StarryGrandma
Joined 7 October 2013
Help pages
- Help:Contents and Category:Help-en
- Help:Description - short phrase to disambiguate items with the same label - AutoDesc
- Help:Items - mainspace is item namespace
- Help:Label - do not have to be unique
- Help:Merge
- Help:Properties - have their own namespace, included in mainspace search by default
- Help:Sources, Help talk:Sources
- Template:Cite item - gives errors if item uses authorstring
- User:Research Bot - uses full title of a scientific article as its label
Searching
- Special:Search - search Wikidata items and properties by label (and "Also known as"), use "Advanced" to specify namespaces
- Special:ItemByTitle - search for Wikidata items by their title on a given language Wikipedia site
- Special:ItemDisambiguation - search Wikidata items by exact label in a given language
Editing tools
- QuickStatements
- WikiData Remote editor (WiDaR)
- Wikidata Vandalism Dashboard - can choose language to watch, have some parameters set here
Data quality
- Wikidata:Notability
- Elite Plumbing Services, Inc. (Q111383959) (27 March 2022)
- Jason Zuckerman (Q111279676) (17 March 2022)
- Salem Oregon Real Estate Company Near Me | John L. Scott" (Q107344486) (25 June 2021)
- Wikidata:Reliable sources - see Wikidata:Verifiability#Authoritative sources
- Wikidata:Verifiability
Other useful things edit
- Wikipedia article covering multiple topics (Q21484471)
- Wikimedia page relating two or more distinct concepts (Q37152856)
- Wikidata talk:SPARQL query service/WDQS backend update/WDQS backend alternatives (March 2022)
- has link to pdf of "WDQS Backend Alternatives" now that the query engine used, Blazegraph, is no longer supported