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Wikidata report
Leap into Wikidata!
By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)
Special Report: Upcoming Conferences
- Scholarships application process for Wikimania 2020 (Bangkok) is now open until 17 March. More information, FAQ, apply
- Celtic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference, one of the themes being how Wikidata can support minority languages, will take place on July 9-10 in Limerick, Ireland. Call for submissions open until 30 March.
News
- New development roadmap for Wikidata and Wikibase for 2020
- Wikidata has an entry in Google's new data search tool
- "Status of Wikidata Query Service" update from WMF, on Wikidata mailing list
- Swiss newspaper Le Temps built a new front-end to interact with a Wikibase backend developed by nonprofit PersonalData.IO to power its citizen-led investigation of personal data flows.
- There are now 100,000 people with the name "John" in Wikidata. "Elizabeth" is now the most frequent female given name.
- Science Stories by Kat Thornton and Kenneth Seals-Nutt, an application that tells stories about underrepresented people in STEM using Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, is the winner of the LODLAM 2020 Challenge!
- Aberdeen Plaques – Part Two: Visualisations, calculations, and analysis using wikidata by Ian Watt
- A newbie's guide to querying Wikidata, by Mark Needham
- 2020 report on Property constraints by user:Abián
- Wikidata and Beyond – Knowledge for everyone by everyone, keynote video from Denny Vrandečić at SWAT4HCLS 2019
- Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition
- Discovering Implicational Knowledge in Wikidata, by Tom Hanika, Maximilian Marx and Gerd Stumme.
- "Wikidata is just a matter of facts", blog post on the Workshop to develop a data model for taxonomic and nomenclatural data in Wikidata
- Vandalism Detection in Crowdsourced Knowledge Bases by Stefan Heindorf
- Wikidata's Linked Data for Cultural Heritage Digital Resources: An Evaluation Based on the Europeana Data Model by Nuno Freire, Antoine Isaac
- When Humans and Machines Collaborate - Cross-lingual Label Editing in Wikidata, by Lucie-Aimée Kaffee: video during Wikimedia Research Showcase (at 30:00), paper
- Do you speak data? Wikidata as the Open Internet’s universal language, by Elisabeth Giesemann
- Does Biodiversity Informatics Love Wikidata?, by Quentin Groom & Deborah Paul
- QWiki, a mobile game asking geography questions based on Wikidata, now has a new version released as well as a website where one can learn how the game was made and how to contribute
- Tutorial on how to use machine learning with Wikidata.
- Populating a Schema.org dataset from Wikidata
New tools
- OpenRefine 3.3 was released; as were the results of the 2020 OpenRefine user survey
- The Kensho Derived Wikimedia Dataset is a a cleaned English subset of Wikipedia/Wikidata with 2.3B tokens, 5.3M pages, 51M nodes, and 120M edges for use in natural language processing (NLP) research
- Knowledge Grapher is a new tool to create Wikidata knowledge graphs without needing any knowledge of Wikidata Query or SPARQL code. It is currently in early testing mode. Feedback is appreciated.
- Cradle tool can now generate forms based on Schemas (example for human)
Technical matters
- New gadget added to Preferences, "Show UnpatrolledEdits" (see discussion): it shows if the last edit to the item has not been patrolled
- Pywikibot deprecates Python 2 support. Any scripts running via Python 2 should be migrated soon, see more at [1]
- Mismatched reference: first version deployed
- Loading time of pages on Wikidata and Commons has been improved. You can learn more about page load performance and developing with ResourceLoader.
- soweego is an artificial intelligence that links Wikidata to large external catalogs. The proposal for version 2 is out for consideration. review of version 1 is open for discussion.
Other news
For all other Wikidata news, new properties, etc, see:
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 01 06
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 01 13
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 01 20
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 01 27 - this was the 400th edition, and included several items of interest, related to that number.
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 02 05
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 02 10
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 02 17
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 02 24
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2020 03 02
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