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Wikidata report
Building the sum of all human citations (slides) 
A really busy month all round
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) & Daniel Mietchen
Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
On May 25-26, WikiCite 2016 will take place in Berlin. Its purpose is to define a technical roadmap for building a repository of Wikimedia references in Wikidata. To this end, it will bring together Wikidatans, Wikipedians, developers, data modelers, academic researchers and information and library science experts from organizations including Wikimedia DE, Wikimedia IT, Wikimedia DC, Crossref, Zotero, CSL, ContentMine, Google, Datacite, NISO, OCLC and the NIH. While participation is limited, applications can be submitted until April 11.
Tech developments
- We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata!
- Arbitrary access for Commons is getting ready and needs testing
- Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
- Wikidata passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
- You can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
- Listeria bot now has experimental support for references (example)
- Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
- Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
- You can now add a default view to a query like here. This then shows the defined view (map, table, image grid) when executing the query.
- Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
- Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing, but slow
GLAM news
- The page for institutions, companies, etc who want to donate data to Wikidata has been reworked and expanded
- The property for indicating the Vice Counties of the British Isles for wildlife recording sites was deleted. An appeal against the deletion is in hand.
- Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia
- Self-portraits of women through the ages, powered by Wikidata
- iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
- Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
- MusicBrainz now uses Wikidata to fetch images for their entities
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs among them a catalog of Uruguayan authors
New GLAM-related properties
- amended by
- repealed by
- studies
- studied by
- Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID
- BabelNet id
- J. Paul Getty Museum object id
- Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code
- Statistics Indonesia language code
- Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier
- culture
- serial number
- Geni.com profile ID
- Kinopoisk film ID
- Kinopoisk person ID
- ČSFD person ID
- BookBrainz creator ID
- Valencian Property of Local Relevance id
- World Heritage criteria (2005)
- thickness (for coins, etc)
- TED speaker ID
- TED topic ID
- TED talk ID
- World Heritage criteria (2005)
- SHOWA ID
- Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID
- MEK ID
- MetroLyrics ID
- PASE ID
- DNF person ID
- BBFC rating
- Turner Classic Movies film ID
- place of detention
- model (for artworks)
- number of parts of a work of art
- Minkultury Film ID
- RARS rating
- TV.com ID
- Filmportal ID
- source of material
- Datahub page
- corresponding template
- discontinued date
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