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Wikidata report
Commons structured data takes a big step forwards
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
GLAM news
- Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to work on structured data for Commons
- Video: how institutions can donate data to Wikidata, explained in a cartoon
- Video: Navigating a cemetery using Spotify and Wikidata (YouTube video)
- Another bulk Data donation: 128K of Social Networks Archival Context IDs, matched to Wikipedia articles, and imported using P3430. Thanks, University of Virginia!
- Another, small but significant, data donation secured from the BBC was a set of "BBC Thing" identifiers for news topics (for example, this one for Iran). Added to Wikidata using P1617 (BBC Things ID), they plug the relevant items more tightly into the web of semantic, linked, open data (here's the same ID's BBC linked data for Iran).
- Coordinates on Russian Wikipedia now link to maps generated with the Kartographer extension. The map includes the location outline, if that object exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM) with a corresponding Wikidata ID (ways and relations only, not nodes). Example: w:ru:Зальцбург (click coordinates in the upper right corner, or in the infobox on the side). If you create a Wikidata item about a specific administrative area, building, or other physical individual object which appears on maps, then please add the Wikidata ID to the relevant object in OSM, using key:wikidata= (here's how to contribute to OSM). See also How to use objects from OpenStreetMap in Wikidata
- The StrepHit grant tool was renewed, so the Primary Sources tool can be improved in the future
- We're seeking ideas for Wikidata topics for discussion at Wikimania, August 2017
Further reading
- Wikidata used to connect people giving interviews for the oral history project at the computer history museum
- EPA CompTox Dashboard IDs in Wikidata
- Economists in Wikidata: Opportunities of Authority Linking
Tech developments
- Category:Articles with infoboxes completely from Wikidata on English Wikipedia
- Wikidata-powered citation lists with citation.js
- Open Graph metadata is now included in our markup, for sharing item pages in social networks (phab:T51859)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
- Polish cultural heritage register number
- Natura 2000 site ID
- ArbetSam ID
- INCAA film rating
- Electronic Enlightenment ID
- Social Networks Archival Context ID
- Publons Publication ID
- ERIH PLUS ID
- VGMDb artist ID
- AELG ID
- people or cargo transported
- vehicle normally used
- angular resolution
- time signature
- Victorian Heritage Database ID
- eBird taxon ID
- Cinema of Israel ID
- FIDAL ID
- stepparent
- NSW Heritage database ID
- season of
- IPI base code
- Arch package
- case fatality rate
- CircleID
- CNC authorization number
- Euring number
- colonel-in-chief
- designated as terrorist by
- FAMA work ID
- maximum frequency of audible sound
- Israeli CBS municipal ID
- Inventario Sculture - Polo Museale Fiorentino
- National Inventors Hall of Fame ID
- Woodland Trust wood ID
- wikiskripta id
- VICNAMES Place ID
- SANU member ID
- Nihon Tarento Meikan ID
- Songkick Artist ID
- Aftonbladet topic ID
- base Mémoire reference
- Parks & Gardens UK Record ID
- Europeana Fashion creator ID
- VGMDb album ID
- name shares origin with
- FilmPolski.pl ID
- ZNIEFF Code
- Ringgold identifier
- Catholic rite
- Ameblo username
- LombardiaBeniCulturali building ID
- Florentine Inventario Palatina art ID
- Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia ID
- Dagens Nyheter topic ID
- VGMDb label ID
- means of locomotion
- U.S. National Geodetic Survey ID
- NPCA ID
- National Park Foundation ID
- Geographical Names Board of New South Wales ID
- Smithsonian trinomial
- acb.com ID
- Luding game ID
- median income
- Australian Government Organisations Register ID
- MLB ID
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