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Tasks

Mix'n'Match

• Match people names
  • Match people names using visual match
• Match place names
  • Match place names using visual match

Tabernacle

• Add OpenStreetMap identifiers

Direct edits in Wikidata

• Add required properties to matched places (link to be added)
• Enhance Wikidata items for people (link to be added)

Wikidata properties to add

* — required for queries, other properties listed are recommended if known

For places

• country (P17): United States of America (Q30)
• located in the administrative territorial entity (P131): Queens (Q18424)*
• coordinate location (P625)*
• named after (P138)*
  • Add reference using reference URL (P854) and nameexplorer.urbanarchive.me URL as the value (example)
• One of the following OpenStreetMap properties:
  • OpenStreetMap relation ID (P402)
  • OpenStreetMap way ID (P10689)
  • OpenStreetMap node ID (P11693)

For co-named streets

• instance of (P31): co-named street (Q124461364)
• located on street (P669): Wikidata item for street that has been co-named

For schools

See Wikidata:WikiProject NYC Open Education Data

For people

For individual person

• instance of (P31): human (Q5)*
• occupation (P106)
• date of birth (P569)
• date of death (P570)

See Wikidata:WikiProject Biographical Identifiers and Wikidata:Living people

For group of people

• instance of (P31): group of humans (Q16334295) or more specific item, i.e. musical group (Q215380) or family (Q8436)*

Queries

List of places and namesakes: dynamic list of Wikidata items located in the administrative territorial entity Queens with a named after statement (excludes neighborhoods, churches, and places named after human settlements)