Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland

Scope

• Curation of any and all items (biographical, cultural, geographical, organisational, etc...) relating to the UK or Ireland.
• & to be a central forum for editors in or with connections to Ireland or the UK, to promote discussion and involvement with Wikidata.

The project was set up during the London Wikidata Meetup Number 2, 2015-01-07

Stats

As of 18 July 2015, Wikidata claims to contain

• 70680 places in the UK (Autolist) (subclasses) (properties), 3048 places in Ireland (country) (Autolist) (subclasses) (properties), and 2 places in Ireland (island) (Autolist) (properties)
• 181714 places within 665 km of the Isle of Arran (Autolist) (properties); 8458 places within 330 km of Clifden (Autolist) (properties)
• 104749 people of UK citizenship (Autolist) (properties) and 5274 people of Irish citizenship (Autolist) (properties)
• 39213 people born in the (present) UK (Autolist) (properties) and 4044 in Ireland (Autolist) (properties)
• 18859 people who died in the (present) UK (Autolist)(properties) and 792 in Ireland (Autolist]) (properties)
• 2586 events that occurred in the (present) UK (Autolist) (subclasses) (properties) and 137 in Ireland (Autolist) (properties)
• 31690 organisations located or headquartered in the (present) UK (Autolist) (subclasses) (properties) and 290 in Ireland (Autolist) (subclasses) (properties)
• 64805 works located in the (present) UK (Autolist) (subclasses) (properties) and 1410 in Ireland (Autolist) (subclasses) (properties)

Some focus areas

Administrative subdivisions

• Current hierarchy now pretty much in place for UK, at least from a district level up. (Work still needed at the level of civil parishes, towns and villages etc.

See Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland/adm for pages for the different nations,

eg Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland/adm/England, which may be most developed.

• https://w.wiki/5pz Map of civil parishes and ceremonial counties in England

Biographical

• Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians

Item matching

• ODNB -- Item matching the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (via Mix'n'match)

  Status matching complete, but these items: tinyurl.com/pnxr2o4 could use some work on descriptions and properties.

• "Your paintings" painters -- Item matching painters in the BBC Your paintings catalogue of oil paintings in UK public collections.

  Status initial matching done. Sweep underway to run names without RKD links through MnM, to match other catalogues (up to born before 1920 now done -- pausing while MnM auto-matches newly created items); sweep also underway of entries with apparent Commonscats but no items on Wikidata. (now done up to born before 1940)

• DWB -- Item matching the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (via Mix'n'match)
• Open Plaques -- Item matching people in the Open Plaques list of commemorative plaques (via Mix'n'match)
• an increasing number of other catalogues underway at Mix'n'match

Commons

• Much work remains to identify existing Commons categories for the above, and link them to items via P373. Administrative areas are an important priority, because these can then be used to help validate other matches. Searches might be run to identify, eg listed buildings with images but no Commons categories.

Category extraction

Petscans for articles in various language wikis, which have no wikidata item.

• de petscan
• en petscan
• fr petscan
• es petscan
• it petscan
• sco petscan
• cy petscan
• da petscan
• pt petscan

Laws

See Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland/law

Listed buildings and Scheduled Monuments

• National Heritage registers have been added, but there is significant unmerged duplication between items for Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments, and pre-existing items. There are also sometimes several listing numbers for different aspects of the same entity. This makes geographic matching of external items to Wikidata tricky, because there are often several candidates very close to each other.

See Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland/monuments

Scotland

See Wikidata:WikiProject UK and Ireland/Scotland

Participants

+This user is a member of
WikiProject UK and Ireland.

[+] Add yourself to the list

The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|UK and Ireland}}

• Jheald (talk) 09:48, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
• PKM (talk) 19:09, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
• Fabian Tompsett (WMUK) (talk) 08:51, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
• Charles Matthews (talk) 09:27, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
• Filceolaire (talk) 16:27, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
• Danrok (talk) 13:01, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
• Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits
• JJBullet (talk) 10:55, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
• Yirba (talk) 09:53, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Elsewhere

• En-wiki wikiprojects: UK and Ireland
• En-wiki infobox templates: UK (hierarchy); UK place; Ireland station
• En-wiki categories: UK and Ireland
• En-wiki lists: UK and Ireland
• Commons categories: UK and Ireland

Resources

Mailing list

• http://lists.wikimedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l -- WMUK Wikidata list

Upcoming events

• Wikidata introduction day, London, 24 October 2015
• See also: WMUK upcoming events list

Media

London Wikidata Meetup 2, 2015-01-07

Sound recording of London Wikidata Meetup Number 2, 2015-01-07