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This Month in GLAM – Volume V, Issue X, October 2015 Normal version • Single page version

Wikidata report

Wikidata this month

By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)

In October, Wikidata passed 15 million items and celebrated its third birthday - congratulations!

Tech developments

• Mobile device users are now redirected to the mobile view automatically (example)
• Mix n Match is now available for mobile
• Wikispecies now has access to sitelinks on Wikidata (as do the Meta and MediaWiki project wikis) - not just for taxons, but for repositories, journals and for biographies of taxonomists
• A new Special:Nearby feature shows items with coordinates, near to the user's location
• 'Harvest templates' - useful new tool to copy data from templates on a Wikipedia, or other sister projects, to Wikidata.

GLAM news

• Mix'n'match has more catalogues, including MOMA artists and the US National Gallery of Art
• The birth and death of German playwrights
• How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is under discussion.
• Wikidata sessions for Wikimania 2016 are being discussed
• In Belgium a new GLAM-Wikidata project started

New GLAM-related properties

• Kunstindex Danmark artwork
• power output (engines)
• wing area
• Kansallisbiografia ID
• ISO 9:1995
• history of topic
• Wiki Loves Monuments ID
• BiblioNet publication identifier
• BiblioNet author identifier
• BiblioNet publisher identifier
• C-SPAN identifier of a person
• NILF author id
• endangeredlanguages.com ID
• PSS-Archi architect id
• Spotify album ID
• Discogs release ID
• Spotify track ID
• Florentine musea catalogue ID
• NGA artist id
• maximum operating altitude (aircraft)
• Debrett's People of Today ID
• frequency of event
• beam (of a vessel)
• draft
• mix'n'match catalogue ID
• Fashion Model Directory ID
• Politifact Personality Identifier
• Orsay Museum artist ID

For full Wikidata news, see the weekly status updates.

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October 2015

• Argentina report
• Belgium report
• France report
• Germany report
• Italy report
• Macedonia report
• Netherlands report
• Spain report
• Sweden report
• UK report
• USA report
• Open Access report
• Wikidata report
• Calendar

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