WikiCon 2023 Brisbane notes

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Welcome to WikiCon 2023 Brisbane!

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Program: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/WikiCon_2023_Brisbane_Program

Lightning talks

• Sam Wilson ‒ Introduction to Phabricator (User: Samwilson)

• Slides: Phabricator

• Phabricator https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2023-11-18_WikiCon_Phabricator.pdf

• Phabricator (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/) is the project management system for software projects (extensions, tools, etc).

• Organised as collaborative projects and uses Kanban (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban) to manage task workflow.

• Use to report bugs, suggest features, discuss software projects.

• Sam Wilson ‒ Wikimedia technical platforms (User: Samwilson)

• Slides:

• Software Platforms https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2023-11-18_WikiCon_Brisbane,_software_platforms.pdf

• Software falls into two categories: MediaWiki in production owned servers and Wikimedia Cloud Services.

• MediaWiki includes th

• e core code, extensions, other services as well as on-wiki code such as user scripts, gadgets, templates and modules.

• Wikimedia Cloud Services supports shared cloud tools on Toolforge and VPS (virtual private server) (access is available by request, but it is a simple process).

• Knowing where the component is helps work out who to talk to about it.

• Annie Reynolds ‒ My favourite Wikidata scripts (User: Oronsay)

• VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File (https://viaf.org/)

• Annie Reynolds ‒ Wikidata Constraints (User: Oronsay)

• Uses Constraint Violation Report and use it to improve Wikidata items, in particular constraint violations related to a person's employer.

• Margaret Donald ‒ Korean Wikidata (User: Tagishsimon)

• 'Instance of' (P31) is a powerful and important property. It enables other people to find things. (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P31)

• We are missing out on so much knowledge because we are afraid to tackle things like Hangul.

• Dashboard showing amazing work on this project (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Australia/Korean_Wikidata_(From_March_2023_to_December_2023/)

Workshops

• Alex Lum ‒ Working with Wikidata

• There's no real 'killer app' for Wikidata.

• PetScan (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PetScan/en)  (https://petscan.wmflabs.org/)

• Multilingual approach to Wikidata allows for many uses such as mapping with place names in different languages.

• There is a real scope for automation within Wikidata. Mindful to balance of the efficiency of automation with the labour of reconciliation or quality control of automated outcomes.

• Geonames (https://www.geonames.org/)

• Queensland place names search (https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/title/place-names/queensland-place-names-search)

• tool integrating Australian Census data - PopulationFromWikidata module draws on the latest Census data which was uploaded to Wikidata  (https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Populating_Wikipedia:_New_tool_integrating_Australian_Census_data)

• Bot-created Wikipedia articles are a problem for Wikipedia and Wikidata.

• Scholia is a service that creates visual scholarly profiles for topics, people, organizations, species, chemicals, etc using bibliographic and other information in Wikidata. (https://scholia.toolforge.org/)

• WikidataCon 2023 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023)

• Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIRLcIegIv6UDqwg2Tt7H5JbMOwpGBihD

• Kelly Tall ‒ Data visualisations with Wikidata and beyond

• I create marks to communicate to humans.

• Explore rather than explain. I use data visualisation to identify errors and anomalies, exploring interesting rabbit holes and 'rough as guts' charts to share and start conversations.

• Wikihistories UTS https://wikihistories.net/

• Gender and the invisibility of care article h

• ttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517231210276

• Paul Duchesne + Simon Loffler- The ACMI WMAU Partnership on Wikidata

• ACMI data under CC0, as is Wikidata.

• Forward and backward integration between ACMI catalogue and Wikidata with links in both directions.

• example here https://labs.acmi.net.au/linking-acmi-wikidata-aa33dd6fd58b

• ACMI Labs: Projects and experiments from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (https://github.com/ACMILabs)

• National Film and Sound Archive (https://www.nfsa.gov.au/collection)

• ACMI (https://www.acmi.net.au/works/)

• International Federation of Film Archives (https://www.fiafnet.org/)

• Cataloguing Practices in the Age of Linked Open Data: Wikidata and Wikibase for Film Archives (https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/E-Resources/Cataloguing-Practices-Linked-Open-Data.html)

• Ginny Barbour, Elliott Bledsoe, Trish Hepworth+ Amanda Lawrence-Wikimedia and knowledge equity advocacy-copyright open access and other issues

• https://www.mja.com.au/journal/staff/editor-chief-professor-virginia-barbour

• Trish Hepworth- Guidelines for First Nations collection description by Raven Tui, NSLA, CAUL, CAVAL, ALIA https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/255162661

• Trish mentioned https://www.nsla.org.au/resources/first-nations-collection-description-guidelines-library-sector/ The actual file is here: https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/10010699

• https://alacc.org.au/librarians-cook-their-way-to-copyright-victory-media-statement/

• https://creativecommons.org/faq/

• Kirsten Thorpe- First Nations and Wikimedia- the Jumbana Report

• https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/166700

• Discussion paper: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Wikimedia_Australia_and_First_Nations_Metadata:_ATSILIRN_Protocols_for_Description_and_Access

• historical context of information production and research about First Nations people

• problematic and biased sources of information that are being drawn on

• the importance of bringin visibility to Indigenous historical narratives - centre Country, events and people

• events of significance for First Nations people

• Style guides and terminology: https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/First_Nations_Resources

• AIATSIS Code of Ethics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research https://aiatsis.gov.au/research/ethical-research

Lightning Workshops

Kerry Raymond ‒ Patty Pan for bulk uploading

• Pattypan is a bulk upload images and their metadata to Wikimedia Commons.

• https://github.com/yarl/pattypan

Maintenance workshop: Tom Hogarth

•     Understanding that the whole encyclopedia is forever changing and needs maintenance constantly

•     The need for assessment of new pages, and specially changes in heavily edited articles over time

• Importance of maintaining articles, applying appropriate assessment on talk pages,  and ensuring that categories. are  narrow rather than large generic items

• Understanding the role and utility of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evad37/rater when assessing articles and the ORES inside rater as a useful assessment tool

• When doing new articles the importance to ALWAYS remember to have specific categories and project tags and when in doubt ask for help

• When in doubt to reverse similar articles for clues as to format and protocols, or ask,

• however small, every item of maintenance helps the project and also helps to inform how the place works

Wikisource workshop:

• Index page: https://w.wiki/8BrR

• Learning how to create wikisource pages, proof read and publish