Hey, given you have titles of Wikipedia articles and you know from which Wikipedia, you could easily use the Wikidata wbgetentities API module [1]. Here's a sample request for some random German monarchs [2]. Take also a closer look at the "props" parameter which allows you to specify which information you want to get back from each entity.
HTH, cheers, tobi [1] https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbgetentities [2] https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&titles=Louis_the_German|Carloman_of_Bavaria|Charles_the_Fat|Henry_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor|Hermann_of_Salm|Henry_Berengar&sites=enwiki&props=info On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Sandra Fauconnier < [email protected]> 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 > <http://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/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) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > -- Tobi Gritschacher SCRUM Master Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment. http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone +49 (0)30 219 158 260 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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