This post is a follow up to the session I hosted at WikidataCon 2017 along with Stuart Prior from WikimediaUK (standing in for John Cummings, Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO) Data partnerships with reputable third …
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Screenshot from the tool showing paintings by Vincent Van Gogh Two years ago, I attended Wikidata's 3rd birthday celebrations in the Wikimedia Deutschland offices in Berlin. One thing that stuck out to me was the amazing …
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In our opinion WikidataCon 2017 was a resounding success. We re-connected with many fellow Wikimedians and met new connections both inside and outside of the Wikimedia Community. The mood of the conference was one of …
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Have you seen our new Wikidata timeline creator? It lets us make filterable timelines live from Wikidata (Wikipedia data) and the results are very impressive!! Below are some of the latest timelines created by us and …
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When we are busy creating new things, we sometimes forget to tell the world what we are doing. So here is a long overdue and hopefully very exciting update on what's being going on at Histropedia recently. HistropediaJS …
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This tutorial will teach you how create an instant timeline based on a specific location and radius. Just like the “descendants of” timelines from the previous tutorial these location based timelines are made using …
Read moreNew tutorial now available: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries Our previous tutorial showed you how to use a Wikidata query to create a “descendants of” timeline. This time we are going to …
Read moreNew tutorial now available: Create instant location based timelines using Wikidata queries Using the incredible querying power of Wikidata, Histropedia can now automatically create an instant timeline showing descendants …
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Here at Histropedia the whole team is really excited about the upcoming Wikimedia event this August. In an extreme stoke of good luck Wikimania is being held in London this year, and as a London based start-up that …
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We have recently switched Histropedia’s primary source for event dates from Wikipedia to Wikidata. We are still using Wikipedia as a date source and all the events remain linked to a Wikipedia article, but now whenever …
Read moreHello Everyone, We’re still waiting for the latest deployment to go live and expect to have the ‘Zooming in Further’ feature ready for testing sometime during the week. With not much else to talk about this week I felt …
Read moreHello Everyone, Last week I promised some details on a new major feature that will be deployed soon, the feature is ‘Zooming in Further’ and should be live before the end of the month. Finally we will be able to assign …
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