GLAM/Newsletter/August 2016/Contents/Wikidata report

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VIII, August 2016

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Wikidata report

New team members and lots for you to read!

By Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)

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.