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This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VI, June 2016

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Wikidata report

Wikidatamania

By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)

Tech developments

The Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (See phabricator:T135429)
Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
EasyQuery is a new gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
SQID now shows references when in expanded view (example; click on the ">" symbol for any given property)
New visualization options have been added to the query service.
You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)

GLAM news

The twelfth Wikimania (the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement) was held on the beautiful town of Esino Lario, Italy on 22-28 June. Unsurprisingly, Wikidata and GLAM issues featured prominently. The Wikidata-related parts of the program, including slides and notes, can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page and the user digest session explaing the trend towards data donation on Wikidata with examples of a Sparql query generated map, ListeriaBot and GLAMorgan is here.

Other news:

The TED speakers challenge has been extended for a week, and will run until 13 July. Wikimedians are invited to write or improve Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items about the 1,800+ speakers in the dataset donated by TED. Prizes are offered! Preliminary findings are here: TED conferences/TED speakers challenge/Lessons learned
The Europeana280 Art History Challenge has ended
A Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon was held
It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
Two new plain-language guidelines advise individuals and institutions, respectively, how to add their (or their staffs') ORCID iDs to Wikipedia, via Wikidata:
- for individuals
- for institutions
- Please translate them!
- Meanwhile, there is a new discussion about whether to display ORCID iDs on the German Wikipedia.
Documentation has been added to a Wikidata list that keeps track of the scholarly literature around the ongoing Zika virus outbreak. The information can be visualized in several ways, e.g. as a co-author network.