Wikidata:Tours/Qualifiers
Welcome to the Qualifiers Tour
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Welcome to Wikidata! In this tour you’ll learn how to do even more with statements to ensure high quality data is added to Wikidata. We'll get to work using and adding qualifiers to statements and references.
Please take the Statements Tour before taking this tour.
If there are any terms in this tour you would like a definition for please see the Wikidata:Glossary
Please note that the page in the background is only a replica of a real page — you can think of it as a sandbox for you to play in and try new things. Your changes won't appear on Wikidata so there's no need to worry while making edits in this space.
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[edit]Qualifiers can say a lot!
For example, you can use character role (P453) as a qualifier to say that not only was Arnold Schwarzenegger a cast member of the movie Terminator, but he played the Terminator!
You can also use qualifiers to provide information about how a value was discovered or determined. For example, using determination method or standard (P459), it's possible to indicate if a population value of a city is an estimation or if it is based on a census.
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[edit]Got it? Great!
Let's now add a qualifier, point in time (P585), to our original population value so that others on Wikidata will know not just where but also when our information is from.
?Adding a qualifier
[edit]First click on [edit] for our statement about population.
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[edit]Next click on the [add qualifier] button that appeared.
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[edit]In the new property field, start typing in "point in time" and select it from the drop-down to add.
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[edit]In the next field, type in the date from the report: October 31 2011. Click save when done.