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Wikidata

Wikidata is a free, collaborative, multilingual, secondary knowledge base, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other wikis of the Wikimedia movement, and to anyone in the world.

Our goal is to match people and places from Queens Name Explorer to their corresponding Wikidata items, creating new Wikidata items when they do not yet exist.

As we match, edit, and create Wikidata items for people and places, it will power a dynamic list that includes links to corresponding Wikipedia articles and OpenStreetMap features.

Getting started

New to Wikidata?

1. Create a Wikidata username if you do not yet have one
2. Work through Wiki Edu's Introduction to Wikidata training module
   1. You may also be interested in the Evaluating Data on Wikidata and Adding to Wikidata modules

Tasks

Beginner tasks

Mix'n'Match

• Match people names (people dashboard)
• Match place names (places dashboard)

Tabernacle

• Add OpenStreetMap identifiers

Intermediate tasks

• Add required properties to matched places
• Enhance Wikidata items for matched people

Advanced tasks

• Develop additional SPARQL queries to help visualize Queens Name Explorer data

Wikidata properties to add to items

Properties required for queries are indicated, 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) (required for queries)
• coordinate location (P625) (required for queries)
• named after (P138) (required for queries)
  • 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)
• Places with Wikimedia Commons Category but no image (P18) on Wikidata
• Most common occupations of people who have a place named after them in Queens