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My (Martin Poulter's) contract as Wikimedian In Residence at the University of Oxford comes to an end at the end of July, so recent meetings have been about looking into future directions for the residency. Hopefully I will be able to make an announcement about this soon. The proof-of-concept applications will continue to be hosted for at least a year, and I will spend some of the remaining time of this contract in packaging up their code and HTML into something that can be preserved long-term.
I have been looking at the problem of dead links on Wikipedia and Commons. The Bodleian and Ashmolean have changed their platforms over the years, and there are domains being linked to which are out of date- totalling hundreds of links. It would be nice to have a tool that, for all Wikipedia articles about a certain collection or all Commons files that are linked in Wikidata to a given collection, scanned all external links and filtered on particular domains. Wikidata could be used to suggest up-to-date links as replacements. I have been trying to do this with SPARQL queries, but limitations of the SPARQL version of the MediaWiki API make this impractical. I have been learning about the MediaWiki API and the Phabricator process for reporting bugs and suggesting improvements. To make this tool, I may have to create some PHP or Javascript code to make multiple calls to the APIs.
An editathon on the topic of the Disability Arts Movement was held at the University of Leicester on 29 May, by Attenborough Arts Centre in conjunction with the National Disability Art Collection & Archive and Wikimedia UK. Andy Mabbett gave an overview of Wikimedia projects and trained ten new volunteers (eight students and two staff) to edit Wikipedia. Seepictures on Twitter.
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