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How to specify a unit with Quickstatements in Wikidata

I want to add the type of unit for a property (centimeters) like width [1] using Quickstatements [2].

In the UI it is pretty easy and visible like: Display of units in wikidata UI

Adding a statement with additional qualifier[3] seems not to work, as I don't know the correct Wikidata property.

I tried to use: type of unit for this property [P2876] like:

Q123384875|P2049|93|P2876|Q4407906

but that results into a warning like: resulting warning

Warning one

other issues

Solution

  • Well:

    1. go to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:QuickStatements
    2. Ctrl+F
    3. search for "unit"
    4. read the first entry for your search ;-)

    Screenshot

    In your specific case, you can use:

    Q123384875|P2049|93U174728

    Note that the centimeter (as unit of length) is Q174728, not Q4407906.

    The data type that you want to specify is a quantity. Instead, the syntax

    Q123384875|P2049|93|P2876|Q4407906

    is used for adding a qualifier to the statement (see Help:QuickStatements § Add statement with qualifiers).