Wikidata:WikiProject India/Newsletter/2020 07 01
Welcome to
WikiProject India
Newsletter
 | This is the fourth quarterly newsletter related to WikiProject India (Q11037573) on Wikidata. In this newsletter, we have summarised what happened related to WikiProject India from April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2020. |
Past events edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- 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
Other Related News edit
Query examples: edit
- 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 edit
- Help us track the COVID-19 pandemic in India!
- Help us match things to Wikidata items!
- Wiki Loves Monuments will be starting in September. Help us migrate ASI monuments into Wikidata soon!
See also edit
- Wikidata status updates for more news related to Wikidata.