User talk:Bluerasberry/Archive 40
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Consumer Reports related enquiry...
At one time you had involvement with a publication called 'Consumer Reports' ? Do you still have contacts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShakespeareFan00 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
- @ShakespeareFan00: I was Wikimedian in Residence there from 2012-2018. They are still my professional colleagues but now I am Wikimedian at the Data Science Institute of the University of Virginia. I expect to always be able to be an advocate for collaboration between Consumer Reports, the Consumer Movement generally, and Wikimedia projects. How can I help? We can talk here, by video or voice if you email me, or any other way you like. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:54, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
- It was to
- Follow up on the 'sun protection' stuff at Wikivoyage, voy:Sunburn_and_sun_protection], in case there was anything that could be added, as you'd left a comment on the talk page for the article IIRC.
- Ask if there was anything (that wasn't obvious or already) that should be added at voy:Common Scams, a section about event scams having been added recently.
ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:09, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
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Simons Foundation
I noted your assistance with the creation of the Simons Foundation article. Did you not have concerns about it's notability? Other than the New York Times article of Nov. 22, 2016, I have had difficultly finding independent reliable sources to meet the standards of WP:NORG. Could you point me to such sources? (You may answer here.) The standard is: A company, corporation, organization, group, product, or service is notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject; and the depth of coverage of the subject by the source must be considered. --Bejnar (talk) 15:56, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
- @Bejnar: Please bring this to the talk page of that article and be diligent in your review.
- I consistently give advice that every sentence and claim in articles should be backed with citations to third party sources, with the exception of data which mirrors what Wikidata accepts with primary source citations. If I have ever given guidance to any organization then this is what I said.
- Here is the version of the article which I assisted them in submitting to AfC. I will not say that this draft certainly passes WP:N, but that draft with three sentences and three citations looks like a fair attempt at Wikipedia compliance to me. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:51, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, I shall. I just wanted to give you the first bite of the apple before I started anything. --Bejnar (talk) 02:43, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
October 24: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Sunday Oct 28: Wikidata Birthday Party
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Your draft article, Draft:Data science education program
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Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's 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. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with 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.  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 monograms, mostly of historical figures, and 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. 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.
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Follow-up on your conversation
Hi Lane, I am following up on our conversation at the Conference about a Tamil wiktionary issue. Can you point me to that thread? I am having trouble finding it. — Ganeshk (talk) 18:13, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
- I pinged you to meta:User talk:Balajijagadesh. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:10, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia in the Media
I've begun working on a piece, Where are the Wikipedians? that I intend to submit to a future Signpost that talks about the lack of Wikipedian representation in the kinds of stories that arise around with things like Strickland. I would welcome any comments/thoughts you might have. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:22, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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Thanks for the help on Affordable Housing
Hi Bluerasberry, I'm really new on Wikipedia, so I'm going to ask on Talk:Affordable housing if you can split the page. Also, I was wondering if you could briefly look over Economic inequality and Talk:Economic inequality and give me some feedback on the use of info boxes and splitting the page. Ping me here or message me on my talk page. Thanks! Seahawk01 (talk) 02:02, 3 November 2018 (UTC)
- Hi again Bluerasberry, spectacular job splitting Affordable Housing! Please disregard request above about Economic inequality...that page is a mess and you really already helped me out a great deal. Thanks again! Seahawk01 (talk) 05:06, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
@Bluerasberry: are you still working on WikiProject Home Living? I was just looking over the project page and thought maybe we should go through the article list and try to clean up some of the low rated / high importance articles. For example:
I have a few pages I'm currently working on, so I can't jump right in. But, over a month's time I think we can make some improvements. Especially, I would suggest fixing layout, adding reference ideas to the talk pages, maybe removing some sections on longer pages. Overall just giving a better direction to the pages.
Ping me back if it sounds like something you'd be interested in. Seahawk01 (talk) 02:40, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks, I replied at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Home_Living#Cleanup_at_WikiProject_Home_Living. Let's continue conversation in that more public venue. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:14, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Nomination of Christine Weick for deletion
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Cleveland Clinic images are available
Hi, Bluerasberry! I've uploaded 10 historical Cleveland Clinic images to Wikimedia Commons that might be useful for the Cleveland Clinic or History of Cleveland Clinic articles. I also uploaded an image of the Cleveland Plain Dealer's front page the day after the Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929. Are any of these helpful? I also left a message at Talk:Cleveland Clinic. Thanks, ClevelandClinicES (talk) 19:46, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
Dieting won't help...
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Public NIH data
Hello and thank you for your message! If you haven't looked into RePORT homepage RePORTER database], I would recommend it. I am unsure of how exactly the data there could be integrated into WikiData but it might be worth exploring. Additionally, I am very interested in the 2021 LGBT+ history and World AIDS Day. I am excited to let you know my first GA submission was approved last night :) She was an LGBT scientist: Nancy Marcus. So sorry for the delayed response. I hope all is well! Thsmi002 (talk) 14:04, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
Nomination of /r/science for deletion
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Nomination of /r/changemyview for deletion
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Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
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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.  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, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and 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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Please join us for our Cascadia Wikimedians annual meeting, Saturday, December 29, 1 PM
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December 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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Merry Xmas
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"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)
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Like clockwork, it comes around
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Merry Christmas - Happy Hanukkah‼️
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Wikipedians in Residence meetings
Hi Lane; Ambrosia10 suggested I get in touch. I'm NZ Wikipedian at Large, interested in chatting with other WiRs about tools and tips. Could you drop me a line either here or at giantflightlessbirds@gmail.com? —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 22:25, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- Invited at Wikipedia talk:GLAM/New Zealand Wikipedian at Large. Blue Rasberry (talk) 22:28, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
Merry X-mas
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! |
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GAR review
Varanasi, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Ikhtiar H (talk) 16:10, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.6
Newsletter Nr 6, 2018-12-25, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)
 Participation: This is the sixth newsletter sent by mass mail to members in Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy, to everyone who voted a support for establishing a potential Wikimedia genealogy project on meta, and anyone who during the years showed an interest in genealogy on talk pages and likewise. (To discontinue receiving Project Genealogy newsletters, please see below) Now 100 supportersAt 3 December 2018, the list of users who support the potential Wikimedia genealogy project, reached 100! A demo wiki is up and running!You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records. And with those great news we want to wish you a creative New Year 2019!
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Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
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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 language support.  Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the 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. 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 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 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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January 13: Wikimedia NYC invites you to Wikipedia Day 2019
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Wikipedia Day 2019 — curating images from Asahel Curtis and older Seattle photos
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Tuesday evening, January 15, 2019, 6-9pm at Wayward Coffeehouse, 6417 Roosevelt Way NE #104, Seattle WA 98115 Wikipedia Day celebrates the anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia. This year in Seattle, Cascadia Wikimedians' celebration of Wikipedia Day will focus on a different closely related project: Wikimedia Commons, which (among other things) functions as the media repository for Wikipedia. When you see a photo or map in Wikipedia, or hear an audio clip, etc., it usually is hosted on Wikimedia Commons and "transcluded" into Wikipedia. Wikimedia Commons is a mix of users' own works and curated third-party content, either public domain or free-licensed. Our event is a hands-on workshop in curating third-party content, mostly early 20th-century photos of Seattle and other West Coast locations. Currently, Wikimedia Commons has two intersecting sets of older photos, one from the Asahel Curtis Photo Company and the other a more general set of Seattle images. At this meetup, we will celebrate the 18th anniversary of Wikipedia by further curating these images by the creation and addition of categories, adding ImageNotes where useful, linking other versions of the same photo, enhancing the descriptions, and identifying and correcting errors. User:Jmabel has already categorized over 1000 images and corrected several hundred wrong dates, misidentified buildings, and etc., but there is much more to be done. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle#Wikipedia Day 2019 — curating images from Asahel Curtis and older Seattle photos. |
A goat for you!
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Thanks for sharing your insights on Wikipedia culture and editing! P.S. I couldn't decide between a cat or a goat.
Winelibrarian (talk) 20:49, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
Free culture and open source
Hi! I like a lot the navbox template "Template:Open navbox" wich deals with subjects on Free Culture and open moviments. I noticed that you worked on it! It´s one of my favorite templates in wikipedia, and I was wondering what else can we do to make it bigger and link to many other related articles and topics!
I have a great interest in bring this subject closer to people, if you want to talk about it and make a brainstorm, i´ll love it! Ogat (talk) 14:02, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia/Education program listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia/Education program. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia/Education program redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:20, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
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Bastyr University
I appreciate your comments on the article on Bastyr University, where my granddaughter is set to start the dietetics master's program next fall, that I saw in the talk archive. It seems like that page and some related ones have been hijacked by certain persons. Words like scam and quackery are epithets that suggest that those involved in naturopathy are dishonest hucksters, when in reality they are mostly honest people acting in good faith. But that sort of shallow demonization does little to promote civil discourse or an understanding of doctrines and ideologies, deeply flawed or not, that have evolved over centuries. Really shocked to see something so demagogic on Wikipedia. So thanks again.Tom Cod (talk) 01:52, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
- I will pick this up on your talk page. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:33, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative!
Hi Lane, Thank you for supporting the Sustainability Initiative with your signature! Maybe you know another Wikipedian who'd like to sign as well? :-) --Gnom (talk) 09:09, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
g'day - Wikimedian in Residence Exchange Network
you might remember me from the train from New York to Montreal and maybe even London or Hong Kong - now after all this time I am a wir - but my current living environment is not conducive to talking at the time required... due to my being at 8 + - but would be very interested in getting a handle on proceedings. re [1] and my current status (not written up at this stage) ..[2] - JarrahTree 14:06, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
- appreciate your positive response - will try to keep track of what you folks get up to maybe will have some items for the next meeting - cheers !! JarrahTree 14:59, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, I posted on your talk page and I hope we can stay in touch at meta:Wikimedian in Residence Exchange Network. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:26, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
- appreciate your positive response - will try to keep track of what you folks get up to maybe will have some items for the next meeting - cheers !! JarrahTree 14:59, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing my citation!
I've been befuddled this whole day about how it seems like LaRouche's death became common knowledge for almost 24 hours, and yet nothing in mainstream media. Anyway, thanks for fixing it and have a good one! Abeg92contribs 23:11, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for the help!
I really appreciate the input you gave on Right-to-try law. They will help a lot in the emitting I'm doing.DaKine (talk) 19:23, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
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Talk pages consultation 2019
The Wikimedia Foundation has invited the various Wikimedia communities, including the English Wikipedia, to participate in a consultation on improving communication methods within the Wikimedia projects. As such, a request for comment has been created at Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019. You are invited to express your views in the discussion. ~ Winged BladesGodric 05:16, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
Feb 27 WikiWednesday Salon + Mar 2 MoMA Art+Feminism and beyond
| February 27, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 08:59, 27 February 2019 (UTC) | |
| Saturday March 2: MoMA Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon | |
 Art+Feminism’s sixth-annual MoMA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon will take place at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Education and Research Building, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 4 West 54 Street, on Saturday, March 2, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. People of all gender identities and expressions are encouraged to attend. And on Sunday this weekend:
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Hello re Signpost election article
Let's wait to put your Signpost draft in the next issue. That will give us plenty of time to come up with something amazing. Best Regards, Barbara ✐✉ 22:58, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
- @Barbara (WVS): I am not able to withdraw the proposal without a rationale. This election should take 8 months but there is some distracting pressure (maybe US$100k of WMF's money on the line? possibly 10x more?) to finish it in 4. I am helping with the election but at the same time no one is at fault if this does not go out. There is no action that you could take in any direction - either support or push back - that could have an outcome other than positivity. I am not sure what you have in mind, but if you have an idea, please say so in the newsroom. Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:52, 28 February 2019 (UTC)