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This is the second quarterly newsletter related to WikiProject India (Q11037573) on Wikidata. In this newsletter, we will discuss about what happened related to WikiProject India from October 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.

Past events

Wikidata birthday cake in Patiala

Offline

• 29.10.2019 - Wikimedians of Kerala User Group (Q57414284)    celebrated Wikidata’s Seventh Birthday in Thiruvananthapuram (Q167715)   .
• 03.11.2019 - Punjabi Wikimedians (Q23008463)    celebrated Wikidata’s Seventh Birthday in Patiala (Q208162)   .
• 30.11.2019 - 01.12.2019 - Wikisource-Wikidata workshop for Sanskrit community, Samskrita Bharati, Bengaluru (Q1355)   .

Online

• 31.10.2019 - 03.11.2019 - Wikidata Seventh Birthday datathon.

Newest Properties

• General Properties - IAST transliteration (P7581), Wildlife Protection Act 1972 (India) schedule (P7582), ascending scale (P7598), descending scale (P7599), primary note (P7600), secondary note (P7601), Hunterian transliteration (P7605)
• External Identifiers - DC Books author ID (P7356), Birds of India ID (P7536), India Biodiversity Portal species ID (P7537), Moths of India ID (P7538), NBAIR pest ID (P7539), Odonata of India ID (P7540), Reptiles of India ID (P7542), ZSI author ID (P7543), Indian Medicinal Plants Database ID (P7544), Flowers of India ID (P7546), National Health Portal hospital ID (P7547), Biodiversity of West Bengal species ID (P7549), CISCE school code (P7565), JNAF artist ID (P7566), CBSE affiliation number (P7568), Digital Corpus of Sanskrit ID (P7572), Sri Granth word ID (P7575)

Sessions

Group photo of WikidataCon 2019 participants

• 25.10.2019 - Wikidata for filling knowledge gaps in the emerging communities: Indic case studies by SGill (WMF) and Bodhisattwa at WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin (Q64)    (see video and slides)
• 26.10.2019 - Analysing Translation of Wikidata Properties by Jsamwrites at WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin (Q64)    (see video and slides)

Milestones

• More than 110,000 bank branches located in India with Indian Financial System Code (P4635) are now on Wikidata.
• More than 150,000 Indian post offices are now on Wikidata.
• All districts of India have now geoshapes and they are all linked to Wikidata.
• All amendment of the Constitution of India (Q3633724)    and Orders issued under the Constitution of India (Q75029410)    now have Wikidata items.
• Bengali labels crossed 2 millions.
• All census towns, municipalities and wards of West Bengal with 2011 census data are now on Wikidata.
• Around 80,000 schools of West Bengal are now on Wikidata. Run the query.

Other related news

WikiProject India won WikidataCon Award 2019

• Wikidata:WikiProject India won the WikidataCon Award 2019 (Q72675837)    in the category Community Building. Enjoy the entire award ceremony.
• Do you know, we post one query everyday related to India through our Twitter handle and Facebook page? Follow us to get daily updates.

Query examples:

• Map showing sex ratio in districts of India according to 2011 census
• Tree map of Indian postal administrative divisions
• Timeline of films in which Shah Rukh Khan was an actor
• Bubble chart of Indian universities by their number of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winners
• Map of places in India with pincode beginning with “70000”

Get involved

• Locate and add coordinates for post offices in India.
• Mix’n’Match Indologists from the Persons of Indian Studies website
• Take pictures of railway stations of Kerala and upload to Wikimedia Commons.

See also

• Wikidata status updates for more news related to Wikidata.