Thank you Thomas, this is such a cool feature! On 29 October 2016 at 16:01, Thomas Steiner <tomac(a)google.com> wrote: -- Léa Lacroix Community Communication Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Tom, thanks! Just shared. You may want to unhide columns. I'm trying to make it user friendly for non-tech savvy library volunteers who will be looking at folders of ephemera (exhibition announcements, magazine clippings, etc.) & determining whether it's the same person as the wiki data record. D On Monday, October 31, 2016, Thomas Steiner &lt;tomac(a)google.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tomac@google.com');>> wrote: -- *David Lowe | The New York Public Library**Specialist II, Photography Collection* *Photographers' Identities Catalog <http://pic.nypl.org>*

Hi David, I made some additions to your document (red column headers). This shows the workflow to first search, then lookup the qid, and then the WIkidata fact "instance of". I will add the descriptions to a new function WIKIDATADESCRIPTIONS, let me work on that. It is easily possible via the API (https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities& ids=Q42&format=json&props=descriptions). Hope this helps! Cheers, Tom -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (http://blog.tomayac.com, https://twitter.com/tomayac) Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891 _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Hi again, The underlying Wikipedia API request is to the best of my understanding essentially the same as a regular on-Wikipedia search. You might get better results by setting the optional second parameter "opt_didYouMean" to true like so: =WIKISEARCH("search term", TRUE). In some cases it then shows the most probable alternative result that you might have wanted to actually search for instead. Give it a spin. Also, together with the pipeline I have set up for you in the sheet, you can filter on type, so when you know you are looking for "instance of: human", you can exclude anything non-human. Hope this helps! Cheers, Tom -- Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (http://blog.tomayac.com, https://twitter.com/tomayac) Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891 _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata