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Wikidata report

Wikidata this month

By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)

As mentioned last month, a major step forward with the introduction of measurements for properties (for example for the height and width of paintings). Here's an example.
RDF: Wikidata and its dumps are now described according to the DCAT-AP standard. You can add your language by translating the general and the Wikidata specific messages
Wikidata now has an official SPARQL endpoint (announcement) so you can query the data. There's a community page, including a subpage for interesting or illustrative queries, and a board for suggestions and discussions.
Want to work with the data in Wikidata? There is a new release of the Wikidata Toolkit for you.
Wikibooks now has access to the data on Wikidata
Meta, MediaWiki, Wikispecies and Wikibooks will get (more) access to Wikidata soon
English Wikipedia and a few more got arbitrary access
Magnus wrote a user script to let you edit Listeria-powered lists on Wikipedia directly
New tool by Magnus to create a Commons creator page from a Wikidata item
You can now find the Wikibase ontology at http://wikiba.se/ontology

A new noticeboard has been created to help with classification issues: d:Wikidata:Classification noticeboard
A collaboration between a group of Flemish museums and art collections and Wikidata
Wikidata timeline is another tool that makes timelines using Wikidata's data (examples: American Sitcoms, Wars, Meryl Streep)
Mix n Match is now available for mobile, has an improved automatic matching algorithm, speed improvements and new catalogs were added, including: Fellows of the Royal Society, the National Gallery of Victoria, World Heritage Sites, CulturaItalia, Open Library authors and AcademiaNet's excellent female authors
The Wikidata Game has got a new mode: Books without author.
Cool new tool by Magnus for dynamic list generation
The Museum of Modern Art website now includes Wikidata IDs (example)
Musicpedia has been released in beta and is using data from Wikidata
New tool by Magnus to update or create Wikidata items based on DOI, PubMed ID or PubMed Central ID