#Wikidata has reached 50,000 video game items − a significant milestone on our road to become the hub of all video game metadata.
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Today it's ten years since Wikidata had launched, October 29, 2012.
A few memories. 1/
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Reminder that I will be on Twitch in about 2 hours (20h CEST ; 18h UTC) for some #Wikidata live-editing about #DACH video games. twitch.tv/Jean_Fred
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I’ll be back on Twitch on Wednesday (day after tomorrow) 20:00 CEST for some #Wikidata live-editing!
As part of @WikimediaAT’ “#DACH Culture Contest (wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:) the topic will be video games from Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
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![A splash-screen to advertise a Wikidata Live-Editing session on Twitch, scheduled for Wednesday 12th October 2022 at 20:00 CEST. Also contains the twitter handle and Wikimedia username of the presenter, @JeanFred aka [[user:Jean-Frédéric]].
The splash-screen follows the usual “Sum of all video game” graphic theme, in elegant shades of blue − a riff on the timeless design of Terry Cavanaugh masterpiece “Super Hexagon”.](https://web.archive.org/web/20221218222107im_/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fetj-C7X0AEMlrI?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
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“Captain Gysi und das Raumschiff Bonn”, a 1997 point-and-click adventure published by the political party PDS. Starring party chairman on his quest to save spaceship Bonn and its frozen crew. 🚀
(There’s also a 1998 sequel “Galaxis Futura”.)
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“Ulitsa Dimitrova”, made by & while at , was a 2010 Student Showcase winner. It tells the story of 7-year-old Pjotr, living on the streets of St. Petersburg − and does not feature a happy ending.
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No shortages of DACH business/vehicle sims − Bus Simulator, Airport Sim., Bridge Constructor…
But my heart goes to ViewApp’s 2020 “TramSim Wien: Der Straßenbahn Simulator”. Who needs a Jahreskarte with this Bim-ulator? 🚋
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“Plättchen Twist 'n' Paint”, the 2008 “puzzle-shooter” by , was the very first (3rd-party) game announced for WiiWare − only 12 days after the announcement of the service itself! wikidata.org/wiki/Q7205918
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The #DACH Culture Challenge is still ongoing! Join us until Oct 16 ✨Music and video game experts are leading the pack at the moment - if you want to learn more about German-language video games on #Wikidata, join tomorrow on twitch.tv/Jean_Fred
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Let's make a collaborative gift to @wikidata for its 10th börthday
improve data about culture or libraries in the DACH region until October 16 and win some nice prizes in our DACH Culture Contest! For more info check wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: #WikidataBirthday #Wikidata
improve data about culture or libraries in the DACH region until October 16 and win some nice prizes in our DACH Culture Contest! For more info check wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: #WikidataBirthday #Wikidata
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“Der Verlassene Planet”, Hannes Seifert’s 1987/1989 text adventure − identified as “the first commercial video game developed in Austria”. (Seifert would go on to co-found Neo Software in 1993 − see also ’s gespielt.hypotheses.org/4187) wikidata.org/wiki/Q102076515
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“Lionheart”, Thalion Software’s 1993 Amiga platformer. We did have it on our beloved 500+, until an argument with my sister & the floppy disk busted, unceremoniously ejected without the mandatory Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga.
(Had to untangle it from some 2017 JRPG)
wikidata.org/wiki/Q141610
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“Weaving Tides”, 2021 puzzle-adventure game − funded through both Kickstarter and (as I learnt) the Vienna Business Agency.
(I did back it! Gotta redeem that Switch copy :) wikidata.org/wiki/Q94507257
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“And Yet It Moves”, ’ 2009 indie classic and laureate.
(I do have it in my library from Humble way back when, but [shame on me] never booted it. Now I want to change that!)
(And yay! Openly-licensed files on !)
wikidata.org/wiki/Q489583
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“7 Zwerge: Das Brettspiel” − 2004 tie-in to a German comedy film I had never heard of − a smash hit acc. to Wikipedia ; the game not so much, acc. to MobyRank). Sources are not super clear on who developed it, but it does seem it was Sproing wikidata.org/wiki/Q102076319
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So, as I have been improving #Wikidata items about DACH games for the last 10 days, let’s pick one game for each day − going back and going forward (Some catching up to do ^_^)
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As part of the “DACH Culture Contest”, I will be improving video games from the DACH region on #Wikidata! wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: #WikidataBirthday twitter.com/WikimediaAT/st
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The DACH Culture Cöntest kicked off this week, and böy has it had an effect! 🇦🇹🇨🇭🇩🇪 🎉There is still time to join and win prizes if you head on over to wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:
📊#Wikidata 🎶🎵#exmusica
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I’ll be back on Twitch on Wednesday (day after tomorrow) 20:00 CEST for some #Wikidata live-editing!
As part of ’ “#DACH Culture Contest (wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:) the topic will be video games from Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
twitch.tv/Jean_Fred
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As part of the “DACH Culture Contest”, I will be improving video games from the DACH region on #Wikidata! wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: #WikidataBirthday
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Let's make a collaborative gift to @wikidata for its 10th börthday improve data about culture or libraries in the DACH region until October 16 and win some nice prizes in our DACH Culture Contest! For more info check wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: #WikidataBirthday #Wikidata
improve data about culture or libraries in the DACH region until October 16 and win some nice prizes in our DACH Culture Contest! For more info check wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: #WikidataBirthday #Wikidataread image description
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Let's make a collaborative gift to for its 10th börthday🎂 improve data about culture or libraries in the DACH region until October 16 and win some nice prizes in our DACH Culture Contest! For more info check wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: #WikidataBirthday #Wikidata
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Ende Oktober feiert #Wikidata seinen 10. Geburtstag. Zur Feier veranstaltet einen Edit-Contest speziell für Bibliotheken aus D-A-CH: Bis 16. Oktober fleissig editieren und einen Gutschein gewinnen! 🍾🥳
Infos: wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:
Anmelden: outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikida
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Europe’s next-generation night trains aim to draw passengers away from planes
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Es geht los! Weltpremiere! Das Innendesign des Nightjets der Neuen Generation wird bei der Pressekonferenz mit Klimaschutzministerin , ÖBB CEO und Rolling Stock CEO vorgestellt. #NightjetNewGen
© ÖBB / Kerschner
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The oldest video games are now about 70 years old—and their stories are disappearing.
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How gendered is the clothing offer for children? For our data analysis, we examined 20,000 shirts and shorts from , and that they offer online for children under 10. The results show: Current children's fashion cements gender images. 🧵
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From ›Metamorphosis‹ to ›Otto Mops [trotzt]‹ – the DLA Marbach also collects computer #games. Our virtual workshop starts at 11 a.m. We are looking forward to exciting discussions. Join us on Zoom: dla-marbach.de/kalender/detai
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Today at 11 am CET is hosting an international top level workshop on game collecting + archiving with: , , , , , , , , , a.o.
Join for free: bit.ly/3xF79f8
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On Friday, I will be moderating (as a #Wikidata volunteer) a panel about video game metadata at the workshop “Games: Collecting, archiving, accessibility”.
A public discussion with & ( & ).
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Virtual Workshop on June 24 at @DLAMarbach: "Games: Collecting, archiving, accessibility". In connection with @Digitale_Spiele. Info on participation at dla-marbach.de/kalender/detai
#Games #GameStudies #Videogames #GamesArchive #CollectingGames
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I'm very happy to talk at "Games: Collecting, archiving, accessibility" (24.6.2022) about metadata of video games! And will be the host of the session! Really looking forward to this event. And great news: It's open to everyone! dla-marbach.de/kalender/detai
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Virtual Workshop on June 24 at : "Games: Collecting, archiving, accessibility". In connection with . Info on participation at dla-marbach.de/kalender/detai
#Games #GameStudies #Videogames #GamesArchive #CollectingGames
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To learn more about #Wikidata and/or the video games project, check out my 2019 introductory blog post commonists.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/wik
Or head over to wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata: and follow the links.
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Looking for more insights? Check out our showcase #SPARQL queries: wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:
Graph of genres? w.wiki/5F$i
Timeline of games per platform? w.wiki/5F$h
Graph of the characters present in Mario franchise games? w.wiki/5F$m
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(We had actually passed the milestone of “50K games” on Wikidata earlier. “instance of”=“video game” does not tell the full story, as we have a long tail of subclasses also used as P31 [for good and bad])
wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:
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…and a very, very long tail of highly specialized & lovingly niche databases − a lot in English, but also Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Danish, Polish, Russian. wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:
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Over at Wikidata we link to hundreds of other video game databases.
The king here is , linked from 52% of games. Then come 34%, 27%, 23%, 20%, 19%, ’ MediaArts Database 17%…
w.wiki/5Fvr
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What I also find interesting is to look at items linked to only one : some 13% only have an article in the English, almost 10% only in Japanese, then French with 3%.
Some games appear to be described only in Kazakh, Bosnian, Malay or Latin (!)
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77% of the items are linked to an article in at least one language-version of − English comes first (52%), then French (30%) and then Japanese (25%).
w.wiki/5EHZ
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Just above 53% have a “country of origin” (P495): Japan & USA (both 16%) ahead ; and only one game recorded from Paraguay, Cameroon, Uzbekistan or the UAE.
w.wiki/5FRV & wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:
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(we have a very long tail of 600 distinct values used as genres − many of which could use a clean-up, granted 🙂 )
wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:
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