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Scholia is a Wikidata-based tool to visualize linked data around articles, books, topics, authors, organizations, and more
Websitehttps://scholia.toolforge.org/
GitHubhttps://github.com/WDscholia

There will be changes in the week of January 20th 2026 regarding the WDQS graph split and sunsetting of the legacy service. There is a https://qlever.scholia.wiki/ mirror running with QLever as backend with the full Wikidata content. This mirror is part of an evaluation of alternatives to Blazegraph.

#wikidata #scholia #qlever

A Scholia hackathon took place this weekend. Documentation is still forthcoming, but some key bits are listed on the event page at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia/Events/Hackathon_October_2024 as well as its talk page.

#wikidata #scholia

Wikidata:Scholia/Events/Hackathon October 2024 - Wikidata

Wikidata:Scholia/Events/Hackathon October 2024 - Wikidata

there is a PR in development for new aspects around podcasts: https://github.com/WDscholia/scholia/pull/2413

What would you expect #Scholia to show for a #podcast, a podcast season, and a podcast episode?

And, should we have an aspect for podcast genre's, another type in #wikidata?

three new aspects: podcast. - episode, and - season) by egonw · Pull Request #2413 · WDscholia/scholia

Description Implements aspects for podcasts. [UNFINISHED] Caveats The functionality is a bit basic at this moment. And I have yet to figure out how people link to books, papers they discuss on a sh...

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The Disease aspect landing page also got modernized and now shows an example how the redirection functionality is used for OMIM identifiers, see https://scholia.toolforge.org/disease/
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Other improvements are smaller but not less interesting. For example, for works we now display a link if the work replies to another work (as defined by a https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2675 statement)
reply to

the intellectual work to which the subsequent work is a direct reply

A second new feature is that on the Taxon aspect, the list of metabolites found in that taxon now shows the chemical structure of them, e.g. see https://scholia.toolforge.org/taxon/Q12024#metabolome (Pinus) #chemistry #taxonomy
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In a recent coding sprint, several updates to Scholia have been made, including a number of new features. #wikidata

For example, the Dataset aspect now has a "cite" button, that allows you to export the citation in BiBTeX, BibLaTeX, CFF, and several other formats.

Scholia runs on the Toolforge platform with many other tools. Scholia is in the top 10 of tools with the most requests! Thanks to all our users! More info on the new hack at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87001#8898859 #wikidata
⚓ T87001 Provide basic page view metrics for individual tools on toolforge

a few pull requests from fnielsen, cthoyt, and egonw got merged in and rolled out online. Some tweaks of existing queries and a new feature to lists sponsors of events, e.g. now visible at https://scholia.toolforge.org/event/Q111430238 #wikidata
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