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This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue I, January 2019 Normal version • Single page version

Wikidata report

New year, new newsletter format

By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)

Huge congratulations to our sister project Wikipedia, which reached 18 years of age on 15 January!

Highlights

• There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
• The 35th Chaos Communication Congress was held in Leipzig, on December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched online:
  • Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
  • AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
  • How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
  • Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
• Wikidata founder Denny was interviewed by the Between the Brackets podcast
• The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.

Other news

For all other Wikidata news, new properties, etc, see:

• d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_01
• d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_07
• d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_14
• d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_21
• d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_28

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January 2019

• Armenia report
• Belgium report
• Brazil report
• Colombia report
• Czech Republic report
• France report
• Indonesia report
• Italy report
• Norway report
• Serbia report
• Sweden report
• UK report
• USA report
• Wikidata report
• WMF GLAM report
• Calendar

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