Wikidata:WikiProject Australia

Welcome to WikiProject Australia - an organizing space and collection of resources about anything related to the country Australia (Q408) or the continent Australian continent (Q3960).

Participants 

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The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|Australia}}

• Thierry Caro
• 99of9
• Canley
• Mattinbgn
• Samwilson
• JarrahTree
• ScottDavis
• Oronsay
• Pru.mitchell
• Bidgee
• Harryboyles
• Dhx1
• SJK
• Nickw25
• Danadl
• MargaretRDonald
• Nicolekearney
• Calistemon
• Eothan
• Evolution and evolvability
• REMerrick
• Atroche
• The-Pope
• Bjenks
• hfordsa
• SHB2000
• AmandaSLawrence
• Chris.sherlock3

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WikiProject Australia.

Charts

See charts at /charts

Dashboards

• Places:
  • places
  • national parks
  • railway stations
  • beaches
  • mountains
  • weather stations
  • rivers
  • heritage sites
  • localities
  • parks
  • dams
  • islands
  • lakes
  • aerodromes
  • localities

• People:
  • by occupation
  • visual artists
  • politicians
  • Australian rules footballers
  • cricketers
  • rugby league players
  • writers
  • film actors
  • musicians

• Organisations:
  • libraries
  • educational institutions
  • radio stations
  • newspapers
  • schools
  • hotels

• Other
  • legislation
  • languages

Subprojects

• politicians
• paintings
• roads
• lighthouses
• subdivisions
• hospitals
• national parks
• tropical cyclones
• sedimentary units
• Triple J Hottest 100 music chart (by year)
• Australian Aboriginal Languages
• broadcasting license areas
• radio stations

Queries

Maintenance

• hottest 100 recently edited items (map)
• coldest 100 least recently edited items (map)
• histogram: how fresh are our items?
• items with en-wiki article but no type, to fix these add instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279)
• map of items with no type
•  Done sv/ceb items with no type
• map of geographic items with no English label
• items with no English label
• Australian citizens with no English label
• items with only "Australia"
• common types of items with no IDs query inside a query to give list
•  Done items with duplicate Geonames IDs consider merging or fixing on Wikidata, or requesting deletion of Wikipedia-duplicates
•  Done legal cases with no ID, consider adding AustLII ID (P5799)
•  Done acts of parliament with no id, consider adding ComLaw ID (P2461)
• places with two nearby coordinates
• NSW places with identical coordinates
• railway stations without a location

Interest

• maps all items with country=Australia, coordinates, and an English Wikipedia article
• pictures of endemic species
• geographic items, focusing on NSW - (PAWS page)
• cumulative growth
• female scientists with en-wiki articles
• map of things named after other things
• graph of three nearest rings of suburbs to Melbourne CBD

Properties

Cartogram of countries with areas proportional to the number of associated Wikidata Properties

• Take a look at how well Australia is doing on the Properties by country leaderboard.
• Add URL match pattern (P8966) to Australian properties from this list allowing tools like Wikidata for Web (Q99894727) to extract data from web pages related to Australian properties.
• Mix'n'Match has a direct link for a list of all Australian catalogues.
• Here are the general properties that most often point to Australia (Q408).
• Here are the Australian properties that are most often used, with en-wiki article counts.
• Here are the Australian properties that are most often used in Australia-linked items.

New property ideas

Create a new property proposal from the following list of suggestions:

• Australian patent application number (Q65522796): example
• GTRC National Certification Database Application ID (Q65522354): example
• National Equipment Registration System Equipment Number (Q65524935): example
• WaterMark certification scheme licence number (Q65527632): example
• WaterMark certification scheme model ID (Q65527989): example
• Queensland regional ecosystem key identification number (Q65531016): example
• law part code (Q65532290): example (looks tricky, with three ID components)
• Any missing ABS Classifications
• Butterflyhouse: example
• National portrait gallery people: example
• ANZSRC Socio-economic objectives suggestion. Not available as LOD, do you know someone at ANDS to LODify it?
• USyd digital collections
• NLA objects
• some from ABRS list
• treaties
• WA wrecks and artefacts
• registered chemicals and products
• National Insect Collection has csv download
• WA legislation and other states
• nominal rolls
• water NSW
• Australian classification ncdctx to go with Australian Classification (P3156)
• prints and printmaking (artists and works already proposed)
• ASIC connect online for each trading name of a business
• Australian Interlibrary Resource Sharing Directory - lists library codes in Australia
• National Archives records (Arthur Stace (Q4800345) service record)
• OpenAustralia pid 10007, with downloadable csv lists, e.g. https://www.openaustralia.org.au/mps/
• PurposeBureau accepts ABNs, but converts to an internal identifier https://www.purposebureau.com/business-profile/detail/6529248/_/
• Victorian Birth, Deaths and Marriages
• Australian Libraries Gateway
• Sydney Morning Herald author ID
• Australian Pictorial Thesaurus
• Waterwatch Australia
• Victorian Incorporated Associations
• Victorian Collections Object ID

Tasks

• Redesign the template below so that the listed properties are sorted thematically and not by State or territory (or possibly both ways).