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Wikidata report
New team members and lots for you to read!
By Andy Mabbett (Staffing
- Glorian joined the team for 6 months as a product management intern - Welcome, Glorian !
- Léa joined the team as Community Communication Manager for Wikidata - Welcome, Léa!
Tech developments
- Sitelinks for the new Tulu Wikipedia can be added
- WikiShootMe has a lot of new updates: OAuth-based image upload button, uploads to Commons and adds to Wikidata item with one click, right-click on the map to add a missing item, build-in Wikidata search, free images search (example for Central Cambridge)
- Newest gadgets: New gadget to sort the statements on items
- New gadget to prefill "access date" with current date
GLAM news
- New templates: {{Australia properties}}, {{Belgium properties}}, {{France properties}}, {{Indonesia properties}}, {{Italy properties}}, {{Spain properties}}, {{United Kingdom properties}}. Please consider making a similar template for your country or region.
- Newest WikiProjects: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
- English Wikipedia now has a WikiProject Wikidata to coordinate integration with Wikidata. Why not start one for your local Wikipedia? Add it to Q20855878 if you do.
- Visualizing the DNC vs RNC conventions with Wikipedia+Wikidata+BigQuery (blog post)
- Livin’ on the edge (blog post)
- History of Parliament and Wikidata – the first round complete (blog post)
- Why you should be paying attention to Wikidata and GLAM (Wikimedia Foundation blog post)
- GSoC at Wikimedia (Part 1 of 3), by Alangi Derick (blog post)
- All your locations are belong to us (blog post)
- "Ben Whishaw, Broadway, the RADA and Wikidata" (data integration in the era of semantic web) by Harmonia Amanda (blog post)
- Hands-on research about Wikidata: My time as a PhD student at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. by Alessandro Piscopo (blog post)
- Modelling books in Wikidata by Aubrey and Chiara Storti
- Getting the units right: inferring identifier units from a corpus of formulae in Wikipedia and Wikidata (paper)
- Querying Wikidata: Comparing SPARQL, Relational and Graph Databases (paper)
- WIKIREADING: A Novel Large-scale Language Understanding Task over Wikipedia (paper)
- An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases (paper)
- Managing and Consuming Completeness Information for Wikidata Using COOL-WD (paper)
- Vandalism Detection in Wikidata, by Stefan Heindorf, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein and Gregor Engels (paper)
Breaking news
To hot to keep until next month...
- A video of Andy Mabbett's "what is Wikidata?" talk, filmed in Jakarta during his February tour of Australia and Indonesia, is now available on YouTube. running just under an hour, it is in English with Indonesian subtitles, and is available under an open (CC by) licence.
- Navino Evans' short, accessible video guide to writing Wikidata queries in SPARQL, and to using such queries in Histeropedia, is also available
New GLAM-related properties
Note: There is a significant backlog of property proposals, with consensus for creation. This has recently been as high as 40 candidates, with a delay of about three weeks.
- Iranica ID
- flag bearer
- Legacies of British Slave-ownership person ID
- ITU letter code
- UK National Archives ID
- sheet music
- EPPO Code
- adjacent building
- Indonesian ethnicity code
- ISBN publisher prefix
- spatial reference system
- IWM memorial ID
- wheelbase
- SoundCloud ID
- HanCinema person ID
- Kindred Britain ID
- Bloomberg person ID
- Ontario MPP ID
- NAQ elected person ID
- Turner Classic Movies person ID
- Charity Commission no.
- Architectuurgids architect ID
- Architectuurgids building ID
- ButMoth ID
- Basisregistratie Instellingen number
- gestation period
- LepIndex ID
- RERO ID
- GLAM ID
- GS1 country code
- WIPO ST.3
- UN document symbol
- Storting person ID
- CosIng number
- Grace's Guide ID
- official religion
- Cineplex film ID
- SIMBAD ID
- freedom of panorama
- ID of Catalogue of Life in Taiwan
- Flags of the World ID
- mount
- ISBN identifier group,
- ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier
- Internet Bird Collection species ID
- Flora of Australia ID
- FloraBase ID
- Plantarium ID
- Gare & Connexions ID
- Tela Botanica ID
- Guardian topic ID
- LdiF ID
- Yelp ID
- Peakbagger ID
- ISzDb film ID
- FEI ID
- ISzDb person ID
- ISzDb company ID
- ISzDb dub ID
- OpenDomesday settlement ID
- Code for China Reservoir Name
- TOID
- Epguides ID
- OpenDomesday person ID
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID
- Polish scientist ID
- EDRPOU code
- ALCUIN ID
- Latindex ID
- CiNetMag film ID
- cine.gr film ID
- NSW Flora ID
- Redalyc journal ID
- last line
- NSZL name authority ID
- TripAdvisor ID
- elCinema film ID
- elCinema person ID
- parent peak
In this issue
August 2016
- Argentina report
- Basque Country report
- Belgium report
- Brazil report
- Estonia report
- France report
- Germany report
- Italy report
- Macedonia report
- Mexico report
- Netherlands report
- Norway report
- Republic of Srpska report
- Spain report
- Sweden report
- UK report
- USA report
- Open Access report
- Wikidata report
- WMF GLAM report
- Calendar
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