Hi Jason, in 2012 the EU-funded feasibility study for this project identified a total of 5,054 community settlements in Wales of which 1,759 had Wikipedia articles, 43 on Wicipedia. The study looked at deploying the neutral Wales.info national domain to create websites for each of the settlements using the MediaWiki API to populate the 1,759 and 43 with their articles, and Ordnance Survey mapping data to show the location of points of interest mentioned in the articles.
The National Library of Wales was nominated a rich content partner using the People's Collection Wales API in conjunction with Wikipedia and I'd be pleased to learn of any work you may be doing in this area.
Best wishes, Terry Caerhys ( talk) 19:22, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jason. Good to hear from you. The Feasibility Study Report and Business Development Plan were signed off in November 2012 as a forerunner to relaunch online of the This Week Newspaper to promote cultural tourism to Wales.
Wikidata wasn't in the frame at the time but it is now and I'm meeting Medwin Hughes on 16th October to discuss access to the Encyclopaedia of Wales in that "every town, every village, every city is mentioned in there" according to Ashley Drake.
Kind regards, Terry Caerhys ( talk) 21:59, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
@ Jason.nlw: Hi Jason. First an apology: the Feasibility Study Report link went to a rogue file that's been replaced now by the right one. I've also amended the Business Development Plan to include Culture and Connectivity in what are now the five Cs of tourism web marketing noted in the Executive Summary. After publication of the Business Development Plan in December 2012, This Week Media funded a beta web platform to prove the concept, validate the market, and bring the technology level to TRL9 with an Horizen 2020 bid in mind. A Symfony web-developer partnership was also established to exploit geotemporal data to build tourism visitor audiences in Wales for local festivals, events and entertainment.
NLW's Librarian, Andrew Green (now retired) was consulted early on in the study with a view to working with the People's Collection API for niche market, cultural tourism development. So as you can imagine, I'm delighted to learn the Library now has a permanent Wikimedian in Residence and, as far as I'm concerned and I speak for my colleagues too, the setting simply couldn't be more ideal. I can't think of better content partners than Wikimedia, the National Library of Wales, Arts Council Wales and Visit Wales to take the project forward and I welcome any advice on how best to use Wikidata and Wikipedia–Wicipedia content to enrich the settlements' web sites and tourism businesses' own-brand websites according to their location.
As regards funding, windows will open soon on the Tourism Product Innovation Fund (TPIF), and the Wales Rural Development Programme for agri-tourism supply chain pilots. I'm also encouraging Arts Council Wales and NESTA to make a second call for projects under the Digital Innovation Fund for the Arts in Wales. It's here where Medwin Hughes comes into the picture to explore funding to digitise the Encyclopaedia of Wales and make the content available under Creative Commons. Yes, he was approached a couple of years ago but since chairing the panel on the 2017 Independent Review into Literature and Publishing in Wales, I expect his past resistance may have softened.
Professional or volunteer? Bit of a chameleon really. My income as a marketing practitioner supports my work as a volunteer in the third-sector to promote cultural tourism to Wales in conjunction with the Co-production Network for Wales. Caerhys ( talk) 22:01, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
@Jason.nlw: With the Wales Settlements Project & WikiWales Study Report and Development Plan in mind, I’ve laid down a marker for the WikiProject Wales and the Welsh Government Rural Communities – Rural Development Programme 2014-2020.
I’ve also created a WikiWales Folder in Google Drive, which contains the list of 1,759 community settlements in Wales extracted variously from the following Wikipedia articles:
The folder also contains the expression of interest submitted on 20th December 2017 by Time Banking Wales to the Rural Development Programme for £55,000 to support the Geotemporal Pilot Project. We won't hear back on this until 14th March but there are other irons in the fire. Caerhys ( talk) 17:26, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Jason.nlw We've interacted before; you replied to one of my posts, [1] which made my curious about the way in which you conduct edit-a-thons. You've have moved articles into Draft space, a move you may feel was necessitated by the implementation of ACTRIAL, and clearly supported by policy. And yet I wonder why you moved Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra from Draftspace? The article is an unattributed, very rough translation of an article from the Catalan Wikipedia. You noted that one article was "Checked and ready to move" and that another was "checked and made corrections. ready now", even though you didn't actually make any corrections. You spoke up on the deletion of the user page of the creator, who fell afould of WP:NOTWEBHOST You then wrote that she "has already contributed several good articles". I think you overstate that case here; she only created two articles, Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra and Txe Arana, both very low quality translations, and both now in the Special:NewPagesFeed where they are likely to be flagged as problematic. Can you explain why you do this? Mduvekot ( talk) 00:59, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
{{Translated page|ca|Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra}}
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It's Gill from National Library of Scotland. A quick question ... I was looking at resources that you've loaded up onto WikiCommons (amazing work btw) and I see in the data that you supply the 'source' element seems to have some special encoding like in this one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pwllheli_town_plan_4669577.jpg It looks like its to supplying the NLW image, the URL at NLW and some other text. How did you do that or alternatively could point me to wherever the wee bit of code that is behind NLWSource lives. Hope that makes sense.
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Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions. Close to home also, a template, called {{ medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter. This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog. ![]()
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Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources. ![]() Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume. If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online". ![]()
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Is there a way to find out if the original payment order was colour or greyscale? ©Geni ( talk) 06:23, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
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![]() To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases. A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list. From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.
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![]() In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings. The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web. The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act. ![]()
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I have deleted the image that you put in
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock. Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists. It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more. And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more. Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake. ![]()
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GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California. ![]() In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point. Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: " bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.
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Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support. ![]() Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects. There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine. Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.
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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:
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.
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation ( Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. ![]() Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.
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Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of " Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.
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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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![]() Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.
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Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM ( text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
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Hi Jason, I've been working on the page for the Merthyr Rising in my sandbox for a while now, and once I get my sources back together again it should soon be at the point I can move it to the actual article. The main issue I've had is finding an image that accurately represents it, so I was wondering if you've come across any public domain paintings (possibly by Penry Williams, I've noticed he has a lot from the time/area) or drawings that would be suitable? Cheers, PotentPotables ( talk) 03:38, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
A new wikimedian in residence table should soon be implemented based on data from outreach:Wikimedian_in_residence ( draft table). If there are any WiRs you know that are missing, please add them. In the meantime, see the map! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 08:49, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. £50 available for most Wales destubs. Sign up on page if interested in participating, hope this will prove to be good fun and productive, we have over 44,000 stubs!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:59, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
Dear Jason - I originally posted this on Charles' Talkpage and a helpful tps suggested you may be able to help. Picking up a GAR for Welsh Streets, Liverpool, which I'm pleased to say has now passed, has led to the creation of this article, Richard Owens. (It already existed on the Welsh Wikipedia, but not the English.) He's actually quite significant, as the second-most prolific chapel architect in 19th century Wales. It would be wonderful to replace the pencil drawing we currently have with this splendid image, [3]. I see that is in the collection of the National Library. Do you know what their position is on copyright? Would they be willing to upload this image to Wikipedia? I'm sure you're aware but I should say that, if they do, they will lose whatever copyright they may currently have on the image. Any advice would be much appreciated. Best regards. KJP1 ( talk) 06:03, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Just a heads-up that almost all of the 835 images in this collection have the wrong country of origin copyright tag (author's life + 100 years, when Ridley died in 1936) and no US tag. Cheers, ~ RLO1729 💬 00:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hey hey! Thanks again for coming on Saturday, and especially for the Mary Barbour translation - a lot of folks really happy :) Lirazelf ( talk) 13:28, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Jason, I was wondering if you might have access to a good photograph of a Welsh not that could be uploaded to the Commons for use in the article. Or any contemporary illustrations etc. of the same. We have an image on the article but it's not really very illustrative! JeffUK ( talk) 18:42, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Dear Jason, I’m wondering if the NLW might be able to help with an image of Sir Cyril Fox. He was an archaeologist, Director of Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales for over 20 years, a driver for the St Fagans National Museum of History and co-author of an important study of vernacular architecture, Monmouthshire Houses. In short, he did rather a lot for, and in, Wales. I recently added a picture of his home in Rhiwbina Garden Village, but it would be great to have an image if one is available. With many thanks in advance. KJP1 ( talk) 18:56, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
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Charles.rcahmw - Hi Jason, me again and a slightly premature Happy New Year. I'm wondering if you or Charles may be able to help. I'm thinking about an article on Llanover Hall, home of Benjamin and Augusta Llanover, and both an important site for Welsh culture and a significant house designed by Thomas Hopper, of Penrhyn Castle fame. Unfortunately, the hall was demolished in 1936, and Commons has no historic images, although plenty exist, [5]. I was wondering if either NLW or RCAHMW have one they'd be willing to release to Commons? I hate writing buildings articles without an image! Yours in anticipation. KJP1 ( talk) 08:55, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! I've just added my photographs to commons from the Becoming Burton exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff back in 2021. I do wish I'd taken more! No Swan So Fine ( talk) 12:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Just a heads up that here, you granted confirmed status indefinitely to Musahjoseph. Per the event coordinator policy, the grant should have only been for a maximum of 10 days, so that the right will automatically expire once they have met the days threshold for autoconfirmed. I assume this was not your intention, though, and an admin should be able to fix it. EggRoll97 ( talk) 00:06, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Charles.rcahmw - Hi Jason, (and Charles), I'm on the scrounge again. I've just done, Andrew Pettigrew (landscape gardener), on the back of this, Registered historic parks and gardens in Cardiff. The contribution of Pettigrew and his sons to the landscape of Cardiff is really quite remarkable. What I would love is an image, ideally this one [6]!, which appears to be held by Glamorgan Archives. I can, and will, approach them directly, but wondered if NLW or RCAHMW had anything that might be usable. Many thanks in advance for your help. KJP1 ( talk) 14:40, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Jason, in 2012 the EU-funded feasibility study for this project identified a total of 5,054 community settlements in Wales of which 1,759 had Wikipedia articles, 43 on Wicipedia. The study looked at deploying the neutral Wales.info national domain to create websites for each of the settlements using the MediaWiki API to populate the 1,759 and 43 with their articles, and Ordnance Survey mapping data to show the location of points of interest mentioned in the articles.
The National Library of Wales was nominated a rich content partner using the People's Collection Wales API in conjunction with Wikipedia and I'd be pleased to learn of any work you may be doing in this area.
Best wishes, Terry Caerhys ( talk) 19:22, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Hi Jason. Good to hear from you. The Feasibility Study Report and Business Development Plan were signed off in November 2012 as a forerunner to relaunch online of the This Week Newspaper to promote cultural tourism to Wales.
Wikidata wasn't in the frame at the time but it is now and I'm meeting Medwin Hughes on 16th October to discuss access to the Encyclopaedia of Wales in that "every town, every village, every city is mentioned in there" according to Ashley Drake.
Kind regards, Terry Caerhys ( talk) 21:59, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
@ Jason.nlw: Hi Jason. First an apology: the Feasibility Study Report link went to a rogue file that's been replaced now by the right one. I've also amended the Business Development Plan to include Culture and Connectivity in what are now the five Cs of tourism web marketing noted in the Executive Summary. After publication of the Business Development Plan in December 2012, This Week Media funded a beta web platform to prove the concept, validate the market, and bring the technology level to TRL9 with an Horizen 2020 bid in mind. A Symfony web-developer partnership was also established to exploit geotemporal data to build tourism visitor audiences in Wales for local festivals, events and entertainment.
NLW's Librarian, Andrew Green (now retired) was consulted early on in the study with a view to working with the People's Collection API for niche market, cultural tourism development. So as you can imagine, I'm delighted to learn the Library now has a permanent Wikimedian in Residence and, as far as I'm concerned and I speak for my colleagues too, the setting simply couldn't be more ideal. I can't think of better content partners than Wikimedia, the National Library of Wales, Arts Council Wales and Visit Wales to take the project forward and I welcome any advice on how best to use Wikidata and Wikipedia–Wicipedia content to enrich the settlements' web sites and tourism businesses' own-brand websites according to their location.
As regards funding, windows will open soon on the Tourism Product Innovation Fund (TPIF), and the Wales Rural Development Programme for agri-tourism supply chain pilots. I'm also encouraging Arts Council Wales and NESTA to make a second call for projects under the Digital Innovation Fund for the Arts in Wales. It's here where Medwin Hughes comes into the picture to explore funding to digitise the Encyclopaedia of Wales and make the content available under Creative Commons. Yes, he was approached a couple of years ago but since chairing the panel on the 2017 Independent Review into Literature and Publishing in Wales, I expect his past resistance may have softened.
Professional or volunteer? Bit of a chameleon really. My income as a marketing practitioner supports my work as a volunteer in the third-sector to promote cultural tourism to Wales in conjunction with the Co-production Network for Wales. Caerhys ( talk) 22:01, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
@Jason.nlw: With the Wales Settlements Project & WikiWales Study Report and Development Plan in mind, I’ve laid down a marker for the WikiProject Wales and the Welsh Government Rural Communities – Rural Development Programme 2014-2020.
I’ve also created a WikiWales Folder in Google Drive, which contains the list of 1,759 community settlements in Wales extracted variously from the following Wikipedia articles:
The folder also contains the expression of interest submitted on 20th December 2017 by Time Banking Wales to the Rural Development Programme for £55,000 to support the Geotemporal Pilot Project. We won't hear back on this until 14th March but there are other irons in the fire. Caerhys ( talk) 17:26, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hello. I'd recommend that when you create new pages, you create them in the draft namespace first (Draft:PageName), before you move them to be an actual article. That way, you don't create empty articles. Thanks! Elliot321 ( talk | contribs) 13:38, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hello Jason.nlw, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to
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Hello Jason.nlw We've interacted before; you replied to one of my posts, [1] which made my curious about the way in which you conduct edit-a-thons. You've have moved articles into Draft space, a move you may feel was necessitated by the implementation of ACTRIAL, and clearly supported by policy. And yet I wonder why you moved Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra from Draftspace? The article is an unattributed, very rough translation of an article from the Catalan Wikipedia. You noted that one article was "Checked and ready to move" and that another was "checked and made corrections. ready now", even though you didn't actually make any corrections. You spoke up on the deletion of the user page of the creator, who fell afould of WP:NOTWEBHOST You then wrote that she "has already contributed several good articles". I think you overstate that case here; she only created two articles, Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra and Txe Arana, both very low quality translations, and both now in the Special:NewPagesFeed where they are likely to be flagged as problematic. Can you explain why you do this? Mduvekot ( talk) 00:59, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
{{Translated page|ca|Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra}}
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Hi Jason
It's Gill from National Library of Scotland. A quick question ... I was looking at resources that you've loaded up onto WikiCommons (amazing work btw) and I see in the data that you supply the 'source' element seems to have some special encoding like in this one https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pwllheli_town_plan_4669577.jpg It looks like its to supplying the NLW image, the URL at NLW and some other text. How did you do that or alternatively could point me to wherever the wee bit of code that is behind NLWSource lives. Hope that makes sense.
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Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions. Close to home also, a template, called {{ medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter. This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog. ![]()
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Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources. ![]() Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume. If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online". ![]()
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Is there a way to find out if the original payment order was colour or greyscale? ©Geni ( talk) 06:23, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
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![]() To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases. A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list. From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.
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Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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![]() In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings. The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web. The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act. ![]()
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 17:57, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
I have deleted the image that you put in
Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland as this painting cannot be the subject of the article. The Duchess of Sutherland was 75 years old when the image of the child was created in 1835. The most likely person to be represented is
Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll. Note, also, the spelling of Leveson-Gower. The intricacies of the indexing and categorising images in Wikidata are beyond me - hence this note to let you know about these problems.
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock. Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists. It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more. And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more. Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake. ![]()
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Hello, Jason.nlw. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
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GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California. ![]() In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point. Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: " bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.
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Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support. ![]() Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects. There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine. Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.
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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:
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)Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation ( Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. ![]() Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.
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Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of " Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.
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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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![]() Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.
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Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM ( text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
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Hi Jason, I've been working on the page for the Merthyr Rising in my sandbox for a while now, and once I get my sources back together again it should soon be at the point I can move it to the actual article. The main issue I've had is finding an image that accurately represents it, so I was wondering if you've come across any public domain paintings (possibly by Penry Williams, I've noticed he has a lot from the time/area) or drawings that would be suitable? Cheers, PotentPotables ( talk) 03:38, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
A new wikimedian in residence table should soon be implemented based on data from outreach:Wikimedian_in_residence ( draft table). If there are any WiRs you know that are missing, please add them. In the meantime, see the map! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 08:49, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. The Wikipedia:The Great Britain/Ireland Destubathon is planned for March 2020, a contest/editathon to eliminate as many stubs as possible from all 134 counties. Amazon vouchers/book prizes are planned for most articles destubbed from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and Northern Ireland and whoever destubs articles from the most counties out of the 134. £50 available for most Wales destubs. Sign up on page if interested in participating, hope this will prove to be good fun and productive, we have over 44,000 stubs!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:59, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
Dear Jason - I originally posted this on Charles' Talkpage and a helpful tps suggested you may be able to help. Picking up a GAR for Welsh Streets, Liverpool, which I'm pleased to say has now passed, has led to the creation of this article, Richard Owens. (It already existed on the Welsh Wikipedia, but not the English.) He's actually quite significant, as the second-most prolific chapel architect in 19th century Wales. It would be wonderful to replace the pencil drawing we currently have with this splendid image, [3]. I see that is in the collection of the National Library. Do you know what their position is on copyright? Would they be willing to upload this image to Wikipedia? I'm sure you're aware but I should say that, if they do, they will lose whatever copyright they may currently have on the image. Any advice would be much appreciated. Best regards. KJP1 ( talk) 06:03, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Just a heads-up that almost all of the 835 images in this collection have the wrong country of origin copyright tag (author's life + 100 years, when Ridley died in 1936) and no US tag. Cheers, ~ RLO1729 💬 00:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Hey hey! Thanks again for coming on Saturday, and especially for the Mary Barbour translation - a lot of folks really happy :) Lirazelf ( talk) 13:28, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Jason, I was wondering if you might have access to a good photograph of a Welsh not that could be uploaded to the Commons for use in the article. Or any contemporary illustrations etc. of the same. We have an image on the article but it's not really very illustrative! JeffUK ( talk) 18:42, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
Dear Jason, I’m wondering if the NLW might be able to help with an image of Sir Cyril Fox. He was an archaeologist, Director of Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales for over 20 years, a driver for the St Fagans National Museum of History and co-author of an important study of vernacular architecture, Monmouthshire Houses. In short, he did rather a lot for, and in, Wales. I recently added a picture of his home in Rhiwbina Garden Village, but it would be great to have an image if one is available. With many thanks in advance. KJP1 ( talk) 18:56, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
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Charles.rcahmw - Hi Jason, me again and a slightly premature Happy New Year. I'm wondering if you or Charles may be able to help. I'm thinking about an article on Llanover Hall, home of Benjamin and Augusta Llanover, and both an important site for Welsh culture and a significant house designed by Thomas Hopper, of Penrhyn Castle fame. Unfortunately, the hall was demolished in 1936, and Commons has no historic images, although plenty exist, [5]. I was wondering if either NLW or RCAHMW have one they'd be willing to release to Commons? I hate writing buildings articles without an image! Yours in anticipation. KJP1 ( talk) 08:55, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hello there, thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2024! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:59, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello! I've just added my photographs to commons from the Becoming Burton exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff back in 2021. I do wish I'd taken more! No Swan So Fine ( talk) 12:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Just a heads up that here, you granted confirmed status indefinitely to Musahjoseph. Per the event coordinator policy, the grant should have only been for a maximum of 10 days, so that the right will automatically expire once they have met the days threshold for autoconfirmed. I assume this was not your intention, though, and an admin should be able to fix it. EggRoll97 ( talk) 00:06, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Charles.rcahmw - Hi Jason, (and Charles), I'm on the scrounge again. I've just done, Andrew Pettigrew (landscape gardener), on the back of this, Registered historic parks and gardens in Cardiff. The contribution of Pettigrew and his sons to the landscape of Cardiff is really quite remarkable. What I would love is an image, ideally this one [6]!, which appears to be held by Glamorgan Archives. I can, and will, approach them directly, but wondered if NLW or RCAHMW had anything that might be usable. Many thanks in advance for your help. KJP1 ( talk) 14:40, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
... sawyer * he/they * talk 05:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)