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Improving the New-Q5 web application
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Description

New-Q5 is a PHP/jQuery webapplication that was developed in 2020 to quickly and neatly add a date of death to an existing Wikidata item or create a new item on a person. It has a Citoid implementation that makes it easy to add neat refferences. Its input is translated into a QuickStatement which the user than has an opportunity to fist edit before importing it to the QuickStatement tool.

There are a number of features and issues that still need to be worked on:

  • Its features aren't documented
  • It's not multilingual
  • The search function for existing items shows a result that has long deseased individuals filtered out due to legacy code. The filtering should be done based on input
  • By default the reference is also added as a "described by source" statement added, this should be toggled on/off
  • It could also be usefull to neatly add a reference to an existing items date of birth. Calculating an indivuduals aproximate date of birth based on age and de date the publication referenced was published should be possible.
  • It tries to find the right Q-items for an indiviual's given an family names. The algorithm to support family names with (Dutch) prefixes still needs to be written.

A relatd project idea is to create a similar form to quickly create/update an item for a family names.

Event Timeline

1Veertje renamed this task from Improving the New-Q5 webapplication to Improving the New-Q5 web application.May 19 2023, 8:20 AM

It can now calculate a dob based on age + date of published ref.

Adding the reference as a "described by source" statement is something that can be toggled on/off

Rewrote the search function to cut out the expensive sparql-query and no longer filter out long-dead folks.