Wikidata:WikiProject India/Newsletter/2020 04 01

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Past events

Offline

• 01.03.2020 - Revolving cafe was arranged at Train the Trainer 2020 to introduce Wikidata to the event participants.

Online

• 07.03.2020 - 08.03.2020 - Online Data-a-thon on Open Data Day 2020 by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala

Newest properties

• External Identifiers - Punjabipedia ID (P7820), Sarvavijnanakosam ID (P7821), Saregama artist ID (P7839), NPDRMI record ID (P7868), Bollywood Hungama person alphabetic ID (P7923), Jurisdiction List number (P7925), m3db.com film ID (P8035), m3db.com person ID (P8036)

Milestones

• All colleges of Karnataka (Q1185), Goa (Q1171), Puducherry (Q66743), Arunachal Pradesh (Q1162), Nagaland (Q1599), Tripura (Q1363) are now on Wikidata.
• The paintings collected at Victoria Memorial (Q1356352) are now on Wikidata. Add depicts (P180) to those items.
• ASI protected monuments of Gujarat are now on Wikidata and ready for Wiki Loves Monuments this year.

Ongoing

COVID-19 affected states of India

• Information about Hindustani and Carnatic ragas are slowly being added to Wikidata (with playable arohana/avarohana).
• We have begun adding structured data regarding Indian train services.
• Metadata ingestion of two GLAM institutes of West Bengal, i.e. Victoria Memorial (Q1356352) and Indian Museum (Q1364900) are underway
• A task force has been formed to track COVID-19 pandemic in India (Q84055514). Join the initiative to help us update the situation! Check
  • the map to know about the distribution of the disease at the district level.
  • the line graph to check the growth of detected cases at the state level.

Other related news

• Do you know, we post one query everyday related to India through our Twitter handle and Facebook page. Follow us!
• 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

• Image grid of Indian authors whose works entered the public domain in 2020
• Image grid of signatories of the Constitution of India
• Map of Indian rail lines, color-coded by Indian Railways division
• Map of places in West Bengal named after Subhas Chandra Bose
• Map of post offices in Nagaland

Get involved

• Help us match things to Wikidata items!
  • people on Bollywood Hungama
  • CBSE-affiliated schools
  • CISCE-affiliated schools
• Help us track the COVID-19 pandemic in India!

See also

• Wikidata status updates for more news related to Wikidata.