GLAM/Newsletter/December 2017/Contents/Wikidata report
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Wikidata report
Happy Q34812!
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
GLAM news
- The Wikidata team were at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
- Plans for WikiCite 2018
Further reading and viewing
- WikiCite 2017 report by Dario Taborelli and the organization team
- Using WikiData as a multi-lingual multi-dialectal dictionary for Arabic dialects - conference paper
- Tech-talk about knowledge technologies, featuring Wikidata, DBpedia, and Histropedia at Jakarta Digital Valley, Jakarta, Indonesia on Dec 8, 2017. Slides on Slideshare.
- New edition of the Structured Data on Commons newsletter
- Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
- WikidataCon: Giving more people more access to more knowledge by Peter Kraker
- New documentation page with information about publishing open data that we can use when talking to institutions about why they should publish their data openly
- Get your vocabularies in Wikidata... so Europeana and others can get them
- Moths and me
- Quality and collaboration in Wikidata
- The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata
- GLOWing the extra mile (MySociety)
- Seven translation tools you can use to work in multiple languages across Wikimedia projects
- Using Scholia as Open Notebook Science tool to support literature searching
- Musik Lovers (de) is a project created during Coding da Vinci 2017 and reuses data from Wikidata about composers played in the Koncerthaus of Berlin
Tech developments
- QuickStatements now has a CSV-like import function (under "import commands")
- wikidata-cli now support dynamic SPARQL requests using JS files
- New wikidata-sdk function: wdk.getSitelinkUrl, a function to easily build URLs from Wikidata API sitelinks data
- A script to add links to Wikidata on Twitter by Envlh
- Resolver can now open an item in tools/third-party sites listed on Q43649390#3303, using the
?project=attribute - for example https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=P496&value=0000-0003-4402-5296&project=scholia - we added more smart tracking for Lua usage, so we better know which properties from an item are used on a Wikipedia article, even when the whole item is loaded (see phabricator:T179923)
- Additional language codes for monolingual values are available: ami (Amis), bnn (Bunun), fos (Siraya), frm (Middle French), fro (Old French), ppu (Papora / Hoanya), pwn (Paiwan), pyu (Puyuma), ssf (Thao), trv (Seediq / Taroko), uun (Pazeh, added (see gerrit:374052, phab:T144272), phabricator:T181823)
- We are no longer checking constraints on the property example statements (phabricator:T183267)
- The Geo dashboard shows a map on the most used items in Wikipedia and co in a given category
- Version 0.8.0 of the Wikidata Toolkit have been released. There is a short survey to figure out in which directions to move the library.
- New tool by YMS to help with vandalism fighting. Give it a try and catch some vandals?
- You can try the Wikidata fulltext search prototype and give feedback
- Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish. Please help translating in your language and update documentation
- New tool that allow users to fill labels and descriptions to Wikidata items en masse
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
New GLAM-related properties
- Art Institute of Chicago artwork ID
- LACMA ID
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID
- watershed
- UniProt journal ID
- National Library of Brazil ID
- Merkelstiftung person ID
- Württembergische Kirchengeschichte person ID
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston object ID
- EK number
- Online Books Page author ID
- DORIS ID
- Bechdel Test Movie List ID
- name of the character role
- premiere type
- The Peerage person ID
- photosphere image
- Welsh Chapels ID
- Philadelphia Museum of Art ID
- ESCO skill ID
- RCR number
- representation of
- Welsh assembly ID
- ESCO Occupation ID
- Wikimedia import URL
- The Numbers person ID
- Coflein ID
- Musée d'Orsay artwork ID
- CPDOC ID
- SAN ID
- DACS ID
- Wiki Aves bird ID
- Cinemagia film ID
- Cinemagia actor ID
- Buenos Aires legislator ID
- Hall of Light Amiga database ID
- EMLO location ID
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston object ID
- Indianapolis Museum of Art artwork ID
- MAVISE TV channel ID
- MAVISE on-demand audiovisual service ID
- MAVISE competent authority ID
- MAVISE company ID
- Eldoblaje dubbing actor ID
- Eldoblaje original actor ID
- National Gallery of Art artwork ID
- National Gallery of Victoria artwork ID
- Nintendo Game Store ID
- Carnegie Museum of Art ID
- Dictionnaire des peintres belges ID
- Environmental Register code (Estonia)
- Oireachtas member ID
- OpenSecrets organization ID
- American Art Collaborative object ID
- Argentine deputy ID
- Arquivo Arq ID
- Historic Place Names of Wales ID
- Conseil de Presse Luxembourg journalist ID
- Canal-U channel ID
- Cairn journal ID
- Google Arts & Culture asset ID
- Google Arts & Culture partner ID
- HATVP ID
- Smithsonian American Art Museum ID
- World of Spectrum ID
- Ent'revues ID
- VOGRIPA ID
- Barnes Foundation ID
- Guardiana ID
- CHGIS ID
- Minneapolis Institute of Art ID
You are invited to comment on all open property proposals.
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