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This is the first quarterly newsletter related to WikiProject India (Q11037573) in Wikidata. In this newsletter, we will discuss about what happened in the past related to Wikidata activities in India.

WikiProject India related major timeline:

• 07.09.2017 - WikiProject India was initiated by Titodutta
• 08.09.2017 - WikiProject ISRO started.
• 18.09.2017 - WikiProject West Bengal started.
• 23.07.2018 - WikiProject Indian Railways started.
• 13.09.2018 - Mahir256 created the logo representing Indian flag but with Wikidata touch. The top set of bars reads "संहिता" and the bottom set reads "தரவுகள்" in Morse code. The Ashoka Chakra of Indian flag was replaced with a circular version of the Wikidata logo.
• 24.05.2019 - Kerala started its journey as separate WikiProject.

Major Past Events

Offline

Participants of Advanced Wikidata Workshop in Mumbai

• 30.04.2016 - 01.05.2016: Community Capacity Development by Asaf (WMF) in Chennai (Q1352)    for Tamil community.
• 30.08.2017 - 19.09.2017: A series of Wikidata technical training conducted by Asaf (WMF) in Kochi (Q1800)   , Mangaluru (Q127041)   , Hyderabad (Q1361)   , Chandigarh (Q43433)   , Bhubaneswar (Q171771)   , Kolkata (Q1348)    and Pune (Q1538)   .
• 05.07.2018: 1st Wikidata workshop at Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology (Q16345780)    (VVIT).
• 19.07.2018: 2nd Wikidata workshop at VVIT.
• 22.07.2018 - 29.07.2018: Wikidata Editing Campaign at VVIT.
• 28.10.2018 - 29.10.2018: Wikidata 6th Birthday workshop in Delhi (Q1353)   .
• 29.10.2018: Wikidata 6th Birthday workshop at Cochin University of Science and Technology (Q3530803)   .
• 15.12.2018 - 16.12.2018 - Advanced Wikidata Workshop in Mumbai (Q1156)   
• 25.01.2019: 3rd Wikidata workshop at VVIT.

Online

• 21.02.2018 - 03.03.2018 -- International Mother Language Day 2018 editathon
• 15.08.2018 - 19.08.2018 - Indian Independence Day 2018 labelathon
• 21.02.2019 - 02.03.2019 - International Mother Language Day 2019 editathon
• 15.08.2019 - 22.08.2019 - Indian Independence Day 2019 datathon including a 24-hours datathon at VVIT.

Sessions

Wikidata -- A Gentle Introduction for Complete Beginners by Asaf Bartov in WikiConference India 2016.

• 06.08.2016 - Wikidata -- A Gentle Introduction for Complete Beginners by Asaf (WMF) in WikiConference India 2016 (Q63214348)   , Chandigarh (Q43433)   
• 16.08.2019 - Growing Wikidata in Emerging Communities (India as a case study) by KCVelaga and Bodhisattwa in Wikimania 2019 (Q48010913)   , Stockholm (Q1754)   

Milestones

Huge data ingestion happened in West Bengal from October 2018 to May 2019

• 50 properties related to India are now in Wikidata, including 4 specific to West Bengal, 2 specific to Gujarat, and 1 specific to Kerala.
• 9038 Indian railway stations are in Wikidata now; the network in West Bengal is also entirely connected. Check the data completeness in world railways statistics page.
• 13465 Indian hospitals are now in Wikidata, 95% of them are located in West Bengal, where all Government run hospitals were covered. Check the data completeness in world hospital statistics page.
• Complete election data about 8246 candidates participating in 2014 Indian general election (Q3587169)    in 543 Lok Sabha constituencies were added.
• Went from 685,000 labels in Bengali on 05.11.2018 to 1 million by 08.04.2019.
• 40374 villages of West Bengal now have 2001 and 2011 Indian census data.
• 11319 schools of Kerala have Wikidata items now.

Other Related News

• 3 months long Wikidata Training Program involving 19 participants just completed on 22 September 2019 at VVIT.
• indiancine.ma (Q57313411) donated their entire dataset on Indian movies to be included in Wikidata. You can help match them here
• Jayprakash12345 from Indic-TechCom developed a javascript to easily add/modify coordinates into Wikidata items using OSM.
• A coordination page has been created for WikiProject India participants to share skills with each other.

Query examples:

• Map showing Indian railway stations with connecting line and adjacent stations
• Image grid showing cultural heritage designation in India
• Map showing flight connections between Indian airports
• Bubble chart showing population growth in districts of India between 2001 and 2011.
• Count of items for bank branches in India by district

Get involved

• Add P21 to those Indians whose gender is missing in Wikidata.
• Add P734 to those Indians who don’t have surname in WIkidata.
• Locate and add coordinates for architectural structures situated in Tamil Nadu.

Coming soon

• Wikidata's Seventh Birthday (How will you celebrate?)
• WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin (Q64)   

See also

• Statistics showing number of Labels, Descriptions and Aliases in Indic languages.
• Wikidata status updates for more news related to Wikidata.