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Wikidata report
Cool Tools
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
Special report: cool tools on Wikidata
To mark Wikidata's 300th "Weekly Summary", readers recommended their favourite Wikidata tools. External websites, gadgets or scripts, they are very useful for Wikidata editors or users:
- The Wikidata Query Service is an infinite source of amazing data and one of the best ways to explore and use Wikidata. (TweetsFactsAndQueries)
- QuickStatements is a powerful tool that can edit or add Wikidata item en masse, via a text editor or importing a spreadsheet. (Éder Porto via Facebook)
- Mix'n'match (manual), which helps us to interlink Wikidata with the rest of the web and the world :-) (Spinster, Siobhan via Twitter)
- WikiShootMe! allows you to see Wikidata items plotted out on a map and shows you whether they have images or not. (Ham II)
- Yair Rand's WikidataInfo script adds the QID of the equivalent Wikidata item to the page being viewed (on sister projects), along with its Wikidata label and description. (Andy Mabbett)
- Recoin measures the degree of completeness of relevant properties of a Wikidata item and suggests any relevant statements that can be added to the item. (Rachmat04)
- Template:Wikidata list ("Listeria") Self-updating lists on wiki pages, to drive projects and show results. Over 14,000 now live. (Jheald)
- DuplicateReferences gadget adds a link to copy references and add them to other statements on the same item. (PKM)
- checkConstraints gadget adds notifications on the interface to easily notice the violation of constraints and help people fixing them (Léa)
- Resolve authors lists scientific articles with the property author name string (P2093) and groups them on the basis of co-authors and topic, which helps to distinguish people referred to by identical name strings. (Daniel Mietchen)
- The Wiki Loves Monuments map is powered by Wikidata. You can look for a city and find the monuments around. (Stefano Sabatini via Facebook)
GLAM news
- The call for submissions for Wikimania (Cape Town, July 2018) is now open. Deadline is March 18th. Ideas of submissions related to Wikidata can be discussed here
- New tool based on Wikidata: Random TV episodes
- It's been possible for a while (but not previously reported here) to include Wikidata IDs in Wikivoyage listings, like this example edit. This is particularly relevant for GLAMs that are tourist attractions
- There are now over 100,000 ORCID iDs in Wikidata.
Further reading, listening and viewing
- An IRC office hour for Structured Data on Commons was held on 13 February. You can read the logs.
- Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation, on OpenAI blog
- The File (Dis)connect, by Magnus Manske
- WDCM Journal: What is Love (Q316)? Accessing Wikidata P279 and P31 paths from WDCM by Goran Milovanović
- A Reconciliation Recipe for Wikidata by Martin Poulter
- Some ways Wikidata can improve search and discovery by Martin Poulter
- From Wikidata to Scholia: creating structured linked data to generate scholarly profiles
- Querying Wikidata about Vienna tram lines, by Stefan Daschek
- Using wikidata for linked data WordPress indexes, by Phil Barker
- Using Wikidata to build an authority list of Holocaust-era ghettos
- WikiCite presentation (video) as part of Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting - February 2018
Tech developments
- Based on community discussions, the ArticlePlaceholder will soon be deployed on Urdu and Estonian Wikipedias.
- A new script for semi-automated import of information from Commons categories is waiting for feedback
- Diffs now show the entity ID in the page title (phab:T181077)
- Constraint checks will be integrated in the interface of Wikidata
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
New GLAM-related properties
General datatypes
- uses data storage type
- commanded by
- season starts
- make-up artist
- Wolfram Language entity code
- development of anatomical structure
- conscription number
- number of records
- print run
- symbolizes
External identifiers
- Who's Who UK ID
- identifiers.org prefix
- member of the Assembly of Madrid ID
- BTO Birds of Britain ID
- EUAP ID
- LoC and MARC vocabularies ID
- BVPB authority ID
- Amtrak station code
- Compagnon de la Libération ID
- Gaming-History identifier
- Fauna Europaea New ID
- Royal Academy new identifier
- BWSA ID
- Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode
- PARES ID
- Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture control number
- Panoptikum identifier
- Swedish portrait archive
- TORA ID
- Cour des comptes magistrate ID
- La Poste personality ID
- American National Biography ID
- org-id.guide ID
- JORFsearch person ID
- Swiss Enterprise Identification Number
- Landslagsdatabasen ID
- Deutsche Synchronkartei series ID
- TheTVDB.com ID
- CATO ID
- Directory of Czech publishers ID
- ASHRAE refrigerant number
- Bulbapedia article
- Lemon Amiga identifier
- CPC-Power identifier
- Libraries.org ID
- International Numbering System number
- Uppslagsverket Finland ID
- Phasmida Species File ID
- BMI Work ID
- Charity Navigator ID
- Amazon author page
- Hispania Nostra Red List of Endangered Heritage ID
- Operabase ID
- GEPRIS project ID
- GEPRIS organization ID
- GEPRIS person ID
- Maison d'écrivain ID
You are invited to comment on all open property proposals.
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