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.