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death
It’s the “Euthanasia Coaster”, a proposed roller coaster-like construction that would supposedly kill you through excessive G-force. Apparently, it’s supposed to take lives “with elegance and euphoria”. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q610172
Wikidata query, long URL
Camille Saint-Saëns wrote five symphonies: Symphony in A Major, Symphony No. 1, Symphony in F major, Symphony No. 2, and Symphony No. 3. Obvious, right?
Wikidata query, transphobia
(query notes: only looks at given names, though other names might become deadnames too; actually checks sitelinks in any project, but current results are all Wikipedias; checks nonbinary people as well, but current results are binary transgender)
Wikidata query, long URL, transphobia
Wikipedia articles using a transgender person’s deadname in the title – currently 5 results: the Welsh, Simple English, Vietnamese and Min Nan Wikipedia articles about Andreja Pejić, and the Italian Wikipedia article about Stephanie Burt
@pintoch okay nevermind apparently https://twitter.com/medievalben/status/1110914119404797952
@pintoch is it possible to add century-precision timestamps via OpenRefine? question from https://twitter.com/medievalben/status/1109115085123928065
Wikidata query, long URL: animals most frequently depicted in artworks
• horses (2514)
• dogs (1357)
• sheep (366)
• cows (327)
• cattle (295)
• cats (216)
There’s some fuzziness between the classes (cows vs. cattle; there’s actually a second cattle result, for the general term instead of the taxon), but it doesn’t look like anything will come close to horses or dogs.
Wikidata query, long URL: doctoral theses with more than one author
Includes Einstein’s dissertation becuase the examiner is listed as second author. Query idea by Merle von Wittich.
Wikidata query, history/politics: uncategorized UK members of parliament
Also, note that 0 results is not always the goal! For example, someone may have practiced sport A in their youth but then switched to sport B; on Wikidata, they may have both sports listed, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they should be in both categories on Commons.
Wikidata query, history/politics: uncategorized UK members of parliament
Note that category data is only updated weekly (each Monday), so after improving the category tree on Commons you’ll have to wait for a while before you see the result disappear from the query; conversely, a query result you see may already have been cleaned up by someone else.
Wikidata query, long URL, history/politics: uncategorized UK members of parliament
People who are UK Members of Parliament according to #Wikidata but whose #WikimediaCommons category is not a subcategory of Politicians of the United Kingdom (currently 310 results):
Can be adapted for other categories of people and Commons categories (change lines 7 and 39) – for example, using “occupation”, “field of work” or “sport” to select people instead of “position held”.
Wikidata query, long URL, religion: redundant religion statements
cases where a person has more than one “religion” statement and one value is a subclass of another: https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Freligion1%20%3Freligion1Label%20%3Freligion2Label%20%3Fcount%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Freligion1%20%3Freligion2%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fperson%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP140%20%3Freligion1%2C%20%3Freligion2.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Freligion1%20wdt%3AP279%2B%20%3Freligion2.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Freligion1%20%3Freligion2%0A%20%20HAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0A%7D%20AS%20%25results%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25results.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 – the most common pairs are Shia Islam (531) and Sunni Islam (461) as subclasses of Islam
Wikidata query, long URL, history/politics: editorial cartoons
There are currently four #wikidata items for editorial cartoons:
• Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania Gazette), “Join, or Die”, 9 May 1754
• John Tenniel (Punch), “Dropping the Pilot”, 29 March 1890
• Caran d'Ache (Le Figaro), «Un dîner en famille», 13 February 1898
• Peter Steiner (The New Yorker), “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog“, 5 July 1993
Wikidata query, long URL: three-syllable German words
Currently, there are three #wikidata lexemes for German words with three syllables:
• „Eichhörnchen“ (squirrel)
• „Klingone(n)“ (Klingon(s))
• „Fingerhut“ (thimble/foxglove)
Wikidata query, long URL: items with most MusicBrainz IDs
The top five, with 216 to 480 IDs, are all Nirvana songs, followed by the Radetzky March and two Beethoven compositions.
Wikidata query, long URL: Stradivarius violins
There are currently 26 @wikidata items for individual Stradivari(us) instruments (all violins), out of an estimated 1116 total with around 650 surviving (including other string instruments). https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fimage%29%20AS%20%3Fimage%29%20%3Fsitelinks%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ34379%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP170%20wd%3AQ182011.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ1068162.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fsitelinks%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fsitelinks%29
(Not all of them are actually individual instruments, but I couldn’t be bothered to clean up https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3399598 before posting this, sorry. It seems to be the only such item, though.)
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