Dear Lydia (Wikidata Product Manager), Hilary, Michael (Stanford Vice Provost), Klaus, Katherine (Director of Wikimedia), Roland (Stanford Law Professor) and Larry (chair of World University & School's Board),
I have received a number of curious emails from Stanford Libraries recently ostensibly for introducing Dr. Klaus Ceynowa (Director of the German National Library) and Hilary Thorsen (Chair of the Wikidata Affinity Group at Stanford Libraries) to one another, I think, - see: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/galanthus-nivalis-libraries-in-wikibase.html - which then proceed to alienate ("ban") me from A) Stanford Libraries themselves, from B) the "Wikimedia movement," and from C) a specific Google Group, the LD4 Google Group. I met Klaus in a Stanford Libraries' event. I responded to the first email (from M.C.) to Michael Keller with - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/06/achiote-bixa-orellana-wikidata-affinity.html. And I responded most recently (to P.S.) with:
"Your email has been received.
From next November I will be also the Rector in a new University in Germany" (see below).
While this introduction is potentially very helpful for both the GNL and the Wikidata Affinity Group, it's hard to see how World University and School's donation of WUaS to Wikidata as "back end" for co-development (in 2015), and then having received our WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki (in 2017) as "front end" - re the WUaS Library Resources' wikis ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources (and WUaS's ~ 725 wiki pages in English so far; see, for ex. - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects and planned in Wikidata's 300 languages, and then planned in 7,111 known living languages) - can develop further within the "Wikimedia movement," given this alienation.
Having drafted a WUaS Library Resources' presentation for the bi-weekly Wikidata Affinity Group per Hilary, Stanford Wikimedian-in-Residence (see - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/06/agenda-news-for-open-wuas-monthly.html), and the possibility of giving it in the June 18th Wikidata Affinity Group (which is now operating with a Linked Data 4 - LD4 grant, I think), this is currently on hold.
Lydia,, given these fluctuating group affiliations, and curious (spurious & unjust) "bans," in what ways could World University and School's Library Resources (and all of WUaS) develop in Wikidata and MediaWiki newly together (so that they become interoperable) from your perspective, and thus significantly benefit both Stanford Libraries and the GNL, given too this recent WUaS alienation from the "Wikimedia movement" development? Thank you so much.
Sincerely, Scott MacLeod
From next November I will be also the Rector in a new University in Germany: Germany World Univ and Sch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/German_language … planned in German. WUaS is proceeding with licensing for free Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, first in English, then Law, MD & IB degrees. German language in some years.
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