GLAM/Newsletter/May 2019/Contents/Wikidata report

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue V, May 2019

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Wikidata report

Library of Congress recognition; Hackathon results

By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)

News

The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)
Scholia has received grant funding from the Sloan Foundation
An upcoming version of the iD OpenStreetMap editor will prevent users from accidentally removing notable features if they have a link to Wikidata QIDs
New status of constraint, "suggestion", is now enabled
QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data

Hackathon special

Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)

Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata