Wikidata:WikiProject India/Newsletter/2020 07 01

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Past events

• 22 May 2020 – 24 May 2020: Indian scientists datathon
• 21 June 2020: Workshop on writing Wikidata queries under SWT Indic Workshop Series 2020. Watch recording

Newest Properties

• General Properties - Colon Classification (P8248)
• External Identifiers - Indian Railways train number (P8180), Gazette of India notification (P8206), Gitabitan.net ID (P8212), NMMA antiquities ID (P8220), NMMA built heritage ID (P8221)

Milestones

• COVID-19 task force worked together for almost 3 months to update epidemiological data of COVID-19 pandemic in India (Q84055514) at the state and district level.
• Around 3,000 road (Q34442), street (Q79007) and country lane (Q67872222) in Kolkata (Q1348) have Wikidata items now.
• More than 2,000 Rabindra Sangeet (Q3345491) and 250 Ramprasadi song (Q96239403) are now on Wikidata. Wikidata now also have around 600 Bengali filmi music (Q544440) songs performed by Manna Dey (Q156310).
• Lexeme-forms tool now has an option for Bengali nouns to be ingested.

Ongoing

• Acts of the President of India (Q96102920) and Act of the Legislature of West Bengal (Q96048686) are getting created.
• Items for poems written by Rabindranath Tagore (Q7241) are getting created on Wikidata. We even have a map which shows the location where the poems were written.
• Metadata ingestion of Government Museum, Mathura (Q6787359) collections are underway

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• If you want to enhance your skills, learn new ones, have any questions about what we’re doing or how you can help, just ask!

Query examples:

• Line graph of COVID-19 cases, deaths, recoveries, and tests for Tamil Nadu
• Map connecting start and end points of Indian train services
• Bubble chart of Indian institutions by number of clinical trials (with individual Wikidata items) conducted at least in part there
• Map of Vidhan Sabha constituencies in West Bengal and Tripura, color coded by associated Lok Sabha constituency
• Examples of the use of Bengali lexemes

Get involved

• Help us track the COVID-19 pandemic in India!
• Help us match things to Wikidata items!
  • authors published by Rupa Publications
  • films on Indiancine.ma
• Wiki Loves Monuments will be starting in September. Help us migrate ASI monuments into Wikidata soon!

See also

• Wikidata status updates for more news related to Wikidata.