User:David Nind/Projects/New Zealand Legislation
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Current status: Being worked in intermittently
Phases
[edit]Phase 1: Get all current New Zealand Acts into Wikidata
Phase 2: Get all historic and repealed Acts into Wikidata
Tasks
[edit]Category page on Wikipedia (Category:New Zealand Statutes) - make sure all entries are instances of a New Zealand statute25 June 2019- Update details for all items that have Wikidata entries
- Create a list of all statutes from the New Zealand legislation website
- Model Wikidata properties for Acts
- Reconcile with what is in Wikidata using OpenRefine* Add the NZ Law Style Guide to Wikidata and the OpenLibrary
- Add NZ LII identifier (similar to Australian LII identifier)?
- Reprinted Acts - include as editions, for an example see Social Security Act 2018 (Q98837264)
- Commons Categories for NZ Acts - organise so easier to access
Questions to answer
[edit]- enacted vs Royal assent - which properties/qualifiers to use when
Notes
[edit]When started in June 2019 about 113 Acts were categorised as instances of New Zealand statutes:
- 150 Acts were recorded after checking whether Wikipedia (Category:New Zealand Statutes) entries were instances of a New Zealand statute.
Display a list of instances of New Zealand statutes:
Related projects
[edit]Reference information
[edit]- Wikidata:List of properties/judiciary
- wikidata:Wikidata:WikiProject_Law
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Legal
- New Zealand Law Style Guide - Third Edition
- New Zealand Legislation ID (P11218)
List of Wikidata properties for an Act (WIP)
[edit]Property | What to enter | Example | Notes |
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description | |||
aliases | |||
instance of (P31) | New Zealand statute (Q18336255) | ||
title (P1476) | the title of the Act | New Zealand Institute Act 1867 | |
country (P17) | New Zealand (Q664) | ||
applies to jurisdiction (P1001) | Colony of New Zealand (Q5148518) | ||
main subject (P921) | |||
country of origin (P495) | New Zealand (Q664) | ||
language of work or name (P407) | English (Q1860) | ||
point in time (P585) | Enter the date of enactment | ||
significant event (P793) | enacted (Q101753155) | enacted (or Royal assent?)
find equivalent of amended by Add qualifiers as appropriate: point in time section, verse, paragraph, or clause e.g. s 2(1) | |
full work available at URL (P953) | New Zealand legislation link (mark rank as preferred)
NZLII link (to the landing page for the document, not the actual PDF) | ||
legislated by (P467) | New Zealand Parliament (Q1520966) | ||
amended by (P2567) | QID of the Act | Add qualifiers:
point in time effective date (check if there is a specific commencement date in the Act) | |
repealed by (P2568) | QID of the Act | Add qualifiers:
point in time effective date section, verse, paragraph, or clause e.g. s 2(1) | |
legal citation of this text (P1031) | See the New Zealand Law Style Guide
MOS? | ||
document file on Wikimedia Commons (P996) | |||
repeals (P3148) | QID of the Act that this repeals | Add qualifiers:
point in time effective date | |
maintained by (P126) | QID of the organisation that administers the Act | For later Acts, this is included in the Act | |
enacted date (P7589) | |||
law identifier (P8550) | 31 Vic 1867 No 36
1997, No. 31 |
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Wikisource index page URL (P1957) | |||
New Zealand Legislation ID (P11218) | part of URL from legislation.govt.nz that acts as an identifier | act/private/1997/0002/latest/contents | replace the DLM number with contents (for latest version) |