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External mentions of Wikidata and video games.

Reports

• Yannick Rochat; Éléonore Bernard; Aurore Lüscher; Robin François; Selim Krichane; Magalie Vetter; Lucas Taddei; Daniel Carron (1 August 2022), Sauvegarder le jeu vidéo suisse: État des lieux de la préservation du jeu vidéo en Suisse et dans le monde (in French), Memoriav, Wikidata Q116770055

Articles

• Kazufumi Fukuda (2019). "Using Wikidata as Work Authority for Video Games". Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, DCMI-2019, Seoul, South Korea, September 23-26, 2019. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. doi:10.23106/DCMI.952141771. S2CID 211224882. Wikidata Q70467546. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020.

Conference talks

• Jean-Frédéric, (12 July 2023), Wikidata and the sum of all video games: putting the "linked" in video game metadata, LD4 Conference 2023 (Q117466379) (slides, recording)
• Jean-Frédéric, Envel Le Hir, Tracy Hoffmann, (26 October 2019), Sum of All video games: our road to make Wikidata the hub of all video game metadata, WikidataCon 2019 (Q42449814)
• Tracy Hoffmann (18 October 2019), Using Wikidata for Video Game Research, doi:10.5281/ZENODO.3515882, Wikidata Q105389003
• Peter Chan (10 October 2019) Lightning talk “Video Game Controlled Vocabulary in Wikidata”, LD4 Conference 2019 (Q105388521) (slides, recording)
• Jean-Frédéric (2 July 2019), Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games, workshop “Videogame and Visual Media Data – Community-driven Initiatives and Research Avenues” (Leipzig University Library (Q872896))
• Peter Chan (7 January 2019) “Should Wikidata/Wikibase be part of our solution?”, International Digital Game Preservation 2019 (Q111306569) (slides)

Posters

• Jean-Frédéric, Envel Le Hir, Tracy Hoffmann, Sum of All Video Games Poster, WikidataCon 2019 (Q42449814)
• Jean-Frédéric, Envel Le Hir, Sum of All Video Games Poster, Wikimania 2019 (Q48010913)

Blog posts

• From the International Videogame Data Network (Q105387431):
  • Tracy Hoffmann; Peter Chan (29 January 2019). "Linking the OLAC Video Game Vocabulary with Wikidata". International Videogame Data Network. Wikidata Q71947365. Archived from the original on 22 December 2019.
  • Winfried Bergmeyer (2 May 2019). "The International Computer Game Collection is online". International Videogame Data Network. Wikidata Q71949945.

Internal

• Connor Shea (20 September 2023), Mass-importing games from Steam into Wikidata
• Jean-Frédéric (1 March 2023), Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2023 edition
• Jean-Frédéric (7 June 2022), 50,000 video games on Wikidata
• Jean-Frédéric (2 February 2022), Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2021 edition
• Jean-Frédéric (21 February 2021), Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2020 edition
• Jean-Frédéric (4 February 2020), Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2019 edition
• Jean-Frédéric (10 October 2019), Wikidata, the underground fungus in the vast forest that is the Internet
• Envel Le Hir (3 March 2019), Matching BnF and Wikidata video games using Dataiku DSS
• Connor Shea (12 January 2019), Connecting PCGamingWiki and Wikidata
• Jean-Frédéric 1 January 2019, Wikidata and the sum of all video games − 2018 edition ;

External reuse

Which video game related databases use/reuse/link to Wikidata?

• The Visual Novel Database (Q16646841)
  • See Linking Databases, part 1, 9 August 2019
  • Example
• International Computer Game Collection database (Q63983619)
  • Example
  • Explanations
• Media Arts Database (Q54760023)
  • Creates "Collection" items based on Wikidata
    • Example
  • The Game Cataloging Manual (Q111306694) instructs to record Wikidata IDs
• vglist (Q96096761) is built on top of Wikidata’s data