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Wikidata report
We feel used (and that makes us happy)
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
We make Wikidata so you can use it!
- Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
- EveryPolitician: I use Wikidata for multilingual names
- Wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia
- Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata IDs for authority control
Tech developments
- Lots of papers relevant to Wikidata or about Wikidata haven been published at ICWSM
- Geospatial search for Wikidata Query Service
- We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder
- Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
- Thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
- Guide to using Wikidata (and Wikipedia) data in Google spreadsheet
- Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata
GLAM news
- Meet TED's Wikipedians-in-Residence
- See also this month's special story and win TED books!
- Random item: Q14829494
- Paper: Are Superstar Artworks also Digital Superstars? Online Popularity of Worldfamous Artworks
- Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
- The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
- Fun game on Twitter: (digitally) annotating books with Wikidata statements
New GLAM-related properties
- BVMC person ID (Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes)
- International Sailing Federation ID
- Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code
- LPGA Tour ID
- PGA Tour ID
- MathWorld identifier
- appears in the heritage monument list
- Yandex.Music album ID
- Belgian Football ID
- Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID
- via
- Megogo ID
- flower color
- totem
- ARKive ID
- place of marriage
- Benezit ID (Benezit Dictionary of Artists)
- RAN ID (National archaeological register of Romania)
- iTunes artist ID
- Leidse Hoogleraren ID
- Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID
- Nederlandse Molendatabase ID
- OpenCritic ID
- Hollandsche Molen ID
- Molenecho's ID
- record or record progression
- time in space
- Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID
May 2016
- Africa report
- Brazil report
- France report
- Germany report
- Italy report
- Latvia report
- Macedonia report
- Mexico report
- Netherlands report
- Norway report
- Spain report
- Sweden report
- Switzerland report
- UK report
- USA report
- Special story
- Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves report
- Open Access report
- WMF GLAM report
- Wikidata report
- OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey report
- Wikimania report
- Calendar
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