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Wikidata weekly summary #385
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend
Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.
Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards:
MisterSynergy (
nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and
Tobias1984 (
nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
You can nominate projects for the
WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
During the summer,
WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI:
10.1145/3359317 (also
blog post).
Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.
ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 +
arXiv:1909.11980
Tool of the week
ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.
Other noteworthy stuff
We now have
d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and
Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
Namaste, AbhiMukh97. We would like to inform you about the recent changes to the WikiProject. As you may know, the
old newsletter for WikiProject India ceased circulation in 2010. Now we have
re-launched the newsletter in a new way. As a member, you are cordially invited to
subscribe to the newsletter. Thank you.
The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.
Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons),
was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (
T235540).
You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to
this file
This page is an
archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
This page is an
archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.
Wikidata weekly summary #385
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
soweego links Wikidata to large third-party catalogs. Together with its friend
Mix'n'match, it helps Wikidata to become the universal linking hub of open data.
Two Wikidata users were nominated for a “WikiEule”, the German Wikipedia community’s annual awards:
MisterSynergy (
nomination) for an “EngagementEule” (special commitment to the wiki projects) and
Tobias1984 (
nomination) for an “OrgaEule” (organizational work).
You can nominate projects for the
WikidataCon award until October 7th at 23:59 UTC (today).
During the summer,
WikidataJS became WikibaseJS! More specifically:
Lei (Nico) Zheng, et al. (2019) The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 3, Issue CSCW, Article 215 (November 2019), 20 pages. DOI:
10.1145/3359317 (also
blog post).
Lina M. Rojas-Barahona, et al. (2019) Spoken Conversational Search for General Knowledge. Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.
ACL Anthology ID: W19-5914 +
arXiv:1909.11980
Tool of the week
ShowTalkLabels: with this script enabled, when a talk page is shown on your watchlist or similar pages, the label of the related entity is shown.
Other noteworthy stuff
We now have
d:Q70000000 (3,5-dimethyl-3H-pyrazole, chemical compound) and
Lexeme:L200000 (spiritualistically, English adverb)
Namaste, AbhiMukh97. We would like to inform you about the recent changes to the WikiProject. As you may know, the
old newsletter for WikiProject India ceased circulation in 2010. Now we have
re-launched the newsletter in a new way. As a member, you are cordially invited to
subscribe to the newsletter. Thank you.
The Wikidata Wor(l)dmap is showing translations of the same concept on a world map. To use it, type a word (for example "water") in the search field, then observe the map. You can zoom in the map. The data comes from Wikidata item labels and the coordinate location property of the language.
Panandâ, a mobile app powered by Wikidata (and Wikimedia Commons),
was selected as one of the five finalists in the App for Social Good category in the Android Masters 2019 competition organized by Google Developer Group Philippines. The final event will be held on November 16.
Issue with Wikidata Query Service: aggregate variables can no longer reuse the names of other variables (
T235540).
You can translate labels in the background image of Wikidata front page by adding translation to
this file
This page is an
archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
current talk page.