/
  - Don't bury the lede!
- Luca
  - working with the Wikimedia Foundation on the Universal Code of Conduct + Structured Data Across Wikimedia projects!
  - working with courses with several Italian museums with Wikimedia Italia
  - also 10 years of Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy, so we're planning a dossier about WLM impact on our common heritage
- Kelly
  - Open Knowledge Coordinator for the AMerican Women's History Initiative at the Smithsonian
  - Smithsonian affiliate network is collaborating with the Wiki Education Foundation, supported with sponsorship from the Craig Newmark Foundation
  - planning an event with Cooper Hewitt in June for pride month
  - Kelly and Andrew collaborate, both have appointments at the Smithsonian
GLAM newsletter deadline soon - https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom
Conferences/events coming up? Grants updates?
- Wikimedia Hackathon - a good place for GLAM projects - remote event on May 22-23
  - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021
  - Browse/propose projects - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5303/
  - Propose some GLAM related projects?
- Smithsonian APAC edit-a-thon for AAPI Heritage Month
  - Wiki World Heritage User Group capacity building training a good resourcce - video tutorials and events - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group/Capacity_building
Structured Data on Commons questions and discussion
- Question - best practices for adding reference info to Structured Data on Commons? UI does not support reference statements, meaning Wikidata and Commons have differing methods
- You can add a reference statement in Commons via Quickstatements or API/bot, but no user interface
- Example diff of a reference statement: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Folio_from_a_Mu%27nis_al-ahrar_fi_daqa%27iq_al-ash%27ar_(The_Free_Man%27s_Companion_to_the_Subtleties_of_Poems)_of_Jajarmi_MET_DP231962.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=558076821
- Unclear about SPARQL query - http://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/
- Anyone else working with SDC at all, or at scale?
- John Cummings - SDC https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LoiyhRVPR154QlQQApJw1rVvGKkgx_NHiQZbr-gdXf4/edit#slide=id.gd295b22c58_0_26
Image uploads
- As Pattypan is being phased out, what's next?
- Maarten Dammers has a bot to do lots of CC0 uploading based on Wikidata
Best practices for biographical lists
- Smithsonian Funk List spreadsheet of women scientists/scholars
- Cradle, Quickstatements and TABernacle, working live on Wikidata?
- Fastest training cycle possible for Wikipedia/Commons/Wikidata?