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This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to the land of Wikimedia CI, MediaWiki deployment and config changes.
This briefly covers:
This presentation was used as part of a lightning talk at Wikicite 2017 promoting the plan by the WMDE community tech team to implement an extends attribute for the ref tag in wikitext.
The aim of the presentation was to prompt questions and discussion.
This relates to phabricator ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151301
Below you will find an internal WMDE presentation covering the general area of WMDE Metric & Data Gatherings from 2016.
This presentation follows on from the initial introduction to engineering analytics activities.
The presentation skims through:
This is an internal WMDE presentation given at the start of “metric driven development” for the WMDE & Wikidata dev teams.
The presentation is pretty bare bones but it provides a general overview of the plan and links to the current state of things.
The main area of interest from the presentation is the resources slide copied below for convenience.
Dashboards:
Project board:
In 2015 I attended another WMUK Wikidata training event.
Below you can find the presentation that I used, created using slides.com.
During 2015 I attended another Axel Springer Hack Day similar to the one in 2014, with Wikidata being one of the APIs that was presented.
The presentation can be seen below:
The Open Data Weekend was fringe event to the Wikimania conference this year. It took place in Frobisher Room One at The Barbican Centre in London on the 5 & 6th of July and was well attended.
The weekend included:
Unfortunately I am writing this post in 2015 and various details have fallen out of my mind… Luckily there is an EtherPad that contains lots of notes!
Spaghetti Open Data is made up of a group of Italian citizens interested in the release of public data in open formats, in order to make it easy to access and reuse.
Starting in 2010 they have had yearly conferences.
I was lucky enough to be invited to their conference this year (SOD14) as the keynote speaker talking about Wikidata, paid for by Wikimedia Italy.
An overview of the conference can be found at http://www.spaghettiopendata.org/page/conferenza-sod14
Photo by: Homer Project. Harmonising Open Data
My talk went well and during the day many people came to discuss various things with me.
My presentation can be found on Google Drive.
As for my participation in the rest of the conference, well, I don’t speak Italian, so……
I can however say that Italy is a great place!
More Links
The Media Hack Day is an annual event held at Axel Springer | Plug & Play Accelerator in Berlin. The event for March 2014 can be found on hackerleague.org.
I attended representing the Wikidata API. Also in attendance were Axel Springer, storyful, Der Spiegel, sanoma, watchmi, Getty Images and embed.ly. It was in a great location, the food and rinks were great and it was generally well planned by the organizes and a pretty competitive crowd turned up.
At noon on the following day all hacks were presented to the API partners and all other attendees. The ‘News sightseeing’ hack was awarded a swag pack from Wikidata for making the best use of the API. They were also awarded the Axel Springer iPool and Getty Images prizes.
Details of the project can be found on hackerleague and the code can be found on GitHub and the teams blog post summary can be found on their own blog.
How ‘News sightseeing’ used the Wikidata API
Firstly it is important to say that at the time of the hackathon Wikidata didn’t really provide any good way to query the data it help, simply retrieve it, but luckily there was a query tool available that is currently located at https://wdq.wmflabs.org.
The code that interacts with the Wikidata API can be found in Aggregator/wikidata.rb.
Initially the code uses the 3rd party query tool to find a list of items matching the criteria in the query, the current query in an editor can be seen here(Service now offline, text link included below) or in the image below. The criteria basically look for items in Munich that are NOT roads but do have images and coordinate locations.
https://wdq.wmflabs.org/wdq/?q=claim[131:1726,1134:1726]%20AND%20noclaim[31:313301,31:561431]%20AND%20claim[18]%20AND%20claim[625]
The data for each item is then retrieved from the Wikidata API using the wbegtentities module.
item = NewsStore.get("http://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=#{item_id}&format=json")
Various parts are then stripped from the whole entity for use within the application:
As a result the app has access to information (including images) of possible locations to go sightseeing around the user.
Read more about News Sightseeing
Or watch their demo video
My Presentation
The presentation that I used on the say can be found below:
Below you will find 2 old Prezi presentations that look at Wikidata very a very introductory standpoint.
These presentations were using during a few events / workshops including:
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