Hi everyone,

Thanks for the tips so far!

I usually receive and look up ‘external’ lists of concepts/names, for which I have no corresponding Wikipedia article, and there may be spelling variations or even errors.
I tried Linked Items! Thank you! It does give me partial results, which makes a nice difference! But if someone knows of an even more generic search tool (e.g. across all Wikipedias and searching in all Wikidata aliases), that would make me even more happy :-D

In any case, Linked Items will make my life easier in the near future for sure.

BTW, here’s a typical example of a (small part of a) list of terms I’d like to look up on Wikidata:

Names of Dutch companies, well-known products, and designers, for an edit-a-thon, provided by A GLAM:

Wim Rietveld
Martin Visser
Spectrum Design
Kembo
TX 400
Rein Veersema
Gerard Kiljan
Heemaf
Wim Gilles
DRU
Vladimir Flem
Fridor
G.M.E. Bellefroid
Koninklijke Mosa

Thanks! Sandra





On 23 Jul 2015, at 09:29, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hoi,
When the list is a list of articles in a Wikipedia, try "Linked items" one magnificent tool by Magnus that can be used for this..
Thanks,
     GerardM




https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/linked_items.php

On 23 July 2015 at 08:44, 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).

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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