Wikispecies:Project Wikidata

Welcome to Project Wikidata, a project within the Wikispecies Projects. This page is for those interested in the integration of Wikispecies into wikidata.

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What is Wikidata

Wikidata is a Wikimedia project to create an open and collaborative database. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access and management of structured data, such as interwiki references, external identifiers and statistical information. Wikidata contains data and labels in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects.

Mission

To discuss integration of Wikispecies with Wikidata, and serve as a collaboration platform with Wikidata:Wikispecies.

Current status

As of October 2021, Wikispecies uses Wikidata for:

• Interwiki links (links to equivalent pages in Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource etc) for all relevant pages
• Images of taxa (mostly at species level) and of authors; using {{Image}}
• Authority control (identifiers) for authors and for references (e.g. in {{O’Loughlin & O’Hara, 1990}}); using {{Authority control}}
• Lists such as Repositories/Wikidata; Template talk:Théel, 1879 - see Category:Lists based on Wikidata and Special:Contributions/ListeriaBot

And, pending, for templates for journal articles.

Useful script

The user script at d:User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js will insert, below a Wikispecies page's title, a link to the corresponding Wikidata item, or a link to create one if none exists. In the former case, it all also add the label and aliases, in your preferred language.

Simply add the code:

mw.loader.load("//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"); // Backlink: [[d:User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js]]

to your common.js page on this wiki; or to meta:Special:Mypage/global.js (the latter will make it work on all projects)

Templates

• {{P}} – for linking to Wikidata properties
• {{Q}} – for linking to Wikidata items
• {{Image}} – will transclude an image from Wikidata if no local value is specified
• {{Authority control}} – transcludes identifiers from Wikidata

Further reading

• Wikidata:Wikispecies - the inverse of this page, on Wikidata
• Wikidata:WikiProject Taxonomy – includes a table of taxonomy-related properties
• Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData – for citations and journals
• Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control – maintaining index terms for bibliographical material in library catalogues

Participants

• Dan Koehl (talk) 13:52, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
• Andy Mabbett, User:Pigsonthewing
• Daniel Mietchen (talk) 03:11, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
• Faendalimas ^talk 01:27, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
• Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 01:29, 12 October 2016 (UTC).
• EncycloPetey (talk) 23:19, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
• Melissadilara (talk) 16:46, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
• Yayamamo (talk) 04:57, 17 January 2022 (UTC)