Wikidata:WikiProject India/Newsletter/2020 10 01

Welcome to

WikiProject India

Main

Noticeboard

Events

Queries

Skill share

Newsletter

Merchandise

WikiProject India
Newsletter

This is the fifth quarterly newsletter related to WikiProject India (Q11037573) on Wikidata. In this newsletter, we have summarised what happened related to WikiProject India from July 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020.

Past Events edit

21/08/2020 - Mahir256 conducted a Skill share session on the possible uses of lexicographical data for Sanskrit.
22.08.2020 - Wikidata Workshops 2020 by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala.
26.08.2020 - Mahir256 conducted a Skill share session on the possible uses of lexicographical data for Marathi.
01.09.2020 - 02.09.2020 - Onam Label-a-thon 2020 by Wikidata:WikiProject Kerala.

Upcoming events edit

WikiProject India will conduct series of events on the occasion of 8th birthday of Wikidata. For worldwide events, check out here. How will you celebrate?

11.10.2020 - Sum of all Paintings webinar to be conducted by Jane023.
12.10.2020 - 28.10.2020 - Sum of all Indian paintings datathon
17.10.2020 - Abstract Wikipedia webinar to be conducted by DVrandecic (WMF).
18.10.2020 - Wikidata Lexeme webinar to be conducted by Mahir256.

Newest Properties edit

General Properties - tala (P8535), raga (P8536)
External Identifiers - LSG localbody code (P8573)

Milestones edit

Around 40,000 items of villages in West Bengal are now geotagged. See the map where the villages are color-coded according to their location in the community development blocks..
Lexeme-forms tool now can support Bengali adjectives, adverbs and verbs.
Lexeme-forms tool has now an option for Manbhumi (Q6747180) adjectives, adverbs and verbs, making it the first dialect to be supported by the tool.
The number of items with Bengali labels has surpassed 3 million. See how your language compares here.
The lists of monuments included in Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India photographic competition, are all fetched from Wikidata now.
Wikidata generated infoboxes are now deployed for author, work and publisher namespaces of Bengali Wikisource now. Check the author page of Rabindranath Tagore for example.

Query examples: edit

Indian Ministers of External Affairs, as rendered by Oravrattas’s PositionHolderBot.
Image grid of members of the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly.
Grid of images depicting the flag of India, using the beta Wikimedia Commons Query Service.
Timeline of dates on which Indian legislation as applied to Chandigarh was repealed.

Other Related News edit

Follow us on our Twitter and Facebook pages!
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!