As part of a series of editathons across wikis that are to take place around India's 72nd Independence Day, a Wikidata "label-a-thon" will take place around this same time. As the name of this specific activity may hint, the primary objective of this "label-a-thon" is to expand and improve on labels, descriptions, and aliases primarily in Indian languages—though we still welcome everyone else to join!—for items related to India and Indian topics. You may join by adding your name in the #Participants section below (please note that inactive participants may be removed from the list).
A condensed, combined version of these guidelines is given at the bottom of this page.
The main measure of progress for the purposes of this label-a-thon is the expansion and improvement of labels, descriptions, and aliases for the items in the tasks below—primarily in those languages listed on WikiProject India's label statistics page, but also in other languages as well.
You are of course welcome to improve those items in many other ways, though!
In particular, if you decide to create an item to fill a gap in one of the tasks below (such as those entries with "no item yet..."), the contribution measured for the purposes of this label-a-thon will only be gauged based on the expansion of labels/descriptions/aliases on that item, as mentioned above.
You can fork and run the following queries to see how much people have been improving labels/descriptions/aliases with a set of items:
(While we have an outreach dashboard, it is at present not possible to limit the items listed in the 'Activity' tab to those which are in play for this label-a-thon.)
Note that only those items which are part of the below lists, as well as those items which are returned as a result of running the queries at the bottom of the page around the start of the label-a-thon, will be used to assess contributions for this label-a-thon.
Dashrath Manjhi (Q2354612), "Mountain Man", his wife died due to delayed medical care because of a hillock on the road. He broke the mountain later and carved a path
To adjust the language in which labels are returned, as a way to check progress on a given language's labels/descriptions/aliases, change the "en" at the end of the line beginning "SERVICE" in each query to the language code of the language you want to check on. If for a given item the item's QID is returned instead of a label, that means there is no label in that language for that item. (An empty description, or an empty "itemAltLabel", indicates no description or aliases in that language.)
Although the examples given are in English, these guidelines are intended to be language-agnostic and mostly India-oriented, so that they can apply to the labels/descriptions/aliases of any Indian language. You may also find Help:Label, Help:Description, and Help:Aliases useful.
Use the most common name of an entity for its label, and use any abbreviations or longer, official, or less common names as aliases.
e.g. "Gurgaon" is the English label for Gurgaon (Q238508), while "Gurugram" is an alias for that item.
e.g. "Delhi" is the English label for Delhi (Q1353), while "National Capital Territory of Delhi" and "NCT" are aliases for that item.
Any disambiguation information, whether dates or other major identifying characteristics, should be placed in the description unless it is particularly significant. This usually means that any parenthesized information that would ordinarily be at the end of a Wikipedia title and is not part of the original title of the entity should be absorbed into the description somehow.
e.g. until, heaven forbid, another massacre takes place in Jallianwala, the English label for Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Q208855) should remain "Jallianwala Bagh massacre", with no reference to when it happened in the label.
e.g. if there happened to be two enwiki articles with distinct Wikidata items about two versions of Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Q1413414)—an instance where there'd be two parenthesized expressions next to each other for disambiguation—the portion "(On the Bayou)" would remain in the label for both items and the second expression (most likely of the form "{artist name} song") would go into the description.
Descriptions should not be too long; if you find yourself adding more information than would be needed to distinguish the entity you're editing from something else, you're probably writing too much.
e.g. it would not be sufficient to call Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (Q132162) just a 'guru', a 'poet', or a 'writer' in English, without the other two items also present; as there are lots of gurus, poets, and writers, more information for the description would be necessary in those cases.
Do not end a description with a full-stop (or danda "।", for those languages that use it). Descriptions are not meant to be complete sentences—they are intended to be small guides for distinguishing like-named items and as an initial bit of clarifying information otherwise.
When adding a description for an administrative territorial entity (state/district/subdistrict/town/village/city), identify the two levels of administrative division above it, only adding more levels if the top-most level may be ambiguous. (There is generally no need to identify anything larger than a country in such a description.)
e.g. Araria Block (Q12414138)'s English description is "community development block in Bihar's Araria District", identifying the two levels of administrative division (district and state) above it.
e.g. Domai (Q12431207)'s English description is "village in Araria District's Araria C.D. Block", identifying the two levels of administrative division (C.D. block and district) above it.
e.g. Jhumai (Q12429835)'s English description is "village in Barun C.D. Block in Bihar's Aurangabad District", identifying three levels of administrative division (C.D. block, district, and state) above it because omitting "Bihar"—the topmost level—would make the description ambiguous between the Aurangabad Districts of Bihar and Maharashtra (even if it is apparent that Barun C.D. Block is not in Maharashtra).
Do not insert information into the description that is volatile, biased, or controversial in any way.
e.g. Manmohan Singh (Q41914) was in fact the "13th Prime Minister of India" according to the English description, and this is very unlikely to change. If, back in 2013, he were the "current Prime Minister of India", "politician from the Indian National Congress" or even a "famous Indian politician", all of those would have had greater risks of becoming incorrect in the future—what if he wasn't the prime minister in 2015? what if he decided to leave the Congress? what if he were to become engrossed in scandal? (The description "Indian politician" would still be an unambiguous, neutral, non-volatile description of him, even if all of the previous hypothetical scenarios happened, he had retired from Indian politics, and had decided to become an artist or a yogi.)
e.g. it suffices for Virat Kohli (Q213854) to be listed as an "Indian cricket player"; listing any specific team he has played on in the past or plays on at present adds volatility and should be avoided.
You can include potential misspellings of the label as aliases, but be sure to 1) make sure that those misspellings can actually be found in the wild, rather than just anticipating such misspellings, and 2) at least keep spellings of the same word across item labels consistent, as a way of standardizing them.
e.g. keeping "Santhali" as an English alias for Santali (Q33965) is acceptable, and adding "Santhali Wikipedia" as an English alias for Santal Wikipedia (Q55950814) is acceptable to parallel the presence of the alias on the item for the language, but unless some organization uses the spelling "Santhali" in its name in English—for which using "Santhali" in the label would be appropriate—the alternate spelling should be avoided in any other labels that refer to the language and should be relegated to aliases.
e.g. in Bengali, the name of the French president elected in 2017 is properly rendered "এমানুয়েল মাক্রোঁ", but some misspellings of his name, including "এমানুয়েল ম্যাক্রন" and "ইমানুয়েল মেকরন", are found in newspaper articles. These misspellings should never be used for any labels that make reference to him—unless, as above, they are used in an organization's spelling of its own name—and should be relegated to aliases to help those who cannot spell it. (If the subject of an item renders its own name in some way counter to your own conception of how it should be rendered—e.g. আলি vs. আলী for "Ali" in Bengali—you should still defer to the way the item's subject renders it for a label.)
Do not add as aliases anything that is not notable on its own as a way to refer to the item's subject.
e.g. Shah Rukh Khan (Q9535) may have "King Khan", "SRK", and perhaps many other names by which people refer to him as aliases (be sure that they are actually used somewhere before putting them down!), but the names of his children should never be aliases on his item.
e.g. A. R. Rahman (Q108560) can have both "Allahrakka Rahman" and "A. S. Dileep Kumar" as aliass, as those are his full and birth names, but the item should not have names of his songs (such as "Latka Dikha Diya Humne") or any section headings in his Wikipedia article (such as "Musical style and impact of A. R. Rahman") as aliases.
Avoid adding honorifics and titles to the label for a person.
e.g. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Q234898) does not need "His Holiness" in the label (or in any aliases, for that matter), and other titles such as "Major General" or "Sri(mati)" for others need not be added either.
This result page has been prepared. More statistical details might be added, or minor changes may be made. Please consider this section as Under construction. If you have questions about these statistics, please ask here
Thanks a ton for your contribution, dedication, and care. It has been a fascinating experience to work together during the event. We believe that any statistic can not measure or assess the amazing time we spent together, and the love and care we showed to each other.
Here we are publishing statistics (although as we told above statistic is not the best way to represent the spirit of the festival we celebrated together).
All statistics below were gathered through analysis of the outputs of the Quarry queries above.
QuickTools: 1825 edits were made with the QuickStatements tool, and 881 edits were made with Reasonator (thanks to those who figured out those tools!).
Greatest additions for certain languages: The greatest additions for certain languages were 4139 new te descriptions, 4011 new te labels, 3241 new bn labels, 2506 new hi descriptions, 2364 new kn labels, 1792 new bn descriptions, 1583 new or labels, 1551 new or descriptions, 1400 new kn descriptions, and 1186 new hi labels.
QuickTools: No edits were made with the QuickStatements tool, and 2 edits were made with Reasonator.
Greatest additions for certain languages: The greatest additions for certain languages were 1100 new en descriptions, 715 new en labels, 329 changed en descriptions, 321 new de descriptions, 169 new it descriptions, 143 new fr descriptions, 63 changed en labels, and 26 changed de descriptions.
, German scholar, hugely contributed to Indian religion studies
Under construction. If you have questions about these statistics, please ask here