Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network/minutes 2020 09 30

This meeting

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Wed 30 September 2020 16:00 UTC
  • 12 noon – 1pm Eastern Time - New York
  • 6 - 7pm Paris
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Attendees

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  1. Pharos / Richard
  2. Fuzheado / Andrew
  3. MartinPoulter / Martin (Bristol, UK) - this is my first WREN meeting! I am Wikimedian in Residence at the Private Collection, the world's largest collection of Islamic Art. It also collects other non-Western art. We hope to share 1000 images. This is a private collection and the owner wishes to make this a public museum. Part of their outreach strategy is to share photographs of the collection.
    1. https://www.khalilicollections.org/
  4. dorevabelfiore /Doreva (Philadelphia) member of the Philadelphia WikiSalon. Having the monthly salon on Saturday 9 October. In October we commemorate Ada Lovelace Day with a women in science exhibit. Unfortunately we cannot distribute custom designed Ada Lovelace cake (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Have_your_Ada_Lovelace_cake_and_eat_it_too.jpg) in person as we have in the past. I believe that we are going to teach editing Wikidata with Women in Science goals/targets. We have a solid 90 minutes of teaching/work/Q&A every month and our attendees are liking the format.
    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia
    2. Martin: have you considered having a transcribe-a-thon? We had a very good experience doing this in England https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Oxford_Ada_Lovelace_transcribeathon_2015
    3. WikiSource - Dr. X., Ximena - Emily Dickinson poetry transcription in her classes
    4. Can Kelly Doyle provide a list of women scientists for other groups to collaborate for Women in Science on 10/9 and/or 10/13 on a larger GLAM event (maybe Wikipedia, WIkidata, Wikisource, Commons)
  5. bluerasberry / Lane
  6. zBlace
  7. Rajeeb-This is my first WREN meeting, I am a Wikimedian from India, looking to know more about WREN and their activities.

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This meeting
  1. WikiCari Festival - Sep 19 livestream
    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb3A_oWO9o4
  2. Wiki Loves Fashion
    1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Fashion
    2. https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/online/Wiki_Loves_Fashion_2020/home
  3. The programs and events dashboard has been crashing. This is because heavy Wikipedia editors overtax the system, whcih is designed to report new editors. Wikidata editors in particular will editing 1000s of items with automation, whereas typical editors getting tracked will edit 1-2 articles.
  4. Met x Fashion Editing Meetup - Used Streamyard to broadcast to social media channels
    1. Main page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetFashion_2020
    2. Dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Metropolitan_Museum/Met_Fashion_(2020)
    3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCD_wDOggiY - 2k views
    4. https://www.facebook.com/metmuseum/videos/328355281768113 - 15k views
    5. https://twitter.com/metmuseum/status/1309889904596250626 - 3.5k views
  5. Dashboard crashed. Gah.
    1. Can we contact Fiona and report how important the tool is to all of our events? So important for function and credibility.
    2. Previous community requests for development -
      1. 2016 -(not selected)https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2016/Categories/Programs_and_events#Support_Wikipedia_Education_Program_courses_on_Programs_&_Events_Dashboard
      2. 2017 - selected!
      3. As a result of the 2017 survey, the WMF invested in
        • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Metrics
        • Event metrics was a WMF managed version of the Dashboard. The old version has had ~200k users and 100s of regular users. The WMF version may have had 50 users, no regular users. Lane feels that the WMF should fund support of the existing tool.
  6. Discussion about shoes and fashion
    1. LIsteria (tool for generating WIkidata-diriven lists within WIkidata or a Wikipedia)
    2. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Listeria
  7. Wikidata Graph Builder
    1. https://angryloki.github.io/wikidata-graph-builder/
  8. Pre-show chatter important for spinning up social media, account creation
    1. Sarah Clugage was great! - Cottagecore
    2. Direct folks to Draft: and not AfC
    3. Demo'd Wikidata and knowledge graphs
  9. WikiCite is putting out a call for funding projects - video and otherwise
    1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/grants
    2. Lane: my expectation is that anyone with ideas, at all skill levels, is a good candidate for applying for this. Good applications develop Wikidata in the Wikicite project.
    3. Andrew: There is not a Wikicite conference this year so the money is going to projects. I understand that among other ideas, the group wants videos to replace the conversations that would have happened in a conference.
  10. Wikidata modeling for properties related to printed matter, artworks
    1. Best practices?
    2. Andrew: we are short on models for all sorts of archiving collections. For example, how do we track the ownership of art items as they change hands. We still do not have all the properties we need to manage library collections.
    3. New properties? Existing ones with qualifiers?
      1. dimension->11, "applies to part"->case
      2. Framed Dimension
      3. Image Dimension
      4. Base
      5. Case
      6. Plate
      7. Sheet
      8. Mount
      9. Cover
    4. Martin: we often do not have data for this
    5. Andrew: The Met Museum has this data, but not as structured data, and often there are different waysof measuring
    6. For time-based fields, these are also some fields to consider. These might all just be covered by "Significant event" and a qualifier, or some might rise to being actual properties. Though these tend to be more about prints and books than paintings.
      1. Printed
      2. Posthumously printed
      3. Original dated to (for facsimiles)
      4. or earlier
      5. Reprinted
      6. Reissued
      7. Published
      8. Before
      9. Republished
      10. Cast
      11. Designed
      12. Woven
  11. Low priority, but interesting for discussion:
    1. Sustainable Development Goals edit a thon
    2. AI in the movement - SDC
    3. The Wikimedia Foundation multimedia team has been trying to recruit Commons users to tag Commons users.items?There has been general dissatisfaction among Commons users with the AI predictions of the tags. The quality issues are varied. Martin Dahmers and Jean Fred have been pushing back on WMF activities, and these two advocate for institutional partnerships.