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This Month in GLAM: May 2015



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Following up

Hi John,

I wanted to touch base with you about the problem you reported in Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive 2015 2#Visual editor loading bar never finishes loading (and phab:T97346) a couple of months ago. Is VisualEditor still not opening for you? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:27, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Whatamidoing (WMF):, thanks for following up, I've just tried and it works :), its really coming on leaps and bounds since last time I checked.
Cheers
Mrjohncummings (talk) 22:54, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! I'll close the ticket. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 05:38, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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  • UK report: QRpedia AWOL; RSC holds another edit-a-thon
  • Special story: New toolkit on Photo Events documents best practices, strategies and more
  • Open Access report: Wikipedia as an amplyfier; horse face recognition, rhythm perception, fossil rodent teeth
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  • Calendar: September's GLAM events



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Hi - belated congrats

I just put this forward for a newbie ( her first article!). Could you help with an image of Cecilia? I notice you had managed to release lots of images including a couple of women scientists. Not a big issue, but women scientists are a push subject this month Victuallers (talk) 08:41, 14 November 2015 (UTC)


ArbCom elections are now open!

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reply re ideas

Hi John I'll have a think about the translation. My first idea might be that ..... you get a few mates and read out the lines. Armed with the wonderful pictures you can make a simple video. Then you add French and Portuguese using the technology we had shown to us on the Gpedia and Mpedia videos. If successful then this might attract other languages. .... Oh and have you read above? Have you seen the new pictures I made? Victuallers (talk) 21:34, 20 November 2015 (UTC
Also .... see here. This is a small example but I posted the picture and someone has translated the caption for me. Victuallers (talk) 00:16, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
@Victuallers: I like the idea of doing voice overs, User:Billinghurst has suggested there may be a way to do the translations and then transclude the text, does this make sense to you? I'm assuming this means you can transclude the text over the top of the images so that they appear in the speech bubbles.
Yes saw the the new images, glad to see they are helpful, hopefully many more will be available quite soon.
Cheers
John Cummings (talk) 15:10, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

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Best wishes for the holidays...

Season's Greetings
Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Shepherds (Poussin) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 10:26, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Best wishes for the holidays...

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Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Kings (Gerard David, London) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 10:26, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Payment

Do you get money from UNESCO?--85.16.99.67 (talk) 16:08, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I don't get paid by UNESCO, I'm being funded to work there by the Wikimedia Foundation, you can see my project grant here, thanks, John Cummings (talk) 17:05, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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UNESCO & Fatima Massaquoi

thanks for the great work at UN. women in red was working on a biography of Fatima Massaquoi. she was at UNESCO General Assembly in 1960. would it be possible to find head shots of notable people in the archives? maybe a scan-a-thon if necessary. Duckduckstop (talk) 20:19, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

@Duckduckstop:, thanks very much. UNESCO have a digitisation plan for their archives, I will let the archivist staff know there is a need for headshots of notable people for Wikipedia, additionally there is a lot of content that has already been digitised which will put online quite soon so please keep an eye on Wikiproject UNESCO for new content. Thanks again --John Cummings (talk) 09:46, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Flora and fauna in Gibraltar

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Urban Regeneration project for Historic Cairo

Hi John,

One of my trainees here in Milan, User:Dr.EOMR, has a draft article, on UNESCO's "Urban Regeneration project for Historic Cairo" (URHC), in User:Dr.EOMR/sandbox2. Please can you kindly assist with sources and images? PigsOTWing (talk) 10:41, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi @PigsOTWing: and @Dr.EOMR:, I think all the information on this programme is available online, if you paste the query into the search box on the unesco website you will find the sources from UNESCO (I can't link directly to the search for some reason). Very happy to help with images once I get back to work next week :) John Cummings (talk) 12:31, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks - we were looking for independent sources (and this is me). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:52, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 19:38, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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Visual Editor compatible template

Hi John. I'm sorry but I've done very little work with Visual Editor, so I can't offer an opinion on how it might cope with nested templates. You probably should ask those sort of questions at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor - if that's not the right place, somebody more knowledgeable there ought to be able to point you in the right direction.

In the meantime, can I ask you to examine the logic of what you're trying to do, please? You want to be able to add references using VE that could be in several different forms, for example:

  • Raw text: ''Some Work'', by J. Doe (2000)
  • A citation template: {{cite book |last1=Doe |first1=J |title=Some Work |volume=Vol. 1, Part 2 |year=2000 |publisher=Foo Publishing House}}
  • An unspecified number of multiple citation templates: {{cite book |last1=Doe |first1=John |title=The Ultimate Question |year=2000 |publisher=Foo Publishing House}}; {{cite book |last1=Doe |first1=Jane |title=The Ultimate Answer |year=2000 |publisher=Bar Publishing Cavalcade}}

I can see how one might write code to create a template that accepted a set of parameters related to a single CS1 citation, e.g.

  • {{Open-source attribution |license=XYZ |last1=Doe |first1=J |title=Some Work |volume=Vol. 1, Part 2 |year=2000 |publisher=Foo Publishing House}}

That could check for the presence of CS1 parameters and the absence of a raw text parameter to make a switch, then assemble the CS1 citation within the template definition - that's no problem, and VE would almost certainly accept those in the 'TemplateData' block. But how do you think you would name the parameters when you wanted to cite a second work, or a third, etc.? There's also the question of how you cope when the licence for the first source differs from the licence for the second or third, etc. Those are the bits that I suspect VE would choke on. I mean, it's fixable, of course - anything is, given enough time and effort, but have you found out how many times the need for multiple sources might arise in articles to justify that time and effort? --RexxS (talk) 12:38, 1 July 2016 (UTC)


Thanks @RexxS:, essentially I'm trying to come up with a simple process with as few steps as possible for editors to copy open license text into Wikipedia and provide attribution. Because I don't have a good understanding of how the templates work and their structure I think I'm making bad decisions on how this could be done. There is a huge volume of suitable open license text available but there is no clear process or mechanism and very little documentation to do so currently.
The only way I am aware of doing it is to use Template:Open-source_attribution and I had to make up the instructions for using it, currently it is used around 80 times, and 60 of those is for the Biosphere Reserve text. When I've asked people who have created articles from the text they say it takes around 15 mins which 5 mins of which is fiddling with the rudimentary template.
Creating a simple way to reuse open license text on Wikipedia seems like a really simple way to create a lot of good quality Wikipedia articles easily and quickly, especially from things like scientific journals and text from GLAM partners e.g the national heritage register for Australia's descriptions of all their sites is available under CC-BY.
Does this make sense? I think if we can come up with a process then I can ask politely enough that someone will make the template (if that is what is used) VE compatible.
Thanks
--John Cummings (talk) 12:56, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Island Developing States?

Greetings, I am referring to the following diff: here. What is the meaning of this category? Puerto Rico's political status is a minefield, and adding a category without asking may produce unnecessary controversy. It would help if you explain it. Thanks. Caballero/Historiador ⎌ 23:59, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Caballero1967:, Small Island Developing States is a UN designation for countries. Thanks John Cummings (talk) 13:23, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
John Cummings, thanks. Caballero/Historiador ⎌ 09:47, 5 July 2016 (UTC)