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If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on Project chat. If you want to try out editing, you can use the sandbox to try. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and become an active editor for Wikidata.

Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:38, 11 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Bundestagsabgeordnete edit

Hallo Thomas, nur als Hinweis: Die Abgeordneten aus der laufenden Legislaturperiode haben ihr Mandat noch bis zur Konstituierung des neugewählten Bundestages, der spätestens 30 Tage nach der Bundestagswahl - also grob grob 24.10.2017 - zusammentreten wird. Auch haben die neugewählten Abgeordneten ihr Mandat noch nicht angetreten. Deine Änderungen wie bei Alexander Krauß sind somit sachlich falsch. --Miebner (talk) 19:21, 30 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Structured Commons newsletter, October 25, 2017 edit

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
Things to do / input and feedback requests
Presentations / Press / Events
 
Audience at Structured Commons design discussion, Wikimania 2017
Team updates
 
The Structured Commons team at Wikimania 2017

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.
Stay up to date!

Warmly, your community liaison, SandraF (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 14:26, 25 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

Structured Commons newsletter, December 13, 2017 edit

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
Things to do / input and feedback requests
 
A multi-licensed image on Wikimedia Commons, with a custom {{EthnologyItemMHNT}} Information template. Do you also know media files on Commons that will be interesting or challenging to model with structured data? Add them to the Interesting Commons files page.
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!
Stay up to date!

Warmly, your community liaison, SandraF (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 16:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Share your experience and feedback as a Wikimedian in this global survey edit

WMF Surveys, 18:57, 29 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Spring 2018 edit

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.
Things to do / input and feedback requests
Discussions held
Events
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
Development
  • Prototypes will be available for Multilingual Captions soon.
Stay up to date!

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery - 19:48, 3 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Reminder: Share your feedback in this Wikimedia survey edit

WMF Surveys, 01:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Summer 2018 edit

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
Discussions held
Wikimania 2018
Partners and allies
Research

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

  1. 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.).
  2. 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!

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

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Structured Data Newsletter - Research link fix edit

Greetings,

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

  1. 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.).
  2. 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

Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition edit

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
Things to do / input and feedback requests

Current:

Since the last newsletter:

Presentations / Press / Events
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!
Stay up to date!

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

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Captions in January edit

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) edit

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:

  1. 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.
  2. Test out using captions on Beta Commons.
  3. 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

Community Insights Survey edit

RMaung (WMF) 17:38, 10 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Reminder: Community Insights Survey edit

RMaung (WMF) 19:54, 20 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Structured Data - blogs posted in Wikimedia Space edit

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

twinned administrative body edit

Hi Looniverse. I'm just letting you know that I have reverted your recent addition of twinned administrative body (P190) statements to Perth (Q3183) and Fremantle (Q606212). These items are not administrative bodies, and certainly are not the relevant administrative bodies making the agreements, which would be would be City of Perth (Q1855330) and City of Fremantle (Q1455046) (the geographical extent of City of Perth (Q1855330) covers only a small part of Perth (Q3183)). Cheers, Evad37 [talk] 01:14, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

the same with many items in Sweden. Only "kommun" can have twinned administrative body (P190).Yger (talk) 11:40, 22 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

New OpenRefine reconciliation service edit

Hi!

Thank you for wearing the {{User loves OpenRefine}} userbox on your user page!

Because the existing Wikidata reconciliation service has had severe performance issues recently, I have created a new one which should be faster and more robust. You can add it to OpenRefine in the reconciliation dialog with the following URL: https://wikidata.reconci.link/en/api (or by replacing en by any other language code).

If you have any issues with this new service, let me know.

Happy reconciling! − Pintoch (talk)

Errors in Bavarian Monument Map object ID (architectural monument) mass import edit

I noticed you doing a lot of (incorrect) edits on Schloss (Q1622958) and other items. For example you added 160583 which should probably be on Schlossgaststätte (Q98495397). I see that user:Derzno spend quite a bit of effort to all split this up and now it's becoming a bit of a mess. Probably best to just undo your whole batch and try again. Multichill (talk) 13:17, 8 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. I matched to the Bavarian monument authority ID (P4244). The parts have no Bavarian monument authority ID (P4244) but a series ordinal (P1545). I found the series ordinal (P1545) in the source. So I can add the property Bavarian Monument Map object ID (architectural monument) (P9339) at the right member item. I will prepare a query to fix this. I will undo the last quickstatements. --Looniverse (talk) 13:54, 8 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
Great! The integration of data like this can be quite the puzzle. Multichill (talk) 14:08, 8 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

Freischwebende BLFD KOIDs edit

Servus Looniverse, danke fürs eintragen der BLFD-KOIDs in P:P9339. Beim Putzen bin ich auf einige KOIDs gestossen, die zwar so stimmen aber keinen Wikidata Eintrag haben. Ein Beispiel ist: Q41330177. Wir sollten jedoch für alle BLFD Einträge die ein KOID besitzen, auch einen zughörigen Datensatz haben, der dann mit P:P527/P:P361 verbunden werden kann. Kannst du da bitte noch nachholen? Laut meine Analyse sind es 715 Datensätze die fehlen. Fragts du die Daten eigentlich automatisch aus dem DenkmalAtlas ab? --Derzno (talk) 14:02, 8 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi Derzno, sorry ich hab Deine Nachricht und die Diskussion erst jetzt gesehen. Ich hatte im Sommer versucht anhand des Aktenzeichens und der Ordnungsnummer eine Zuordnung der KOID vorzunehmen. Das hat leider nicht immer funktioniert. Daher hatte ich die Quickstatements storniert. Allerdings sind einige übrig geblieben, die nicht automatisch über den quickstatements-undo rausgefallen sind. Anschließend hab ich mich nicht mehr damit beschäftigt. Die Daten hatte ich mit einem Python-Skript maschinell abgefragt. Die URL lautet z.B. https://geoportal.bayern.de/denkmalatlas/denkmalservice/v1/denkmal/detail/bykoidandobjtyp/115724/bau Das JSON konnte man gut auswerten.
Ich bin jetzt nicht auf dem aktuellen Stand bezüglich der 715 fehlenden Sätze. Hast Du hier eine Liste? Viele Grüße -- Looniverse (talk) 18:33, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Servus Looniverse, sorry hab das auch jetzt erst gelesen. Bitte ping mich zukünftig mit @Derzno: an, da meine Beo gut voll ist und sowas schnell untergeht. Ich bau dir eine Liste aber mache erst noch meine "Neuzugänge" an Bau- und Bodendenkmäler fertig. Gibt es eigentlich einen Grund, weshalb nicht analog zu P:P9339/P:P9342 kein Property für die Ensembles gibt? Die haben einen eigenen Aufruf im DenkmalAtlas. Laut meiner Daten sind das 874 Objekte und m.E. wäre das sinnvoll auch anzulegen. @Ordercrazy: z.Kt. --Derzno (talk) 06:11, 18 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Derzno, als ich die Property damals beantragt hab, wusste ich noch nicht, dass man die Ensembles auch über den Atlas abrufen kann. Ich beantrage noch eine Property. In WD haben wir 874 Ensembles; aus dem Denkmalatlas hab ich nur 864 rausgescrapt. Das Delta finde ich aber bestimmt noch. -- Looniverse (talk) 17:38, 19 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Servus Looniverse, solche Unterschiede zwischen den Daten gibt es immer. Zum einen liegt es daran, dass einige Gebiete über mehrere Gemeinden gehen (z.B. E-6-63-000-1) oder nicht im DenkmalAtlas auftauchen, da sie "nicht kartiert" sind. Bei den Ensembles gibt es das aber nicht. Ich hab 878 unterschiedliche E- Nummern wovon eines ein ehemaliges ist. Ich seh mir das später auch noch mal genauer an wo die Unterschiede her kommen.
Zur Info, es mischt eine IP aus dem Raum Mittelfranken mit, die leider immer wieder die gleichen Fehler macht. Leider reagiert er/sie/es nicht auf Rücksetzungen und ich habe die Sperre des Ranges beantragt. Leider das letzte Mittel und ich versuche meist zu erklären, was warum und wieso aber auf ständiges Nachputzen hab ich wenig Bock. --Derzno (talk) 05:48, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Guten Morgen @Derzno, ich habe gestern mal weitergescrapt und komme nun auf 873 Ensembles. Das Ensemble Thalkirchen village center (Q108687727) ist ein ehemaliges. Außerdem hab ich das Propososal eingereicht. Das wird jetzt ein paar Tage dauern ehe die Property zur Verfügung steht. Viele Grüße -- Looniverse (talk) 07:21, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

WP-Abfrage zu Trambahnen edit

Hi @Looniverse:, ich nehme an, der Vortag "Wikidata Workshop 2019: Items anlegen mit QuickStatements" auf YouTube ist von dir.

Deine Abbildung der Trambahnen auf Wikidata finde ich sehr interessant, und ich habe auf dem Open Data Portal der Stadt München ähnliche Daten über Haltestellen gefunden. Ich überlege daher, auch das Trambahn-Netz von München abzubilden. Du erwähnst in dem Vortrag eine SPARQL-Abfrage über Trambahnen. Die wäre ein guter Startpunkt für mich. Wo finde ich die? Danke. --Ladon (talk) 10:10, 18 February 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Ladon:, ja das war ich. Hier der Link zum SPARQL: Straßenbahnlinien in Ulm. --Looniverse (talk) 20:03, 25 February 2023 (UTC)Reply