@WikiLibrary (27 Nov 2018) Tweet: Wikipedia's visual editor reference generator Citoid can create a citation from a Wikidata QID number alone. Try it in your sandbox with this one Q215410 (Huck Finn) #WikiCite
Wikidata {{short description|Canadian businessman}} can be imported into Wikipedia articles. Thanks Flapjacktastic
Click on the "Create a new item" on the Wikidata menu to the upper right
Open a window with a similar existing Wikidata item, for example a book on the same theme
The window includes:
"Please make sure that the item you want to create complies with our notability policy and that it doesn't already exist. If you want to create an item about a living person, be mindful of their privacy. We appreciate it if you create a label and a description for all of your new items. The first letter of your label should only be capitalized if it is a proper noun (Q147276), and your description should not be phrased as a sentence. By clicking "Create", you agree to the terms of use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the Creative Commons CC0 License."
Fill in each field. The icons to the left such as label offers suggestions.
Language: en
Label: The book title
Description: Art history
Aliases, pipe-separated: Shorter or longer title
Item
Property
Value
Q42
P69
Q691283
Douglas Adams
educated at
St John's College
Confirm that the new data item has been published by searching item in Wikidata search.
I am using this section as a cheat sheet for this inexperienced Wikidata user to help remember the steps for creating a new wikidata entry in a new Wikidata "item page".Oceanflynn (talk)
From the tutorial for beginners
"On the page "The basic idea" in the Wikidata tutorial for beginners, it says,[1]
"Wikipedia is for encyclopedia content, Wikimedia Commons is a repository of media files, and Wiktionary provides definitions and lexical information about words. In Wikidata, the focus is structured data. This makes it possible for humans and computers alike to use the data. Structured data also opens up a whole lot of amazing opportunities you'll learn more about at a later point." The subpage Items says that "Creating a structure for data requires a lot of planning! In order to support something like all the knowledge available on Wikipedia, we first need a way of storing representations of this knowledge. These representations of knowledge are called items. Items are flexible enough to represent abstract concepts like childhood, hunger, and weight as well as real-world objects like a television, a kayak, and a volcano." The next page uses the example of the "item page" for the planet Earth. According to the tutorial, "Each item has its own page—where all the data about it is collected—and a unique identifier. This identifier always looks similar to Q###. While useful for machines and for representing knowledge in a lot of different languages, this identifier is not very human-friendly. We will solve this in the first task of this tour. Let's take a closer look at the item page for planet Earth."
Basic steps for creating a new Wikidata item
Before creating a new item, search Wikidata to ensure the item does not already exist.
It must have at "least one valid sitelink to a page on Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, or Wikimedia Commons."[2]
"It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references."[2]
"It fulfills a structural need, for example: it is needed to make statements made in other items more useful."[2]
Each item page has a numbered Q. Q### is a unique identifier each Wikidata item page.[1]
Each Q###—item page—"also has a label or a "name that most accurately reflects it." "A label is like a page title which describes what the item is about. For example, well known labels are "earth", "cat", "Jupiter", "Hillary Clinton", "city", "planet", "politician".[1]
Each unique Q### page item also has a description which "disambiguates labels by providing more details about an item". The unique Wikidata item label "Earth" can be disambiguated from other uses of "Earth" by adding the different description "2007 nature documentary film". Descriptions should be a phrase—not a sentence—that is as short as possible. Descriptions should be accurate and neutral. Do not use "information that will change over time or that is considered controversial and biased." Use Wikipedia as a "resource for coming up with descriptions for items—often the first two sentences of the item's article will provide enough information."[1]Oceanflynn (talk) 17:29, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
Aliases refer to an alternative name for "Earth", for example, "World". Nicknames, scientific names can be added as aliases.
Added qualifiers include
Statements For example instance of which can be human which is a property
The property human can be stated in a website, retrieved on a specific date, a PubMedId, a reference url, a PMCID,
For articles in scientific journals this data or item page Q41033156 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41033156 provides examples of how to add qualifiers which include:
Statements which include
"instance of" which can be human which is a property
"stated in" for example
Statement 1
Statement 2
Statement 2
The statement inception" can be "inferred from" "Category:Research institutes established in 1938".
