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Wikidata report
Work for us, or just tell us what you think of us
By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)
Consultation
We want your views! Please give them on:
- the vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase
- the language barrier on Wikidata
- federating Wikibase instances with Wikidata.
Jobs
Several job vacancies related to Wikidata were published in the last few weeks:
- Scribe, a Wikimedia Foundation funded software and research project, is looking for a full-stack software engineer
- The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a software engineer for its Search Platform team, including work on Wikidata Query Service
- Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a UX designer and a full-stack developer for Wikidata
News
- Edit 1,000,000,000 - the one-billionth, or 10⁹ - was the creation of Q66665412, an item on the academic paper "The band structure in microwave frequency for quasi-1-D coaxial photonic crystals".
- Wikimedia Sverige and the Wikimedia Foundation's GLAM team are working on a more sustainable technical infrastructure for global heritage and content partnerships. Read more about this initiative on meta.wikimedia.org.
- soweego version 1.1 is on its way, thanks to a WMF Rapid Grant
- QuickStatements won the Coolest Tool Award, category "editor", during the first ceremony at Wikimania 2019 - congratulations, Magnus!
- There is now a Wikiquote page for Wikidata
Your reading list
- "Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage" OCLC Research. DOI: 10.25333/faq3-ax08
- Wikidata: From "an" Identifier to "the" Identifier, Theo van Veen , Information Technology and Libraries.
- Bridging the gap between linked open data-based recommender systems and distributed representations, Pierpaolo Basile, et al, Information Systems
- What we talk about when we talk about Wikidata quality: a literature survey, by Alessandro Piscopo and Elena Simperl
- The open source geocoder Nominatim used by the OpenStreetMap project participated in the Google Summer of Code with an internship working on integrating Wikidata as a ranking metric for its search results. Check the development blog
- Working with Structured Data on Commons: A Status Report, by Lucas Werkmeister
- Conclusion of 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana Wikidata Editathon (grant report)
- Citation.js: a format-independent, modular bibliography tool for the browser and command line, article in PeerJ Computer Science
- A systematic literature review on Wikidata (paywalled)
- Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata', Adelheid Heftberger et al, in "Digital Cultural Heritage"
- GeneDB and Wikidata - Magnus Manske, et al.
- Wikidata from a Research Perspective -- A Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata - Mariam Farda-Sarbas, Claudia Mueller-Birn
- Enriquecimiento de entidades de Wikidata mediante un modelo de descomposición y mapeado de categorías de Wikipedia ("Enrichment of Wikidata entities through a decomposition model and mapping of Wikipedia categories" - text in Spanish)
Video
New Tools
- ISA is a new tool to easily add structured data to Commons files, including from mobile
- Item creation helpers helps create similar items, and link them together, with a simple form. Example with skating competitions
Technical matters
- The new termbox interface on mobile is enabled - you can view and edit easily the labels, descriptions and aliases on mobile devices (full announcement)
- Wiki Loves Monuments and other Wikimedia Commons campaign organizers can now specify structured data fields in the campaign UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons.
- A new data type for EntitySchemas is available
- There is now a new API parameter to add tags on edits summaries
- A Python library to create bots, scripts and tools for lexicographical data
Other news
For all other Wikidata news, new properties, etc, see:
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_08_05
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_08_12
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_08_19
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_08_26
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_09_02
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