GLAM/Newsletter/November 2019/Contents/Wikidata report

This Month in GLAM – Volume IX, Issue XI, November 2019

Wikidata report

Research published

By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing) & SandraF

Research report about Wikidata use in cultural institutions

To learn from institutions and be able to direct other people to information about their work, Wikimedia Deutschland did qualitative research on how and why cultural institutions use Wikidata. Sixteen people who use Wikidata in their work in cultural institutions discussed their motivations, activities and problems and explained how they work. You can find more information about the research on Meta, or read the research report directly.

News

Live Wikidata editing videos: Jan Ainali makes videos showing his process while editing Wikidata. Magnus Sälgö also makes videos showing specific features and tools
There are now over 2.5 million Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories.
OpenRefine is awarded a USD 200,000 grant by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to fund its development in 2020.
Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons), won the top prize in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. Eugene, the app's developer, recently gave a lightning talk about the app at WikidataCon 2019.
ProWD, a tool for PROfiling the multi-dimensional completeness of WikiData, was presented at the K-CAP 2019 conference on Nov 21, 2019 in Marina del Rey, USA. Using ProWD, one may compare, for example, the completeness of computer scientists by nationality and sex. The slides are available by clicking this link. The ProWD developers are welcoming any feedback!
Wikidata now documents over six million people - that's more than the number of articles in English Wikipedia!

Press, articles, blog posts

ZBW Labs: 20th Century Press Archives: Data donation to Wikidata
The WikidataCon Card Game, Envel Le Hir
The Great(er) Bear - using Wikidata to generate better artwork
Linked (Open) Data for Knowledge Solutions, Artificial Intelligence and more presentation touching amongst others Wikidata and schema.org at Semantics 2019
Querying the Edit History of Wikidata - Thomas Pellissier Tanon & Fabian Suchanek
Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia - Diego Saez-Trumper (WMF)
"Using Wikidata to describe the structure of a book" Webinar by Martin Poulter for LD4P2 project (Video), (Slides), (Notes)
Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia (despite title, also discusses Wikidata)
New documentation page: Wikidata:Map data
Open Access Directory’s List of Blogs: Wikidata Ingest
Wikidata and Archival Metadata ; opportunities and challenges for heritage institutions
Introducing ISA – a cool tool for adding structured data on Commons
WikiTechStorm in Amsterdam. See the videos of the sessions, including a lot of Wikidata-related introductions
Wikimedia Tech Talk: Wikidata, behind the curtain
Video of live queries building
Video of the Wikidata editathon in Swedish

Technical matters

New feature on Mix'n'match: job management
{{query page}} is a new template that can be used to store SPARQL queries on a dedicated wiki page, to be transcluded in various styles (announcement)
Autojump from a field to another will be removed
Query Service lag now affects maxlag. You may need to retry/reset error multiple times when you run QuickStatement or OpenRefine in busy hours.
Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel and Special:EntitiesWithoutDescription will use ElasticSearch, improving display and ranking
Edit summaries coming from wbeditentity API will have a new format