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Today is the centenary of my maternal grandmother #894

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Daniel-Mietchen opened this issue Jul 17, 2018 · 12 comments
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Today is the centenary of my maternal grandmother #894

Daniel-Mietchen opened this issue Jul 17, 2018 · 12 comments
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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 17, 2018

I do not often go public with these things but having just arrived in Johannesburg on my way to Cape Town for Wikimania 2018, tomorrow's centenary of Nelson Mandela is dominating the headlines here at the news stands, which resonates well with me being in centenarian mood for my grandmother, who was "Omi Anni" to me.

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 17, 2018

A little tweet to mark the occasion: https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/1019125277841117184 .

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 17, 2018

I wrote the above lines from Johannesburg, which is where Barack Obama gave the Mandela Centennial lecture today. Some pointers in https://twitter.com/Wikimania/status/1019290473188511744 .

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 17, 2018

I had thought about starting a Wikipedia article today in honour of my grandmother, and it ended up being about S/2016 J 2, a Jupiter moon, whose discovery was announced today along with that of 9 others: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/17/17577784/jupiter-moons-carnegie-science-blanco-telescope-valetudo .

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 17, 2018

All 10 of them are now both on the English Wikipedia and on Wikidata, albeit with very rudimentary information.

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 18, 2018

There is a French version of those Wikipedia stub articles too, e.g. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/2016_J_2 .

Meanwhile, waves of tweets on Mandela are being posted, e.g. https://twitter.com/hashtag/Madiba?src=hash .

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 18, 2018

I also looked at Mandela's Scholia profile:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/author/Q8023 . Not very useful (not surprising, since he was not an academic) but not completely off the mark either.

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 18, 2018

I took a first look at things named after him: https://twitter.com/EvoMRI/status/1019379972438396933 .

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 29, 2018

Turns out Estonia celebrated its centenary as well on July 17: https://www.ev100.ee/en .

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Aug 29, 2018

Closing this with a Wikidata query for publications by people named Anna:

SELECT ?publication ?publicationLabel ?author ?authorLabel WHERE {
  ?publication wdt:P50 ?author .
  ?author wdt:P21 wd:Q6581072 ; wdt:P735 wd:Q666578 .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],de,pl,cs,en,fr,nl,ru,sv,it,eo,ca". }
}
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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Oct 23, 2019

Across Wikipedia languages, the topic has had about 20k page views so far:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2018-07-17&end=2019-10-21&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&page=Valetudo_(moon)
Not much, considering that the article now exists in 16 languages, but still about 45 visitors a day.

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@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen commented Jul 18, 2020

Today, I

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