Good question! This didn't used to be possible but should be today with
random access. When I need this it's generally because I want to add
something to those items, and if you are certain of the spelling you can
use quick_statements to add the statement and then collect the q numbers
that way. The problem with this approach is that you can easily add double
statements and you theoretically only want to augment the existing
statements per item, not duplicate them. Of course if all items share some
common statement you may be able to query that statement and filter the
results. Another way I do this is with listeria. For example if I want the
artists in a collection, I set up a listeria query for all artworks in the
collection and include the creator field. Afterwards I collect the result
and filter for the artists' names or q numbers. Obvious problem here is
that most collections on Wikidata only include the most popular artworks in
the collection, because these are coming from the various wikipedia
projects. There are still lots and lots of artworks on Commons without
wikidata items.Hope it helps.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Sandra Fauconnier <
sandra.fauconnier(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I’ve been in the situation quite often (edit-a-thons; various to do lists)
where I had a list of terms (most usually names of a few hundreds of
people, or titles of Wikipedia articles), where I wanted to do a quick
search on Wikidata to retrieve each of these concept’s Q number.
Does anyone know of a tool that helps me make this easier? Enter a list
of, say, 100 of these search terms, and receive Q number suggestions for
each of them? I’ve looked around on wmflabs but have not found anything in
that direction (also not with the help of Hay’s awesome tool directory
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/#/>).
Till now, I’ve done all these searches manually - use an excel sheet, look
for each term individually, enter Q number for each term - quite accurate
but very time-consuming!
Would appreciate all help/tips !
Thanks! Sandra (User:Spinster)
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