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Wikidata report
News from Cape Town, Aberystwyth, Berlin, Milan and Everywhere
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
Special Report: Conference season
- Wikimania and Hackathon 2018, took place in Cape Town, South Africa, 18-22 July. Many Wikidata-related events were included
- Celtic Knot Conference, dedicated to Wikimedia projects and minority languages, was held in Aberystwyth, Wales, on July 5-6. There was a specific Wikidata track. See also this month's UK report.
- There was a Wikibase workshop in Berlin.
- State of the Map, the OpenStreetMap equivalent of Wikimania, was held in Milan from 28-30 July. There were two meetups on interactions between Wikimedia and OSM, and Wikidata was mentioned in several sessions, including:
- More events are coming soon:
- Call for proposals and scholarship applications are now open for WikiConference North America (deadlines: 15 August!)
- Sixth birthday of Wikidata: it's time to think about what you'd like to organize in your area! There will be a phone call for organizers, and the deadline to request swag is September 7th.
GLAM news
- The Commons template Wikidata infobox passed 1.3 million uses on Commons categories, with plenty more still to come. A new help page gives advice on how to add, extend or improve uses of it, and how to fix data problems.
- You can discuss the right properties to describe files on Commons, to help moving on with Structured data on Commons* You can help teaching ORES how to better detect vandalism
- Wikidata items now contain an average of 10 statements.
- New tool: Wikidata Cradle, by Magnus Manske, to create new items by filling a form. You can build your own forms.
- Terminator, another tool by Magnus, that finds Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language, has now a version 2 (blog post)
Further reading, listening and viewing
- 4800 Welsh portraits added to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, blog post at the National Library of Wales
- A case study on teaching data science with Wikidata
- Wikidata and GLAM catalogues: a round-up
- Querying Wikidata with SPARQL for Absolute Beginners, a new video tutorial
- The EU NanoSafety Cluster as Linked Data visualized with Scholia in the EU NanoSafety Cluster Newsletter
- Converting any SPARQL endpoint to an OpenAPI: using grlc to convert the WDQS to an OpenAPI service
- Wikidata on Azure, series about hosting Wikidata data in Azure cloud
- Research showcase about the ArticlePlaceholder
- Keine Schwalben: Schauspielernde Fussballspieler in Wikidata (in German)
- Ce que révèlent les noms des rues de Paris: a study about the names of the streets of Paris, using data from OSM and Wikidata (in French)
Tech developments
- Change for 'maxlag' impacts bots and semi-automated tools
- EditGroups can now revert batches which created items. These items are deleted in the revert batch. This feature is only available to administrators but other users can easily request revert from the tool.
- There was an interesting issue where some parts of the interface were shown in a different language than they should be.
- populationWDvsOSM: a new script that compares the population in OSM place nodes and boundary relations with Wikidata
- A new user-script, d:User:Husky/ifff-viewer-link.js, shows selected parts of images, according to P2677 qualifiers - for example d:Q17335769#P180.
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
New GLAM-related properties
General datatypes
- Romanization of Belarusian (2007 system)
- has decorative pattern
- floor number
- model year
- grants academic degree
- model year code
- Harmonized System Code
- LilyPond notation
- accreditation,Unicode block
- horizontal depth
External identifiers
- École normale alumnus ID
- Académie des sciences d'outre-mer member ID
- BIU Santé person ID
- Medicina author ID
- Étonnants voyageurs participant ID
- Akadem person ID
- National Academy of Sciences member ID
- EGROKN ID
- Behind The Voice Actors franchise ID
- archINFORM project ID
- Behind The Voice Actors film ID
- Behind The Voice Actors TV show ID
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer ID
- Classiques des sciences sociales author ID
- Norwegian Polar Institute place name ID
- Poetry Archive poet ID
- cipM poet ID
- Poets & Writers author ID
- Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
- Online Books Page publication ID
- Tierstimmenarchiv ID
- TDKIV term ID
- GeoNLP ID
- CNAP artist ID
- RYM artist ID
- Rendez-vous de l'histoire ID
- mhk object ID
- Fantastic Fiction author ID
- Île en île author ID
- Flanders Music Centre person ID
- CeBeDem composer ID
- Ricochet author ID
- The Paris Review interviewee ID
- Whonamedit? doctor ID
- Common procurement vocabulary
- Pasteur Institute person ID
- NYRB contributor ID
- GS1 Global Product Classification brick code
- The Trading Card Database person ID
- Lega Serie A team ID
- IPTC Newscode
- Poetry International Web poet ID
- Setlist FM artist ID
- Setlist FM venue ID
- pixiv ID
- EuroVoc ID
- Elysee.fr president ID
- Herder Encyclopedia author ID
- Biographical Articles of the Library of Congress of Chile
- Collège de France professor ID
- Language Council of Norways termwiki ID
- Inventory of French sanctuaries ID
- BIA PSY person ID
- House of Representatives of Morocco ID
- My Heritage Surname ID
- Logicielsmoto identifier
- USNPL ID
- SGJP Online ID
- TasteAtlas ID
- Conseil constitutionnel ID
- Guide to Pharmacology Target ID
- RHE doctor ID
- RHE professor ID
- AE member ID
- A Church Near You church ID (UK)
- Australian Poetry Library poet ID
- French Academy in Rome resident ID
- GlyphWiki ID
- Historia de la Medicina person ID
- Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Artist ID
- Scottish Poetry Library poet ID
- The Reptile Database ID
- Les Voix de la poésie poet ID
- RPO poet ID
- SBN books ID
- artist-info curator ID
- artist-info artist ID
- artist-info location ID
- BD Gest' author ID
- EDIT16 catalogue author ID
- EDIT16 catalogue printer ID
- Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database Works ID
- Médicos históricos doctor ID
- Doroszewski Online ID
- Base de datos de premiados person ID
- Boijmans work ID
- IPHAN ID
- LRB contributor ID
- Poetry Society of America poet ID
- RISM work ID
- WorldCat Registry ID
- Poetry In Voice poet ID
- artist-info exhibition ID
- archINFORM person or group ID
- MAPS poet ID
- DEFA film database ID
- identifier for an item of Enciclopèdia de l'Esport Català
- Znicenekostely ID
- Virtual Laboratory person ID
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Inventory identifier
- CONDEPHAAT ID
- Academia Brasileira de Letras ID
- Belgian Heritage in Brazil ID
- Altmetric ID
- Central Index Key
- L'île author ID
- Kopaliński Online ID
- Open Media Database person ID
- Prison History ID (UK)
- Swedish place name register SOFI
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