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This Month in GLAM: April 2021



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Wikipedia page : Joanne Etheridge

Hi Oronsay,

Some time ago I left messages on your talk page re: Joanne Etheridge's wikipedia page that you created. As yet I have had no reply. For your information I have attached my original messages below:

Hi, Responding to your recent communication about the above subject. My editing of that page (that you created) was in response to a personal request from Joanne Etheridge. I do not work for Joanne Etheridge but was a part of her team at Monash for 7 years. Her concern with the page that you created was that is contained several factual errors or omissions and that the publications list that you included did not reflect, what she considered, the most important publications in her professional career. I notice that you also had issues with the infobox photo that I added - this again was provide by Joanne. As you commented, this was my first foray into Wikipedia editing and I would be happy if it is my last. Would it be possible for you to include some of the amendments that Joanne suggested that would reflect more accurately her professional career? would be happy to provide these for you. Thanks David

Hi, I informed Joanne Etheridge this morning that you have reinstated your original version of her Wikipedia page. Her response to me is below:

Hi David, This is very frustrating and what a waste of your time! The most annoying thing is that their version is riddled with errors! I never moved to Ontario! I have just this moment given a talk in Germany and the person who introduced me said I had spent 3 years in Canada! They must have got this from wiki! These errors propagate rapidly! If you are in touch with Oronsay can you point out the urgency and the need to be accurate or delete it altogether! What a weird world we live in! Thanks again for all your efforts. I am sorry this has been in vein! Cheers, Jo.

Would you please consider amending (or deleting) Joanne's Wikipedia page.

I would be grateful if you would respond to my messages. --Dunamis44 (talk) 12:52, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

Dunamis44, I have this morning reinstated the full list of publications you had uploaded which is, in my opinion, far too long, particularly since her pubs may be accessed via the Scholia template on the page. A subsequent editor may prune them back. The articles are listed in chronological order per MOS:LISTSOFWORKS. I hope that this, together with other changes that have been made by others, is sufficient.
If, however, further changes are sought, the request should be made on the [Talk:Joanne_Etheridge] page, accompanied by the relevant reference(s).
I should point out that my earlier reversion included the removal of a significant amount of text that had been copied and pasted from one of Joanne's bios and appears identically on several web pages. All material in Wikipedia is required to be original so when editing we paraphrase, and not too closely paraphrase, what exists elsewhere. Obviously, position titles, organisations and so forth are OK, as are short direct quotations (with references) and material that a website specifies has been released for public use, provided such release is quoted.--Oronsay (talk) 22:56, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
BTW, I hope you had her permission to quote her message to you on Wikipedia.--Oronsay (talk) 22:56, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #468

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events
    • Ongoing:
      • Data literacy snacks - Talk about "Wikibase knowledge graphs for data management & data science" on 23rd of June. For registration, send e-mail to info@berd-bw.de
    • Upcoming
      • SPARQL queries live on Twitch and in French by Vigneron, May 18 at 18:00 CEST
      • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: Mahir Morshed will be discussing Lexemes in Wikidata; Agenda, May 18th.
      • May 21-22, 2021 [1] Boston Rock City: Explore Wikidata and Learn About Local Music: Boston Public Library is partnering with Harvard Library for a guided exploration of Wikidata and local music history. Join us for two days of music and Wikidata editing; no prior experience or punk cred necessary! This public event is free to all and will take place via Zoom; please register in advance. The subject of this project is the Arthur Freedman Collection, and audiovisual archive that captures over four decades of Boston rock music performances. We’ll provide: instructions, tools, data sources, visualizations, optional Discord chat, and a soundtrack. If you have questions, please contact Harvard Library staff member Peter Laurence at laurenc@fas.harvard.edu.
      • Online Wikidata meetup in Swedish #63, May 23
      • OpenStreetMap Taiwan x Wikidata Taiwan Taipei (Q1867) Meetup 2021-06-07 Mozilla Community Space Taipei (Q61752245).
  • Development
    • Fixed the entity usage dashboards that no longer showed data due to technical issues. It tracks how much data from Wikidata is used on the other Wikimedia projects. (phab:T279762)
    • Configured the Property Suggester to not suggest Google Knowledge Graph ID (P2671) and Wolfram Language entity code (P4839) (phab:T280779)
    • Investigated remaining issue with updating the page_props table on the client wikis, which is confusing some bots making use of that table (phab:T280627)
    • Fixed an issue in the Query Builder where it got confused when adding several conditions with the same Property (phab:T279945)
    • Working on tracking the number of edits per namespace over time (phab:T281356)
    • Working on fixing a bug where old revisions of Items have edit buttons but should not (phab:T281587)
    • Fixing an issue where value suggestions are not showing all values that are defined in the property constraint (phab:T280650)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Thank you so much

For rating so many photos in WLE 2021 Australia using the Prejury tool You are an absolute star. MargaretRDonald (talk) 03:41, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #469

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might need fixing
    • Looking into unit conversion for the Commons Query Service (phab:T281468)
    • Improving RDF export performance problems for very large Items (phab:T281272)
    • Fixed entity suggestions not showing all Items defined in that Property's constraint (phab:T280650)
    • Removed edit buttons that had reappeared on old revisions of Items where they shouldn't be (phab:T281587)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

June 2021 at Women in Red

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Wikidata weekly summary #470

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Call to participation in interview study to building a recommender system that can help improve the editing experience in Wikidata: Researchers at King's College London develop a personalized recommendation system to suggest Wikidata items for the editors based on their interests and preferences. The researchers are inviting volunteers to interview them about their current ways to choose the items you work on in order to understand the factors that might influence such a decision.
    • dewiki considered, but rejected the introduction of local short descriptions to replace those from Wikidata
    • User:Nikki/LexemeEntitySuggester.js was improved to now
      • automatically suggests the existing senses/forms when using demonstrates sense/form
      • automatically suggests items (based on the lemma matching the label or an alias) when using item for this sense
      • and searches for lemmas exactly matching the input when using synonym, antonym, hyperonym or pertainym
  • Development
    • Italian Wikiversity used Lua on their Recent Changes SpecialPage via overwriting a MediaWiki message. Our code used to not expect that, now it does. (phab:T283240)
    • Updating the panel that tracks Wikidata edits over time in different namespaces to include all namespaces (phab:T281356)
    • Working on adding a new constraints type for Lexemes (phab:T200689)
    • Working on designs for improving Special:NewLexeme
    • Working on designs for the system to find mismatches between Wikidata's data and other databases
    • Fixing some malformed globe-coordinate precisions in the database (phab:T283576)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


Wikidata weekly summary #471

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • You can now add a title to a query visualisation by adding #title:YourTitle to your SPARQL code (phab:T225883, example query with a title)
    • Added a new constraints type to indicate that a certain Property should only be used on Lexemes of a certain language (phab:T200689)
    • Working on not checking the format constraints via SPARQL to take that load off the SPARQL endpoint and make it technically better (phab:T176312)
    • Working on making the API-Sandbox not suggest edits to real Items (phab:T219215)


You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

This Month in GLAM: May 2021



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Frederick Strange has been nominated for Did You Know

Hello, Oronsay. Frederick Strange, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed, has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you knowDYK comment symbol. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 08:03, 13 June 2021 (UTC)