The (Wiki)Data (R)Evolution
Lydia Pintscher@nightrose
Why are we doing this?
Giving more people more access to more knowledge! also: because geeking out
on structured data is fun!
What happened over the past year?
Hint: a lot! Only highlights!
8700 active editors
1400 very active editors
30 Mil items 3600 properties
6 statements/item
2.3 MilSPARQL queries/day
⅓of all edits in Wikimedia
2%growth of non-bot edits in Wikimedia
(almost all of it on Wikidata)
UX improvementsFirst Citoid support ->
<- Meaningful order of
statements
Better sharing on social
networks ->
Data qualityConstraints
checks -><- ORES
Automated quality predictions ->
(image by EpochFail/cc-By-SA)
<- Wikidata:SPARQL query service/Wikidata Query Help
Wikidata:Data donation ->
Documentation
Query ServiceSupport for Linked Data Fragments
Federation
Unit conversion
New visualizations
Paintings by Vermeer
depicting maps
Fictional items named after real items
Trees grown from seeds that went around the moon
Software titles ranked by number of readable file formats
Search engine integration
Linking item values and external identifiers
Translation
ArticlePlaceholder
Wikipedia and co
<- prototype for editing Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia
Usage information when editing an
article and in page information ->
Enhanced recent changes support
->
Structured data on Commons
Automated language
links ->
Lexicographical data
<- Lexeme
Wins and challenges
● Coping with community and content growth
● Sustained financing by WMF
● Freebase API was shut down
● Persondata template on enwp and many others are gone
● WikidataCon
MySociety
OSM/Mapbox
GeneWiki
ContentMine
Quora
YLE
eurowings
GuessrEverything Is ConnectedStadt Land Wikidata
What is coming?
Data quality
● More usage of the data
● Primary Sources Tool● Better feedback
mechanisms● More checks on the
data● Signed statements
More useful inside Wikimedia
● Editing directly on Wikipedia and co
● Watchlist improvements
● ArticlePlaceholder improvements
● Automated list generation
● Support for Commons and Wiktionary
More useful outside Wikimedia
● Closer collaborations with data donors and re-users
● Make Wikibase easier to install and use
Wikidata meetup!
Saturday 12th7-8pmSalon 4
Giving more people more access to more knowledge!