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Wikidata report
April Love
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
GLAM news
- Items now contain an average of 9 statements.
- A new Wikidata Telegram group is aviailable
- Seven papers related to Wikidata were presented at WikiWorkshop, a forum bringing together researchers exploring all aspects the Wikimedia projects
- A new version of Denelezh, a tool to monitor the gender gap in Wikidata, has been released, including a new methodology to produce the data (explained at the top of the main page and in the documentation), and an overview of the gender gap by Wikimedia project.
- Lexicographical data on Wikidata will start at the end of May. Some property proposals are already being discussed
- Reminder: there are now under sixth months until Wikidata's sixth birthday: you can organize a local event!
Further reading, listening and viewing
- Role of Wikimedia in the era of Open Science, Barcelona, April 16th (slides of Andy Mabbett's keynote)
- Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa by Alex Stinson
- Should OpenStreetMap use Wikibase to store data on tags? (Discussion on OSM wiki)
- Wikimedia and The Met: A Shared Digital Vision by Katherine Maher and Loic Tallon
- Old Periodicals, a New Datatype and Spiderfied Query Results in Wikidata by Simon Cobb (National Library of Wales)
Tech developments
- Thumbnails are now included in image and video statements, with players for video & audio. (phab:T46727)
- A rate limit for edits and page creation has been set up
- Wikidata:Tools has been reorganized and updated
- Wikidata:List of properties has also been reorganized and updated
- Improvements to search results
- A new tool, the property explorer, sorts and displays properties per category
- New data type for linking to Forms (phab:T165579)
- New Lua functions
- test for validity of Wikidata entity IDs (phab:T143970)
- get Wikibase entity by site link: mw.wikibase.getEntityIdForTitle (ticket)
- Prop explorer UI can now be translated using Tool Translate.
- Constraint Summary script now shows the total amount of constraints reports on the top of an item page
- New Registry of Wikibase instances
- Sitelinks for new Wikipedias can be added:
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
General datatypes
- Wikimedia project focus list
- complies with
- special rank
- last update
- test taken
- test score
- activity policy in this place
- choral conductor
- gens
- lighting designer
- number of representations
- sound designer
- talk show guest
- GHS hazard pictogram
- GHS hazard statement
- GHS precautionary statement
- number of abstentions
- number of spoilt votes
- number of blank votes
- International Classification for Standards
- towards
- supervisory board member
- cabinet
- patronym or matronym for this person
- modified version of
- unit symbol
- wind speed
- operating temperature
- non-operating temperature
- service life
- French standard size for oil paintings
- boiler pressure
- presented in
- fault
- member of the crew of
- nature of statement
External identifiers
- DNV GL Vessel register ID
- Behind the Voice Actors person ID
- Territographie ID
- Prazdne Domy building ID
- Digital Typhoon typhoon ID
- Digital Typhoon cyclone ID
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- Code of Household Registration and Conscription Information System (Taiwan)
- Researchmap ID
- Animated Knots ID
- Filmweb.pl film ID
- Filmweb.pl person ID
- National Library of Korea Identifier (KRNLK)
- Lambiek Comiclopedia ID
- AmphibiaWeb Species ID
- FOGIS ID
- Authorea author ID
- Rosetta Code ID
- Church of Sweden ID
- Harvard designation
- UMAC ID
- IRMNG taxon ID
- Handball Bundesliga ID
- e-teatr.pl ID
- DOAB publisher ID
- ILI ID
- World of Physics identifier
- Flanders Arts Institute person ID
- JAAF ID
- Römpp online ID
- NVE lake ID
- Norsk biografisk leksikon ID
- Norsk kunstnerleksikon ID
- Store medisinske leksikon ID
- Yahoo Answers category
- Pschyrembel Online ID
- FIPS string code for US states
- FIPS numeric code for US states
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID
- USGS-ANSS event page
- HanCinema drama ID
- ISC event ID
- road number (Estonia)
- Heritage of Portuguese Influence ID
- Logainm ID
- IAFD film ID
- Il mondo dei doppiatori ID
- Réunion des musées nationaux ID
- Swedish Literature Bank AuthorID
- New Zealand Gazetteer place ID
You are invited to comment on all open property proposals.
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