#Wikidata - #quality and the Nansen #Refugee Award II

My objective is to add high quality data for the Nansen Refugee award to Wikidata. At this time there are 70 people and organisations registered as receivers of the award. One way of understanding quality is in bringing people closer together.

In the picture you see Mr Ruud Lubbers and Mr Akio Kanai. Mr Lubbers was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and he is presenting the Nansen Refugee Award to Mr Kanai. The only article for Mr Kanai is in Japanese, I do not read Japanese and thanks to Wikidata and Google translate, I was able to learn that the item in Wikidata does represent the recipient of the award.

Mr Kanai and his company have provided glasses to refugees for decades. It is just one of those things people need and refugees are people.

Mr Lubbers is just one of the UN High Commissioners for Refugees. All the others are now also known to Wikidata. Because of this Mr Kanai and Mr Lubbers are easily linked through two steps of separation.

This is a work in progress :)
Thanks,
     GerardM


PS I wish Bassel was a refugee, it would be safe to discriminate him but he would be alive and well. 

#Wikidata -#UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights II

Mr Baba Amte received the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 1988. He must have done something good because he was awarded many more prizes. It is easy enough to add more awards to Wikidata and link them to Mr Amte and it does show his relevance.

When a red link is made into a Wikidata item like this, it is in fact an invitation to others to research those awards and add more people to them. Many of them are awards from India and it this way, people from India are celebrated. I do not think it is controversial to say that they are notable for the purpose of Wikidata.
Thanks,
      GerardM

#Wikidata -#UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights

The United Nations recognises organisations and people who have made a difference. The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights shows many people and organisations that were awarded in this way.

At this time this list is a "work in progress" at Wikidata. The people known to the English Wikipedia are on it. It is now a matter of filling in the "red links" and removing a few erroneous entries. The only way to see this list is by using the Reasonator.

What is really interesting is that most of the missing people already exist on Wikidata. They just do not exist on the English Wikipedia, Adam Lopatka is one example. Completing a list like this is therefore an exercise of patiently checking every entry for existing items. For others, like the Vicaría de la Solidaridad the link has not been made.

The beauty of working on a special interest like human rights in Wikidata is, that you can highlight the people that matter. This does not mean that they are easily found. Amir is working on a bot that will do transliteration. That will be a boon particularly to find the people who are only known in a different script. Mehranguiz Manoutchehrian and Petr Emelyanovich Nedbailo are two examples that may have an article after all. The first is from Iran, the second from the USSR.

It is wonderful to see how the pieces are coming together for Wikidata.
Thanks,
     GerardM