Wikidata:WikiProject LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group/Affinity Group Calls/Meeting Notes/2019-12-03

Call Details

• Date: 2019-12-03
• Topic: Wikidata Gadgets
• Presenter: Hilary Thorsen

Presentation material

• Call Agenda
• Presentation slides
• Wikidata Gadgets

Notes

Wikidata Gadgets

• Gadgets can be very helpful, but aren’t very well documented, so Hilary will walk through a list to uncover some of the gems.
• Enabled/disabled through the Gadgets section of your Wikidata account Preferences page

Enabled by default

• PopupsFix - doesn’t seem to make a difference
• Search - drop down arrow to the right of search box enables searching site links (Wikipedia page titles) based on whatever language you are using in Wikidata
• Protection indicators - adds a padlock to pages that have been protected, indicating the type of protection for that page
• AuthorityControl - mainly works behind the scenes

Optional

• Merge - helps you merge items that you’ve identified as duplicates
• labelLister - adds a tab between Read and Edit that shows and edits labels, descriptions, and aliases from other languages; easy editing interface
• RequestDeletion - adds a “Request deletion” link to the More tab near Read and Edit
• Descriptions - shows the descriptions of items and properties when you hover over them
• KeyShortcuts - lets you press a key to jump to a specific editing activity; for example:
  • “l” to edit the label
  • “d” to edit the description
  • “f” to jump to the start of the statements
  • “i” to jump to sitelinks
  • “a” to start adding a new statement
• Transliteration - appends approximate transliteration to each site link
• Reasonator - adds a link to the left column “Tools” to display the item in Reasonator (a more human-friendly display based on the item type, grouping properties, etc; for example Laurentian University)
• DuplicateReferences - makes it easy to add the same reference to multiple statements
• EasyQuery - adds an ellipsis (…) icon to statements to help you find other items with the same statement
• currentDate - automatically populates the current date when you add a “retrieved” property
• Recoin - estimates the relative completeness of the information about the item (compared to similar items); shows you which properties are potentially missing
• Relateditems - displays inverse relationships (items that link to the item you’re looking at)