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Know of a noteworthy project or innovative research analysis that wouldn't be possible without Wikidata? Do you use a cool tool or gadget built by the community that deserves some recognition? Got an interesting or funny fact about Wikidata that you want to share?

You've come to the right place! This page is for nominating content to be featured (temporarily) on the Main page under the "Discover" section.

Here's how to get started:

• Review the types of interesting content this WikiProject is interested in highlighting on the Main page; remember though, these suggestions are only guidelines so don't feel limited by them
• Check the Library of Interesting Content first to make sure your idea for content hasn't already been approved
• Use our handy {{Template:Featured_content_proposal}} and add your idea for content to the appropriate section below! Please add links to accompanying freely-licensed image files on Commons if possible
• Promote and participate in the decision-making process

Featured tool

Proposed content: Wikidata Translate by User:Husky Reason: a cool and fairly new tool that does not take a lot of explanation to understand what it does Summary: for an open source alternative to Google Translate try Wikidata Translate Visual:

-Thepwnco (talk) 20:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Proposed content: Wikidata Query(see also http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/autolist.html?) by User:Magnus Manske Reason: demonstrates the power and potential of a structured knowledge base; i.e. compound queries Summary: Ever wondered...? (take idea from Wikidata:AutoLists or come up with something novel/funny/interesting). Using this tool you can ask sophisticated questions of Wikidata and 'query' the knowledge base to find combinations of properties or missing relationships. Visual:

-Thepwnco (talk) 20:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Featured research or analysis

Proposed content: Feline mayors of the world, or: why Wikidata is awesome by User:Husky Reason: fun yet educational example of how Wikidata can be used to find 'outliers' of human knowledge; also mentions the Wikidata Query tool Summary: Do you know how many non-human mayors there are? Wikidata does. Visual:

-Thepwnco (talk) 20:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Proposed content: Les artistes ont-ils vraiment plus de risque de mourir à 27 ans? Reason: a well-known publication uses Wikidata to 'fact-check' a famous bit of pop culture folklore Summary: Le Monde sets out to discover: is there any truth to the 27 Club curse? Using Wikidata, and properties like singer (Q177220), songwriter (Q753110), singer-songwriter (Q488205), musician (Q639669), guitarist (Q855091), drummer (Q386854), and bassist (Q584301), the French newspaper concludes that a "club 38" would be more fitting. Visual:

-Thepwnco (talk) 16:55, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Featured application

Proposed content: Histropedia introduces automatic timelines from Wikidata queries Reason: showcases how other platforms/applications are using Wikidata Summary: Histropedia, a new visualization platform introduced at Wikimania that uses both Wikipedia and Wikidata content, now allows users to generate historical timelines automatically Visual:

-Thepwnco (talk) 20:36, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Proposed content: Wikirank makes it possible to explore Wikipedia using Wikidata category with results ranked by importance Reason: showcases a combination of social-network rankings, including harmonic centrality, indegree, PageRank (or just page views), combined with Wikidata's selection capabilities Summary: Wikirank, a web site to explore Wikipedia pages by conceptual categories and importance Visual:

-User:vigna 27 April 2015