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Wikidata report
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By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
GLAM news
- Statement 400,000,000 was created!
- There is an early conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Wikimedia Commons.
- WikiIndaba was held in Tunis, 16-18 March. There were several Wikidata-related sessions
- How to resolve the conflation of two people
- report about items with identical birth and death dates updated
- Relator, a tool to improve family relations in Wikidata
- Descendants check: consistency across multiple generations
- The Su Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on Wikidata in the Gene Wiki team
- You can have a look at the Europeana migration campaign and help with translations in your languages
- George, le deuxième texte (fr), a website querying Wikidata to find French female authors, in order to bring more diversity in the literature school programs
- German Wikidata Workshop on "Wikidata: Potential uses and application examples for digital cultural heritage" during the conference DHd 2018
Further reading, listening and viewing
- Automatically Generating Wikipedia Info-boxes from Wikidata, by Tomás Sáez and Aidan Hogan
- Linking ImageNet WordNet Synsets with Wikidata, by Finn Årup Nielsen
- Towards a Question Answering System over the Semantic Web, by Dennis Diefenbach et al.
- Practical Linked Data Access via SPARQL: The Case of Wikidata, by Markus Krötzsch et al.
- Data on the history of Scottish witch trials added to Wikidata, by John Lubbock
- WDCM Journal: gender equity in Wikidata usage
- Talk by Morane Gruenpeter and Katherine Thornton, presented at LibrePlanet 2018 about software metadata in Software Heritage and Wikidata. Video of the talk. Slides for the talk.
- Wikidata: Knowledge as a Service, by martin Poulter
- Mind the (Language) Gap: Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholders by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee et al.
- Semantic labelling for quantitative data using Wikidata, by Phuc Nguyen and Hideaki Takeda
- OpenStreetMap Interview: Andy Mabbett, Wikidata and OSM - The OpenCage Geocoder blog
- Geokeo Osm geocoding api - Geokeo fast and accurate geocoding
- How we’re using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata, by Miriam Redi on WMF's blog
- Making women more visible online—with Wikidata tools by Sandra Fauconnier on WMF's blog
Tech developments
- Mix'n'Match new features:
- Creation Candidates
- Top missing entries
- configurable download page for Mix’n’match catalogs (example)
- use a SPARQL query to match the result labels against Mix’n’match entries
- The property suggestions were updated (the last update was in December 2017). The most noticeable effect is the higher ranking of "family name" (P734) on items about people.
- you can use this page if you encounter problems with suggester ranking
- New search code for Wikidata merged. You may notice the improvement in the search results output for Wikidata item.
- Significantly (on average by 75%) reduced the number of changes from Wikidata showing up on the watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedias and the other sister projects.
- Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations updated
- WDQS updater switched to Kafka
- If you're working with Lua modules, you can give input here about new functions
- When there is a constraint violation in a reference, the reference is now automatically expanded to make it more visible (phab:T177970)
- Fixed some translation issues in the embeded part of the Query Service (phab:T188990)
- Fixed an issue with usernames being broken for Wikidata changes in watchlist and RC on Wikipedia (phab:T189320)
- Optimizing a heavily used database table (wb_terms) (phab:T188279)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.
New GLAM-related properties
General datatypes
- court
- time index
- 3D model
- broader concept
- season
- dialect of
- isocaudomer
- calculated from
- download link
- INCI name
- safety classification and labelling
- classification of the best at metas volantes
- prerequisite
- relevant qualification
- derivative work
- alternate names
- test method
- analog or derivative of
- in opposition to
External identifiers
- Webumenia creator ID
- MuIS person or group ID
- EPHE ID
- Patrons de France ID
- Siprojuris ID
- ACE work ID
- AICTE institute ID
- Chronicling America newspaper ID
- Brooklyn Museum Exhibition ID
- Zenodo ID
- CONABIO ID
- New Georgia Encyclopedia ID
- Tropicos publication ID
- KMSKA work PID
- Bargeton ID
- Guide Nicaise ID
- AlloCiné company ID
- Annuaire des fondations ID
- Invaluable.com artist ID
- Ricorso author ID
- AINM ID
- Julien ID
- Todotango.com artist ID
- Todotango.com work ID
- The Big Cartoon DataBase ID
- Small Monuments of Plzeň Catalogue ID
- SFMOMA artist ID
- BFMTV.com director ID
- Societe.com director ID
- Dominicains ID
- Premiers préfets ID
- Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms ID
- TMDb movie ID
- DDB ID
- Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID
- MR Author ID
- BDH edition ID
- AIDA freediver ID
- equipement.paris.fr place ID
- Generation MSX identifier
- Sega8bit.com identifier
- Abandonia identifier
- Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women
- SPLASH
- Behind the voice Actors video games ID
- Hungarian MP identifier
- UK Provider Reference Number
- Norwegian war sailor register ID
- Wikitribune category
- IDA place ID
- PRS Legislative Research MP ID
- Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID
- Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID
- Kinoliste ID
- TMDb TV series id
- TMDb person id
- Routard.com place ID
- RKDlibrary ID
- Statistics Canada Geographic code
- Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID
- DBA ID
- Hungarian public body ID
- ruchess ID
- Biographical Dictionary of Georgia ID
- DBA ID
- Hungarian public body ID
- ruchess ID
- World Para Snowboard athlete ID
- METAR code
- Orthodox Encyclopedia ID
- Amphibians of India ID
- National Thesis Number (France)
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