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Wikidata report
Tie a knot in your handkerchief
By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)
Reminders
- Seventh birthday of Wikidata: last chance to organize a meetup in your area to celebrate the birthday, or about a present for the community!
- Your comments on the vision and strategy papers are still welcome on the associated talk page.
News
- The first draft of the program of the WikidataCon is now available. The content of the three main session rooms will be live-streamed and recorded for people who cannot participate in the conference.
- Wikidata now has a high-resolution logo (phab:T230120)
- Wikidata Mall is a new Telegram management simulation game where content is generated from Wikidata
- Wikidata passed 8B triples on 19 September (grafana)
- Using Wikidata to Provide Visibility to Women in STEM during Dublin Core 2019
- The state library of Berlin is using Wikidata to display a map of pictures from their architecture journals: Berlin um 1900 - eine fotografische Zeitreise
Your reading list
- Special report: Supporting newcomers in Wikidata training courses
- Merging Open Data Sources to Plan Learning Activities for Online Students - Antonio Sarasa Cabezuelo, et al., in: 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)
- Open-Access Society Publishers in Wikidata by A. Britton
- Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
- Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen, , et al.
- Opening up the linked data world of Wikidata to new editors, by Will Kent (WikiEdu)
- OpenStreetMap and Wikidata - Awesome Together during State of the Map 2019 (slides of part one)
- Scottish witches in the press and on TV
- Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
- Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge - Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona, et al.
- GeneDB and Wikidata, by Magnus Manske
- Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention (slides)
- Wikidata ist für alle (Bibliotheken) offen. Presentation at 34. Austrian Librarian conference 2019 (Q67368932), September 11th. (in German)
New Tools
- @Wikidatabot, a Telegram bot that allows you to search for something on Wikidata from Telegram
Technical matters
- New monolingual code languages are added: TLI (Tlingit), clc (Tsilhqotʹin), alc (Kawésqar), kld (Gamilaraay), peo (Old Persian)
- Structured Data on Commons: the team is going to develop computer-aided tagging for depicts statements on Commons. You can read the project page and participate on the talk page.
- Edit summaries coming from the wbeditentity API (for example from the mobile termbox) will be improved from October 2nd (announcement, ticket)
Other news
For all other Wikidata news, new properties, etc, see:
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_09_02
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_09_09
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_09_16
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_09_23
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_09_30
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