User:John Cummings/community

To do

• Giovanna to say what is still true
• Make sub pages
• Table

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Header

• Main page (here)
• Main discussion page (the talk page of the home page)
• Schemas/modelling etc discussion (pages probably need changing)
• Development

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There are many ways to be involved in Structured Data on Commons

• Upload a new, freely licensed file to Wikimedia Commons. You will be prompted to add multilingual file captions (help page) and depicts statements (help page).
• Add structured data to some high-quality images supported by a Wikimedia chapter, via the ISA Tool. (You must log in with a Wikimedia account here.)
• Your help is welcome in modeling structured data for files on Wikimedia Commons. Discuss and decide how files must be described, at Commons:Structured data/Modeling.
• The talk page of Structured Data on Commons is very active and is watched by many community members. Feel free to ask questions there.
• Report bugs and post feature requests on Phabricator (Help).

Is any of this still relevant?

If you have questions about Structured Commons for members of the Commons contributor community, you can leave a note here:

• General talk page of the Structured Commons project
• Talk page of the Structured Commons community focus group (probably the best venue; this talk page is followed by many engaged community members)
• Leave a note or ask a question in the dedicated IRC chat channel for this project: #wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Or ask your question in the general IRC chat channel of Wikimedia Commons: #wikimedia-commons ^webchat

Contact the team

Main contacts for the team are:

• 
  Sandra Fauconnier
  Community and GLAM Liaison
  sandrafwikimedia.org
  Sandra is your main contact. She is also often present in the IRC channel: #wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• 
  Amanda Bittaker
  Program Manager
  abittakerwikimedia.org

Check the team page to find specific people!

Current and upcoming

Design discussion about Structured Data on Commons during Wikimania 2017.

GLAM and Structured Commons pilot projects workshop at Wikimedia Conference 2018

Keep in touch

• Sign up for the newsletter!
• #wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Previous newsletter editions
• Ask questions to the team in the next IRC office hour: Thursday, 10 January 2019 at 18:00 UTC, in #wikimedia-office ^webchat

Help with translations

If you want to help translate information and updates about this project to your own language, sign up on the translators page.

Requests for input

• Join the (experimental) community focus group, to provide regular input. This group is not for decision-making, but for smaller conversations and consultations.
• Join the discussion on structured data models

Current requests for input:

• Listing Commons tools, bots and workflows that will be affected by Structured Data on Commons, and discuss with developers to make the transition as smooth as possible (phabricator:T173971)
• Help collect interesting Commons files that will be interesting from a data modelling point of view (phabricator:T173979)

For cultural institutions (GLAMs)

• Please consider joining the GLAM focus group for this project!

Past

Past requests for input

• Computer-aided tagging design consultation (October 2019)
• Captions beta testing (December 2018)
• Structured licensing statements (November 2018)
• Review a prototype for searching structured Commons (October 2018)
• "Good coverage" for depicts tagging (September 2018)
• Review and discuss mockups for displaying the new metadata section of the file page (18 September - 9 October 2018)
• Depicts statements draft requirements (14 August - 31 August 2018)
• Identify Wikidata properties that Commons will need (26 June - 14 August 2018)

• Properties table

• Multilingual captions and the file page (22 May - 07 June 2018)
• GLAM metadata and ontology mapping (19 April - 4 May 2018)
• First discussion on structured licensing and copyright (15 March - 02 April 2018)
• Ontology discussion (what goes where) (15 February - 01 March 2018)
• Design for multilingual captions in UploadWizard (23 January - 07 February 2018)
• Renaming 'captions' and 'descriptions' (Feedback request ran from December 11, 2017 till January 3, 2018)

IRC office hours

The Structured Commons team holds Internet Relay Chat (IRC) office hours to discuss the project as it develops. The discussions are public and are logged for future reference.

• Log for 18 July 2019
• Log for 10 January 2019
• Log for 01 November 2018
• Log for 04 October 2018
• Log for 26 June 2018
• Log for 13 February 2018
• Log for 21 November 2017
• Log for 20 November 2014
• Log for 16 October 2014
• Log for 03 September 2014

Past discussions

Here are some in-person discussions held with community and team members about this project.

• GLAM pilot projects workshop - Wikimedia Conference 2018 in Berlin (Slides | Notes | Spreadsheet with potential pilot projects)
• Design discussion at Wikimania — Montréal 2017 — August 12, 2017 (Notes)
• Structured Data Bootcamp — Berlin 2014 — October 6-10, 2014 (Slides | Notes)
• Multimedia Roundtable — Wikimania 2014 — August 10, 2014 (Slides | Notes)
• Structured Data Roundtable — Wikimania 2014 — August 7, 2014 (Slides | Notes)

Metadata cleanup drive

A lot of the existing metadata on Commons needed to be cleaned up in preparation to the move to structured data. In 2014, a File metadata cleanup drive was initiated to improve this.

Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons is a collaboration between developers and the communities of Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and sister projects.

The developer team consists of staff from both the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland. Community developers (tool developers, bot operators, developers at partner organizations) can also play a large role in this project. All the developed features are designed, created, tested and improved in close collaboration with the community of active contributors to Commons, Wikidata, Wikipedia, and sister projects. And we also warmly welcome active feedback from cultural institutions (GLAMs)!

Main contacts for the team

Wikidata and Wikibase

The Structured Commons team during a project meetup at Wikimania 2017

Another team group photo during Wikimania 2017

• Lydia Pintscher, Product Manager for Wikidata
• Daniel Kinzler, Principal Platform Engineer for Wikidata
• Adam Shorland, Software Developer for Wikidata
• Léa Lacroix, Community Liaison for Wikidata

Multimedia

• Adam Baso, Director, Engineering
• Ramsey Isler, Product Manager
• Mark Holmquist, Lead Software Engineer
• Cormac Parle, Senior Software Engineer
• Matthias Mullie, Software Engineer
• Eric Gardner, Software Engineer
• Anne Tomasevich, Software Engineer

Community Programs

• Ben Vershbow, Lead Programs Manager
• Alex Stinson, GLAM Strategist

Design

• Jonathan Morgan, Senior Design Researcher
• Matthew Williams, Senior User Experience Designer

Search Platform

• Deborah Tankersley, Product Manager
• Erika Bjune, Engineering Manager
• Stas Malyshev, Senior Performance Engineer
• Erik Bernhardson, Senior Software Engineer

Mediawiki Platform

• Brion Vibber, Lead Software Architect
• Brad Jorsch, Senior Software Engineer

Support from other teams

Advancement, Operations, Performance, Legal, Security

????Put somewhere else Presentations related to Structured Commons????

(in reverse chronological order)

Presentation about Structured Commons during WikidataCon, 29 October 2017. Slides

If you have given a presentation about Structured Commons, add it here as well!

Press, articles, and other coverage about Structured Commons

(in reverse chronological order)

If you have seen - or written - an article about Structured Commons, add it below!

• February 2019: Wikimedia Polska Bulletin
• 29 September 2017: Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, answered questions on Quora. One of her answers, mentioning Structured Data on Commons, was republished on Huffington Post.
• September 2017: Rama published an article about Structured Commons in Arbido, a Swiss online magazine for archivists, librarians and documentalists: original in French, illustrated and the article translated in English.

Commons community members during a design presentation of Structured Commons, Wikimania 2017

If you have questions about Structured Commons for members of the Commons contributor community, you can leave a note here:

• General talk page of the Structured Commons project
• Talk page of the Structured Commons community focus group (probably the best venue; this talk page is followed by many engaged community members)
• Leave a note or ask a question in the dedicated IRC chat channel for this project: #wikimedia-commons-sd ^webchat
• Or ask your question in the general IRC chat channel of Wikimedia Commons: #wikimedia-commons ^webchat

The software development for this project in 2017-2019 was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Workshops

Wikipedia Weekly Network

In April 2021, Wikipedia Weekly Network live editing session showed how to add structured data to a category on Commons using SPARQL and QuickStatements.

The workshop was by Ainali and Abbe98, in English. Both users showed live editing on Wikidata and discussed the thought process of what and why they were doing every step.

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 03:35 - Query to Quickstatement workflow
• 24:36 - SDC query to Quickstatement workflow