User talk:GFontenelle (WMF)

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Template:Structured data header

Was it your intention to remove the Development tab from Template:Structured data header with this edit? If so, it will have to be removed from Template:Structured data header/layout as well. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 15:22, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi, @AntiCompositeNumber: . Just removed it. Thank you so much for letting me know! I was trying to figure this out, but was not able to at first. GFontenelle (WMF) (talk) 02:50, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Commons:Structured data/Modeling

Hi, It seems that work on that page is stalled. What's the status of Modeling for SDC? Thanks, Yann (talk) 10:42, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Hey, Yann! Thank you for asking about this subject. I believe the activities on that page are, indeed, not very active right now. In fact, I was engaged in updating the GLAM pages and working on the page for the Depicts modeling only, and those are finished for now. However, from my part, we have plans to re-engage on that conversation in a more active way, once the launch of OpenRefine with SDC features happens. We hope this launch will make the GLAM community interact better with SDC, as it will be applied to a batch upload tool. Its launch will probably reopen the modeling discussion again, as without a batch upload tool like OR, it's difficult for this discussion to go further than the point it got.

While the launch does not happen, we are interacting with other on-wiki activities and waiting for the references on SDC feature. However, on the topic of Modeling, I added the red link, Digital representation of, to the page in the hope the community would engage with the subject, but it hasn't happened so far. I plan to engage with that one again, once we reactivate the discussion with OpenRefine. --GFontenelle (WMF) (talk) 17:46, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

@GFontenelle (WMF): Hi, That's exactly the issue that interests me. I recently added some SDC data, and I run into a problem with the property "Digital representation of". What should it be for File:Kjøbenhavnsposten 28 nov 1838 side 1.jpg? Should we have a generic term? Here the newspaper has its own WD item, but what to do when that's not the case? See also wikidata:User talk:Infovarius#Instance of physical object.

Another case: File:Sgt. Samuel Smith, African American soldier in Union uniform with wife and two daughters.jpg. Thanks, Yann (talk) 19:16, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Dear @Yann, thanks for that question. This is very interesting and, to be quite honest, I would like other users from the community to have a say on this as well. My personal point of view, however, is that it's possible to have duplicate information sometimes and that it's important to be as specific as possible. E.g., you could say the first image is the "digital representation of" "Kjøbenhavnsposten", but also say it "depicts" Kjøbenhavnsposten and other items as well, if there were any other elements depicted on the image (not so much the case of this one image here). When the newspaper does not have its own WD item, I would just use the next most specific option, which could be the WD item for "newspaper" indeed.

I really like the way you modeled the second image there. If there was an item on Wikidata for that heritage object, I would also link to it on the "digital representation of" property. GFontenelle (WMF) (talk) 23:35, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Something you may wish to be aware of

As you created a page related to Flickrpedia:-

I am contacting you directly in relation to : - Category:Flickr_"Commons"_related_deletion_requests

A few years a dedicated user on Commons, uploaded a number of images from the Internet Archives online books Flickr stream. However given the nature of a mass upload, both at Flickr and IA, a small number of images uploaded, proved on a more detailed analysis to potentially be incompatible with Commons licensing policy, or to have been sourced from works potentially still subject to copyrights. The category linked was created to track deletion requests related to Flickr "Commons" related uploads.

What would be appreciated is you could discreetly make both Flickr and IA aware of the potential issue and encourage development of an appropriate strategy. In many instances the issue seems to have been incomplete metadata, so under no circumstances should the IA Flickr Stream be shut down. What's desired here is careful collection curation. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:29, 18 August 2023 (UTC)