Wiki Playtime

One of my jobs brings me into contact with lots of economists, so although I’m not an economist myself the subject is much on my mind when I use Wikidata. The award received (P166) property links people or organisations to awards they have won. Maybe I can use this…

A new post has come out on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, introducing Wikidata and explaining why institutions should share data with it. The authors use the Harry Potter universe as an example of a world that can be explored with Wikidata queries, but also as a nice analogy for learning…

This week the Voltaire Foundation have published my guest blog post which describes how we constructed Histropedia timelines to support the study of Voltaire’s works, along with a neat trick we used to increase readership of French articles about Voltaire. It follows the…

Wikidata has a doctoral advisor (P184) relation, so the entry for a person can identify the person who supervised their doctoral degree.

There are some remarkable facts among these statements. For instance, chemist/ cognitive scientist…