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Institut Jean Nicod

1) Welcome. For more information on categories, refer to Category, Categorization, and Categorisation FAQ. Of course, one page can belong to many categories, but the more it belongs to the less meaningful each one is. Karol 17:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ok thanks!

2) I know that this institute is interdisciplinary and covers a very wide range of topics. That is not a reason, however, to place it in Category:Philosophy. There is a certain category hierarchy, and the top-level Category:Philosophy should contain pages directly related to or about philosophy. Take a look what kind of pages are there - mostly about philosophy in general and "meta" pages. The category was recently depopulated, after having ca. 500 pages, which made it incomprehensible. If each topic related to philosophy were to be placed there, we would be back to the same situation. That is why I removed those categories, and why I will insist on removing them again. Karol 17:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see, I'll try to find something more specific (basically all philosophers at IJN work in the field of philosophy of mind or language]]).

3) Á propos the examples. MIT_AI_Lab was categorized in Category:Artificial intelligence due to the lack of a more specific category. I now created Category:Artificial intelligence laboratories to illustrate the point, and therefore it can be recategorized. In any case, Artificial intelligence as a category is alot further down the hierarchy than philosophy and has a norrower subject field, and thus has a lower propensity to grow. Due to this, a wider variety of page types can be left there. The same argumentation applies, to a lesser degree, to Category:Cognitive science. Karol 17:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

4) Why is Category:Education in Paris not OK for this page? Karol 17:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the institute is mainly a research lab. It hosts master students, graduate students and postdocs but doesn't deliver any degree.

5) Consider placing the page in Category:Interdisciplinary fields or one of its subcategories. Also consider making a new category, for instace Category:Interdisciplinary research isntitutes. Karol 17:17, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Or maybe a category for research institutes in cognitive science, which sounds much more specific.

Thanks for your feedback,

--DarTar

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List of mind mapping software

Hi. I am not sure the source formatting will be decided any time soon on that page. In the meantime I added back a wiki-link you added a few days ago. The one that wasn't duplicating other wikilinks in that section: MySQL. I am sorry for any hassles I caused by my removing the wikilinks you added. Feel free to edit the page. --Timeshifter 19:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD Nomination: 3 March 2007 lunar eclipse and 28 August 2007 lunar eclipse

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Voted, thanks. --DarTar 15:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Added reference to the source of the logo (and copyright owner), thanks --DarTar 14:39, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Added explanation and fair use rationale --DarTar 17:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

LaTeX

(from user talk:jacobolus)

Hi, I'm just very curious to know which program you used for the SVG version of LaTeX output.-PhDP ^(talk) 19:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Same here, I'm on Mac OS and I'm struggling to find a good (possibly opensource) solution to convert PDF/EPS to SVG. --DarTar 12:22, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, sorry. I left the following at PhDP's talk page:

I actually used pdflatex to make a pdf, and then used Adobe Illustrator to turn characters into outlines. This is undoubtedly possible with apps like Inkscape, etc., which are free, but I have more experience with Illustrator. :) --jacobolus (t) 22:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image source problem with Image:Smithfield market map.png

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Background removed, thanks. --DarTar 13:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Smithfield, London

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Sorry to hear that. Is there anyone else who you could get to work on the article? You've still got a few days to make the changes. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 20:15, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately I'm afraid there's no one else regularly working on the article. --DarTar (talk) 20:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could you (please) put your 'XeTeX sample image' on Commons?

Hi, I just discovered XeTex (via Slashdot) today and am presently writing a stub fr:XeTeX. I Can not use your nice examples as the images are on en.wikipedia.org. Could you please put them on 'commons' so I can use them too? (Help:Moving_to_commons). Thank you! -- Xofc (talk) 09:11, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, apparently someone already did it :) --DarTar (talk) 09:48, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oops sorry, that's the wrong image! I'll move the sample output to Commons as well --DarTar (talk) 09:51, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

done --DarTar (talk) 10:01, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! (I put them in the 'TeX' category (and will reference 'commons' in en:XeTeX & de:XeTeX, so it will be easier for the next translator to find them)). ...I also need Image:XeTeX logo.png (in .svg if possible). -- Xofc (talk) 13:01, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There's a SVG version of the logo in the German Wikipedia. Maybe you can ask them to move it to commons as well? --DarTar (talk) 08:30, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: GA Review of Smithfield

Congratulations! The article now meets all criteria for a Good Article and has passed its review! I've left some comments on the talk page for you so you can continue to work on this article and get it towards FA status. I'd also recommend a peer review of the article, not only to get some more suggestions for further improvement, but also to attract some more attention for the article. I could see that virtually all of this work was done by you, which is excellent, but I'm sure you could still use some help. Again, well done, and keep up the good work! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 02:19, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

8x1000

As you may have seen, after your request I did a lot of work all over the article (including new sections 4.2 and 7). Now we should reorganize the section you were working on, which is really messy. Now:

1) How do you like the status of the rest of the paper? Please forward any constructive criticism.

2)The main difficulty I have with the final section is that some information is hearsay (a kind of information not admitted in courts, at least in USA), which I feel also WIKIPEDIA should omit. Also, an historian is not a reputable source on legal matters. Could you help me further in getting stronger quotes? Could you at least quote a sentence of Scalfaro in the notes?

By  Pinea (talk) 22:50, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is hearsay because of the way it is quoted. You are not quoting his text but somebody else who quotes him. The problem is not the unlikeliky case that the quotation could be wrong but the lack of context in the reference you provide. If you quote the original source, a willing reader could read all the page and better understand the meaning of the sentence and the motivations leading to such a strong statement. Bye Pinea (talk) 14:34, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Smithfield, London

Hi ya. No problem. my prose can always do with polishing, as it remains less than golden. One point, in headings "The" - and normally the placename - are verboten; according to WP:MOSHEAD. I've been trying to work up the courage to deal with that redirect to "The Market" - it needs to be changed, or will not get through the FA process. As to the rest, the content really is largely there. It could be expanded to the n-th degree; but that loses conciseness. I don't believe the point of the 'comprehensive coverage' clause of the FAR process is intended to repeat stuff better rehearsed under other articles. Charterhouse - for example - is in neighbouring LB Islington; so, not Smithfield then. But they asked for religious houses, and got them! Now, I expect - later in the process - someone is going to ask for them to be removed! Welcome to FA! Kbthompson (talk) 23:35, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, overnight it's been closed as not promoted. I would suggest continuing to address the various concerns that people brought up in the process - and to resubmit in three-four weeks. I'm sorry. Kbthompson (talk) 09:01, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Magic wand ...

You recently reverted two separate items of vandalism by the same chump. You obviously need WP:Rollback, it is therefore granted .... should this be unwanted, do let me know. Please read the packet, and use it wisely. Kbthompson (talk) 22:03, 10 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers --DarTar (talk) 10:52, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

berlusconi

è stato un piacere--The White Duke (talk) 14:08, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Io insisto...tanto basta fare rollback, anzi se vedi che lo fa ancora e io non me ne accorgo segnalamelo e intervengo, ho anche fatto chiarezza nella pagina di discussione cmq se la cosa va avanti puoi chiedere un blocco della pagina o dell'utente? --The White Duke (talk) 05:24, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Puoi chiedere la semiprotezione per quella pagina? io non parlo bene inglese quindi non saprei come rivolgermi ad un'amministratore...in questo modo visto che il vandalo non è un utente registrato non potrà più cercare di imporre il suo punto di vista (tra le altre cose ha cominciato a esprimersi in modo sconveniente)...grazie ciao --The White Duke (talk) 17:12, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Review of Philosophy and Psychology

Hi, DarTar. Per your suggestion, I updated the entry on the European Review of Philosophy. I created a redirect for European Review of Philosophy to the new entry Review of Philosophy and Psychology. And I made the relevant changes to the List of philosophy journals. I also made some changes to the RPP entry. I removed the details about the editorial board and all that because I thought it was a bit much. Feel free to update it with other new information. - Jaymay (talk) 23:44, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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THANKS!

you don't know me, but I just wanted to thank you for all you do to help wikipedia--RIVER ^{Babble at my brooks} 20:56, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

developer help

can u please provide me some developers of the wiki project. Coz i have found a bug in the beta version of our local wiki. Thanks in advance

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Researcher User Rights

Hi DarTar, I notice that you have the "researcher" user privilege. As my user-page demonstrates, I do academic research on Wikipedia and would be interested in obtaining this right -- how did you obtain it? Thanks, West.andrew.g (talk) 02:31, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Giuseppe Graviano

Grazie della segnalazione, appena possibile guarderò meglio la voce inglese. Come forse hai notato, comunque, gran parte delle informazioni sono state raccolte su it:Famiglia Graviano. Tuttora sono incerto se lasciare la voce per i singoli componenti. Ciao! --Wolland (talk) 12:56, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussione:Marcello Dell'Utri

Ciao DarTar, in realtà la mia non era una correzione, solo un errore che devo evidentemente aver fatto mentre scrivevo... scusa ma purtroppo non me ne ero accorto, altrimenti avrei rimediato io stesso! --Luca P (talk) 18:26, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Researcher

Hello, many articles to which I contribute are formerly deleted for various reasons. Although it would be wonderful to gain adminship, I don't wish to carry the full-time responsibility, nor do I likely meet all the requirements. Either way, I stumbled upon researcher and I noticed that it allows you to see deleted pages? This would be wonderful, because more times than not the deleted content provides some usefulness in rebuilding the page. I also noticed that you are apparently the only user on en. that has this ability, where can I go to request for this?
Or, is researcher used for something entirely different? Let me know, please. - Theornamentalist (talk) 14:56, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Researcher

Hi! I've seen you are the (only!) researcher (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=researcher ). Wow! Like Theornamentalist and West.andrew.g I would like to know how you can get the flag. Thanks! --phauly (talk) 10:26, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The Contribution Team cordially invites you to Imperial College London

For our first official recruitment drive! Starting on Wednesday the 9th of February at 12:30pm. We would love to have you!

All Hail The Muffin Nor does it taste nice... 16:46, 5 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Schwede66 and Pigsonthewing! —DarTar (talk) 14:19, 30 March 2020 (UTC) DarTar (talk) 14:19, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

External thread of interest

This email discussion thread may be of interest. Shyamal (talk) 04:52, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Researchers Group

I am just wondering why is it that you are the only researcher. How did you get that flag on your account. Please respond on my talk page. Gabesta449 ^edits ^♦ ^chat 03:06, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Outreach model

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Some baklava for you!

Will u be able to make it July 30th to taste those yourself? :) Samer.hc (talk) 18:00, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sure thing! Feel free to ping me here when you have some edits you want me to review. DarTar (talk) 13:29, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

Just 'cause.

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Security issues

You may not have noticed my reply at User talk:UOJComm#Your survey, yet the issue is important so I will restate the situation here.

I asked UOJComm whether there was a clear statement that their user name is approved to deliver multiple emails and talk page requests to promote a survey. You gave a response that was fine in itself, but which did not address the point of my concern.

Merely having the Research Committee announce that "Project Xyz is approved" is a security nightmare. Consider the following scenario. A scammer named Eve uses "email this user" to send survey invitations to 1000 editors. The email uses convincing language (similar to the genuine Xyz) to announce that Eve is conducting a survey for project Xyz, with a link to where it is approved. Another link invites the reader to "click here" to start the survey and help Wikipedia! The "click here" link is a website operated by Eve which can do a variety of bad things (possibly different things for different users). The website would start with encouraging and plausible text and some simple questions (copied from the real Xyz survey), and would lull the editor into a false sense of security. Simple attacks include harvesting the IP address of targeted editors, or getting a significant percentage of them to reveal their email address. For an example of a slightly more complex attack, consider the ongoing drama concerning the theft and publication of (apparently) the entire archive of ArbCom's private mailing list (see WT:Arbitration Committee for ongoing discussion which started in archive 8). With a bit of trouble and social engineeering, Eve could determine that some respondents are admins, and target them with malware to harvest passwords.

What should occur is that a special bot account be established, and only that account used to deliver messages. The message should provide a link to a page on a WMF site with "how to respond" details. Particularly in view of the ArbCom fiasco mentioned above, my brief outline of what could go wrong with survey spam should be followed up with professional assistance from a security expert to sign off on whatever scheme is adopted. Johnuniq (talk) 11:20, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oral citations

can this be used with the English Wikipedia, with an oral history I took? NickDupree (talk) 21:26, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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NPP

Hi. I'm just checking in to ask how the analysis of the NPP survey is coming along. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:15, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Kudpung, I think Ironholds has something ready-ish to publish on Meta. --DarTar (talk) 22:42, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so. He hasn't consulted with me and I've heard nothing for from him for a while. Please send me the data you have prepared. Thanks. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:41, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Chop, chop! Hup, hup!

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DYK for Research Works Act

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Proposal to shut down WP Geographic Coordinates & ban coordinates on wikipedia articles

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Re: Thanks

No worries ... I love copyediting the Signpost! Graham87 02:25, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OPEN

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Unexpected JavaScript in AFT5 stream

http://toolserver.org/~dartar/aft5/stream/?c= shows a bunch of unexpected JavaScript wanting to run, including affiliatecashsniper and bravotube, but there's so much HTML that my browser is barfing on bringing it up for searching the raw HTML for these links; what I have looked for hasn't shown links. Do you have any idea where these script links are coming from? 110.174.86.241 (talk) 12:42, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is coming from javascript embedded in spammy feedback posts. Thanks for reporting this, I am taking down my script with the stream until the CSVs are entirely sanitized. --DarTar (talk) 17:02, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For tirelessly and boldly supporting the cause of Wikipedia research as a means of contributing to the project and coming up with new ideas, I award you this Barnstar. Keep up the amazing work! SalimJah (talk) 15:09, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	to all of the contributors to the April 30, 2012 Recent Research report in the Signpost for the good work there! Pine^(talk) 07:52, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Borsellino

Thank you for your kind remarks and the barnstar. As to your initiative to TFA the article on Paolo Borsellino, I agree that the sad 20-year anniversary of his murder would be a good moment. This has crossed my mind also and I tried to improve the article but got stuck and was sidetracked by other issues. The problem is that it is a complicated issue. We certainly should expand the article with sections on the series of trials about his murder and the alleged pact(s) between the factions in the Mafia and sectors of the State, but everything around that is still uncertain, speculative and volatile. On top of that I have very little time to take on such a major task before July 19, due to busy obligations in real life. The only thing I really can do at the moment is help reviewing what others can add (I would suggest also to incorporate some stuff from the Rita Atria article). I am sorry but I don't want to raise expectations I cannot fulfill. I am certainly interested to improve the article to a GA or even FA status later on. Borsellino (and Falcone for that matter) certainly deserves that. - DonCalo (talk) 23:45, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, after all, I did include a section on the mysteries surrounding Borsellino murder. Let me know what you think. - DonCalo (talk) 18:40, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I agree a better heading might be useful. As to the image of Borsellino, I changed the licensing as it now is in the public domain in Italy, since photographs are only protected for a period of 20 years from creation. It is safe to assume that is already the case since we are one week from his assassination. - DonCalo (talk) 23:31, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Supporto tecnico per statistiche

Ciao, sono Emanuele, un utente principalmente di wikiquote in italiano. Mi occorrerebbe sapere se e come fosse possibile ottenere delle statistiche personalizzate relativamente ad uno specifico servizio di Wikimedia.

Su wikiquote in italiano abbiamo inventato un nuovo tipo di template dedicato a dare il benvenuto ai nuovi utenti del wiki. Indipendentemente da quello che si può aspettare sul it.wikiquote c'è un utente che si dedica ad aggiungere tale template (link) nelle pagine degli utenti appena iscritti. Il nostro obiettivo è quello di far aumentare gli edit da parte dei nuovi utenti, pertanto propongo un periodo di 6 mesi per valutare realmente se con questo nuovo template farà aumentare gli edit sul wiki oppure no. Per questo motivo occorrerebbero delle statistiche in merito che dicano se in un arco di tempo ben definito i nuovi utenti, appena iscritti, hanno editato o sono rimasti solo registrati senza fare alcun edit. é questa l'unica statistica che serve.

Ho visto che tu ti occupi di cose di questo genere da qui m:Research:WMF technical support. Ma preferisco parlarne prima. Non so se il progetto è fattibile, ma si tratterebbe di una piccola cosa in confronto ad altri progetti che ho visto. Ti ringrazio per una gentile risposta. Raoli (talk) 16:42, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback post-edit

Dati gli incoraggiantissimi dati provenienti dalle statistiche, ti vorrei chiedere se è possibile utilizzare la funzione Feedback post-edit anche su it.wikiquote. Se mi sono spiegato male intendo la funzione che il tuo collega Steven ha spiegato qui. Su it.wikiquote ce ne avremo molto bisogno. Ciao Dario Raoli (talk) 23:17, 26 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

RR

DarTar, nice work on the Signpost this month. Thank you! Tony (talk) 10:15, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings from WikiProject Open Access

Hi Dario, here is what I have just been posting to members of the WikiProject.

it is now one year since WikiProject Open Access was started by User:Bluerasberry on January 10, 2012. Since then, the project has advanced modestly, but we have not interacted much. For the coming year, we certainly want to improve on that.

We also plan to overhaul the project pages to make them more conducive to collaboration, and we are pondering the idea of expanding the concept of a WikiProject Open Access to projects other than the English Wikipedia, e.g. to other languages or to Wikimedia Commons. You are warmly invited to add your voice to all that. We would also appreciate if you would share some of your OA-related activities by way of our news ticker or via the monthly Open Access report that is part of the GLAM newsletter (to which you can subscribe here), or as you see fit otherwise.

As a visual token of the anniversary, I am adding today's Open Access File of the Day. Feel free to nominate files yourself. As of today, commons:Category:Open access (publishing) contains more than 15,000 files, of which about 2/3 are video and sound files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer.

Thanks for being part of the project, and looking forward to more interaction.

With a smile, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 00:04, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikimedia Research Newsletter

Hi Dario,

Amir left a message at the Hebrew Wikipedia that you might be looking for additional contributors to the Wikimedia Research Newsletter. If so, I'll gladly help. Best, ליאור • Lior (talk) 10:24, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

me too, I would like to try one of April's articles. Setreset (talk) 10:32, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, help is welcome! There is information on how to contribute at m:Research:Newsletter. The Etherpad linked there already contains a pretty long list of items to cover in the April issue. Even brief summaries (2-3 sentences) are useful. Regards, Tbayer (WMF) (talk) 14:07, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Stats about AFTv5 on WP:fr

Hello,

Would it be possible to load some fresh data into the graphs at http://toolserver.org/~dartar/fr/aft5/ and https://toolserver.org/~dartar/fr/fp/ ?

This would be great !

NB: no need for daily update.

Klipe (talk) 15:42, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Klipe, these graphs are deprecated, the new ones can be found here. Hope this helps. DarTar (talk) 15:45, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect ! Thanks a lot, Klipe (talk) 22:34, 11 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Colby Fire

I wanted to explain why I've PROD'ed the Colby Fire article. There are literally hundreds of wildfires in California every year, and not all of them are encyclopedic. In the grand scheme of things, the Colby Fire is a relatively minor incident and it's not ever likely to be expandable beyond stub status. I'm fairly certain it won't have the lasting impact or coverage that's required to take something from a news article to an encyclopedic subject (as was the case with, say, the Rim Fire. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 04:35, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

VisualEditor stats

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Peter Rodger

Thanks, I initially created it as a redirect, but the more I read about him the more it seemed like he was notable and deserved his own article. Giant Snowman 07:38, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Berkeley Seismological Laboratory‎

Just a quick thanks for creating the article. There will be many occasions to link to it in my work. Cheers, Dawnseeker2000 01:18, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Dawnseeker2000: you're welcome. Thanks for creating the redlink. --DarTar (talk) 01:48, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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After a delay in updates to the Structured data on Commons project, I wanted to catch you up with what has been going on over the past three months. In short: The project is on hold, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening.

The meeting in Berlin in October provided the engineering teams with a lot to start on. Unfortunately the Structured Data on Commons project was put on hold not too long after this meeting. Development of the actual Structured data system for Commons will not begin until more resources can be allocated to it.

The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Germany have been working to improve the Wikidata query process on the back-end. This is designed to be a production-grade replacement of WikidataQuery integrated with search. The full project is described at Mediawiki.org.This will benefit the structured data project greatly since developing a high-level search for Commons is a desired goal of this project.

The Wikidata development team is working on the arbitrary access feature. Currently it's only possible to access items that are connected to the current page. So for example on Vincent van Gogh you can access the statements on Q5582, but you can't access these statements on Category:Vincent van Gogh or Creator:Vincent van Gogh. With arbitrary access enabled on Commons we no longer have this limitation. This opens up the possibility to use Wikidata data on Creator, Institution, Authority control and other templates instead of duplicating the data (what we do now). This will greatly enhance the usefulness of Wikidata for Commons.

To use the full potential of arbitrary access the Commons community needs to reimplement several templates in LUA. In LUA it's possible to use the local fields and fallback to Wikidata if it's not locally available. Help with this conversion is greatly appreciated. The different tasks are tracked in phabricator, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89594 .

Volunteers are continuing to add data about artworks to Wikidata. Sometimes an institution website is used and sometimes data is being transfered from Commons to Wikidata. Wikidata now has almost 35.000 items about paintings. This is done as part of the WikiProject sum of all paintings. This helps us to learn how to d:Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structuremodel and refine metadata about artworks. Experience that will of course be very useful for Commons too.

Additionally, the metadata cleanup drive continues to produce results. The drive, which is intended to identify files missing {{information}} or the like structured data fields and to add such fields when absent, has reduced the number of files missing information by almost 100,000 on Commons. You can help by looking for files with similarly-formatted description pages, and listing them at Commons:Bots/Work requests so that a bot can add the {{information}} template on them.

At the Amsterdam Hackathon in November 2014, a couple of different models were developed about how artwork can be viewed on the web using structured data from Wikidata. You can browse two examples here and here. These examples can give you an idea of the kind of data that file pages have the potential to display on-wiki in the future.

The Structured Data project is a long-term one, and the volunteers and staff will continue working together to provide the structure and support in the back-end toward front-end development. There are still many things to do to help advance the project, and I hope to have more news for you in the near future. Contact me any time with questions, comments, concerns.

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Wikipedia Science Conference

Hello Dario, You're receiving this update because you asked to be informed about the Wikipedia Science Conference taking place in London on 2nd and 3rd of September. Thanks for your interest.

The call for proposals is now public and session proposals are coming in. The two keynotes, and some other invited speakers, have graciously accepted. In mid-May we will bring together a programme, a publicity poster, and an online booking form. Then we'll begin the main publicity and will need your help getting the word out.

Please put in a session proposal if you've been thinking of doing so: the deadline is the 8th May. This is far from the only way to be involved. The conference will need session moderators, a programme review group, and other volunteers: if there is a specific role you are interested in, or if you have any other questions, please email me at m.l.poulterbristol.ac.uk.

There will be a large "unconference" session in the programme and - fingers crossed - a "hackathon" event two days later on the Saturday, so even if you do not have a proposal accepted, you will have a chance to shape the conference activities.

Please pass on the word to any colleagues who might want to put in a proposal or help the conference in any way.

The previous publicity might have made it seem like we're only interested in contributors from the UK. Just to clarify, we've love to have international contributors, but with the conference having a very small budget we can't guarantee to pay expenses for international speakers. I don't want to create the expectation that expenses will be met, then let people down, but if you can get to London it would be great to have you.

Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 12:04, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @MartinPoulter: I'm definitely considering to attend and I'll submit a session proposal. --DarTar (talk) 19:56, 15 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Google Scholar author ID in Authority Control

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Tipologia degli edit

Sono sto pingato per iscrivermi in it:Wikipedia:Labels/Tipologia degli edit ma non posso registrarmi perché sono bloccato, ma ho sempre sostenuto queste cose quindi se ti serve sono a disposizione. Anche su altri progetti in italiano o altre lingue, sono poliglotta tanto.

Comunque fa sorridere come due anni fa quando si dicevano queste cose tutti parlavano di "giochi di ruolo" e "burocrazia" e adesso c'è la fila. Come cambiano i tempi... --Alexmar983 (talk) 01:54, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Alexmar983: non sapevo, mi spiace. Grazie della spiegazione. --DarTar (talk) 23:37, 22 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Più una giustificazione. Se dovessi spiegare dovrei riprendere tipo discussioni del passato dove ci sono state fortissime opposizioni ma sarebbe troppo noioso e allo stato inutile. Non mi preoccupa la mutevolezza o la scarsa proiezione nel futuro, le cose avvengono, mi preoccupa che questa condizione al contorno le faccia precedere peggio o più lentamente o più frammentariamente di come potrebbero. Mettere in contatto la parte più addentro al lavoro quotidiano con quella con capacità tecniche non era impossibile ma non è stato mai agevole o reso tale, quindi mi spiace che te e Hjfocs trovrete un punto di partenza che è più basso di quello che avrebbe potuto essere. Gli strumenti funzionano meglio se sono per tutti, e se c'è una comunità organica che li immagina, li chiede e li raffina, altrimenti la loro introduzione è faticosa. La stessa persona che vuole verticalismo gustifcando con la delicatezza o l'urgenza della situazione in un caso, si oppone nell'altro oppure ne difende a spada tratta uno fa resistenza passiva all'altro, nell'introduzione o nello sviluppo, e viceversa, anche se con un po' di prospettiva si intuisce che sono parte di un continuum.

Fra l'altro ci furono con alcuni utenti dei test più semplici sulla tassonomia di edit purtroppo basati solo su rozze stringhe di caratteri quando disponibili nell'oggetto. Che c'era "ciccia" si intuiva.

Venendo a cose concrete ho visto il ping qui e su itwiki. In IRC. Grazie della cortesia ma alle 17 qui in Cina sono le due di notte, quindi non ci sono (sarebbe anche la prima volta che uso IRC). Però se vuoi dei commenti su it:Wikipedia:Labels/Tipologia degli edit/Tassonomia te li lascio subito.

1) Nelle azioni mancherebbe secondo me "sostituzione e aggiornamento". Questo spesso implica sia rimozione che aggiunta, ma va distinto da rimozione e aggiunta di aspetti non collegati;

2) andrebbe separata l'azione sporadica da quella seriale. Esempio: sapere se l'utente ha aggiornato la popolazioni in un comune mentre lavorava sulla voce del comune è diverso che se l'ha fatto aggiornando le popolazioni di più comuni da un sito specifico. Nel primo caso devo studiare molto bene l'azione in sè perché se c'è forse un errore sistemico (fonte impropria), e lo sta ripetendo, nel secondo la priorità è minore, anzi devo aiutare magari l'utente con il modello di voce del comune. Altro esempio: un aggiornamento eccessivamente dettagliato di una sitografia, la sostituzione di un aggettivo di nazionalità con un altro etc... un patroller esperto lo vede subito. Magari non può valutare se l'edit in sè va bene ma spesso va in talk da chi è esperto segnalando subito tale edit. Ecco soprattutto se non sa chi è esperto o non ha tempo, è più facile per chi lavora individuare un comportamento seriale e quindi prioritario di verifica.

3) l'oggetto "punteggiatura" secondo me può anche chiamarsi "Punteggiatura e ortografia". Nella mia esperienza quasi mai nessun utente si focalizza sull'una o l'altra, sono riletture. O comunque mancherebbe "ortografia" se la vuoi disitnguere da "punteggiatura" perché è solo un aspetto di "wikificazione";

4) nei "Template generico" dovresti disitinguere "infobox" da "navbox", L'infobox laterale è un template che ha un processo di approvazione e un tecnicismo superiore al semplice navbox a fondo pagina, per esempio.

Sono questi i tipi di commenti di cui hai bisogno? Sto centrando il punto? Posso continuare se ti serve. Molte di queste cose te le diranno spero altri, quindi faccio prima a leggere ogni tanto la pagina e lasciare un commento qui.

In ogni caso gli altri progetti in lingua italiano hanno una tassonomia molto più semplice (azioni meccaniche, più schematiche) quindi se vuoi partire anche da quelli non dovrebbe essere troppo complicato. tanto basta un avviso al bar per radunare quasi tutti gli utenti attivi, e se sono d'accordo è anche uno sforzo più diretto.

In merito all'aiuto per raffinare è possibile adesso nelle fasi successive ottenere un target di utenze collaboratrici più composito calibrato su alcuni parametri di attività che potrebbe essere interessate al lavoro che state facendo. Analogamente già in questa fase it:Wikipedia:Labels/Tipologia degli edit poteva essere segnalata su pagine di discussione abbastanza tecniche dove sono attive utenze più di interfaccia. Fra queste Discussioni_Wikipedia:Rollbacker, Discussioni_aiuto:Cronologia, Discussioni_progetto:Patrolling. Non avresti avuto tanti nuovi nomi ma sarebbe stati molto motivati. Fra le utenze forse interessate fin da subito all'argomento c'è probabilmente Utente:Fullerene.--Alexmar983 (talk) 06:53, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Invitation to editathon at ISMB/ECCB 2017

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter, July 19, 2017

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons?

The millions of files on Wikimedia Commons are described with a lot of information or (meta)data. With the project Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, this data is structured more, and is made machine-readable. This will make it easier to view, search (also multilingually), edit, organize and re-use the files on Commons.

In early 2017, the Sloan Foundation funded this project (see documentation). Development takes place in 2017–2020. It involves staff from the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) and many volunteers. To achieve this, Wikibase support is added to Wikimedia Commons. Wikibase is the technology that is also used for Wikidata.

Recent developments: groundwork

A new and crucial technical step (federation) now makes it possible to reference data from one Wikibase website in another. Because of this, it will be possible to use Wikidata's items and properties to describe media files on Commons.
Another important piece of groundwork is under development: so-called Multi-Content Revisions. This feature allows structured data to be stored alongside wiki text, so that one wiki page can contain several types of content.

Team updates

Amanda Bittaker was hired as Program Manager for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. Amanda will take care of the overall management of the project.
Sandra Fauconnier (known as Spinster in her volunteer capacity) is the new Community Liaison. She will support the collaboration between the communities (Commons, Wikidata, GLAM) and the product development teams at the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland.
We have open positions for a UX designer and a Product Manager!

Talking with communities and allies

Long-term feedback from GLAMs. Besides the Wikimedia community, many external cultural and knowledge institutions (GLAMs - Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) are interested in Structured Data on Commons and are willing to provide feedback on the long-term plans for the project. Alex Stinson, GLAM strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation, is currently in contact with Europeana, DPLA, the Smithsonian and the National Archives of the United States. Alex is also looking for other GLAM institutions who might be able to advise on the long term. If you know of an institution or partner that may be appropriate for consultation, do get in touch with Alex.
Jonathan Morgan, design researcher, is starting to work on two projects:
- Researching batch upload workflows by interviewing GLAM institutions
- Researching the enrichment, organization and improvement tasks on already uploaded media files by engaging with active Commons contributors. This research follows up on existing research by Wikimedia Deutschland on heavy Commons users.

What comes next?

The Structured Data on Commons team meets in the week after Wikimania to lay the groundwork for the next steps. This includes new backend development and design work, for better and more clear integration of the structured data in pages on Wikimedia Commons.
The project's information pages on Wikimedia Commons will receive a long overdue update in the upcoming months. The team will also work on more and better communication channels. Feedback, wishes and tips are welcome at the project's general talk page.

Get involved

Join us at Wikimania! We are present at the hackathon, and there will be a session on Saturday, August 12: Structured Commons: what changes are coming?
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Stay tuned for requests for input, discussion and participation as soon as the info portal is refreshed (see above). These will also be announced via this newsletter.

Many greetings from SandraF (WMF) (talk), Community Liaison for this project! 13:55, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ISCB Wikipedia Competition: call for participation

ISCB Wikipedia Competition 2017-18: entries open!

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Structured Commons newsletter, October 25, 2017

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

Rama published an article about Structured Commons in Arbido, a Swiss online magazine for archivists, librarians and documentalists: original in French, illustrated and the article translated in English.
We now have a dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

Join the community focus group!
Translation. Do you want to help out translating messages about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators page.
The documentation and info pages about Structured Data on Commons have received a thorough update, in order to get them ready for all the upcoming work. Obsolete pages were archived. There are undoubtedly still a lot of omissions and bits that are unclear. You can help by editing boldly, and by leaving feedback and tips on the talk pages.
We have started to list tools, gadgets and bots that might be affected by Structured Commons in order to prepare for a smooth transition to the new situation. You can help by adding alerts about/to specific tools and developers on the dedicated tools page. You can also create Phabricator tasks to help keep track of this. Volunteers and developers interested in helping out with this process are extremely welcome - please sign up!
Help write the next Structured Commons newsletter.

Presentations / Press / Events

Structured Data on Commons was presented at Wikimania 2017 in Montréal for a packed room. First design sketches for search functionality were discussed during a breakout session. Read the Etherpad reports of the presentation and the breakout session.
Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, answered questions on Quora. One of her answers, mentioning Structured Data on Commons, was republished on Huffington Post.
Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker and Ramsey Isler from the Structured Commons team will be at WikidataCon. Sandra presents Structured Commons there (with a focus on fruitful collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities). If you attend the conference, don't hesitate to say hi and have a chat with us! (phabricator task T176858)

Team updates

Two new people have been hired for the Structured Data on Commons team. We are now complete! :-)

Ramsey Isler is the new Product Manager of the Multimedia team.
Pamela Drouin was hired as User Interface Designer. She works at the Multimedia team as well, and her work will focus on the Structured Commons project.

Partners and allies

We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

Design research is ongoing.

Jonathan Morgan and Niharika Ved have held interviews with various GLAM staff about their batch upload workflows and will finish and report on these in this quarter. (phabricator task T159495)
At this moment, there is also an online survey for GLAM staff, Wikimedians in Residence, and GLAM volunteers who upload media collections to Wikimedia Commons. The results will be used to understand how we can improve this experience. (phabricator task T175188)
Upcoming: interviews with Wikimedia volunteers who curate media on Commons (including tool developers), talking about activities and workflows. (phabricator task T175185)

Development

In Autumn 2017, the Structured Commons development team works on the following major tasks (see also the quarterly goals for the team):

Getting Multi-Content Revisions sufficiently ready, so that the Multimedia and Search Platform teams can start using it to test and prototype things.
Determine metrics and metrics baseline for Commons (phabricator task T174519).
The multimedia team at WMF is gaining expertise in Wikibase, and unblocking further development for Structured Commons, by completing the MediaInfo extension for Wikibase.

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Structured Commons newsletter, December 13, 2017

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

There was a IRC Office Hour about Structured Commons on November 21. You can read the log here.
Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

NEW: Participate in a survey that helps us prioritize which tools are important for the Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata communities. The survey runs until December 22. Here's some background.
NEW: Help the team decide on better names for 'captions' and 'descriptions'. You can provide input until January 3, 2018.
NEW: Help collect interesting Commons files, to prepare for the data modelling challenges ahead! Continuous input is welcome.
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Presentations / Press / Events

Presentation about Structured Commons and Wikidata, at WikimediaCon in Berlin.

Sandra presented the plans for Structured Commons during WikidataCon in Berlin, on October 29. The presentation focused on collaboration between the Wikidata and Commons communities. You can see the full video here.

Partners and allies

We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

Research findings from interviews and surveys of GLAM project participants are being published to the research page. Check back over the next few weeks as additional details (notes, quotes, charts, blog posts, and slide decks) will be added to or linked from that page.

Development

The Structured Commons team has written and submitted a report about the first nine months of work on the project to its funders, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The 53-page report, published on November 1, is available on Wikimedia Commons.
The team has started working on designs for changes to the upload wizard (T182019).
We started preliminary work to prototype changes for file info pages.
Work on the MediaInfo extension is ongoing (T176012).
The team is continuing its work on baseline metrics on Commons, in order to be able to measure the effectiveness of structured data on Commons. (T174519)
Upcoming: in the first half of 2018, the first prototypes and design sketches for file pages, the UploadWizard, and for search will be published for discussion and feedback!

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ISCB Wikipedia Competition 2018: entries open!

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and WikiProject Computational Biology are pleased to call for participants in the 2018 ISCB Wikipedia Competition. The ISCB aims to improve the communication of scientific knowledge to the public at large, and Wikipedia and its sister sites play an increasingly important role in this communication; the ISCB Wikipedia Competition aims to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology. Entries to the competition are open now; the competition closes on 31 Dec 2018.

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Spring 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
Several Commons community members are working on ways to integrate Wikidata in Wikimedia Commons. While this is not full-fledged structured data yet, this work helps to prepare for future conversion of data, and helps to understand how Wikidata and Commons can work better together.
- Thanks to Jarekt and other contributors, some Commons templates can now be filled via Wikidata: {{Creator}} (Phabricator) and {{Institution}} (Phabricator). Work is ongoing on the {{Artwork}} template (Phabricator).
- Thanks to Mike Peel and others, Wikidata-powered infoboxes can now be added to Commons categories, with the template {{Wikidata Infobox}}. (Example)
- Multichill is working on an experimental workflow to upload images to Commons via Wikidata (and using metadata from Wikidata). See a part of it here.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

Join the community focus group!
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Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

Events

Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, 20-22 April (+ Learning Days 18-19 April): several sessions and workshops around Structured Commons
EuropeanaTech Conference, Rotterdam, 15-16 May: several presentations + a full workshop day on Monday 14 May about Wikidata and Structured Commons
Wikimedia Hackathon, Barcelona, 18-20 May: Structured Commons as a focus area.

Partners and allies

We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!

Research

The research about GLAM contributions to Wikimedia Commons is concluded. A blog post on the Wikimedia blog provides a summary, and you can read the full results on meta.wikimedia.org.

Development

Prototypes will be available for Multilingual Captions soon.

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Help

Please kindly tell me how be a researcher and to add myself to the group. Shevonsilva (talk) 17:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter and contribute to the next issue. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
Since our last newsletter, the Structured Data team has moved into designing and building prototypes for various features. The use of multilingual captions in the UploadWizard and on the file page has been researched, designed, discussed, and built out for use. Behind the scenes, back-end work on search is taking place and designs are being drawn up for the front-end. There will soon be specifications published for the use of the first Wikidata property on Commons, "Depicts," and a prototype is to be released to go along with that.

Things to do / input and feedback requests

A workshop on what Wikidata properties Commons will need. This workshop will be open for the entire month of July 2018 at minimum.

Join the community focus group!
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Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

In late February there was a discussion around how Commons generally sees data being modeled.

The first discussion on copyright and licensing with Commons was held in March. This was a "high level" discussion, there will be a consultation later this summer about the deeper mapping of copyright and licensing in a structured way.
In April there was an exercise for GLAM partners in metadata and ontology mapping.
A discussion about the design for Multilingual Captions on the file page took place in May. You can still review the designs and leave feedback.
There was an IRC office hour in June to discuss progress so far and future plans.

Wikimania 2018

Three sessions about Structured Commons are officially scheduled for Wikimania 2018 - Cape Town, South Africa - July 2018.
- Wikimedia Commons and GLAM needs around the world (Friday 20 July, 10:30 local time)
- Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons and knowledge equity (Friday 20 July, 14:00 local time)
- Design challenge workshop: How can multilingual structured metadata bring knowledge equity to Commons? (Friday 20 July, 14:30 local time)
Structured Data on Commons is also a focus area during the Wikimania 2018 Hackathon. We will, among other things, do 'live' modelling of Wikidata properties for Commons - an offline spin-off of the community consultation taking place on wiki.

Partners and allies

We are still welcoming (more) staff from GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) to become part of our long-term focus group (phabricator task T174134). You will be kept in the loop of the project, and receive regular small surveys and requests for feedback. Get in touch with Sandra if you're interested - your input in helping to shape this project is highly valued!
Structured Data on Commons was presented to GLAM audiences during EuropeanaTech 2018 in Rotterdam (15 May 2018) and at the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Forum in Berlin (4 June 2018).

Research

Two research projects about Wikimedia Commons are currently ongoing, or in the process of being finished:

Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

Development

Prototypes will be available for Depicts soon.

Stay up to date!

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Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix

Greetings,

The newsletter omitted two interwiki prefixes, breaking the links on non-meta wikis as you might see above. Here are the correct links:

m:Research:Curation workflows on Wikimedia Commons—a project that seeks to understand the current workflows of Commons contributors who curate media (categorize it, delete it, link to it from other projects, etc.).
m:Research:Technical needs of external re-users of Commons media—soliciting feedback from individuals and organizations that re-use Commons content outside of Wikimedia projects, in order to understand their current painpoints and unmet needs.

My apologies, I hope you find the corrected links helpful.

- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:21, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Article history quality visualization

Add importScript("User:EpochFail/ArticleQuality-loader.js") to your Special:MyPage/common.js --EpochFail (talk • contribs) 13:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: entries open!

8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: entries open!

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and WikiProject Computational Biology are pleased to call for participants in the 8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition. The ISCB aims to improve the communication of scientific knowledge to the public at large, and Wikipedia plays an increasingly important role in this communication; the ISCB Wikipedia Competition aims to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles relating to computational biology. Entries to the competition are open now; the competition closes on 17 May 2019.

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File source problem with File:Freemind.jpg

Thank you for uploading File:Freemind.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the page from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of the website's terms of use of its content. If the original copyright holder is a party unaffiliated with the website, that author should also be credited. Please add this information by editing the image description page.

If the necessary information is not added within the next days, the image will be deleted. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please refer to the image use policy to learn what images you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. Please also check any other files you have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 17:13, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ShakespeareFan00: thanks for flagging this, I am the author of this image and I own the rights. I forgot which template I should use on English WP (as opposed to Commons) to flag that I am the creator and release the image under a CC license. Can you fix this for me? Thanks --DarTar (talk) 18:21, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition

Welcome to the newsletter for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons! You can update your subscription to the newsletter. Do inform others who you think will want to be involved in the project!

Community updates

Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
- Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
- Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
- Log for 4 October
- Log for 1 November
Our dedicated IRC channel: wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat

Things to do / input and feedback requests

Current:

Since the last newsletter:

Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
"Good coverage" for depicts tagging (Sept. 2018)
Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)

Presentations / Press / Events

Presentation by Keegan on the first features to be released for Structured Data, presented at Wikiconference North America, Columbus, Ohio, October 2018.
Sandra presented a project update at the GLAM-Wiki conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, November 2018, as part of an update and panel discussion.
Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.

Partners and allies

The info portal on Structured Commons now includes a section on GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).
We are currently planning the first GLAM pilot projects that will use structured data on Wikimedia Commons. One project has already started: the Swedish Heritage Board researches and develops a prototype tool to provide improved metadata (translations, data additions...) from Wikimedia Commons back to the source institution. Read the project brief.
The documentation for batch uploads of files to Wikimedia Commons will be improved in 2019, as part of preparing for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. To prepare, the GLAM team at the Wikimedia Foundation wants to understand better which types of documentation you already use, and how you like to learn new GLAM-Wiki skills and knowledge. Fill in a short survey to provide input!

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Captions in January

The previous message from today says captions will be released in November in the text. January is the correct month. My apologies for the potential confusion. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.

Hi all, following up on last month's announcement...

Multilingual file captions will be released this week, on either Wednesday, 9 January or Thursday, 10 January 2019. Captions are a feature to add short, translatable descriptions to files. Here's some links you might want to look follow before the release, if you haven't already:

Read over the help page for using captions - I wrote the page on mediawiki.org because captions are available for any MediaWiki user, feel free to host/modify a copy of the page here on Commons.
Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
Leave feedback about the test on the captions test talk page, if you have anything you'd like to say prior to release.

Additionally, there will be an IRC office hour on Thursday, 10 January with the Structured Data team to talk about file captions, as well as anything else the community may be interested in. Date/time conversion, as well as a link to join, are on Meta.

Thanks for your time, I look forward to seeing those who can make it to the IRC office hour on Thursday. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: a reminder

8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: a reminder

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Merger discussion for 2019 People's Vote March

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8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: entries closing soon!

8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: entries closing soon!

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8th ISCB Wikipedia competition: deadline extended!

8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: deadline extended!

Hello, this is to let you know that the editing deadline for the 8th ISCB Wikipedia Competition has been extended to 28 June 2019. We encourage you to participate and make the most of this extended editing period! Remember, prizes of up to $500 will be awarded to the best contributions as chosen by a judging panel of experts; these will be awarded at the ISMB/ECCB conference in Basel, Switzerland in July 2019.

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Detox

The Detox research you are listed as participating in has been mentioned at Wikipedia:Community response to the Wikimedia Foundation's ban of Fram#Data analysis for tone. DuncanHill (talk) 17:23, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Thanks for creating Jason Ward (naturalist). ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 18:32, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Doomsdayer520: you're welcome! --DarTar (talk) 03:28, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space

There are two separate blog entries for Structured Data on Commons posted to Wikimedia Space that are of interest:

Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister, discusses some ways that editors can work with structured data. Topics include tools that have been written or modified for structured data, in addition to future plans for tools and querying services.
Structured Data on Commons - A Blog Series, written by me, is a five-part posting that covers the basics of the software and features that were built to make structured data happen. The series is meant to be friendly to those who may have some knowledge of Commons, but may not know much about the structured data project.

I hope these are informative and useful, comments and questions are welcome. All the blogs offer a comment feature, and you can log in with your Wikimedia account using oAuth. I look forward to seeing some posts over there. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 21:33, 23 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Marie Curie Fellows Association

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Autopatrolled granted

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@Schwede66 and Pigsonthewing: thanks! --DarTar (talk) 14:48, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

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@Diannaa: thanks for the reminder. While the edit summary of the revisions creating the spinoff articles do reference the parent page (albeit not through a link), I'll make sure the {{copied}} template is used on the corresponding talk pages.--DarTar (talk) 20:19, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I saw the edit summaries and did not think it was super clear that the text had been moved and where it came from. Adding templates to the talk pages is a good idea. Thanks,— Diannaa (talk) 20:21, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Diannaa: totally, done.--DarTar (talk) 20:54, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

help with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman article

Hi, just wondering why the image of Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman was removed? I'm assuming it was a formatting issue on my end so I would really appreciate your help adding it back in the proper manner. Thanks! Yul B. Allwright (talk) 18:34, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yul B. Allwright: it was an edit conflict, just resolved it, take a look! --DarTar (talk) 18:37, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DarTar, got it, thank you!! Yul B. Allwright (talk) 18:39, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Category:BlackAFinSTEM has been nominated for deletion

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Hi DarTar. Sorry for the rude template, you can see my rationale at the discussion page. I actually want to thank you for starting Black Birders Week. Keep up the good work. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 03:59, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your page on J Drew Lanham

Good morning! Thanks for creating this page. I'd like to work on it, but have to say I'm pretty rusty and probably (as things at WP have evolved), a novice in many areas. I used to follow Dr Lanham when he was blogging and would like to work on improving the page. Just alerting you in hopes of support and oversight toward getting it out of stub status. Please let me know if I get things wrong. Thanks in advance. --Araucana (talk) 12:13, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Araucana: sure thing! Ping me when you have some edits ready you would like me to review.--DarTar (talk) 13:34, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've nominated Black Birders Week for DYK!

You can see the nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Black Birders Week.

I encourage you to nominate future articles that you create, expand 5x in size, or bring to good article status. You can do so at WP:DYKN (nominations must be within 7 days of the article being started, expanded, or awarded GA).

Sincerely, The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:33, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright on portrait of Corina Newsome

Thanks for contributing to Corina Newsome's page. I was contacted by Katherine Arntzen, the photographer of the image here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corina_Newsome#/media/File:Corina_Newsome.jpg who says that the image cannot be released for commercial purposes as Georgia Southern University owns the copyright. Can you please either change the copyright or take down the image? Thank you! Gthh (talk) 17:03, 15 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gthh: I heard from Katherine too, since they cannot release the image under a free license it needs to be deleted. I have obtained an alternative image that I'll upload shortly. Can you start the process? Thanks.--DarTar (talk) 01:19, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@DarTar: I just nominated the old image for deletion. I was actually able to get another photo of Corina Newsome in the meantime, so we should be all set. Gthh (talk) 07:49, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gthh: amazing, thank you.--DarTar (talk) 16:25, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Black Birders Week

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DYK for Black Birders Week

On 5 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Black Birders Week, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that ornithologist Corina Newsome and herpetologist Earyn McGee held events as part of the inaugural Black Birders Week, an effort to highlight the challenges faced by Black nature enthusiasts? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Black Birders Week. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Black Birders Week), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Cleaning up Special:WantedTemplates

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It's been a couple months now. Any chance you could do this for us? Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 22:50, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Plastikspork: done, sorry for the delay, I missed your original message. Did this fix it? --DarTar (talk) 05:38, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that fixed it. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:59, 4 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Clickstream data isn't updating

Hi- The Clickstream data for November, which should have appeared on Dec 3, still isn't there (in https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/clickstream/). I realize that you're probably no longer the right person to contact, but I can't find any contact information anywhere. Could you tell me who is the right person to contact? Thanks! Dan Bloch (talk) 18:08, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dan, sorry for the late reply, I've only seen your note now. I passed this on to the research team at WMF (which originally developed this dataset) asking them to relay your note to whoever owns this dataset. Thanks for flagging this! DarTar (talk) 23:52, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Danbloch The clickstream data should be available now for November (and also for December). If you cant access, dont hesitate to reach and I will try to help. Thanks for the ping @DarTar. MGerlach (WMF) (talk) 07:57, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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