Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/2021-09-22
This meeting
edit- 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
edit1.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
editSee 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
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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.