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Heather Ford

1 Jun 2018 1 Jun '18

6:38 a.m.

Hi there, I'm doing some research on WikiData and wondering whether there is a list of projects/sites that either a) make use of WikiData to power their projects or that b) WikiData extracts data from in order to populate items. I can see some projects listed in External Tools [1] but can't seem to find lists of projects beyond this. Can anyone help? Many thanks. Best, Heather. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools Dr Heather Ford Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media <https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/>, University of New South Wales w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/> / t: @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa>

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Lydia Pintscher

1 Jun 1 Jun

7:37 a.m.

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 8:40 AM Heather Ford <hfordsa(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hey Heather, We're working on a collection here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oDI5R5glqttfH_Vm3-qZFhVxKbtd7KlZufN… Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

Gerard Meijssen

8:09 a.m.

Hoi, Property P5008 - [1] "on focus list of Wikimedia project" is used for several projects most recently for editathons organised by Amnesty International and the UK chapter in twenty countries. To appreciate the use of this functionality, the "Black Lunch Table" [2] uses it already for a long time to identify targets for editathons. This is achieved by using qualifiers for the location of the editathon and for the date. This [3] is one example of this in use. What makes the use of this property in combination with Listeria list is that when used for multiple Wikipedias it shows really well what exists as an article and what not. Listeria does daily updates and, in principle it does so on every Wikipedia (the mechanism to trigger this I am still to find out. In addition I aim to achieve more interest for articles about Africa and for content in African languages. I tweet using #AfricaGap about this. The challenge is to expose available content and thereby making it obvious how little we know and what gets done. This [4] is a page with information in Yoruba. Obviously I do not speak Yoruba, Swahili, Igbo or Zulu and consequently my texts are in English but the information will show in those languages. They too are Listeria lists and it makes it painfully obvious how little we know about Africa (politicians) in any and all of Wikimedia. Thanks, GerardM [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5008 [2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q28781198&lang=en [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Black_Lunch_Table/Black_Hist… [4] https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%C3%AD%E1%B9%A3e:GerardM On 1 June 2018 at 08:38, Heather Ford <hfordsa(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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fn＠imm.dtu.dk

8:28 a.m.

Hi Heather, "Hay's tools" can list the ones that appear on the Toolforge server and indexed: https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#/keyword/wikidata It lists 110 tools currently /Finn On 06/01/2018 08:38 AM, Heather Ford wrote:

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Hi there, I'm doing some research on WikiData and wondering whether there is a list of projects/sites that either a) make use of WikiData to power their projects or that b) WikiData extracts data from in order to populate items. I can see some projects listed in External Tools [1] but can't seem to find lists of projects beyond this. Can anyone help? Many thanks. Best, Heather. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/External_tools Dr Heather Ford Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media <https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/>, University of New South Wales w: hblog.org <http://hblog.org/> / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/> / t: @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Imre Samu

9:22 a.m.

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make use of WikiData to power their projects

Some (geo) related projects: - NaturalEarth : Free vector and raster map data https://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/natural-earth-v4-1-0-re… - Who's On First : is a gazetteer of places : https://www.whosonfirst.org/ ; wikidata concordances ) - OpenStreetMap : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikidata - Mapbox(Startup): https://www.mapbox.com/blog/tags/wikidata/ - ... And a lot of Github projects: https://github.com/search?q=wikidata&type=Topics Imre 2018-06-01 8:38 GMT+02:00 Heather Ford <hfordsa(a)gmail.com>om>:

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Andy Mabbett

10:15 a.m.

On 1 June 2018 at 07:38, Heather Ford <hfordsa(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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I'm doing some research on WikiData and wondering whether there is a list of projects/sites that either a) make use of WikiData to power their projects or that b) WikiData extracts data from in order to populate items.

For the former, please see: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_for_authority_control and: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Spinster/Websites_and_services_that_use_… You can get an idea of some of the latter, from properties with a catalogue in Mix'n'Match: http://tinyurl.com/y7sf9svd but of course that is not the complete picture. Can you tell us more about your research, please? And are you aware of: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index Finally, and pedantically, please note: "Wikidata", not "WikiData".

Heather Ford

11:44 a.m.

So incredibly helpful. Thank you so much! Also for correct capitalisation, Andy :) I am aware of Research:Index and have used it in the past. Currently I'm only at initial concept note stage for a proposal but will be sure to share if we're given the green light to submit a full proposal (ah, the joys of academic research funding :)). Basically the project would be to make the case for how Wikidata has become critical digital infrastructure by mapping dependencies and topic coverage. No new research - really just bringing together what already exists and applying to an infrastructure studies approach. Best, Heather. Dr Heather Ford Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media <https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/>, University of New South Wales w: hblog.org / EthnographyMatters.net <http://ethnographymatters.net/> / t: @hfordsa <http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> On 1 June 2018 at 12:15, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

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On 1 June 2018 at 07:38, Heather Ford <hfordsa(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I'm doing some research on WikiData and wondering whether there is a

list of

projects/sites that either a) make use of WikiData to power their

projects

or that b) WikiData extracts data from in order to populate items.

For the former, please see: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_for_authority_control and: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Spinster/Websites_and_ services_that_use_data_from_Wikidata You can get an idea of some of the latter, from properties with a catalogue in Mix'n'Match: http://tinyurl.com/y7sf9svd but of course that is not the complete picture. Can you tell us more about your research, please? And are you aware of: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index Finally, and pedantically, please note: "Wikidata", not "WikiData". _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Andy Mabbett
fn＠imm.dtu.dk
Gerard Meijssen
Heather Ford
Imre Samu
Lydia Pintscher