Wikidata:WikiProject Random/Contributing
Various ways you might find inspiration to improve items and modelling.
Only contribute what you're comfortable with. Some items may be difficult to model and require in-depth discussion. Some items may be difficult to research or require specialist knowledge to really improve. Feel free to leave them be.
Remember to add yourself to Wikidata:WikiProject Random/Participants. This way an additional five items will be added to the list on the next update.
Watch the generation page to be notified of new generations.
Editing tips edit
- Try picking a single item and aim to add as much detail as you can - or alternatively try adding one piece of information to each item.
- Handy gadgets to enable in your gadget preferences:
- Recoin - find the most commonly applied properties for similar items and get a visual indicator for how relatively complete the item is.
- relatedItems - find inverse statements to help see linked items which could be improved.
- If properties to add relevant information are missing, please formulate a property proposal.
- If you identify an issue with an item that could apply to a hundreds or thousands of similar items, attempt to formulate a bot request to improve them. If items were initially created by bot, draw the attention of the item creator to the point.
Basic ideas edit
- Ensure all items have a label and description in your native language.
- Check instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279) is accurate.
- Add applicable name in native language (P1559) (people), title (P1476) (works), native label (P1705) (places).
- Use the search links, e.g. search Mix'n'match for external identifiers that match the item. Can provide valuable sources of information and increase notability of the item with interlinked information.
- Try to link the item from relevant other items (e.g. author of a publication, location of some event).
Advanced ideas edit
- Add sources to existing statements. Much of Wikidata currently lacks proper sourcing. Statements imported from Wikipedia are a great place to start improving since the sources should be given in the article.
- Research the subject and add new information using your sources. Make sure to follow Help:Sources which may require creating new source items (written work/periodical modelling).
- Fix constraint violations on items. This can vary from a simple change of value, to changing the constraint itself or even digging deeper and changing the class hierarchy of the item.
- Add new constraints to properties. This can be a quick way to make a wide reaching change which will improve the data on other items. See Help:Property_constraints_portal.