Wikidata:WikiProject Lakes
This project will try to maintain and improve lake items in Wikidata.
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Lake properties
editIn Wikidata there are several properties to describe lakes.
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
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| country | P17 | Item | historical country, state and sovereign state: sovereign state that this item is in (not to be used for human beings) | Wusung Radio Tower <country> People's Republic of China | - |
| coordinate location | P625 | Geographic coordinates | geographic coordinates: geocoordinates of the subject. For Earth, please note that only WGS84 coordinating system is supported at the moment | Mount Everest <coordinate location> 27° 59′ 17.00″ N 86° 55′ 31.00″ E | - |
| inflows | P200 | Item | inflow: major inflow sources — rivers, aquifers, glacial runoff, etc. Some terms may not be place names, e.g. none | Lake Baikal <inflows> Upper Angara | - |
| outflows | P201 | Item | channel runoff: rivers and other outflows waterway names. If evaporation or seepage are notable outflows, they may be included. Some terms may not be place names, e.g. evaporation | Lake Ontario <outflows> St. Lawrence River | origin of the watercourse |
| elevation above sea level | P2044 | Quantity | height above mean sea level: height of the item (geographical object) as measured relative to sea level | Maïdo <elevation above sea level> 2,205 metre | - |
| area | P2046 | Quantity | area: area occupied by an object | Carcaixent <area> 59.25 square kilometre | - |
| length | P2043 | Quantity | length and length overall: measured dimension of an object | Trans-Siberian railway <length> 9,289 kilometre | - |
| width | P2049 | Quantity | width and road width: width of an object | Mona Lisa <width> 53 centimetre | - |
| volume as quantity | P2234 | Quantity | volume: quantity of three-dimensional space | World Ocean <volume as quantity> 1,332,000,000 cubic kilometre | - |
| watershed area | P2053 | Quantity | drainage basin: size of a stream's watershed (drainage basin) | Po <watershed area> 71,000 square kilometre | - |
| perimeter | P2547 | Quantity | perimeter: linear distance around the outside of an object | Sun <perimeter> 4,379,000 kilometre | - |
| residence time of water | P3020 | Quantity | residence time of water: time water remains in a lake or sea | Grand Lac de Clairvaux <residence time of water> 3 month | - |
| vertical depth | P4511 | Quantity | depth: vertical distance from a horizontal area to a point below. Compare with "horizontal depth" (P5524) | Dead Sea <vertical depth> 298 metre | - |
Lake Identifiers
editList of known identifiers which might be applicable to lakes. More comprehensive list: Properties of Bodies of Water.
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
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| GNIS Feature ID | P590 | External identifier | identifier for geographic objects in the United States issued by the USGS. For Antarctica, use Property:P804 | <GNIS Feature ID> 1569337 | - |
| GeoNames ID | P1566 | External identifier | GeoNames: identifier in the GeoNames geographical database | <GeoNames ID> 5262615 | - |
Open tasks
editData import/Entity resolution
editInterest in importing rivers, streams, and flowing water to link lakes should look to the WikiProject Rivers.
Wikidata infoboxes
edit- w:fi:template:Järvi WD (finnish)
- w:ca:template:Indret (catalan)
- w:hu:template:Tó infobox (hungarian)