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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 8 – 15 January 2018 ==

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===Metadata on the March===
From the days of hard-copy [[liner notes]] on music albums, metadata have stood outside a piece or file, while adding to understanding of where it comes from, and some of what needs to be appreciated about its content. In the [[GLAM (industry sector)|GLAM sector]], the accumulation of accurate metadata for objects is key to the mission of an institution, and its presentation in cataloguing.

Today Wikipedia turns 17, with worlds still to conquer. Zooming out from the individual GLAM object to the ontology in which it is set, one such world becomes apparent: GLAMs use custom ontologies, and those introduce massive incompatibilities. From a [https://medium.com/@alexstinson/wikidata-in-collections-building-a-universal-language-for-connecting-glam-catalogs-59b14aa3214c recent article] by {{noping|sadads}}, we quote the observation that "vocabularies needed for many collections, topics and intellectual spaces defy the expectations of the larger professional communities." A job for the encyclopedist, certainly. But the data-minded Wikimedian has the advantages of Wikidata, starting with its multilingual data, and facility with aliases. The [[controlled vocabulary]] — sometimes referred to as a "thesaurus" as term of art — simplifies search: if a "spade" must be called that, rather than "shovel", it is easier to find all spade references. That control comes at a cost.
[[File:Pictograms-nps-misc-pedestrian crossing-2.svg|thumb|left|SVG pedestrian crosses road]] [[File:Zebra crossing 2.jpg|thumb|Zebra crossing/crosswalk, Singapore]]
Case studies in that article show what can lie ahead. The [[schema crosswalk]], in jargon, is a potential answer to the GLAM Babel of proliferating and expanding vocabularies. Even if you have no interest in Wikidata as such, simply vocabularies V and W, if both V and W are matched to Wikidata, then a "crosswalk" arises from term v in V to w in W, whenever v and w both match to the same item d in Wikidata.

For metadata mobility, match to Wikidata. It's apparently that simple: infrastructure requirements have turned out, so far, to be challenges that can be met.

===Links===
*<div style="color: #936c29; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">1lib1ref campaign starts today, see [[m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref]]: also [https://videos.mysimpleshow.com/CMygtDdRaE #1lib1ref introductory video] by {{noping|Felix Nartey}}</div>
*[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00104-7 ''Funders should mandate open citations''], article 9 January 2018 in ''Nature'' by David Shotton
*[https://hackmd.io/s/B1fhoKWMz# From snowflake to avalanche: Possibilities of using free citation data in libraries], translation from the [https://www.o-bib.de/article/view/2017H4S127-136 German original] of Annette Klein, Mannheim University Library
*[[outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/WMF GLAM report]]
*[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/hollywood-says-its-not-planning-another-copyright-extension-push/ ''Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won't happen again: Copyrights from the 1920s will start expiring next year if Congress doesn't act''], Timothy B. Lee, 8 January 2018, Arstechnica
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== ISO 8601 ==

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* ping [[Special:Contributions/85.181.118.157|85.181.118.157]] ([[User talk:85.181.118.157|talk]]) 22:37, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 9 – 5 February 2018 ==

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===Wikidata as Hub===
One way of looking at Wikidata relates it to the [[semantic web]] concept, around for about as long as Wikipedia, and realised in dozens of distributed Web institutions. It sees Wikidata as supplying central, encyclopedic coverage of [[linked structured data]], and looks ahead to greater support for "federated queries" that draw together information from all parts of the emerging network of websites.
[[File:Mandel zoom 07 satellite.jpg|left|250px]]
Another perspective might be likened to a photographic negative of that one: Wikidata as an already-functioning Web hub. Over half of its properties are identifiers on other websites. These are Wikidata's "external links", to use Wikipedia terminology: one type for the DOI of a publication, another for the VIAF page of an author, with thousands more such. Wikidata links out to sites that are not nominally part of the semantic web, effectively drawing them into a larger system. The crosswalk possibilities of the systematic construction of these links was covered in Issue 8.

[[Wikipedia:External links]] speaks of them as kept "minimal, meritable, and directly relevant to the article." Here Wikidata finds more of a function. On viaf.org one can type a VIAF author identifier into the search box, and find the author page. The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php Wikidata Resolver tool], these days including Open Street Map, Scholia etc., allows this kind of lookup. The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/ hub tool] by {{noping|maxlath}} takes a major step further, allowing both lookup and crosswalk to be encoded in a single URL.

===Links===
*[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/29/glam-multimedia-metadata-commons/ ''What galleries, libraries, archives, and museums can teach us about multimedia metadata on Wikimedia Commons''], Wikimedia Foundation blogpost, 29 January 2018, by Jonathan Morgan and Sandra Fauconnier
*[[m:The Wikipedia Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect]], 2018 institutional participation in the #1lib1ref campaign
*[[d:Wikidata:London workshop February 2018|Newspeak House queries]], created at 3 February 2018 event in London led by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}
*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-02-05/Special report|Cochrane–Wikipedia Initiative]], Wikipedia Signpost special report 5 February 2018, by {{noping|JenOttowa}}
*[https://www.edge.org/the-last-question-1?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=c127a5fa4fc34ed4b37a2c5ab39331d0&uid=520433517&nid=244+272699400 ''What is the Last Question?''], 5 February 2018
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== Using one of your illustrations for an essay project ==

Hi, I was wondering if you would give permission for me to use your illustration 'Fatalities in earthquakes of magnitude 8 and greater since 1900' in a university project. My essay is comparing the 2011 Japan earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and I would like to make sure that I have consent to use your work (with full referencing/citation).
Thanks [[User:Imzu|Imzu]] ([[User talk:Imzu|talk]]) 12:25, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
:{{hiya|Imzu}} Certainly''!'' If it's online, I'd love to have a look at your conclusions. Best wishes, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 22:37, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

== 2019 maths problem ==
[[file:2005_maths_problem.png|thumb|[[:commons:file:2005_maths_problem.png]]]]
<span style="outline:ridge"><math>\text{ Express } \tfrac{1}{\sqrt{39 + \sqrt{39^2 - 1}}} \text{ as } \sqrt{x} - \!\!\sqrt{y} \text{ where } x \text{ and } y \text{ are integers. }</math></span>

<math>\begin{align}
  & \frac{1}{\sqrt{n + \sqrt{n^2 - 1}}} \quad \color{grey}{\Big( \text{let } n = 39 \Big) \leftarrow x \text{ and } y \in \Z \text{ iff } n \text{ is odd}} \\
= & \frac{\sqrt{n - \sqrt{n^2 - 1}}}{\sqrt{\big( n + \sqrt{n^2 - 1} \big) \big(n - \sqrt{n^2 - 1} \big)}} \;\;\; \color{grey}{\Bigg( \!\text{multiply by } \tfrac{\sqrt{n - \sqrt{n^2 - 1}}}{\sqrt{n - \sqrt{n^2 - 1}}} \Bigg)} \\
= & \frac{\sqrt{n - \sqrt{(n + 1)(n - 1)}}}{\sqrt{n^2 - \big( \sqrt{n^2 - 1} \, \big)^2}} \qquad\quad \color{grey}{\Big( \because (a + b)(a - b) = a^2 - b^2 \Big)} \\
= & \frac{\sqrt{\frac{n}{2} + \frac{n}{2} + \frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{2} - \sqrt{4 \cdot \tfrac{(n + 1)(n - 1)}{4}}}}{\sqrt{n^2 - (n^2 - 1)}} \\
= & \frac{\sqrt{\frac{n + 1}{2} + \frac{n - 1}{2} - 2 \sqrt{\tfrac{n + 1}{2} \cdot \tfrac{n - 1}{2}}}}{\sqrt{1}} \\
= & \sqrt{\; \Big( \sqrt{\tfrac{n + 1}{2}} \Big)^2 - 2 \sqrt{\tfrac{n + 1}{2}} \sqrt{\tfrac{n - 1}{2}} + \Big( \sqrt{\tfrac{n - 1}{2}} \Big)^2} \\
= & \sqrt{\; \Big( \sqrt{\tfrac{n + 1}{2}} - \sqrt{\tfrac{n - 1}{2}} \Big)^2} = \sqrt{\tfrac{n + 1}{2}} - \sqrt{\tfrac{n - 1}{2}} \;\; \color{grey}{\Big( \because \sqrt{x} - \!\sqrt{y} > 0 \Big)} \\
\therefore & \;\; x = \tfrac{n + 1}{2} = \mathbf{20} \; , \; y = \tfrac{n - 1}{2} = \mathbf{19}
\end{align}</math>

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018 ==

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===Milestone for mix'n'match===
Around the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match mix'n'match] tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, {{noping|Magnus Manske}}, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal.

Since the [http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=114 end of 2013], mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of [[digital humanities]], but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders.

These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. [[m:Mix'n'match/Manual]] for more.

For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading.

Congratulations to Magnus, our data [[Stakhanovite]]!

===Links===
[[File:3D Printing Zamenhof's Head.jpg|thumb|left|3D printing]]
*[https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/wikipedia-goes-3d-allowing-users-upload-stls-digital-reference-129340/ ''Wikipedia goes 3D allowing users to upload .STLs for digital reference''], Beau Jackson for 3dprintingindustry.com, February 22 2018
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRK_MltUezA&feature=youtu.be&t=236 WikiCite report (video)]
*[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185065 Formal publication and announcement of ISBN citation dataset], see [https://twitter.com/i/web/status/967064062616981504 Twitter post], February 23 2018
*[http://dataviz-literacy.wmflabs.org/#section-introduction ''Plotting the Course Through Charted Waters''], workshop on data visualization literacy from Mikhail Popov, Wikimedia Foundation
*[https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2018/02/12/using-wikidata/ ''Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos''], Nancy Cooey, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, February 12 2018
*[https://longair.net/blog/2017/11/29/sparql-wikidata/ ''Why Should You Learn SPARQL? Wikidata!''] Mark Longair, blogpost November 29 2017
*[http://www.zdnet.com/article/back-to-the-future-does-graph-database-success-hang-on-query-language/ ''Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?''], George Anadiotis for Big on Data, March 5 2018
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== A barnstar for you! ==

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I really liked the rotatable Szilassi polyhedron you made. Could you do it for more, like for the johnson solids? just curious.  [[User:Leostaley|Leostaley]] ([[User talk:Leostaley|talk]]) 06:28, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
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[[File:Sphericon.stl|thumb|An example [[Media:Sphericon.stl|ASCII STL]] of a [[sphericon]] ]]
{{hiya|Leostaley}} Thank you very much – glad you like my SVG efforts! Thanks for telling me about Johnson solids, too. Now that Commons allows uploading [[STL (file format)]], I plan to move make 3D models directly, like this one.

Nevertheless, if you've lists of their vertices on each of their faces, preferably in anticlockwise/counter-clockwise direction as viewed from outside the polyhedron, I'll try to write a script to generate these models. Cheers, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 02:19, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

== Your orbit graphic ==

Hello Cmglee - please have a look at [[Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Earth_orbits]] and see what you could do about a sufficiently explaining caption for your graphic - you have two conditional supports hanging on that... ;-)  I think it's a useful graphic, but there needs to be a simple explanation that the orbits are not equatorial. As the creator of the graphic, I thought you'd be the best to explain.  Best regards, --[[User:Janke|Janke]] | [[User talk:Janke|Talk]] 07:40, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
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==[[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Earth orbits]]==
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== Unreal Tournament Draft ==

Hey! I noticed you haven't edited your draft on [[Unreal Tournament]] at [[User:Cmglee/UT]] in a while. I wanted to remind you in case you might be able to prepare it for publication in mainspace. Happy editing! [[User:Daask|Daask]] ([[User talk:Daask|talk]]) 06:53, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
:{{hiya|Daask}} I copied the article when I was learning to edit Wikipedia and didn't intend it for publication. I've moved it to my sandbox. Cheers, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 13:30, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

==Number of images on last row of gallery with x columns and y images==
[[File:gallery_pics_vs_cols.png|thumb|250px|Green = ideal, Yellow = under half full, Red = orphan<br /><br />Number of images on last row of gallery with x columns (browser-dependent) and y images (editor can control)<br /><br />Hence, good number of images to have in a gallery =<br /> 6, 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 24, 30, 32, 38]]

== 5008 matchstick puzzle ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Allowances !! Value !! Approximation
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| No operators, right way round || 511108 || 10 ^ 5
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| Allow upside down || 811105 || 10 ^ 5
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| Allow E notation || 5E108 || 10 ^ 108
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| Allow powers and Arabic digits || 11<sup>81105</sup> || 10 ^ 84462
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| Allow powers and definitely valid Roman numeral || L<sup>81105</sup> || 10 ^ 137794
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| Allow powers and Roman numeral in weird font || C<sup>81105</sup> || 10 ^ 162210
|-
| Allow powers and questionable Roman numeral I with overline for 1000 || &#298; <sup>81105</sup> || 10 ^ 243315
|-
| Allow gamma function || &Gamma; 81105 || 10 ^ 362922
|-
| Allow factorial (dot = vertical stick) || 81105! || 10 ^ 362927
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| Allow breaking off match-heads || 81105!! || 10 ^ (10 ^ 362933)
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| Allow bending into ^ || 50&uarr;&uarr;8 = 50^50^50^50^50^50^50^50 || 10 ^ (10 ^ (10 ^ (10 ^ (10 ^ (10 ^ (10 ^ 85))))))
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|-
| Allow Graham's number ''g'' notation || g<sub>11108</sub>, 5 g<sub>g<sub>8</sub></sub>, g<sub>g<sub>85</sub></sub> or g<sub>g<sub>105</sub></sub> || cannot be represented, but finite
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| Allow Busy Beaver ''S'' notation || S<sub>11<sup>1108</sup></sub>, S<sub>S<sub>88</sub></sub> or S<sub>S<sub>108</sub></sub> etc || cannot be represented, but finite
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| Allow bending one stick into an epsilon || 81105 / &epsilon; || arbitrarily large number
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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018 ==

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===The 100 Skins of the Onion===
[https://i4oc.org/news.html#April2018 Open Citations Month], with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that.

Pulling back to look at [[open access]] papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/03/22/releasing-1-8-million-open-access-publications-from-publisher-systems-for-text-and-data-mining/ recent LSE IMPACT blogpost] puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the [[oxymoron]].

Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF.
[[File:Red onion cross section 03.jpg|thumb|left|Red onion cross section]]
From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the [[SPARQL]] query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in [[XML]]. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the [[text and data mining]] purposes they highlight. The [[long tail]], or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a ''[[wikt:pis aller|pis aller]]''. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart.

===Links===
*[https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2s234 ''Crossref as a new source of citation data: A comparison with Web of Science and Scopus''], CWTS blogpost 17 January 2018, Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy Sugimoto
*[https://figshare.com/articles/Wikipedia_Scholarly_Article_Citations/1299540 Citations with identifiers in Wikipedia, figshare dataset]
*[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/29/increasing-visibility-women-with-wikidata/ ''Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools!''], Wikimedia blogpost 29 March 2018 by [[User:Spinster|Sandra Fauconnier]]	
*[[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Turn_on_mapframe?_We%E2%80%99re_ready_if_you_are|Village pump discussion, ''Turn on mapframe? We’re ready if you are'']] reaches conclusions
*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbernick/2018/03/28/the-power-of-the-wikimedia-movement-beyond-wikimedia/#1aa669e75a75 ''The Power of the Wikimedia Movement beyond Wikimedia''], Forbes 28 March 2018, Michael Bernick
*[https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2018/03/26/tracing-stolen-bitcoin/ ''Tracing stolen bitcoin''], blogpost 26 March 2018 by [[Ross J. Anderson]]
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== Images & templates==
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Hi!

I've noticed that you are providing some of your illustrations in the form of templates. That is imho usually not a good idea, because it it blocks (other) editors from individual adaptions to articles. For instance they may want to adapt the thumbnail size or some of the subtexts to the situation of an individual article, which is not possible that way. And even if they were to change the template they are likely to create side effects elswhere assuming the template is used in more than one article.--[[User:Kmhkmh|Kmhkmh]] ([[User talk:Kmhkmh|talk]]) 10:08, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

:{{hiya|Kmhkmh}} Thanks for your message. I've tried to make the messages customisable using template parameters such as in this image. The advantage of using a template is to maintain consistency between articles using the image. Additionally, when the image is updated, all the captions can be updated at one go. For specific uses of the image, one can link to the image directly without using the template, so I think having these templates do not reduce existing functionality. Cheers, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 15:42, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018 ==

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===ScienceSource funded===
The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the [[m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource|ScienceSource grant proposal]] from [http://contentmine.org/ ContentMine] on May 18. See the [https://twitter.com/TheContentMine/status/997574058727354370 ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video].

;A medical canon?
The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.

The basic criteria of [[WP:MEDRS]] include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the [[long tail]] of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that [[edge case]]s will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. [[Prophylaxis]] misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are [[tropical disease]]s and [[alternative medicine]]. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in [[User:Charles Matthews/Facto Post/Issue 11 – 9 April 2018|Issue 11]]. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

===Links===
[[File:Google-refine-logo.svg|thumb|OpenRefine logo, courtesy of Google]]
*[[d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data]], Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going
*[https://tools.wmflabs.org/ordia/search?q=hus Ordia tool], a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms
*[[d:Wikidata:Tools/OpenRefine|OpenRefine tool 3.0]], May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata
*[[d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians]] pushes ahead with data modelling and imports
*[https://www.ifla.org/node/47354 #1Lib1Ref ''Returns for a Second Time in 2018''], [[International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions|IFLA]] blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia
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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018 ==

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;Respecting MEDRS 
''Facto Post'' enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the [[m:Grants:Project/ScienceSource/Profile|ScienceSource project]] is a [[Wikipedia:WikiProjectMedicine/Referencing case studies for MEDRS|project page here]]. It contains some case studies on how the [[WP:MEDRS]] guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions.

Close to home also, a template, called {{tl|medrs}} for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this [http://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=4902034 Petscan query] finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter.

This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.

[[File:Research design and evidence.svg|thumb|left|Evidence pyramid leading up to [[clinical guideline]]s, from [[WP:MEDRS]]]]

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*[https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20%3FleagueLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fleague%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16466010.%20%23%20a%20football%20match%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20wdt%3AP361%2a%20wd%3AQ170645.%20%23%20that%27s%20part%20of%20the%202018%20World%20Cup%0A%20%20%3Fmatch%20p%3AP1363%20%3Fstmt.%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20we%20want%20the%20details%20of%20goals%0A%20%20%3Fstmt%20ps%3AP1363%20%3Fscorer.%20%20%20%20%23%20who%20scored%0A%20%20%3Fscorer%20p%3AP54%20%3Fstmt1.%0A%20%20%3Fstmt1%20ps%3AP54%20%3Fteam.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20what%20teams%20have%20they%20played%20for%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fstmt1%20pq%3AP582%20%5B%5D%7D%20%23%20no%20end%20time%20%3D%3E%20player%20is%20still%20playing%20for%20team%0A%20%20%3Fteam%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ476028.%20%23%20we%20only%20want%20domestic%20teams%0A%20%20%3Fteam%20wdt%3AP118%20%3Fleague.%20%20%20%20%23%20what%20league%20do%20they%20play%20in%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FleagueLabel%20%3Fleague%0A World Cup scorers bubble chart, by the league in which they play], query run on Wikidata
*[https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fauthor%20%3FauthorLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fdate%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2537%20.%0A%20%20%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP575%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fauthor%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20de%2C%20fr%2C%20es%2C%20it%2C%20cz%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20 Timeline of discoveries of natural satellites in the solar system], query run on Wikidata
*[https://blog.library.wales/?p=17811 ''4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata''], National Library of Wales blogpost 27 June 2018, by {{noping|Jason.nlw}}
*[https://www.haykranen.nl/2018/06/15/the-deaditors-of-wikipedia/ ''The "deaditors" of Wikipedia], Hay Kranen blogpost, 15 June 2018
*[https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1008295163616165888 Six dimensions of open access, polemical tweet], 17 June 2018
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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018 ==

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;Plugging the gaps – Wikimania report
Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in [[Cape Town]] paying tribute to the southern African concept of ''[[Ubuntu philosophy|ubuntu]]'' to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources.
[[File:Wikimania 2018 hackathon mentoring table plugbar.jpg|thumb|left|Hackathon mentoring table wiring]]
''Facto Post'' interviewed {{noping|Jdforrester}}, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an [[m:Eventualism|eventualist]] he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume.

If that may not sound like radicalism, the ''Decolonizing the Internet'' conference here organized jointly with [https://whoseknowledge.org/decolonizing-the-internet-conference/ Whose Knowledge?] can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".
[[File:Wikimania 2018 plugbar Tetris.jpg|thumb|Plugbar buildup at the Hackathon]]
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*[[d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list|ScienceSource focus list]] (shortcut WD:SSFL on Wikidata), project to tag a first-pass open access medical bibliography on Wikidata, and also overcome the systematic biases in the medical literature by curation.
*[https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-and-kiwix-partner-to-grow-offline-access-to-wikipedia/ ''Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia''], Wikimedia Foundation blogpost 18 July 2018.
*[http://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/wikipedias-upcoming-cape-town-conference-will-tackle-issue-diversity ''Wikipedia's upcoming Cape Town conference will tackle the issue of diversity''], Jamie Matroos, 2 July 2018.
*[https://www.videowiki.org/ VideoWiki], a video version of Wikipedia.
*[http://blog.openlibrary.org/2018/07/14/search-full-text-within-4m-books/ ''Search Full-Text within 4M+ Books''], by MEK, The Open Library Blog, 14 July 2018
*[https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/More-than-5000-German-scientists-have-published-papers-in-pseudo-scientific-journals,fakescience178.html ''More than 5,000 German scientists have published papers in pseudo-scientific journals''], NDR, 19 July 2018. 
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== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018 ==

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[[File:On the Road to Eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases in Cote d'Ivoire (29464931444).jpg|thumb|left|Anti-parasitic drugs being distributed in [[Côte d'Ivoire ]]]]
[[File:SS Whats a Neglected Disease.webm|thumb|left|''What's a Neglected Disease?'', ScienceSource video]]

To grasp the nettle, there are [[rare disease]]s, there are [[tropical disease]]s and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but [[neglected disease]] these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by [[genetic disease]]s.

A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking [[drug discovery]]. [[Orphan drug]]s are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the [[WHO]]'s [http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/diseases/en/ neglected diseases], where [[snakebite]], a "neglected public health issue", is on the list.

From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its [[d:Wikidata:ScienceSource focus list|Wikidata focus list]] at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.

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*[http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=559 ''Wikipedia, Wikidata, and citations''], a census, August 2 2018, blogpost by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}
*[http://hangingtogether.org/?p=6775 ''The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source''] August 6, 2018, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura on OCLC Research blog
*[https://janakiev.com/blog/wikidata-mayors/ ''Where do Mayors Come From: Querying Wikidata with Python and SPARQL''], August 1 2018, Parametric Thoughts blog
*[https://hapgood.us/2018/08/09/newspapers-on-wikipedia-update-initial-wikidata-pass/ ''Newspapers On Wikipedia Update: Initial Wikidata Pass''] 9 August 2018, Mike Caulfield
*[https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05053 ''Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories''] Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea, Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado López-Cózar, arxiv.org, submitted on 15 August 2018
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== Strange ==
I came across this [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_and_Evaluation/Case_studies/Wikimania_Esino_Lario_Survey_Results report] - see the "Favorite Sessions" table - I really cannot remember that we even had 10 participants in the room!! [[User:Shyamal|Shyamal]] ([[User talk:Shyamal|talk]]) 08:00, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
:Thanks, {{u|Shyamal}} &ndash; well spotted''!'' That was a long time ago, but if my memory serves me right, the room was so packed people were on the stairs.
:How have you been lately? Still illustrating birds? Have you attended other Wikimanias recently? I haven't been as active as before &ndash; life's been busy, though a few months back, I was hooked on [[user:cmglee#commons:category:STL_files_by_cmglee_☎_29_Mar_2018|STL 3D models]] when they were first allowed on Commons. Cheers, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 20:49, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
::Good to hear Gordon! I am glad to hear that more people attended - my memory was perhaps from the numbers present when I started! I have not been doing too many SVGs of birds - but I did work on a few contour maps with QGIS and opensource DEM data. And I am currently getting another small bunch of people comfortable with Inkscape and SVG editing. Was in fact at the recent Wikimania in Cape Town. I did check out your STL files! Have fun. [[User:Shyamal|Shyamal]] ([[User talk:Shyamal|talk]]) 04:07, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
:::How was Wikimania 2018, {{u|Shyamal}}? Cape Town and Montreal were a bit far &ndash; hope to go to the next one in Stockholm.
::::Quite interesting, I suspect that the overall favorite was perhaps the talk by Joy Buolamwini - see https://www.ajlunited.org/ - of course the area is stunning - especially the flora and the topography. Did not go to Montreal and do not plan to apply for the next. [[User:Shyamal|Shyamal]] ([[User talk:Shyamal|talk]]) 13:47, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
:::Nice to hear that you're doing contour maps. I tried converting DEM data to 3D models, initially [http://viewstl.com/?embedded&url=https:/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Penang_island.stl&rotation=yes&bgcolor=darkblue&color=green&shading=smooth&edges=no&orientation=bottom&noborder=yes&clean=no&local assuming a Flat Earth] then [http://viewstl.com/?embedded&url=https:/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Mars_elevation.stl&rotation=yes&bgcolor=black&color=brown&shading=flat&edges=no&orientation=bottom&noborder=yes&clean=no&local trying different ways to tesselate a sphere]. I [[user:cmglee#Mars_elevation.stl_☎_1_May_2018|found regular grids very wasteful of polygons]], though, and read that [[triangulated irregular network]]s work better. Do you have any experience with generating them? Cheers, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 13:16, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
::::The standard SRTM source data is a regular grid (although that regularity may have been generated/preprocessed using some interpolation). I found that getting nice and lean SVG files with contours is tricky - one needs to run QGIS/GDAL's contouring algorithm - then use mapshaper (which tries curve simplification with constraints to avoid contour intersection) and SVG optimiser to get anything that is nice and smaller than a raster image.  I have tried TIN on other kinds of data but they naturally tend to produced jagged contours. [[User:Shyamal|Shyamal]] ([[User talk:Shyamal|talk]]) 13:35, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
:::::Thanks, {{u|Shyamal}}. Yeah, I thought it wasn't obvious. Even worse is trying to loft the contours into a 3D surface. Guess I'll leave it to someone else to mess with... '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]]
::::::This plate splines are ideal for smoothness but my luck with running it successfully in QGIS has been bad (and that is country/continent scale unlike presumably your plan to use it at planetary scale!) [[User:Shyamal|Shyamal]] ([[User talk:Shyamal|talk]]) 06:52, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
Even at country level, Earth curvature can swamp the difference in elevation. A few years back, a friend and I discussed the relative strengths of mountains and curvature. Using formulas at [[Circular_segment#Formula]] gives

 h = R ( 1 - cos (s/R) )

We can calculate the rise in the middle relative to the width of the country. Assuming countries are square, width = sqrt(area).

* For UK: 6400*(1-cos(sqrt(243e3)/6400))/sqrt(243e3)*100 = 3.8%
* Russia: 31%

so it's definitely perceptible.

Using [[List_of_elevation_extremes_by_country]] gives the following maximum change in elevation relative to the amount of rise in the middle:

* Monaco: 0.14/(6400*(1-cos(sqrt(2.02)/6400)))*100 = 89000% (highest in the world)
* Nepal: 77% (likely highest for a decent-sized country)
* UK: 7.0%
* China: 1.2% (even though it has the largest elevation difference)
* Russia: 0.44%
* Australia: 0.38% (lowest in the world)

Since I had the length of Chile, I didn't have to assume square-ness:
Chile: 0.50%

(Multiply with rise/width percentage for percentage of country width.)

The difference in elevation, however, is almost completely swamped by
the curvature, except for crazy ones like Monaco, Nepal and Bhutan!

Cheers, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 13:07, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018 ==

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[[File:So much to read, so less time.jpg|left|150px]]
In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as [[SI units]] are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform [[metadata]]. Without claiming it could be the mythical [[free lunch]], it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings.

The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the [[meal kit]] option, in the form of [[XML]]. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of [[slow food]] yourself. See [https://w3c.github.io/scholarly-html/ Scholarly HTML] for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web.

The argument from [[real life]] is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the [https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/iau/cornford/cornford7.html principle of unripe time]. On the other hand, [[discoverability]] actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from [[open access]], we grok the Web, we have [[VisualEditor#Technical|our own horse]] in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and [[WikiJournal]], and we have the chops to act.
[[File:Научные издания.jpg|right|200px]]

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*[https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%0A%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5008%20wd%3AQ24909800%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20%7D%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A ImageGrid SPARQL query] for the [[Art+Feminism]] focus list on Wikidata. Run and then scroll ...
*The [https://tools.wmflabs.org/tabernacle/?#/ TABernacle tool] for Wikidata editing, by {{noping|Magnus Manske}}, has been upgraded. [https://tools.wmflabs.org/tabernacle/?#/tab/sparql/SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20%20%20WHERE%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP5008%20wd%3AQ55439927%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D/P921 Demo] with the [[d:WD:SSFL| ScienceSource focus list]] and main subjects: with a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/ WiDar login] you can edit directly in the table cells.
*[http://enslaved.org/ ''Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade''], Michigan State University project for a [[linked open data]] platform. Quote: "Disambiguating and merging individuals across multiple datasets is nearly impossible given their current, siloed nature."
*As the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project [https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74515029 finishes its initial two-year cycle] and moves into LD4P2, a [https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/LD4P/Registry+of+Tools list] of its [[BIBFRAME]] and other [[Resource Description Framework|RDF]] tools.
*[https://www.slideshare.net/heikopaulheim/machine-learning-with-and-for-semantic-web-knowledge-graphs ''Machine Learning with and for Semantic Web Knowledge Graphs''], detailed slide pack by Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim.
*[https://futurism.com/open-access-science-europe/ ''In Europe, Scientists Need to Share Their Research for Free if They Want Government Funding''], Futurism, by Kristin House, 5 September 2018.
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's [[stock photography|stock images]], and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock.

Indeed, there is a tool. [[m:WDFIST|WD-FIST]] exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with [[Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria#Policy|fair use]] images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists.
[[File:Gran Teatro Cáceres.JPG|thumb|Gran Teatro, Cáceres, Spain, at night]]
It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred [[monogram]]s, mostly of historical figures, and [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1543%20%3Fpic.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%7D this query] allows you to view all of them. [[commons:Category:Monograms]] and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more.

And so it is generally. [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%0A%20%20WHERE%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ18610173.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D The list] of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more.

Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake. 
[[File:Logo sixth Wikidata Birthday.png|thumb|left|Birthday logo]]
;Links
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-10-28/Special report 2|''Now Wikidata is six'']], Signpost Special Report
* [https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/1053274139757342720  ''Find out how @TheContentMine are attempting to mine scientific and medical literature to improve the accuracy of Wikipedia.''], Wikimedia UK tweet and video ''ScienceSource and the Semantic Web''
* [https://github.com/tmtmtmtm/sciencesource-pmc-licenses sciencesource-pmc-licenses tool] by {{noping|Oravrattas}} to extract Creative Commons license information from PubMed Central pages, created at the [[d:Wikidata:ContentMine/Cambridge Wikidata Workshop|Cambridge Wikidata Workshop]]
* [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%7B%22hide%22%3A%5B%22%3Fcoordinates%22%2C%20%22%3Fline%22%2C%20%22%3Frgb%22%5D%7D%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcoordinates%20%3Fline%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FconnectLabel%20%3Fimage%20%3Fopening%20%3Frgb%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fcoordinates%29%20AS%20%3Fcoordinates%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20%28sample%28%3Flat1%29%20as%20%3Flat1%29%20%28sample%28%3Flon1%29%20as%20%3Flon1%29%20%28sample%28%3Fopening%29%20as%20%3Fopening%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14562709%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates%20%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon1%20.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D.%0A%20%20%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1619%20%3Fopening%20%7D.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%0A%7D%20AS%20%25stations%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fnextstation%20%28sample%28%3Flat2%29%20as%20%3Flat2%29%20%28sample%28%3Flon2%29%20as%20%3Flon2%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ14562709%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLatitude%20%3Flat2%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstation%20p%3AP625%20%2F%20psv%3AP625%20%2F%20wikibase%3AgeoLongitude%20%3Flon2%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fnextstation%0A%7D%20AS%20%25nextstations%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fline%20%3Fconnect%20%3Frgb%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25stations%20.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25nextstations%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP197%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20ps%3AP197%20%3Fnextstation%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fnextstationstatement%20pq%3AP81%20%3Fconnect%20.%20%3Fconnect%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ20075%20%20.%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fconnect%20wdt%3AP465%20%3Frgb%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%28STR%28%3Fitem%29%20%3C%20STR%28%3Fnextstation%29%29%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28CONCAT%28%27LINESTRING%20%28%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flon1%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat1%29%2C%20%27%2C%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flon2%29%2C%20%27%20%27%2C%20STR%28%3Flat2%29%2C%20%27%29%27%29%20AS%20%3Fstr%29%20.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28STRDT%28%3Fstr%2C%20geo%3AwktLiteral%29%20AS%20%3Fline%29%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25lines%20%0A%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25stations%20%7D%20%20UNION%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25lines%20%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Whizzy use of SPARQL] to map the London Underground system, whizzed past on Twitter.
*[https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Flocation%20%3FlocationLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fdate%20%3Fpage%0AWHERE%20%7B%0Awd%3AQ56458770%20p%3AP276%20%3Fstatement.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20ps%3AP276%20%3Flocation.%0A%3Flocation%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fstatement%20pq%3AP856%20%3Fpage.%0A%0A%7D%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Wikidata birthday events mapped by SPARQL, too]
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== Community Wishlist Survey this week ==

May I ask if you have any suggestions for the [[:meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Multimedia and Commons|Community Wishlist Survey]]? It's open until '''November 11, 2018''', and I suspect you'd have some really good ideas for how to improving the technical tools on Commons. You might want to vote on some of the proposals, too. [[User:HLHJ|HLHJ]] ([[User talk:HLHJ|talk]]) 03:28, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

:Thanks, {{u|HLHJ}}. I'd requested the following features back in 2016, but not much has come out of it:
# [[:meta:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2016/Categories/Multimedia#Support_SVG_interactivity_and_animation_in_Media_Viewer]]
# [[:meta:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2016/Categories/Multimedia#Allow_variants_of_an_image_to_be_derived_from_a_single_SVG]]
:I understand the reasoning behind their not wanting to add non-standard features to SVG (2), but think (1) is still relevant. Can I resubmit it?

:Ta,<br />'''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 15:49, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

::Sorry for hasty reply, but yes, I think the rules say you can resubmit. You might also talk to [[User:Yurik]] about it being in-scope of [[:Meta:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Reading/Improve_graphs_and_interactive_content|this proposal]]. [[User:HLHJ|HLHJ]] ([[User talk:HLHJ|talk]]) 01:40, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
:: I think it would be a good fit to explain your use cases.  Feel free to edit the proposal to extend it :) --[[User:Yurik|Yurik]] ([[User talk:Yurik|talk]]) 15:34, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
:::[[User:Yurik|Yurik]], I have done so, but I fear that proposal may be a bit large and vague. There is also [[:meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Multimedia and Commons#Option to embed SVGs as SVGs]], which seems not unrelated to your #1, Cmglee. [[User:HLHJ|HLHJ]] ([[User talk:HLHJ|talk]]) 02:35, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
::::Thanks, {{u|HLHJ}} and {{u|Yurik}}. [[:meta:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Multimedia and Commons#Option to embed SVGs as SVGs]] covers what I'd like, so I'll leave it as that. '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 16:27, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

== Template:Diagonal split header ==

Hello

Have you noticed how [[Template:Diagonal split header]] is displayed changed this past few days ?

Before the line was solid, and now it is dashed !  Perhaps since the last MediaWiki update since there is no update done on the template ?

Do you have an idea of waht to do ?

Regards. --[[User:Archimëa|Archimëa]] ([[User talk:Archimëa|talk]]) 23:24, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

:I think that part of it is the way that it draws the diagonal "line". It's done as a [//www.w3.org/TR/css3-images/#linear-gradients linear gradient] along the diagonal from bottom left to top right, with four stop values hence five bands of colour. Three of these bands are solid - the first and fifth are light grey and extend from lower left to 49.5% along the diagonal and from 50.5% along the diagonal to top right, the third is a darker grey and extends from 49.5% along the diagonal to 50.5%. The second and fourth bands are the actual gradient transitions between the two greys, positioned at 49.5% and 50.5% along the diagonal, but they are zero width so the change from one grey to the other is perceived as sudden, this is what gives a theoretically sharp edge to the third band. With that third band's width being no more than 1% of the length of that diagonal, it follows that if the diagonal is less than 100 pixels long, a solid band cannot be drawn and it will necessarily have points where the paler grey bands seem to touch one another giving a dotted or dashed effect. If the cell concerned is large enough, say 250x250 pixels for a diagonal of 354 pixels (approx.),
{| class="wikitable"
! {{diagonal split header|A|B}}
! style="height:250px;" | C
|-
! style="width:250px;" | D
| E
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:we see that the central band is broader (it is now approximately 3.54 pixels wide) and clearly solid. Now imagine making that band so narrow that its width is less than one pixel; it can no longer be drawn solid, but must break into fragments which we perceive as a dashed line. Other than always using large cells, I don't think that there's a universal solution. You could broaden the band by changing the colour stops from 49.5% and 50.5% to 49% and 51% but that would make the line more obtrusive. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 10:14, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
::Thank you very much for explaining it so clearly, {{u|Redrose64}}. Indeed, I chose 49.5 and 50.5 to give the most pleasing line (to my eyes) for typical cell sizes; I originally used 49 and 51, but the line was obtrusive.
::As you seem to know quite a lot about CSS, would you know how I can work around the problem? One workaround is to have a parameter for an editor to specify (or at least override) these percentages. Is there a way to compute the percentages from the cell width and height in Wikitext?
::{{u|Archimëa}}, if it's changed recently without any code change, it could be a web browser update on CSS rendering, or even a graphics driver or operating system update on how it does anti-aliasing. Could you please tell on which table and page you saw this anomaly?
::Cheers,<br />'''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 12:15, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
:::Hello. Thank you all for your help. Amazing explanations !
:::This behaviour could be seen on every linked pages to the template of Wikipedia in French yesterday, here [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrackMania2#Sport_%C3%A9lectronique_et_sc%C3%A8ne_comp%C3%A9titive] or here [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrackMania_Turbo_(jeu_vid%C3%A9o,_2016)#Post%C3%A9rit%C3%A9]. But as i'm writing this two links, I see the solid lines are back. :O
:::It could be a Firefox problem. I really apology for this false report. I should have wait at least few days before to ask.  --[[User:Archimëa|Archimëa]] ([[User talk:Archimëa|talk]]) 12:24, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
::::No problem, {{u|Archimëa}}; it was good you brought it up. Let me know if you see further issues. Cheers, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 12:38, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
::::P.S. Glad to see someone has ported the template to the French Wikipedia. If you can spare some time, as don't speak French, may I trouble you to update the documentation on [[:fr:Modèle:Séparateur_diagonal/Documentation]] so that it includes the new features on [[Template:diagonal_split_header/doc]], please? ''Merci beaucoup!'' '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 12:46, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
::::: FYI, I did [https://fr.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:S%C3%A9parateur_diagonal&type=revision&diff=154001431&oldid=147635497&diffmode=source this tiny change] to have a smoother (and a bti wider) line. It looks ok cross-browser and on old IE apparently. --[[User:AntonierCH|AntonierCH]] ([[User talk:AntonierCH|talk]]) 12:57, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
:::::: Thanks, {{u|AntonierCH}}. It looks the same to me &ndash; I don't expect 0.5% to change things much &ndash; so will leave it to Archimëa to see if it's still a problem. Cheers, '''[[User:cmglee|cm&#610;&#671;ee]]'''&#9094;[[User_Talk:cmglee|&#964;a&#671;&#954;]] 22:47, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
:::::::Different browsers - even different revisions of the same browser - may produce different results. To the question "is there a way to compute the percentages from the cell width and height in Wikitext?" - the short answer is no. For most table cells, we do not set the dimensions but instead allow the browser to compute them (the algorithm for which is ''horribly'' complicated, I'll dig it out if you like). Even when we do set the dimensions explicitly (as in my example), these dimensions cannot be read easily, if at all. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339; ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 00:32, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California.
[[File:Wikidata education for librarians group at WikiCite 2018.jpg|thumb|left|Wikidata training for librarians at WikiCite 2018]]

In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more [[library science]] is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point.

Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "[[bash (Unix shell)|bash]], [[git]] and [[OpenRefine]]". Compare and contrast with [[mw:Manual:Pywikibot|pywikibot]], [[GitHub]] and [[m:Mix'n'match/Manual|mix'n'match]]. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector. 

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*[https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/16690/Lemus-Rojas_Pintscher_Wikidata_2017-07-03.pdf?sequence=1 ''Wikidata and Libraries: Facilitating Open Knowledge''], book chapter by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, metadata librarian and Lydia Pintscher, Wikidata Product Manager, from ''Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge'' (2018)
*[[m:WikiCite 2018/Program/Futornick-Eslao|''LD4P and WikiCite: Opportunities for collaboration'']], WikiCite 2018 program abstract, Christine Fernsebner Eslao of Harvard Library Information and Technical Services and Michelle Futornick, Linked Data for Production Program Manager at Stanford University
*[https://scriptotek.github.io/library-shell/ ''Shell Lessons for Librarians''], Library Carpentry lesson
*[http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2018/at-risk-content-on-flickr/ ''At-risk content on Flickr''], blogpost 3 November 2018, {{noping|Andrew Gray}}
*[http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia_whitepaper.pdf ''Toward an Abstract Wikipedia''], recent [[white paper]] by Wikidata founder Denny Vrandečić (Google)
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[[Zotero]] is free software for reference management by the [[Center for History and New Media]]: see [[Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero]]. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based [https://www.zotero.org/support/supported_languages language support].
[[File:Zotero logo.png|thumb|Zotero logo]]
Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the ''Zotero translator'' underlies the [[mw:citoid|citoid service]], at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata [[d:Wikidata:Zotero|can be imported]] into Zotero; and in the other direction the [https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/zotkat ''zotkat'' tool] from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects.
[[File:Zotero-demo-wikipedia.webm|thumb|left|Zotero demo video]]
There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of [[Web scraping]] that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/import.php mix'n'match import] community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of [[OpenRefine]]. 

Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and [[d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data|lexemes]]. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.

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*[https://www.zotero.org/blog/2018/10/ ''Zotero Comes to Google Docs''], Zotero blogpost by Dan Stillman, 19 October 2018.
*[[:Category:Wikipedians who use Zotero]]
*{{phab|T115158}} ''Write a Zotero translator and document process for creating new Zotero translator and getting it live in production'', long Phabricator thread 2015–17.
*[https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators ''Zotero Translators''], documentation from zotero.org.
*[https://github.com/zotero/translators Home page on GitHub for Zotero translator Javascript]
*[https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/Wikisource.js Example translator], for Wikisource.
*[[m:Structured Data on Commons/Newsletter/2018-12-07]]
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