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Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017
Facto Post – Issue 3 – 11 August 2017
 Wikimania reportInterviewed by Facto Post at the hackathon, Lydia Pintscher of Wikidata said that the most significant recent development is that Wikidata now accounts for one third of Wikimedia edits. And the essential growth of human editing.  Impressive development work on Internet-in-a-Box featured in the WikiMedFoundation annual conference on Thursday. Hardware is Raspberry Pi, running Linux and the Kiwix browser. It can operate as a wifi hotspot and support a local intranet in parts of the world lacking phone signal. The medical use case is for those delivering care, who have smartphones but have to function in clinics in just such areas with few reference resources. Wikipedia medical content can be served to their phones, and power supplied by standard lithium battery packages. Yesterday Katherine Maher unveiled the draft Wikimedia 2030 strategy, featuring a picturesque metaphor, "roads, bridges and villages". Here "bridges" could do with illustration. Perhaps it stands for engineering round or over the obstacles to progress down the obvious highways. Internet-in-a-Box would then do fine as an example. "Bridging the gap" explains a take on that same metaphor, with its human component. If you are at Wikimania, come talk to WikiFactMine at its stall in the Community Village, just by the 3D-printed display for Bassel Khartabil; come hear T Arrow talk at 3 pm today in Drummond West, Level 3. Link
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British Library Copyright on a gifted work
Hi there, Wikipedia newbie here (been around a while, but not done much of note). I would like your advice if I may on British Library copyright vis-à-vis Wikipedia. I cannot find anything on their site that gives me a definitive answer and thought you might be able to help.
I would like to upload this image from the British Library into Wikipedia, but don't know if this is OK, copyright-wise. It was a gift to them, so I don't see how they could have copyright, but copyright is always a bit of a black art. Do you know? Or should I contact the BL instead?
Thanks for any advice you can give!
--ElectricFeet (talk) 17:40, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
- @ElectricFeet:. So, this is a complicated one. The BL can hold copyright in gifted items - if memory serves there is at least one photographer whose collection they acquired including the copyrights. However, a mere transfer of an item doesn't automatically transfer copyright & they're normally pretty good at not claiming it without a presumption that they are in fact the rightsholders. In recently uploaded material, they'll actively try and mark the rights status - see eg the material here, where once you click through to the image viewer for an item there's a clear "Usage terms: : Public Domain" in the sidebar.
- However, older parts of the site like the Online Gallery section don't make copyright claims very clear. The line at the bottom is boilerplate for the whole site, and there's no per-item or per-collection rights statement. So you need to fall back on what we know about the item itself - is it public domain, or is it still in copyright to someone, even if we don't know who?
- Unfortunately, this rapidly becomes complicated. Rights in something like an ephemeral poster are challenging to figure out, and there's no chance they acquired the copyrights - this collection was made by a third party and then bought by them years later, so the copyright holder would never have been involved.
- My feeling is that it's likely it's public domain - using this flowchart, it has no obvious author, it's from before 1969, it's not a photograph, and it was published before 1989 (at least, using a generous definition of published). Copyright thus expired 70 years after publication, or 1950. You should be able to upload it as public domain. If you do, please tag it with {{British Library image|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/evancoll/a/014eva000000000u06159000.html|ms-shelfmark=Evan.6159}} which will make sure it gets picked up as a BL item - thanks! Andrew Gray (talk) 20:44, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks Andrew! That's incredibly helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. --ElectricFeet (talk) 10:54, 13 August 2017 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #273
- Discussions
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikifying Westminster: Wikidata workshop around UK political data, August 19th, London
- Past: Wikimania, Wikimedia hackathon. A lot of things happened during these events, reports and news should be published in the next days.
- Exploring the world with Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, by Mapbox
- Enriching catalogue pages in Evergreen with Wikidata by Dan Scott
- Why data partners should link their vocabulary to Wikidata: a new case study on Europeana blog
- Wikimania
- You can try the demo system for lexicographical data
- Talk: Structured Commons: what changes are coming? by Sandra Fauconnier
- Talk: New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons by Jarekt
- List of wishes during the "Wikidata pink pony session"
- Talk: the (Wiki)data (R)evolution, by Lydia Pintscher
- Talk: Wikidata and performing arts by Beat Estermann during Wikimania
- Talk: How to use Wikidata in infoboxes (panel)
- New template: A fully automated template system was presented: Oh!WTFs
- Talk: WikiCite: Citations needed for the sum of all human knowledge
- Notes about the Wikispecies & Wikidata session
- Documents to organize a Wikidata translathon: level 1, level 2, level 3 (by Kvardek_du) and the translathon tool (by Envel)
- Talk: Sum of all paintings is just the start, by Multichill
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Share your feedback on the draft strategic direction, a basis on which strategic plans will be built.
- Wikidata reached d:Q36000000. The number of items has been increased by 20% in less than three months
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: YCBA agent ID, IEDB Epitope ID, Dagens Næringsliv topic ID, Georgian National Register of Monuments ID, CODECS ID, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ID, magnification, AUR package, Michelin Voyages ID, Michelin Restaurants ID, WeRelate person ID, autores.ar id, MEG ID, Czech Registration ID, separator, National Forest Foundation ID
- Query examples:
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Goats, WikiProject Torture
- Newest external tools: WD edits stats counting edits mades on a certain dataset between two dates
- Development
Most of the team was at Wikimania, talking to people, getting meaningful input from the editors, giving talks, hacking around :)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Monthly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
- Suggested and open tasks!
- Contribute to a Showcase item.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- Bureaucrats can now set users as confirmed. Previously only stewards could do this on most wikis. Nothing will change for wikis that have previously decided to let administrators set users as confirmed. [1]
Problems
- The symbols in the language list that show that an article is good or featured in that language doesn't work. Links to the Commons category in the sidebar doesn't work either. The developers are working on fixing it. [2][3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
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23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #274
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Open Source Ladies, meetup for women who want to start coding for Mediawiki and other open source projects, August 22nd, Berlin
- Data Partnerships in Wikidata: Project Durchblick with Humboldt University by Jens Ohlig (in German)
- What do Wikidata and Wikipedia have in common? An analysis of their use of external references by Alessandro Piscoppo et al.
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- New documentation page: How to use Wikidata data on Wikimedia projects (feel free to help improving it)
- The growth of items continues: we have Q37000000 and even Q37500000; Scientific article (Q13442814) becomes the most used Wikidata item (source)
- More than 80K locations in Belgium added to Mix'n'Match
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: World Heritage Tentative List ID, eParks unit ID
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- Surnames, similar to Muller, according to Cologne phonetics, Caverphone and Soundex algorithms
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- All places that are named "earth" in at least one language (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Parliaments
- Development
- Working on making constraints work on qualifiers and references (phabricator:T168532)
- Working on making it easier to see when input in property or value fields is not recognized/wrong (phabricator:T170531)
- Added new language codes (eya, fuf, ood, pjt, yap, zun) for use in monolingual text values
- Fixed an issue with badges not being shown next to interwiki links on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T172592)
- Worked on showing labels when linking to a redirect (phabricator:T96553)
- Worked on making change dispatching to Wikipedia and co work better so changes made on Wikidata show up there in a reasonable time. There were issues because of significantly increased edit activity on Wikidata.
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Recent changes
- You can now test the new Timeless skin on the test wiki and mediawiki.org. You can turn it on in your preferences. You can report bugs in Phabricator. It will come to more wikis soon. [4][5]
- Your watchlist can now have the option to unwatch pages. You have to turn this on in your preferences. [6]
- If a table has several columns you can often choose which column you want to use to sort the table. This has not worked for some columns for readers who have used Firefox or Safari. This has now been fixed. [7]
- The RelatedArticles extension has shown related pages on Wikivoyages. You will now see the related pages at the end of the article together with an image. Previously the links were in the sidebar. Wikis that want this extension can request it on Phabricator.
Changes later this week
- Videos will now be played in the WebM format in all browsers. Previously some browsers used Ogg Theora (.ogv). If you use Safari, Internet Explorer or Edge you may see slower playback speed at high resolutions. Instead we will get better quality and smaller file size. You can still upload video as Ogg files. They are automatically converted to WebM. This doesn't affect Ogg audio files. [8]
- The default font in the edit window will change for some users this week. Instead of using the browser default, it will be monospace. Users can change this in their preferences. This should only change this for some users on Macs and iOS devices. [9]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).
Meetings
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