Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/2021-09-22

This meeting

Wed 2021-09-22 16:00 UTC

• 12 noon – 1pm Eastern Time - New York

Join via Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/asi-hpms-pxv

Attendees

1.Z.Blace 3.Mary Mark Ockerbloom - Annual Reviews / Philadelphia WikiSalon 4.Tochiprecious - Template:U:Tochiprecious - Moleskine Foundation 5. Rachel Helps at the BYU library - user: Rachel Helps (BYU) 6. Jamie Flood (Jamie-NAL, USDA National Agricultural Library/National Agricultural Law Information Partnership) 7.Andrew Lih - Fuzheado 8.Doreva Belfiore - (User:dorevabelfiore) - Philadelphia WikiSalon 9. Giovanna Fontenelle 10. Nicolas Vigneron (User:VIGNERON) 11. Martin Poulter (User:MartinPoulter) WIR at the Khalili Collections

Carlo Joseph Moskito (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Carlojoseph14) couldn't make it

Agenda and Notes

See Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WREN_notes_2 Agenda

   Introductions- new folks and new WiR!

   Nicolas Vigneron, Clermont Auvergne

   Tochi Precious, Moleskine Foundation, WikiAfrica Education program

   UNESCO Bangkok. My UNESCO email is cm.moskito@unesco.org.

   More...

   Events

   WikidataCon soliciting sessions on GLAM

   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3_-_Community_tracks

   Wikiconference North America coming up October 8-10

   October 8 - Global Ada Lovelace Day editing, or women in science, or women in red or women in *

   Volunteers to add events/help organize are welcome! Take an hour slot to lead something?

   Look through Wikimania presentations for Wikimedian in residence relevant sessions

   Hack4OpenGLAM going on now with CC Global Summit

   Tools/technologies/projects

   Andrew: Demo/describe new Wiki API Connector project to make fore easier GLAM image uploads to commons, feedback

Notes

Notes

   Introductions

   Z - was locked for 6 weeks globally, but is back now. Related to Croatian Wikipedia drama former account

   Getting Bosnia/Herzegovina librarians involved via University Unesco project

   and doing first big wiki marathon with 40+ female editors

   Giovanna Fontelle - Brazil

   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:GFontenelle_(WMF)

   Reminder - write for the GLAM newsletter!

   https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter

   Tochi Precious - Nigeria, WiR with Moleskin Foundation (started in July 19)

   WikiAfrica Education

   working also on https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/vmw

   Nicolas VIGNERON - new and currently the only WiR in France, for various libraries in Clermont Auvergne (both public and university libraries)

   starting to plan formations both internal for pros and for general public/students

   working on a mass import on Wikidata/Commons with OpenRefine/Pattypan

   Jamie Flood - USDA WiR National Agricultural Library

   Working with National Agricultural Law Center

   Food modernization act, invasive species

   Next edit-a-thon: Heir property (October 12th - please come! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/land-matters-understanding-heirs-property-a-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-tickets-167909883983)

   Rachel Helps - BYU

   Left in December 2020, but back after 6 months - great to see

   presented to Mormon Women Publish and may do an editing event with them

   Martin Poulter - Khalili Collections WiR, only one at a private collection

   Persian and Islamic art/collections - 1,000 images recently shared on Commons with metadata on Wikidata

   Interested in manuscripts in Wikidata (which is a bit of a mess, see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books#Manuscript_properties for basic modeling) - classification is not consistent, since many are broken up and fragments/partial spread across multiple places/institutions

   Martin contact me (VIGNERON) I have question about modeling "version" of manuscripts (which can be very different, more 50 % of texts being different for instance).

   Me (Fuzheado) too! For The Met we need better modeling as well as Smithsonian.

   Mary Mark Ockerbloom WiR (Annual Reviews) and Philadelphia WikiSalon

   As of June, hired at Annual Reviews - was Science History Institute. More writing about science!

   Working with textiles and crafts with folks in NYC : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Craft 

   For Miranda Pratt:  edit-a-thon tomorrow : https://cart.nelson-atkins.org/29001/31909

    Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951 Editathon 

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kansas_City/Wiki_Edit-a-Thon:_Missouri_Artists

   Doreva Belfiore - Philadelphia WikiSalon

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia

   September Salon demo - The Wikipedia Library (TWL) - new UI refresh

   https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/

   New single search box being demo'ed - upcoming in the future

   October 2021 Session for WCNA: How to navigate copyright for US serials and journals

   Case studies plus guest speaker - John Mark Ockerbloom from University of Pennsylvania on the Deep Backfile Project to open journals for which copyright expired or was not renewed

   https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/db/ 

   Andrew Lih

   working on tools to help institutions upload images not just from their hard drive (like with PattyPan) but to be able to sideload a URL

   Hack4OpenGLAM

   Creative Commons summit

   WCNA 2021

   Election for WMF board

   went through, Rosie-Stephenson Goodnight and other people we know are in the election (are they elected yet?)

   WREN is in a "non-geographical" group that would be part of selecting affiliates

   Andrew showed us part of his presentation for Hack4OpenGLAM on an idea for a WikiAPI Connector

   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F-fmIcA2SvicrUQruMY8HBup0N6HiYjFkSK4Howy_tc/edit#slide=id.g35f391192_00 

   Extract, Transform, Load (ETA) Connector

   Pattypan can't sideload

   it doesn't help to map the metadata

   GLAM Wiki Toolset is dead :-(

   "transform" step is difficult

   make a "mini" openrefine; don't reinvent the sewing machine but just change the spool

   Used YAML (Yet Another Meta Language) to change JSON metadata to Commons template!

   Andrew is looking for other open APIs to test

   you need at least TASL (Title, Author, Source, and License)

   right now Andrew is doing test cases but it can easily scale up (to hundreds/thousands of uploads)

   Q from Martin: what about Wikidata? It takes care of other languages and multiple photos of the same object. 

   A from Andrew: I'm working on a way to integrate with Wikidata via Wikibase. We prioritize Commons because not everything we want to upload passes Wikidata notability requirements; copying strings is easier for now and a bot can structure the data later

   SPAQRL queries with Wikidata better with images now (?)

   you can run openrefine on the cloud now: https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/hub/user-redirect/openrefine see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine#Run_OpenRefine_on_PAWS

   Presentation with sample yaml file: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F-fmIcA2SvicrUQruMY8HBup0N6HiYjFkSK4Howy_tc/edit#slide=id.g35f391192_00

   Sample YAML file:

   https://gist.github.com/fuzheado/fb5e26ae68d16dab4d71b53275b290b5

   WMF has prioritized adding reference statements to SDC, based on feedback from GLAM types

   OpenRefine runs in the cloud now:

   Some explanations on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine#Run_OpenRefine_on_PAWS

   tldr; the link is https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/hub/user-redirect/openrefine

   Querybuilder on Wikidata : https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder/?uselang=en

   Richard Q: Agriculture is listed as a type of craft. Is that true?

   Jamie A: I can see it being considered a craft, especially with animals raised to be turned into a fiber, or with hobby farming, or "U-pick" systems 

   Mary: agriculture doesn't typically create things that you make with your hands

   Jamie: Yeah, mostly with fibers I think.

   Jamie: WikiProject craft, you might be interested in the Textile museum in DC

   Richard planning an in-person crafting event with Wikimedians in New York

   Effie: Added 800k assets to Smithsonian Open Access in 2021. Working on descriptive standards for adding gender information to collections for the upcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.