Hey,
given you have titles of Wikipedia articles and you know from which Wikipedia, you could easily use the Wikidata wbgetentities API module [1]. Here's a sample request for some random German monarchs [2]. Take also a closer look at the "props" parameter which allows you to specify which information you want to get back from each entity.
HTH, cheers, tobi
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbgetentities [2] https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&titles=Louis_the...
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Sandra Fauconnier < sandra.fauconnier@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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