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Wikidata report
Wikidata this month
By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)
Congratulations to Wikipedia, which was 15 years old in January! Fifteen years ago, Wikipedia was a very different place.
Tech developments
- Live-stream of Wikidata edits
- Wikimedia Developer Summit was held in San Francisco.
- Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
- From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
- Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
- A script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
- Wikidata Graph Builder
- Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. For example: women on the German-language Wikipedia
GLAM news
- Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
- Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
- A card game about German politicians using Wikidata
- Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
- IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- New New forum (WikiProject) for people interested in broadcasting technology
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project
- French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
- A timeline of publications about the Zika virus
Current events
By the time you read this, Andy Mabbett will have started a series of Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia, continuing throughout February. He will also be attending social meetups. Do join him, and tell your contacts in those countries.
New GLAM-related properties
A bumper crop, this month!
- Structurae person ID
- Prosopographia Attica
- number of awards
- FIE identifier
- Berlin cultural heritage ID
- service ribbon image
- Xeno-canto species ID
- grid global research id
- RePEc Short-ID
- expected completeness - for other Wikidata properties
- takeoff roll
- Thyssen-Bornemisza artist id
- J. Paul Getty Museum artist id
- Panarctic Flora ID
- PORT person ID
- number of seasons
- narrator
- language
- transliteration
- literal translation
- Encyclopædia Britannica contributor identifier
- GeoNames feature code
- nominee
- KNAW past member identifier
- Species Profile and Threats Database ID
- dblp identifier
- Australian National Shipwreck Database Shipwreck ID number
- Mackolik.com footballer ID
- IBU biathlete identifier
- Persons of Ancient Athens
- ComLaw ID
- member of the deme
- elibrary.ru organisation ID
- BugGuide ID
- allcinema film identifier
- judicial sentence
- Global Geoparks Network ID
- Theatricalia theatre ID
- Theatricalia person ID
- Talouselämän vaikuttajat ID
- ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences Client Identifier
- Asset of Local Relevance ID
- CDLI ID
- NAVA ID
- HNI person/institution ID
- TBRC Resource ID
- Railways Archive event ID
- SPDX identifier
- IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32)
- SABR ID
- page at website of Belarus Geocenter
- page at Belarus Globe website
- page at hram.by
- page at OSTIS Belarus Wiki
- Radzima.org ID
- MTMT author ID
- OM institution ID
- Latvian cultural heritage register identifier
- Latvian toponymic names database identifier
- Biographical Dictionary of Women
- results
- classification of
- Genealogical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
- carries
- INSEE canton code
- Corrigendum / Erratum
- KINENOTE film ID
- Movie Walker film ID
- National Discography of Italian Song ID
- MSK Gent work PID
- spin-off
- Jamendo album ID
- Jamendo artist ID
- costume designer
- Australian Wetlands Database Australian Ramsar site number
- category for recipients of this award
- Scope.dk film ID
- Scope.dk person ID
- UNESCO Biosphere Reserve url
- victory
- Ramsar Sites Information Service ID
For full Wikidata news, see the weekly status updates.
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