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This Month in GLAM – Volume VII, Issue X, October 2017

Wikidata report

WikidataCon & Birthday

Special Reports

WikidataCon

Wikidata celebrated its fifth birthday by holding WikidataCon, the first Wikidata Conference, on 28 & 29 October, in Berlin. GLAM matters played a significant part.

The full proceedings, including videos of many sessions, are available online.

5th Birthday

Happy Birthday Wikidata! Wikidata was launched on 29 October 2012, so turned five years old during WikidataCon. We celebrated, as every year, with a lot of presents, events and stories. You can find an overview on the birthday page.

- Birthday presents
  - Search index now contains statements with {{Property|P31}} and {{P|P279}}. These can be used to influence search rankings and in the future also for matching.
  - inventaire.io CC0 Wikidata-ready NDJSON and TTL dumps are now accessible at dumps.inventaire.io
  - You can now move claims to new items with moveClaim.js. You can do so by typing "new".
  - Prefix search on Wikidata (wbsearchentities API) now is using ElasticSearch as backend. This should improve search quality and also is more flexible and tunable.
  - Wikidata becomes a proper citizen of the linked open data web
  - graves.wiki – visualization of grave locations stored in Wikidata
  - Wikidata Concepts Monitor (WDCM) - Wikidata semantic topics and usage statistics
  - Happy Birthday to You, Dear Wikidata – recording and improvisation (Lucas Werkmeister)
  - You can now create items from the command-line
  - Crochet your own cute structured data bee to express your appreciation for structured data in the Wikimedia movement!
  - Wikidata Query Service UI: Geoshapes from Commons are now displayed in the Map view: Constituencies for the election to the German Bundestag 2017, with winning candidate and party
  - Wikidata Query Service UI: The query service now shows you code examples for how to use your query in many programming languages (example query)
  - Dungeon of Knowledge (source), a roguelike game where you explore a dungeon full of bits of Wikidata wisdom
  - Simple WD an experiment of a simple frontend API on top of Wikidata using JSON-LD and schema.org.
  - mapview widget/user script on Wikidata
  - Images fragments for an item depicted on several artworks
  - Histropedia Query Timeline tool - Demo of cool new features launched today for WikidataCon
  - Q42395533 - the first item about a notable item!
  - SQID now suggests statements that we are missing (example page, log in to see suggestions) -- more on Wikidata:WikiProject_Reasoning soon
  - From labs VM to Wikibase Query Service in 2 minutes (using Docker images and docker-compose)
- Stories and reflections

GLAM news

Andy Mabbett ran a Wikidata workshop at the third WikiArabia conference, for the Arabic-speaking Wikimedia community, held in Cairo on 23-25 October.
New Mix’n’match mode to show just the entries with multiple matches (example)
There is now a good start for documentation for QuickStatements. Feel free to help improve it!
If you are interested in Structured Data on Commons, and helping out as a Wikidata contributor, please consider joining the new Structured Commons community focus group!
Participate to the Global Legislative Openness Week with MySociety and organize a Wikidata workshop in your country, from 20-30 November 2017
Inventaire now has a News section where you can follow ongoing discussions and developments of the project
HarvestTemplates has a new collaboration platform