Wikidata:Tools/Edit items

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Improving the wikidata.org interface

For userscripts to improve the editing experience on wikidata.org, see Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface#Userscripts to aid editing.

Web applications

Author Disambiguator (Q76693569)
This web application finds works with a given "author name string" value in Wikidata, groups them based on coauthors and other attributes, and allows you to map those "author name string" values to an author item via a QuickStatements upload, or directly via the Wikidata API for users who authenticate using OAuth. See the wiki page for more information.
by ArthurPSmith
BnF To Wikidata (Q108311072)
Create or update a Wikidata item about a person, using sourced data from the National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France, also known as BnF).
by Envlh
Harvest Templates (Q21914398)
Tool to harvest Wikimedia templates
by Pasleim
IdRef To Wikidata
Create or update a Wikidata item about a person, using sourced data from IdRef (delivered by the French agency Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur, also known as Abes).
by Envlh
Mix-n-match (Q28054658)
Mix'n'match can list entries of some external databases, and allows users to match them against Wikidata items.
by Magnus Manske
Multi-track Drafting (Q121850118)
Multi-track Drafting
A small web app for easily editing album (Q482994) items on Wikidata by creating items for individual tracks, and then adding them as tracklist (P658) statements on the album item. (Manual)
by Nicereddy
Names As Labels (Q21640602)
Copy labels which are proper names from one language to another.
by Magnus Manske
QuickStatements 2 (Q29032512)
QuickStatements 2
This tool can add or remove statements (with optional qualifiers and sources) to Wikidata items and can run in batch mode. See documentation at Help:QuickStatements.
by Magnus Manske
WDFIST (WikiData Free Image Search Tool) (Q21283216)
For random items you get image suggestions (taken from the item's articles), and can click to set that image as the item's image (P18). You can restrict to a particular topic or area using very flexible criteria.
by Magnus Manske
Wikidata Game
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=203 Wikidata Game is a complicated website with many activities. Here, a machine finds potential actions and has buttons to accept or deny. Then the machine edits Wikidata automatically under your name. However, you are responsible for these edits. A WiDaR account is needed to access the Game.
by Magnus Manske
Wikidata Game (Distributed)
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=362

The Distributed Game is a complicated website with many activities. Here, a machine finds potential actions and has buttons to accept or deny. Then the machine edits Wikidata automatically under your name. However, you are responsible for these edits.

A WiDaR account is needed to access The Distributed Game.
by Magnus Manske
Wikidata Image Positions
Wikidata Image Positions
Tool to show and add relative position within image (P2677) qualifiers on depicts (P180) statements on Wikidata items as areas on the item’s image (P18).

Examples:

by Lucas Werkmeister
Wikidata Recent Changes (Q108296900)
Wikidata Recent Changes
Tool to patrol and rollback edits made on Wikidata
by Pasleim
Wikidata Terminator (Q110854569)
This tool can find Wikidata items that lack a label, description, or article in a specific language.
by Magnus Manske
Wiki ShootMe! (Q26964791)
Wiki ShootMe!
Find places nearby (by coordinates, or Q, or article) that have items on Wikidata but no images yet. If you are a traveler, insert your location to find places near you that have items on Wikipedia, but no photos. Once you find a location near you, you can take photos and upload them to Wikipedia to help expand the article. Manual.
by Magnus Manske
Wikidata Orcid Scraper (Q125935365)
This tool fetches DOIs from https://orcid.org/ for a specific author and curate them using Scholia. It gives users an overview of which DOIs are missing and helps them easily import missing articles one by one. Wikidata Orcid Scraper Manual.
by So9q
Wikidata Topic Curator (Q124608161)
Curate topics and add them to subgraphs like scientific articles or Riksdagen documents. Wikidata Topic Curator Manual.
by So9q

Other tools

Cita (Q108311142)
Cita
Adds citations metadata (i.e., what other items an item cites) support to the reference management software Zotero, using cites work (P2860) information from Wikidata, and enabling users to easily contribute missing data.
by Diegodlh
Commons Android app (Q52429227)
Commons Android app
Find nearby Wikidata items missing an image, take pictures and easily upload them to Wikimedia Commons
by Misaochan
Daty (Q60949478)
Daty
Daty is a cross-platform free Wikidata editor adhering to GNOME (Q44316) Human Interface Guidelines, intended to enable a better editing workflow and faster deployment of requested user features for Wikidata.
by Ogoorcs
OpenRefine (Q5583871)
OpenRefine
Open source data wrangling software which can be used to align datasets with Wikidata, with advanced matching on names and properties. It can then be used to import these datasets in Wikidata. See the tutorials for that.
by Pintoch
Pywikibot (Q15169668)
Powerful Python programmatic interface to update Wikidata items, and MediaWiki pages. Can be used from a Linux shell or Wikidata:PAWS. Documentation available on Manual:Pywikibot/Wikidata, examples on Wikidata:Pywikibot - Python 3 Tutorial/Labels.
Wikidata for Web (Q99894727)
Wikidata for Web
An extension for Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, that displays Data from Wikidata on various websites and also allows extraction of data from these websites.
by Shisma
Wikidata Missing Pictures (offline)
Traveling with a smartphone but no Internet (or expensive Internet)? Load the GPX or KML file in your offline maps application, and go take pictures of Wikidata items that do not have an image (P18) yet. Like Wiki ShootMe! but offline.
by Syced
Wiki Explorer (Q94986881)
Wiki Explorer
Find and explore objects that are close to you and described on Wikipedia & Wikidata. Enable notifications when objects are close to you. Edit items with the ease of one click. Documentation
by Wikiexplorerapp
WikibaseJS-cli (Q87194660)
WikibaseJS-cli
A command-line interface to Wikidata or any other Wikibase (Q16354758) instance, based on wikibase-edit. It can be used from the terminal as an alternative interface to the web browser interface, or in scripts to run many edits.
by Maxlath
Wwwyzzerdd (Q108267084)
Wwwyzzerdd
Browser extension that lets you import statements, descriptions, aliases from Wikipedia articles
by BrokenSegue
Zotero (import) (Q226915)
Has a Wikidata script that can import metadata about works from Wikidata, and another that exports data as commands for QuickStatements. See Wikidata:Zotero


Improving the interface of other websites

Check site links (Q108311130)
When editing a Wikipedia article, the script adds an action link (near search box) to remove the sitelinks which are already available on Wikidata.
Userscript
Please add the following to your common.js on Wikipedia or to your global.js:
mw.loader.load("//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Yair_rand/checksitelinks.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"); // [[d:User:Yair rand/checksitelinks.js]]
by Yair rand (source)

See also