Jmabel

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Best regards! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:08, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Gardens and parks

I have been pleased to see your aptitude and interest in Wikidata. You made the jump here well and you continually raise good issues. I like your regular presence here.

You asked a bit about urban parks. I wanted to signal to you that there is an organization which has made some friendly moves into Wikipedia and Wikidata and which has open data about parks in the United States.

• en:Wikipedia:The Trust for Public Land

There is not anyone at this organization who has the time to commit to Wikimedia projects in a regular way but their information is available. As with most of these relationship the initial barrier is data modeling and getting Wikidata consensus on what information we want. If we made a specific request someone there might assist.

Thanks for looking at parks content. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:01, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

• • I haven't taken up any particular interest in parks here. I've just been following up from the Wikidata Infoboxes attached to Commons categories on my watchlist, since the Wikidata content affects Commons, and trying to fix the at least partial, and sometimes complete, messes I find in about two cases out of three. - Jmabel (talk) 15:47, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Interview Invitation

Hi Jmabel,

I noticed your message on Wikidata project chat, which led me to look up your profile. Thank you for all the hard work!

I’m reaching out to you because I’m working on a research project about understanding what motivates editors like you to contribute to Wikidata. We’re also interested in learning about how you feel your contributions are being used outside of Wikidata. Since you are such an active community member, I thought you might also be interested in helping to build the broader community’s knowledge about Wikidata, and why it matters.

If you’re interested, let’s schedule a time to talk over Zoom, or whichever platform you prefer. You could leave a direct message or fill in a questionnaire. The conversation should take about 30 min.

Hope you have a great day,

Chuankaz (talk) 04:54, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

• @Chuankaz: I don't really do all that much on Wikidata -- I'm 80-90% on Wikimedia Commons -- but I'd be glad to talk. This week I'm up to my eyeballs with work, so it's not the best time to do it, but if you want to schedule some time during the afternoon (West Coast U.S. time) this coming Monday or Tuesday (June 15-16), that should work well for me. If that doesn't work for you, we can work out something else. - Jmabel (talk) 05:00, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
  • @Jmabel: Sounds great! I have sent you an email about interview details. Chuankaz (talk) 05:11, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Removal of deprecated statement

@Jmabel: Obviously their is background to this in my trouting (or worse) at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Walther-Johann-Gottfried-01.jpg and Commons:Commons:Village pump#Problem with image with false information. which I think you handled very well. However in relation to the policy at Help:Deprecation was your good faith removal of Special:Diff/1901703288 appropriate? This has come up with the slow churning of the cogs in my brain. I think I'll pursue this one for the craic but there may be a serious point to it as well if infoboxes would still be picking this up. I'll ask you first. Quite frankly I can't be too sure how i'd have handled this permanently myself, at the time I depreciated it I was because of doubt rather than peer review confirmation in cold light of day. Thankyou. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 09:02, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

• @DeirgeDel: Why would we keep a picture of someone else on an item, even marked as deprecated? - Jmabel (talk) 14:57, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
• Keep in mind: as long as there is no better picture of him, even a deprecated image would be picked up by infoboxes on other projects. - Jmabel (talk) 14:58, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

• I've asked the question at the Wikidata:Project chat#Removal of depreciated statement from P18 image property. to see what independent experts think. It will also give me a precedent should I come across this again, which is not impossible as I to bring images from Wikidata/Wikipedia onto some articles on the English Wikiquote when I'm going through sitelinking. Thankyou. -- DeirgeDel ^t_a^c 21:35, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

Call for participation in a task-based online experiment

Dear Jmabel,

I hope you are doing well,

I am Kholoud, a researcher at King's College London, and I am working on a project as part of my PhD research, in which I have developed a personalised recommender model that suggests Wikidata items for the editors based on their past edits. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I am inviting you to a task-based study that will ask you to provide your judgments about the relevance of the items suggested by our model based on your previous edits.

Participation is completely voluntary, and your cooperation will enable us to evaluate the accuracy of the recommender system in suggesting relevant items to you. We will analyse the results anonymised, and they will be published in a research venue.

The experiment should take no more than 15 minutes, and it will be held next week.

If you agree to participate in this study, please either contact me at kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfA1wfdBfCRlcG3WhDyc-V8lzgPNx3fDFCNXkyn4CSwahXZ_A/viewform?usp=sf_link

Then, I will contact you with the link to start the study.

For more information about my project, please read this post: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Kholoudsaa

In case you have further questions or require more information, don't hesitate to contact me through my mentioned email.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

Regards Kholoudsaa (talk) 22:00, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

@Kholoudsaa: I have approximately zero interest in having Wikidata items "recommended to me." I work on Wikidata as a collateral aspect of my work on other projects; I do not seek out Wikidata tasks to do. - Jmabel (talk) 22:25, 9 October 2023 (UTC)