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Wikidata report
New year, new newsletter format
By Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing)
Huge congratulations to our sister project Wikipedia, which reached 18 years of age on 15 January!
Highlights
- There are now over 2 million Wikidata infoboxes on Commons!
- The 35th Chaos Communication Congress was held in Leipzig, on December 27-30. Several talks about Wikidata can be watched online:
- Introduction to Wikidata and the Query Service by Lucas Werkmeister and Amir Sarabadani
- AI in Wikipedia by Amir Sarabadani
- How to become a Mediawiki hacker by Andre Klapper
- Live-coding: building a Wikidata tool by Lucas Werkmeister
- Wikidata founder Denny was interviewed by the Between the Brackets podcast
- The conference grant proposal for WikidataCon was submitted and could use endorsements.
Other news
For all other Wikidata news, new properties, etc, see:
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_01
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_07
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_14
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_21
- d:Wikidata:Status updates/2019_01_28
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