Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Myself and my colleague Sandra Fauconnier are running a survey to help us better meet user needs and expectations for the new Structured Data on Commons extension for OpenRefine, which is in the process of being developed.
It shouldn't take you more than 5-10 mins to fill out the survey and we encourage anyone who is involved in uploading files to Wikimedia Commons and/or editing file metadata there to have a look, regardless whether you're OpenRefine users or not.
The survey is accessible here: https://forms.gle/cneU6GApmVY3c3TC6
In case you haven't heard much about this yet, the survey is associated with this Wikimedia-funded project: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/CS%26S/Structured_Data_on_Wi…
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch by emailing us, or getting in touch via our Talk pages on Meta.
Kind regards,
Lozana
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Dr. Lozana Rossenova
Researcher @ Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover
Wikibase Community Manager @ NFDI4Culture
ORCID: 0000-0002-5190-1867
Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph <https://geograph.co.uk/>,
OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for people remembering and preserving images and
information about cities, city blocks, buildings? Particularly for cities
that are damaged by disaster or war, this seems like a valuable thing to do
at the granularity of "the unit that individuals photograph, remember,
share with one another".
It would be good to have a freely-licensed structural history of a city in
this fashion, block by block. And something that refugees from a crisis
could do to preserve areas they frequented.
SJ
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Such a beautiful project Nikolay, thank you! With a wide range of locales
<https://domofoto.ru/cities/> (here is Mykolaiv
<https://domofoto.ru/cities/138/>).
Do you know if they accept mundane houses and buildings? That might
overload the current interface.
And I wonder if a parallel interface into the same dataset that is
localized / backed up would be helpful.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 1:34 PM Коля Красный via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi!
> There is a Russian project https://domofoto.ru directly on that. IDK if
> there’s same projects on other languages.
>
>
>
> Четверг, 24 марта 2022, 18:32 +03:00 от Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>:
>
> Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph <https://geograph.co.uk/>,
> OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for people remembering and preserving images and
> information about cities, city blocks, buildings? Particularly for cities
> that are damaged by disaster or war, this seems like a valuable thing to do
> at the granularity of "the unit that individuals photograph, remember,
> share with one another".
>
> It would be good to have a freely-licensed structural history of a city in
> this fashion, block by block. And something that refugees from a crisis
> could do to preserve areas they frequented.
>
> SJ
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Hello everyone!
As some of you may know, several developers are currently working on a
project (funded by a Wikimedia grant) to add Structured Data on Wikimedia
Commons functionalities to OpenRefine. See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine for more info :-)
We are making good progress on this project. Many people in the Wikimedia
community actively use OpenRefine and are interested in these new features.
Because of this interest, the OpenRefine team starts hosting online,
monthly office hours for OpenRefine users from the Wikimedia community. You
can meet and ask questions to other OpenRefine / Wikimedia users here, and
talk to members of the development team. These office hours are informal,
have no set agenda, are held via Zoom but are not recorded. Registration is
not needed.
For now, we have scheduled office hours until the end of June 2022. Time of
the day alternates to accommodate participants from diverse time zones. If
these office hours prove to be popular, we will plan more of these later!
- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 9AM UTC
- Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 4PM UTC
- Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 8AM UTC
- Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 4PM UTC
See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine#Join_OpenRefine_meetu…
where
we will post the Zoom links. Feel free to drop by :-)
Hope to see many of you there!
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier)
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am an artist and I would like to get in contact with Ivar Leidus for a future art project are working on, can I ask you to help to get I contact with Ivar Leidus?
Kind regards,
Vriendelijke groet,
Joep Verhoeven
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T +31 (0) 7 63 03 93 11
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www.verhoeventwins.com
Hi all! I have a new announcement to make, this time regarding
MediaSearch:[1] research with the new engine will now be easier, since
now also English synonyms can be used to find results.[2]
MediaSearch already leverages Wikidata items to find images that
depict entities that match the search criteria. Now, MediaSearch will
make another step forward, by including also those items that match
English labels or aliases on Wikidata for the original search term. We
expect this to be helpful in discovering media for subjects known
under multiple names (for example, scientific and common names), as
well as in other languages where we often don’t even have
descriptions.
Just to make an example: when a user searches for “bat”, MediaSearch
will also show media where searchable text includes the word
“Chiroptera” (their scientific name, and also an alias on
{{Q|28425}})[3] - and this even if the text doesn’t include “bat”.
Another example would be a Somali user searching for “fiidmeer” (the
Somali word for “bat”) that will get media, through {{Q|28425}},[2]
that include either “bat” or “Chiroptera” - again, even if the text
doesn’t include “fiidmeer”.
For the time being, the feature will include only English labels and
aliases, because of the possible clash in meanings between words
across languages, increasing the odds of false positives. For the same
reason, the current implementation will be very conservative in its
searches, when using aliases.
I am here in case you have any questions or requests for more information.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch
[2] Phabricator ticket for reference: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290652
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28425
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Luca Martinelli [Sannita] (he/him)
Community Relation Specialist
Hello everyone,
Reminder: tomorrow (Tuesday, February 22 at 15.00 UTC) you are all welcome
at the online community meetup about OpenRefine's work on Structured Data
on Commons. No need to sign up, you find the Zoom link here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Community_meetup_22_F…
Looking forward!
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier)
Hello everyone!
Over 2021-22, OpenRefine is being extended with Structured Data on
Wikimedia Commons (SDC) support. This project is funded by a Wikimedia
Foundation Project Grant [1].
The OpenRefine team has made quite a bit of progress in the past months. We
warmly invite you to a community meetup [2] with updates and a first demo
of the newly developed SDC editing functionalities in OpenRefine. Bring
your questions!
** When? *Tuesday, February 22, at 15:00-17:00 UTC (check the time in your
timezone) [3].
** For whom?* For anyone who is curious about the current status of SDC
support in OpenRefine!
** Where?* Online, via Zoom. The event's info page [2] has the link.
* The meeting will be recorded and the recording will be published to
Wikimedia Commons afterwards.
Check the event page [2] for more info. We hope to see you there!
Sandra (User:Spinster / User:SFauconnier)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/CS&S/Structured_Data_on_Wiki…
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Community_meetup_22_F…
[3] https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1645542013