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Welcome to Wikidata, BrillLyle!

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Best regards! ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 09:29, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Pilot Campaign

Hi BrillLyle!
Many thanks for registering yourself at Wikidata:Item_quality_campaign!
I would like to check with you, if you have tried to label items on the pilot campaign (http://labels.wmflabs.org/ui/wikidatawiki/). If that's not the case, would be great if you can do so and give me some feedback about it ;)
Thanks! --Glorian WD (talk) 08:55, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Glorian WD. I am interested in the project itself and what and how the item labeling is done -- but I am probably not going to allocate a ton of time and energy to doing the rating itself. Probably not helpful so I apologize. I recognize that this incorporates a lot of work on your part and on the part of others, too. Thank you for doing this. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 13:36, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Aliases

Please don't add Russian (and generally Cyrillic) words as Romanian aliases. --XXN, 12:33, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

How do I add things that are in Moldavian and Cyrillic. Some transliteration is helpful, isn't it? I'm concerned with discoverability and making sure that both Cyrillic and non-Cyrillic (if applicable) are available, again for discoverability. Please let me know. -- BrillLyle (talk) 21:17, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Jewish genealogy

Thanks for your comments at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/USHMM_person_ID! Any data donation of person names will be appreciated. Can we talk on skype "valexiev1"; or google hangout "vladimir alexiev". (Where are you located? I'm in Washington today and tomorrow, and Ottawa Thu & Fri) --Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 17:41, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi Vladimir - sorry for the late response on this. I don't have any specific data donation of person names per se unfortunately, as I'm pretty sure the USHMM/Registry has them all, in the duplicates that you refer to.

I am happy to talk, probably on the phone might be easiest/quickest. Unfortunately I work a compressed work week which is usually Wednesday, Thursday, Friday -- so it's hard those days for me to talk. This week my Friday is more open, so let me know if you would like to talk then. My gmail email is WP.BrillLyle -- Best, Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 09:11, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

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

Audience at Structured Commons design discussion, Wikimania 2017

• 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

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!

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• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! It takes place on Tuesday 21 November, 18.00 UTC.

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

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

M.O.P. (Q1052019)

Can you explain the connection from M.O.P. (Q1052019) to Black Lunch Table (Q28781198)? I can see that you have added catalog (P972) = Black Lunch Table (Q28781198) but I don't find nothing about this. Have you some reference to confirm the connection? --ValterVB (talk) 08:54, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi ValterVB. Yes, M.O.P. was an artist / musical group that was part of the task list for a hip hop editathon held at the Brooklyn Public Library in July. Here is the Listeria table. The catalog property is used to automate task lists and incorporate Wikidata in the process. Please let me know if you have any further questions - Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 16:37, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

@ValterVB:, @BrillLyle: introduced me to the question of the BLT how to manage a list with both people who have articles in multiple languages not necessarily English. I suggested the use of Wikidata. I asked for a property to manage this and was not exactly helped. At this time with people threatening the deletion of BLT items I find that there are many more problematic issues in Wikidata that do impact the quality of our data. Given that the BLT is managed by the project leader of the BLT, who serves an issue of diversity, an issue where the amount of data is lacking because of a lack of interest, I find that all this attention on the BLT is a diversion of what really ails us. That is a lack of collaboration. A lack of willingness to consider that only together we will have an impact on quality. The BLT is a diversion from the lack of quality in the citation data. It is a diversion of the lack of collaboration with Wikipedia in order to improve both its and our quality. All in all I am sick and tired of the bungling of a diversity issue for all the wrong reasons. It is all too easy. It will not improve our quality but it will divert attention from what is at this time mostly a stamp collection. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 18:07, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

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

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.

• 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.
• Join the community focus group!
• Do you want to translate messages and information about Structured Data on Commons from English to your own language? Sign up on the translators 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!

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• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! It takes place on Tuesday, February 13, 18.00 UTC in wikimedia-office ^webchat.

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

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

On VIAF

Hey BrillLyle, I read this discussion on wikidata-l and want to give some input and experience onwiki, since I recently had to work with VIAF identifiers as well:

Most of the items on my watchlist are about sports-related entities, particularly sportspersons, thus not many VIAF identifiers should be available for them (sportspersons are not very much in their scope). In total, I found ~250 person items being equipped with VIAF ID (P214) (out of ~7k on my watchlist). So I decided to check all of the ~250 statements manually whether they are legit, which resulted in this worklist.

It turned out that for ~10% of the cases, on VIAFs side the Wikidata-item was assigned to a VIAF entry it did not belong to, and this was subsequently also imported to Wikidata (i.e. there was mutual linking found). A descriptive (imaginary) example: “John Doe, born 1950, American rower” in Wikidata was linked from and to “John Doe, born 1950, Australian author” in VIAF. Looks like VIAF does some automatic (?) mix-n-match to Wikipedia articles/Wikidata items on their side, apparently matching on “same name + same year of birth”. While this is quite robust, it can lead to mistakes when there are in fact two different persons with same name and same year of birth.

To repair these mistakes, I created new items in Wikidata (like “John Doe, born 1950, Australian author”) and moved the VIAF identifier from the existing one to the correct (new) one. Turns out that VIAF seems to update the links on their side as well, because in most (not all) of the cases they have corrected it meanwhile. My impression is that the updates take place roughly monthly, since there was one on October 22, and another one on November 26 (you can see that from the VIAF entry histories). Important to mention here that I have not had any contact to VIAF. I just created new Wikidata items and assigned proper VIAF statements to them.

So, while I have no idea about their internal procedures, I can at least tell you that they do actively look for the links between their entries and our items. If you don’t want to contact them, you may want to watch a few test cases with fixes in Wikidata to see how the entries in VIAF change based on your input in Wikidata. —MisterSynergy (talk) 14:11, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Help:Label

Hi BrillLyle,

You might want to review the above page. It attempts to explain how labels for Wikidata items should be chosen. Labels are a basic feature of Wikidata. Contrary to English Wikipedia article titles, the disambiguator should not be included in the label. Sample: Q47013013 should have the name "Skitzo", not "Skitzo (rapper)", unless the person's name is actually "Skitzo (rapper)".

Don't hesitate to ask on Project chat if it's not clear how the Help page should apply to the item you created.
--- Jura 09:04, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks for this explanation. I understand the point here but I think it is something that as editors get better at Wikidata (as I am striving to do) they will learn this. It is not super clear if you are coming from Wikipedia, so I get your point but it's confusing at its root for Wikipedia editors.
• I won't do this again, obviously, but I would ask for some kindness and patience from you. I've made over 10,000 edits manually on Wikidata, and I am going to make mistakes sometimes, just like everyone does. I am doing the best I can. I hope you can understand this. -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 08:19, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Help:Property constraints

When adding statements to Wikidata, you might want to check if your statements violate property constraints. The above gives a basic introduction and explains how to activate the gadget: Help:Property_constraints_portal#Usage_instructions. This way statements that violate constraints such as Q47011653#P112 have an indicator that one isn't adding statements correctly. Reports such as Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P112 also list defective statements.
--- Jura 09:11, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

• I am not really sure what you are talking about here. Where is the constraint violation? -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 08:16, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

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!
• 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.
• Contribute to the next newsletter.

Discussions held

• Conversation about licensing and copyright modeling.
• High-level discussion on ontology for Commons.
• Review first designs for multilingual captions.
• IRC office hour, 13 February

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.

Stay up to date!

• Follow the Structured Data on Commons project on Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/34/
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• Join the next IRC office hour and ask questions to the team! The date for next quarter will be announced soon.

-- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

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

Blocked for 3 days

You have been blocked for a period of 3 days for abuse of editing privileges. Once this block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest it by editing this page and adding the following template with a suitable reason: {{unblock|1=<the reason for your unblock request>}}. If you are logged in, and the option has not been disabled, you may also email the blocking administrator (or any administrator from this list) by using this form. See Wikidata:Guide to appealing blocks for more information.

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⁠ Rschen7754 01:48, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

I have blocked you for battleground conduct and uncollaborative behavior as I explained here. --Rschen7754 01:48, 7 April 2018 (UTC)