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Wikidata report
Number crunching
By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
Special Reports
Notable statistics
- Wikidata passed 8 average statements per item
- Q40000000 was created
- Statement 300.000.000 was created
- 20 million edits were done in September 2017
WikidataCon is nearly here!
- With 200 attendees, WikidataCon the Wikidata Conference, on 28 & 29 October, is now fully booked. The WikidataCon programme is also published. If you registered on the waitlist or submitted a talk, check your mailbox for more information.
GLAM news
- WikiProject India is now up and running
- Several new catalogues in Mix'n'Match incl. Encyclopædia Britannica, National Gallery artists and ArtCyclopedia
- Andy Mabbett taught Wikidata editing, querying and third party tools, to United Kingdom Parliamentary librarians and data staff, during two day-long sessions
- Asaf Bartov taught Wikidata editting querying in tour of India from 30 August to 19 September 2017 in the following cities - Cochin, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, Kolkata & Pune.
- Join the mysterious Wikidata:Flashmob who improve labels, or summon them on an item
- 2 funding proposals are looking for comments and support: soweego and CrossWikiFact
- New Wikidata Game to help you evaluate merge candidates based on projectmerge
- Where's Wally (aka Waldo)? Right here on Wikidata, of course!
Further reading and viewing
- RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management - Paper demonstrating interoperatility between WikiData and Semantic MediaWiki, among other things.
- Bridging real and fictional worlds in Wikidata, by Martin Poulter
- Wikimedia Research Showcase - A Glimpse into Babel: An Analysis of Multilinguality in Wikidata
- Using Wikidata data, fixing wrong Wikipedia and Wikidata tags, by Mateusz Konieczny
- One Knowledge Graph to Rule Them All? Analyzing the Differences Between DBpedia, YAGO, Wikidata & co
- Modeling the Domain of Digital Preservation in Wikidata
- Wikidata as a linking hub for knowledge organization systems? Integrating an authority mapping into Wikidata and learning lessons for KOS mappings (Paper and presentation), by Joachim Neubert, NKOS Workshop 2017 at TPDL
- Knowledge exploration in public linked data ontologies
- Données structurées, la puissance de Wikidata au service de Wikimedia Commons - French-language article about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons.
Tech developments
- Improvements coming soon to Recent Changes
- The ArticlePlaceholder is now deployed on Albanian Wikipedia
- Wikidata ontology explorer: creates a tree of a class or property, shows common properties and statements
- New WikiProject: WikiProject property constraints
- Quick graph of the relation of the number of labels in a given language on Wikidata and the number of first language speakers of that language
- The ArticlePlaceholder has been enabled on Bengali Wikipedia (example)
- Added a css class to values that link to redirects so they can more easily be identified by editors who want that for maintenance work (phabricator:T70567)
- Finishing touches on adding full URIs for external identifiers to our RDF export so we're good citizens of the semantic web (phabricator:T121274)
New GLAM-related properties
- Rivers.gov river ID
- Familypedia person ID
- CNPS taxon ID
- category for employees of the organization
- Google Play Music artist ID
- Google Play Music album ID
- Christie's creator id
- PagesJaunes ID
- WFD Chemical status
- ROARMAP ID
- The Times of India Topic ID
- Foursquare username
- Flemish organization for Immovable Heritage person ID
- Italian National Earthquake Center ID
- Billboard artist ID
- danskfilmogtv title ID
- Bashkir encyclopedia (Bashkir version) ID
- Bashkir encyclopedia (Russian version) ID
- PACTOLS thesaurus ID
- highest observed lifespan
- UK Electoral Commission ID
- Tyrolean Art Cadastre inventory ID
- order of battle
- National Criminal Justice ID
- United Nations Treaty Series Volume Number
- Enciclopedia Italiana ID
- Indonesian Small Islands Directory ID
- Encyclopedia of Australian Science ID
- Sefaria ID
- United Nations Treaty Series Registration Number
- Figshare author ID
- Heritage Building in Finland ID
- webcam page URL
- vocalized name
- maximal rate of climb
- candidate number
- Bavarian monument authority ID
- cultural heritage monument in Serbia ID
- LfD-HB object ID
- Tagesschau election ID
- The Black Book ID
- Vincoli in Rete ID
- TSE number
You are invited to comment on all open property proposals.
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