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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2024 Newsletter
[edit]- User group news
- User group vote on the adoption of the Movement Charter (closes 7 July 23.59 UTC)
- Upcoming user group meeting 21 July
- User group meeting held in June - minutes
- The group was featured in the latest WikiAfrica Hour: #36: Does the Wikimedia movement contribute to the SDGs?
- Other news
- Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: How WikiProject COVID-19 and other Wikimedia initiatives counter health disinformation (SDG 3)
- Environment Centre Northern Territory Wikipedian in Residence (SDG 15)
- With AI can we increase transparency of companies' carbon footprints (in Swedish). Op-ed that mentions that the greenhouse gas emissions of the top 150 companies on the Stockholm stock exchange has been uploaded to Wikidata. The model is documented on WikiProject Climate Change on Wikidata. (SDG 13)
- Another Year in Review: Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? Seeing the impact of Wikimedia Projects (SDG 13)
- 46 scholars, self-advocates bring knowledge to Wikipedia’s disability healthcare content (SDG 3)
- Wikimedia Sverige publishes their 2023 climate impact report (in Swedish) (SDG 13)
- WikiProject Govdirectory has started weekly collaboration on countries (SDG 16)
- Events
- Wikimedia chapters and groups organise the first Sharks and Rays Wikimarathon (29 June, but edits in the weeks after are welcome) (SDG 14)
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Wrong dates
[edit]Hello, these items that your bot claimed were published on "19 July 2019" actually are from the XX century!
I suppose this is due to a general misbehavior of the bot. Are you able to identify the magnitude of the problem? And could you fix it as soon as possible? Horcrux (talk) 18:25, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Horcrux: Thanks for checking. The problem is described here, along with a code fix and some discussion about fixing the data. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah, I don't think I'll go into it further. Anyway, some of those items were duplicated of other ones that, curiously, were correctly dated by Research Bot in 2017 (see e.g. [1][2][3]), apart from the known problem of the date's precision ("1" should not be used as day of the month). --Horcrux (talk) 06:59, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
Could you implement large-scale import of studies data with the Research Bot?
[edit]Hi there, thanks for User:Research Bot which seems very useful and like it has imported data on a significant number of studies.
Could the bot be used to bulk-import data on very many studies – please give your input here and/or here. The latter is about Scholia and I think that platform becomes useful in the real world only once Wikidata has data on, basically, most studies.
For example, charts on scholia would be inaccurate if so many studies are missing in Wikidata. The former is also about books and names a few datasets that I think could be used, maybe most notably dumps by Anna's Archive. I also asked the operator of "LargeDatasetBot". I think you know a lot in this space and your input would be very appreciated!
Also <sub> does not work in item titles – for example see Q125340665. Maybe these could be replaced with the ₂ characters retrospectively and the title be altered accordingly for future imports. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:27, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Prototyperspective: Thanks for thinking along. In terms of imports, the first question should always be whether we should do it, and in the affirmative case, we can explore whether and how we could implement any technical solutions. At the moment, anything large-scale is essentially precluded by the looming graph split anyway. In terms of markup in the titles, I think we should implement something, but technical solutions would probably depend as well on how the graph split plays out. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 21:14, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, I did not know about this. moving the scholarly articles to a separate graph as in the experiment seems like a good idea and better enable what I asked about. Also I think there need to be some measures to prevent covert vandalism which could already be an issue with such a large number of largely unmonitored items, for example by locking all scholarly articles items to be only changed by bots/queries. The same would also be useful for food product items as mentioned in my recent comment here. I don't know which parts are missing when this bot and a few already imported many items and thought datasets like those used by OpenAlex or ScienceOpen could be used. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:08, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2024 Newsletter
[edit]- User group news
- User group meeting held in July, minutes
- Next user group meeting will be 18 August
- Other news
- Climate change editahon and workshop in Macedonia (SDG 13)
- WikiForHumanRights in Nigeria 2024 Campaign Virtual Launch (SDG 10&16)
- What we Learned from Wiki Women In Red @8 Campaign 2023 Women for Sustainability Africa (SDG 5)
- Ghanaian Wikipedians set to educate students on Open Climate (SDG 13)
- Using Wikipedia as a Tool for Climate Action (SDG 13)
- Events
- 5th August, m:Event:Wiki-Green_Conference_2024 Wiki-Green Conference (SDG 13)
- 7-10 August, Wikimania - All SDG related sessions
- 7-9 November, Justicia climática, voces indígenas y plataformas Wikimedia (SDG 13)
- Participate
- Share an example of a successful WikiProject or topical collaboration in this on-wiki survey
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Bad data in QuickStatements Batch #236310
[edit]This batch has a large number of descriptions that do not follow the guidelines for descriptions. I have initiated a revert of this batch. William Graham (talk) 23:29, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
- Noted. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:50, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Inferring language of work from title
[edit]This is a very bad idea, e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q35094528&diff=prev&oldid=1616318412. Better not to have a language of work or name (P407) statement than English when it should be French. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:09, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Agreed. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Duplicate item
[edit]Hi there, I was wondering how this item got created - it's a duplicate of a journal article item that already exists. Usually I can see why a duplicate was made (e.g. the original item didn't have a DOI, or orthographic differences in a title) but for this case I have no clue. Prosperosity (talk) 22:22, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- No idea in this case either. Thanks for checking and merging, though. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:41, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August 2024 Newsletter
[edit]- User group news
- Next user group meeting, 15 September, will be focused on starting to develop a strategy for the group. If you cannot attend, you can leave your input on the ideas page.
- User group meeting held in August (minutes)
- Other news
- Report from WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024 (SDG 15)
- Meeting for Writing on Femenist Strikes and Wiki for Peace Camp St. Imier (SDG 5 & 16)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library report (SDG 15)
- Wikimania had a lot of SDG related sessions and you can watch them back now
- Events
- Wiki Loves Monuments starts in September (SDG 11)
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