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Wikidata report
Wikidata this month
By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)
Tech developments
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- Wikispecies has access to data from Wikidata (as of 2 December)
- Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
- Special:Nearby - find items near your (or any) location
GLAM news
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikidata
- Wikidata passed 15 million items
- Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
- new Mix'n'match catalogues added
- Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone? (blog post)
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
- A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
New GLAM-related properties
- beam (boats & ships)
- draft
- mix'n'match catalogue ID
- Orsay Museum artist ID
- Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID
- Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- SFDb movie ID
- SFDb-identifier of company
- SFDb-identifier of soundtrack
- SFDb-identifier of group
- Musopen composer ID
- CESAR person ID
- AGORHA person/institution ID
- AGORHA work ID
- AGORHA event identifier
- Elonet movie ID
- period
- Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID
- number of graves
- applies to taxon
- UNESCO endangered language ID
- Roman praenomen
- Roman nomen gentilicium
- time to altitude (aircraft)
- NMHH film rating
- production code
- Roman cognomen
- Roman agnomen
For full Wikidata news, see the weekly status updates.
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