Projects/Support items

Some topical projects initiated by the WMSE team to create basic data. See what's been done and how you can help out. Conferences • This Month in GLAM • GLAM events • Support items • OpenRefine • Maintenance

In order to make data entry easier, we created batches of what we call support items – like places, language names and organizations. We based the selection on Wikidata, below you can see what sort of items have been created this way. This is to avoid the annoying situation where you need something a geographical place when describing your event but it's missing and you get distracted by having to create it.

The Wikimedia movement

The links go to Wikidata queries federated with Metabase so you can see both the Wikidata item and the corresponding Metabase item.

Wikimedia platforms

• WDQ Wikipedia editions. Example: Swedish Wikipedia (Q26)
• WDQ Wikibooks editions. Example: Afrikaans Wikibooks (Q28223)
• WDQ Wikisource editions. Example: Serbian Wikisource (Q27982)
• WDQ Wiktionary editions. Example: Polish Wiktionary (Q28120)
• WDQ Wikivoyage editions. Example: German Wikivoyage (Q25936)

This list was also the basis for creating language items. Example: Bulgarian (Q24835)

Wikimedia affiliates

Organizations that, in Wikidata, have instance of either Wikimedia user group or Wikimedia chapter.

• Source Wikidata query. Example: Wikimedia Norge (Q21870), Wikimedia Community User Group Malta (Q23848)

Places

Countries of the world and their capitals.

• WDQ Countries. Example: Sweden (Q24216)
• WDQ Capitals. Example: Berlin (Q22324)

Organizations

There are a lot of GLAMs and other content partners out there (and in Wikidata), and here they tend to be created ad-hoc, when need arises. We did however identify some potentially useful Wikidata batches that were mass-created. By "potentially useful" we mean there's a non-zero probability some sort of collaboration project involving the institution has been done by the Wikimedia movement, so these items might come to use.

• WDQ National museums (instance of = national museum). Example: British Museum (Q25854)
• WDQ National libraries (instance of = national library). Example: National Library of Wales (Q22724)
• WDQ GLAM described in the OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey. Example: Reuenthal Fortress museum (Q29116)
• WDQ Organizations that have a content partnership category. Example: Gallen-Kallela-Museum (Q25685)
• WDQ United Nations organs and agencies. Example: UNESCO (Q23341)