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.
Hi Terry. This sounds really interesting, and something i wasn't aware of. Do you have a link to the study? I'm very interested in projects which would utilize wiki content in order to enrich our own content, and we are currently looking at down this with the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. I think Wikidata would be an increasingly useful asset for this kind of platform too. Regards Jason.nlw (talk) 07:51, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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.
@Caerhys: Thanks for this. I really like the idea of this project, and feel that if delivered now it could be done more cost effectively and to a higher standard thanks to advances in technology. Here at the National Library of Wales we have been working, with funding from the Welsh Government to develop Welsh language Wici content, and we have had some success in securing open access to existing content and automating the creation of new articles. I also know of examples of museums and galleries who use wikidata and wikipedia text to enrich their own websites. Do let me know how you get on with Medwin Hughes - I think he has been approached before about this content but i am not sure.
Just to be clear, are you interested in trying to revive this project? and would you be doing so as a volunteer or in a professional capacity? I think it would be crucial to have Visit Wales on board with this. I am tied up with projects for the next six months but beyond that I would be open to a discussion about contributing to, or even co-ordinating a project along these lines, if we can secure some funding, and i would imagine Peoples Collection would also be interesting in being part of this. If it is easier, you are welcome to email me: jje(at)llgc.org.uk. Thanks! Jason.nlw (talk) 07:25, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@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.
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)[reply]
Hi. Thankyou for your participation in the challenge series or/and contests. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on women during this month for your region or wherever please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld15:08, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers Dr. Blofeld. I am sure we will be able to get some contributors. We are actually holding a Welsh Women edit-a-thon at Swansea University today, so keep an eye out for lots of great new articles! Best Jason.nlw (talk) 09:20, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Florence Annie Mockeridge requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. PKT(alk)12:15, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I notice that you've created a series of "articles" like this - please stop. Don't start an article unless you have some substantive material to write about the subject. Thank you, PKT(alk)12:18, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I am starting articles for newly registered users at an event so that they can create the article's without being effected by the new autoconfirmed users rule. All the articles i have created like this are being written as we speak. If they are still blank in 5 hours time feel free to delete but i would appreciate a little time for my users to get their content written and saved. If you check, most of the articles ive created today will now be populated. Cheers. Jason.nlw (talk) 12:31, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
New pages
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)[reply]
OK thanks. Can i then move them without any special permissions? We are nearly done today now but i would like to get the best approach worked out for the next event! Best Jason.nlw (talk) 13:40, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Debra Williams (businesswoman) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. — Smjg (talk) 13:49, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Alice Helena Alexandra Williams requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s10-WILL-ALE-1863.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Atlantic306 (talk) 20:23, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Atlantic306 (talk) 20:35, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Jason.nlw, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Alice Helena Alexandra Williams have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.
It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Dlohcierekim (talk) 21:01, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Olwen Williams, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk.
Thank you for creating several articles on women and their works over the past couple of months. We have become aware of your contributions thanks to research undertaken by Bobo.03 at the University of Minnesota. You might be interested in becoming a member of our WikiProject Women in Red where we are actively trying to reduce Wikipedia's content gender gap. If you would like to receive news of our activities without becoming a member, you can simply add your name to our mailing list. In any case, thank you for actively contributing to the coverage of women (currently, 17.11% of English Wikipedia's biographies).
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DavidWestT was:
This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.
The comment the reviewer left was:
Reads like a print eulogy copy/paste. Please follow Wikipedia's manual of style and resubmit. Clarify was she a named Chair?
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Hello! Jason.nlw,
I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! DavidWestT (talk) 04:17, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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!
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!
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.
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!
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)
The multimedia team at WMF is gaining expertise in Wikibase, and unblocking further development for Structured Commons, by completing the MediaInfo extension for Wikibase.
Hello, Jason.nlw. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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!
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.
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.
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!
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lesley Williams (politician) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Prince of Thieves (talk) 14:02, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
moves from draft to mainspace
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)[reply]
Hi Mduvekot. Yes, during the ACTRIAL I adopted the approach of moving new articles myself from the Draft space. If an article looks particularly bad and I dont have time to fix it, I will either ask the editor to hang on to it in Sandbox and do some more work, or i suggest they submit it for review in order to get more detailed feedback on how to improve it. With the two articles you have flagged, i did make small changes to both before they were published, but i did so on the user's account, so that i could talk her through the changes i was making. I'm not sure what you mean when you say the article is 'unattributed'? Surely it is attributed to the editors who have contributed to it? Ive just had another look at the articles and, yes the translation is a little poor in places, and i have made a few changes to Francesca Vendrell i Gallostra. One of the sayings used a lot in the Wiki community when it comes to editing is 'Be bold, not reckless'. And this is what i teach at edit-a-thons. Users should be bold, and shouldn't be afraid to get stuck in - because there is a welcoming and helpful community of editors who will help them learn, and correct mistakes. So in this case, i felt the articles were good enough to be published - they were referenced, had categories, and were properly structured - and any improvements that were still needed could be discussed with the article author. I think that this is a fair approach, as trainers cannot realistically be expected to take responsibility for every word written during an event. I hope this helps! Jason.nlw (talk) 08:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Women in Red's April+Further with Art+Feminism 2018
Please join us as Women in Red and Art+Feminism continue our collaboration in April 2018. Continue the work you've done in March and pledge to help close the gender gap in April! All you need to do is sign up on the Meet-Up page below and list any articles you create in the month of April.
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.
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!
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.
All the very best from Edinburgh (come visit us sometime soon!)
Hey Gill, hows things? You can view the code for this feature here - just click edit source to see the code. The template allows us to link directly to the image on our IIIF viewer using the Handle number (a persistent ID). It makes it really easy to add reliable links to all images on big uploads. Let me know if you have any other questions! Jason.nlw (talk) 21:26, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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.
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.
The first discussion on copyright and licensing with Commons was held in March. This was a "high level" discussion, there will be a consultation later this summer about the deeper mapping of copyright and licensing in a structured way.
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!
Two research projects about Wikimedia Commons are currently ongoing, or in the process of being finished:
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.).
The newsletter omitted two interwiki prefixes, breaking the links on non-meta wikis as you might see above. Here are the correct links:
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.).
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.
Hackathon mentoring table wiring
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".
Plugbar buildup at the Hackathon
Links
ScienceSource focus list (shortcut WD:SSFL on Wikidata), project to tag a first-pass open access medical bibliography on Wikidata, and also overcome the systematic biases in the medical literature by curation.
Anti-parasitic drugs being distributed in Côte d'Ivoire What's a Neglected Disease?, ScienceSource video
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.
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.
Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade, Michigan State University project for a linked open data platform. Quote: "Disambiguating and merging individuals across multiple datasets is nearly impossible given their current, siloed nature."
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. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 07:36, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hey ThoughtIdRetired thanks for flagging this up. I initially thought the later date was just because it is a print of an earlier portrait but the dates of the artist and copyist make it impossible, unless BOTH were copying an older portrait - either way, there is too much doubt. Thanks for letting me know. Jason.nlw (talk) 08:12, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I should have said that the style of the clothes is a clue as well. I'm no expert, but that is definitely not the fashion in the second half of the 1770's. Cheers. ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 14:51, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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.
Gran Teatro, Cáceres, Spain, at night
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.
Wikidata training for librarians at WikiCite 2018
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.
Links
Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge, book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge (2018)
LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration, WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University
Structured Data on Commons Newsletter - Fall 2018 edition
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Community updates
Multilingual Captions, the first feature release for Structured Data, is coming in January of 2019
Be on the lookout for the beta testing announcement
Help using captions has been set up, if you'd like to go ahead and see the workflow
Two IRC office hours were held since the last newsletter
Structured Data on Commons was the subject of a keynote presentation by Sandra (see slides) at the Baltic Audiovisual Archives Council conference in Tallinn, Estonia, November 2018.
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!
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.
Zotero demo video
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.
T115158Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production, long Phabricator thread 2015–17.
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Captions in January
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)
My apologies if this is a duplicate message for you, it is being sent to multiple lists which you may be signed up for.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
PRISMA flow diagram for a systematic review
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.
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.
Working With Wikibase From Go, Digital Flapjack blogpost 26 November 2018, Michael Dales, developer for ScienceSource using golang, with a software engineer's view on Wikibase and the MediaWiki API
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.
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.
Please be aware that this is a research project in development, and may have outages for planned maintenance. That will apply for the next few days, at least. The ScienceSource wiki main page carries information on practical matters. Email is not enabled on the wiki: use site mail here to Charles Matthews in case of difficulty, or if you need support. Further explanatory videos will be put into commons:Category:ContentMine videos.
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1. Isn't there an apparent conflict of interests in the fact that you have been involved with the Welsh User Group? I can't see this splinter group being in the interest of Wikimedia UK in any way!
2. Looking at some of your edits such as this and this and this one, I find it worrying that you have created hundreds of articles yourself, between 9.00 am and 5.00 pm, paid for by the Welsh Government! Isn't this paid editing?
3. You say that you've worked closely with Welsh universities and examining bodies (plural) to develop and deliver Wiki initiatives in Welsh Education. Which examining bodies (plural)? From Wikimedia UK's Progress Report I note that it was WiciMôn / WMUK who were successful in this initiative. Is that correct?
4. Is Wikimedia UK funding any projects which you are directly or indirectly involved with?
5. Couldn't the term 'National Wikimedian' be perceived by the public as implying that you are on Wikimedia UK or the global movement's payroll? See: Wikimedia UK's Trustee Conflict of Interest Policy.
Hi Shadow Closure, Thanks for reaching out. I will do my best to answer your questions here, but should you still have concerns, please feel free to leave a comment or question on the Candidate questions page.
1. The Welsh User Group was approved by the Wikimedia UK Board on the understanding that any activities be recorded as Wikimedia UK outcomes, and as i understand it the Group was really set up as a way of reaching Welsh speaking communities in order to develop activities and partnerships which could ultimately feed in to Wikimedia UK's strategy. If the group was to 'break away' somehow from Wikimedia UK i would clearly need to review my participation.
2. Welsh Wikipedia has no policy on such editing, however if we were to look at the guidelines on English Wikipedia they clearly state in several policies that Wikipedians in Residence are permitted to edit Wikipedia as part of a paid position, as long as the account they use clearly declares their situation - and i think this is fairly widely accepted on Wikipedia and across the Wikipedian in Residence community.
3. Apologies, this should read 'Universities and Examining Body (singular) - WJEC. WiciMón and Wikimedia UK were responsible for setting up the Welsh Baccalaureate challenge, which is what the report refers to. However i have also worked directly with WJEC to secure the release of digital learning resources on an open license. The first of these were released as part of the Wici Iechyd project. Since then i have negotiated their support for a larger collaboration and content release as part of a grant application to run an Education Pilot project with the Welsh Government - (application pending). I hope that clears that one up.
4. My role is fully funded by the National Library of Wales.I obviously collaborate occasionally with WMUK staff and Aaron Morris (WiR with WiciMón who i believe is currently part funded by Wikimedia UK) for example, but i am not officially implicated in any such projects.
5. I have read the conflict of interest policy carefully and don't feel as though my job title or any areas of my work represent a conflict of interest. I have been as transparent as i can with my application, which was primarily in response to a call for more Wikimedians to join the board, and the CEO of Wikimedia UK is aware of my application. Presumably any concern of conflict of interest from within WMUK would have raised by this point. I really just want to offer my knowledge and expertise to support the great work of Wikimedia UK. If others raise concerns about conflict of interest myself and the Board would obviously have to look at that closely.
1. You say: The Welsh User Group was approved by the Wikimedia UK Board.
I've been through all their recorded minutes and there's no reference that this statement is true. @LucyCrompton-Reid (WMUK):
2. You say: Welsh Wikipedia has no policy on such editing.
There is no policy on the Welsh Wikipedia. Take a look at this one, where Welsh is not an option. The policy on English Wikipedia therefore holds fast by default. I also note that John Cummings (Gibraltarpedia) is one of your proposers.
3. Thanks for your apology. Very unprofessional. Any other mistakes?
4. I asked: Is Wikimedia UK funding any projects which you are directly or indirectly involved with?
5. You say: I don't feel as though my job title or any areas of my work represent a conflict of interest. I say that it certainly does! As I say, the term 'National Wikimedian' could be perceived by the public as implying that you are on Wikimedia UK or the global movement's payroll? Shadow Closure (talk) 08:54, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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]
Merthyr Rising - Image
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)[reply]
Hi PotentPotables. This article looks great! Sorry for the slow response - i'm rather busy at the moment, but i will try and have a look for some images soon and get back to you. You can search our online catalogue here which might help with your search for specific images. If you find any usefull digitised items i can check the rights and see if we are able to put them on commons for you. Best Jason.nlw (talk) 10:27, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the support on the article! I've had a look on the catalogue and couldn't find any images that directly relate to the Rising or Dic Penderyn. I found the [2] which you previously uploaded to commons, which is what Gwyn Williams uses on his book (should be able to find out exactly what the image is called, etc, when I get the book in a few weeks). I also found a Penry Williams painting of the 1816 riots on Art UK, which could be used in the background section, but I'm not sure whether its already on commons.
The Penry Williams Painting is really nice, but it doesn't look like it's on Commons. The museum who hold it have put a Non Commercial license on it, although the painting itself is clearly in the Public Domain so i'm sure it's only a mater of time before someone uploads it anyway. I had a quick look through our Newspapers Online site - there are lots of interesting articles about the riots but i cannot find any with illustrations. However if you find something interesting i should be able to put the clipping on Commons. I will keep an eye out for any other relevent images. Cheers Jason.nlw (talk) 10:03, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Celestina007. Can i just clarify why the article has been moved. Is it for notability? or is it because it only has one citation? There have been extensive discussions in the past and it was agreed that any article about a person in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (such as this) automatically meets notability criteria. Sadly it can be difficult finding other sources of information though. Thanks Jason.nlw (talk) 16:18, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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. Blofeld11:59, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Richard Owens and the National Library of Wales photograph collection
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)[reply]
Hi KJP1. It seems the image was already on Commons - We have shared most images by this photographer - but i have uploaded a slightly higher quality version now so that it looks better in the new article. Thanks for working on improving content about Welsh people, and I hope this helps! Jason.nlw (talk) 08:14, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It does indeed, and the article greatly benefits! Thanks so much. I can't call myself Welsh, but I did spend most of my childhood there and retain enormous affection for the country. All the very best. KJP1 (talk) 08:30, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Martin Ridley Collection copyright tags
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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)[reply]
Hi JeffUK. Thanks for reaching out. I did have a look for an image a while back, but have just done another thorough search. I can find no evidence of any digitised photographs of the Welsh Not, and in my many years of working in our reading rooms do not recall ever seeing a photograph or contemporary art work depicting the Welsh Not. It is a shame but also, perhaps, lends weight to doubts raised about how widespread the practice actually was. If you are ever looking for other Images related to Wales, please feel free to ping me and i'll take a look for you. Jason.nlw (talk) 19:35, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi KJP1. Ive had a good look through our online catalogue but i cannot find any images of Cyril Fox. I find it unlikely that we dont have any, but it looks like it will require some digging. Ill keep an eye out over the coming weeks and let you know if im able to find something you can use for the article. Many thanks, and happy new year! Jason.nlw (talk) 20:43, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Jason - many thanks indeed for looking, and for a more in-depth search. Like you, I would think it odd if the Director of the National Museum for over 20 years wasn’t recorded. The National Portrait Gallery has a number,[4] , but not useable on Wiki. Thanks again. KJP1 (talk) 20:57, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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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)[reply]
Hi KJP1. Once again i'm affraid it seems like we dont have any digitised images of the house otherwise i'd be happy to help. The Royal Commisison have a number on their site so hopefully they will be willing to share something that's already out of copyright. Happy New Year! Jason.nlw (talk) 09:02, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi KJP1, I see we have images of Llanover Hall on Coflein, you will need to contact the RCAHMW enquiry service to see what they say about your request? Charles.rcahmw (talk) 15:07, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Cltjames. I dont think ive edited either of those articles have I? apart from perhaps to add an image at somepoint? If you could give a bit more context i'd be happy to help. Best Jason.nlw (talk) 13:05, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Hi @KJP1. Thanks for reaching out. We dont seem to have any images of him at NLW unfortunately. It seems that the images online originate from a Pettigrew family website but i cannot see any contact details. Some of the images are almost certainly out of copyright though. Especially this one which is labelled on the site as c.1855. It would be nice to get intouch with the family though. Perhaps Glamorgan Archices will be able to put you in touch. Jason.nlw (talk) 09:00, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Jason, I was interested in remixing and using the excellent visuals from your Wikidata video here: commons:File:An_introduction_to_Wikidata.webm. Do you happen to have a version without the baked in subtitles? That would be very useful for re-editing and combining if possible. Thanks for any leads on this! - Fuzheado | Talk13:16, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hey. Sorry i did look into this and then it slipped off my radar. Ive had a look through my files but i cant seem to find a version of this without the hard coded subtitles. I'll keep looking and let you know if i find anything. Cheers Jason.nlw (talk) 08:52, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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