Wikidata:Showcase items

Showcase items

Showcase items on Wikidata are items that fully represent what Wikidata is capable of and displays in full detail the data that can be stored on Wikidata and then eventually used in every Wikimedia project and outside of Wikimedia.

A showcase item should show the full capabilities of Wikidata. Therefore, a basic guideline criteria is suggested below, which each showcase item should preferably follow:

• At least 10 statements with:
  • References for non-trivial statements (references other than Wikimedia projects)
  • Appropriate ranks
  • Qualifiers where applicable
• A reasonable set (~4) of completed translations: labels, descriptions and properties
• Aliases when appropriate, in each language
• Sitelinks to a complete and correct set of applicable pages on Wikimedia projects
• An image associated with it (a plus)

You can suggest a future showcase item below on any topic of your interest.

Current Showcase

People

Historical

• Douglas Adams (Q42)   
• Mahatma Gandhi (Q1001)   
• Nelson Mandela (Q8023)   
• John Cale (Q45909)   
• László Krasznahorkai (Q512062)   
• Bertus Aafjes (Q353003)   

Fictional

• Deirdre (Q1183379)   

Works

Music

• Symphony No. 7 (Q260957)   

Book

• Mister President (Q3050361)   

Film

• 12 Angry Men (Q2345)   
• Iron Man (Q192724)   
• Iron Man 2 (Q205028)   

Sculpture

Painting

• Mona Lisa (Q12418)   

Video game

• Team Fortress 2 (Q382108)   

Organisations

Commercial company

• Airbus (Q67)   

Public-law institution

• Hessischer Rundfunk (Q23565)   

Higher education

• Pomona College (Q7227384)   
• University of Konstanz (Q835440)   

Government

Museum

• Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum (Q3508109)   

Fictional

Places

• Kleinmachnow (Q104192)   
• Fishing Creek (Q5455008)   
• Helsinki (Q1757)   
• Montblanc (Q761735)   
• Mordor (Q202886)   
• Wressle Castle (Q8037764)   

Life

Animal

• lion (Q140)   
• Varanus komodoensis (Q4504)   

Plant

• Cactaceae (Q14560)   

Bacteria

Virus

Others

• Esperanto (Q143)   
• ethanol (Q153)   
• Hubble Space Telescope (Q2513)   
• 4 Vesta (Q3030)   
• atheism (Q7066)   
• Lucy (Q13365715)   
• Crawford (Q20731004)   
• Fugger (Q37018433)   
• Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410)   
• INS Vikrant (Q2283194)   
• January 15, 2018 (Q45919591)   

Removed from Showcase

• Cambridge (Q350)   
• Barack Obama (Q76)   
• Iggy Azalea (Q2748803)   

Proposed for Showcase

• Cueva de las Manos (Q223385)   
• Among Us (Q96417649)   
• Boeing (Q66)   
• 2015 Iditarod (Q19455277)   
• Hans van Mierlo (Q288771)   
• Rembrandt (Q5598)   
• The Night Watch (Q219831)   
• The Incredible Hulk (Q466611)   
• The Finest Hours (Q18031184)   
• Zootopia (Q15270647)   
• Finding Dory (Q9321426)   
• The Jungle Book (Q16857406)   
• The BFG (Q19689203)   
• Loomio (Q15975673)   
• 2016 Taiwanese presidential election (Q20683626)   
• Pleinfeld (Q252320)   
• Pete's Dragon (Q18786473)   
• Alice Through the Looking Glass (Q17485699)   
• Captain America: Civil War (Q18407657)   
• Queen of Katwe (Q20921603)   
• Ant-Man (Q5901134)   
• Doctor Strange (Q18406872)   
• Cinderella (Q15046091)   
• Moana (Q18647981)   
• Newton's parakeet (Q634873)   
• Perm (Q915)   
• Summer Evening at Skagen Beach – The Artist and his Wife (Q18386245)   
• Nea Salamis Famagusta FC (Q714581)   
• Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex (Q183529)   
• ABBA (Q18233)   
• Titanic (Q25173)   
• Valérie Masson-Delmotte (Q3554288)   

In preparation

Items listed here are not to showcase standard because they are missing certain points in the criteria. Why not improve one to become showcase standard?

• Diary of Anne Frank (Q6911)
• Olympia (Q737062)
• Moscow (Q649)
• Sharm el-Sheikh (Q644)
• The Times (Q50008)
• Wikipedia (Q52)
• David Duchovny (Q484365)
• Finding Forrester (Q1140439)
• BBC Radio 4 (Q795598)
• Das Erste (Q49727)
• NCIS (Q4525)
• Large Hadron Collider (Q40605)
• QGIS (Q1329181)
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Q309988)
• Biodiversity assessment of the fishes of Saba Bank atoll, Netherlands Antilles (Q15625490)
• Chelyabinsk meteor (Q4661508)
• Jagiellonian Library (Q24101) - needs more references (for example from its website in Polish)
• Arctic Monkeys (Q170599)
• 2014 European Parliament election (Q1376095)
• television pilot (Q653916)
• Because You Left (Q1059888)
• Twin Peaks (Q2085)
• The Shield, season 1 (Q13414801)
• human skull (Q9604)
• 1916–17 Svenska Serien (Q2055556)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Q43361)
• Mario Götze (Q104454)   
• Stefan Löfven (Q2740012)    - needs more references
• Game of Thrones (Q23572)    - needs more references
• Gaia (Q767805)    - needs more references
• Battle of Santiago de Cuba (Q1999889) - missing a few descriptions
• Charles Darwin (Q1035)
• docking (Q403004)
• A Dangerous Game (Q20963399) - translations needed
• Al Bernameg (Q2949778)
• Captain Ahab (Q2630009)
• Northern Sami (Q33947) - needs more references
• Wikipedia Monument (Q18201640)    - lacks ref for P571,P276,P2049,P2043
• University of São Paulo (Q835960)
• SARS-CoV-2 (Q82069695)

See also

• Wikidata:Showcase lexemes
• Wikidata:Model items