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Properties on Wikimedia list article (Q13406463) items[edit]
Is there a WikiProject guideline or past discussion that details what properties should be used with these items? There have been many recent batches that added country (P17) to thousands of list items (example: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q115767416&diff=2141785849&oldid=1986343405), and has part(s) (P527) is often used too. My understanding is that instance of (P31), is a list of (P360) and category related to list (P1754) are pretty much the only ones that should be used? Xezbeth (talk) 09:18, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- I think P361 and P527 are correct in lists such as list of aircraft beginning with M (Q6605098) where a list is on multiple pages and the parts are sections of a list, or a list is composed of multiple lists; not sure about Gallery of the Royal Saxon milestones (Q1491902) where the parts are members of the list. Peter James (talk) 12:37, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- Generally, Wikidata is quite open with different properties being used and I can't think of an example where I would say that only a few properties can be used. Wikimedia list article (Q13406463) itself does have a few properties for this type (P1963) statements which suggests that country (P17) is quite proper. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 23:50, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- The item is supposed to be specifically about the Wikipedia list and not what is actually being listed. How can a non-physical arbitrary list of stuff be physically in a given country? —Xezbeth (talk) 05:03, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Xezbeth The property P17 is not only for things physically located in a given country. It has a wider usage in Wikidata, close to "pertains to (country)" Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 13:48, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- The item is supposed to be specifically about the Wikipedia list and not what is actually being listed. How can a non-physical arbitrary list of stuff be physically in a given country? —Xezbeth (talk) 05:03, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- Generally, Wikidata is quite open with different properties being used and I can't think of an example where I would say that only a few properties can be used. Wikimedia list article (Q13406463) itself does have a few properties for this type (P1963) statements which suggests that country (P17) is quite proper. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 23:50, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
Need to merge[edit]
Please merge Q123160974 into Q503592. According to Wikipedia links, both refer to the same topic. Massol1360 (talk) 17:21, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- It looks like one is about the brand and one is about the (defunct) company that used the brand, so I think they should probably stay separate. Perhaps the article links should be rationalised, though. M2Ys4U (talk) 17:44, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- This should not be merged at all. Now it's part of P&G but who knows wether the'll keep the brand or sell it in some years. Matthiasb (talk) 12:18, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Incorrect data[edit]
the data on Stephen Wombwell is incorrect 92.207.153.221 12:37, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- I am guessing from the edit history of your IP address that you mean Stephen Philip Henry Wombwell (Q76219282) rather than Stephen Frederick Wombwell (Q55587569). What data are you disputing? The previous edit from your IP to delete a statement in 2022 (without explanation) is not good practice. The statement will probably be restored unless there is a sound reason. From Hill To Shore (talk) 14:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Stop the presses then! I'm gobsmacked, flabbergasted and dumbfounded that there be incorrectnesses found in Wikidata. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive us for our inadequacies good sir. On the other hand... what are we talking about? Infrastruktur (talk)
Property proposal[edit]
Please, I propose that property Photopickly ID gets created and added to Q65275317 as a reference URL from Wayback Machine (qualifier): part for a qualifier of URL https://archive.is/eugr1 /Please, note that item's YouTube channel contains most-upper banner text similar to i.e. Photopickly so add that property to the item in question. I've just added Property:4576 (difference between revisions: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q65275317&diff=2143621493&oldid=2143612683 Special:Diff/2143612683/2143621493). Please; note that there is one music project present among or between other nine (7th by order) and it is not clearly visible what text is written there; I have just seen better, it is Amazon and is already present as first identifier item has.
Check: http://web.archive.org/web/20240503124935/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TkhwZkQitPvJ0GV0IJeKA versus http://archive.is/kFhEK (a channel exists). --77.221.2.19; 13.52, 2024-05-03 (UTC)
- Note that property creation process is described here. An anonymous Project Chat post is not enough to create one. --Jklamo (talk) 09:38, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Géopatronyme ID (P3370)[edit]
Géopatronyme ID (P3370) links such as http://www.geopatronyme.com/nomcarte/PETIOT now redirect to an error message at https://en.filae.com/v4/genealogie/errorpage.mvc/errorpage404 I think the correct URL for this example is https://en.filae.com/v4/genealogie/search.mvc/searchform?ln=PETIOT&tab=0&idf=False&hmtr=True&gmsr=True Filae (Q86668676) has a Q number, but no Filae ID property exists. Some information at Filae is shown for free, but you need to pay for a subscription in order to see most of the information. Eastmain (talk) 19:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
Point-in-time localization[edit]
What is used to format point in time (P585), publication date (P577) and similar in languages other than English? For Croatian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1413796?uselang=hr#P1082 should be 31. kolovoza 2021.
instead of 31. kolovoza 2021
(years are ordinals and should end with a dot) Ponor (talk) 21:22, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- This would be better be reported in Phabricator. I can see Croatian already has definitions for its date format, perhaps the system uses the "default" (whatever it is)? --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:06, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Property proposal 2[edit]
Add musicboard.app as MusicBoard ID property. Example of needed usage: Q125764902 needs 139337739. --77.221.2.19; 23.27, 2024-05-04 (UTC)
Property proposal 3, 4, 5, 6[edit]
Add festivaly.eu as FestivaliEU ID property. Example of needed usage: Q125764902 needs 1449800.
Add www.kkbox.com as KKBox ID property. Example of needed usage: Q125764902 needs HYhuDl2oa-MNXufeYp.
Add thirdeyemusic.co.uk as ThirdEyeMusic ID property. Example of needed usage: Q125764902 needs Uroš_Živković.
Add www.viberate.com as Viberate ID property. Example of needed usage: Q125764902 needs uros-zivkovic.
--77.221.2.19; 23.46, 2024-05-04 (UTC) [e]
Vatican/Holy see[edit]
Hi, when it comes to country (P17) value, should we use only Vatican City (Q237) and not Holy See (Q159583) ? I'm wondering. Bouzinac 💬●✒️●💛06:31, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- TIL; The english Wikipedia suggests the Holy See is the combination of the diocese of Rome and the city-state Vatican. Infrastruktur (talk) 07:30, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Actually, the Holy See and the Vatican are two different subject of international law (Q1896989), with both of them members of the United Nations. However the Vatikanstadt (P237) is the state. Don't see reason for rejcections in P530. Matthiasb (talk) 12:12, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Holy see is not full member of U.N. https://www.un.org/fr/about-us/non-member-states
- Vatican is not listed https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states#gotoV Bouzinac 💬●✒️●💛20:56, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Actually, the Holy See and the Vatican are two different subject of international law (Q1896989), with both of them members of the United Nations. However the Vatikanstadt (P237) is the state. Don't see reason for rejcections in P530. Matthiasb (talk) 12:12, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Create a EntitySchema creator user rights group[edit]
Hi, I suggest creating a EntitySchema creator user rights group (just like property creator user rights group, but it can use Special:NewEntitySchema to create new EntitySchema).
We have Wikidata:Schema proposals now, and it says "Schemas are created through discussion with the community, which helps to consider a wide range of use cases and contexts. The new Wikidata Schema will be created once the community reaches consensus about the correct model to use. " We may use this page to discuss new EntitySchema (after a new EntitySchema creator user rights group created.)--S8321414 (talk) 13:20, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Do you see any problems that are currently produced by people creating EntitySchema's in a way that such a process would prevent? It was my impression that the main problem with EntitySchema's is a relative lack of engagement with them and not overeager creation of them.
- It's also worth noting that Wikidata:Schema proposals is not something that came out of a community debate that ended in a consensus. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 21:52, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Some example like E427 (no meaningful information) and E430 (deleted, invalid EntitySchema). They are created not based on community consensus and not used for any case.--S8321414 (talk) 23:41, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- It does kind of seem like unnecessary bureaucracy. If there is low engagement, adding another barrier to entry is probably not what we want, at this point in time at least. It was probably meant to model property proposals, but that was something that was established because having properties added willy-nilly would be long-term damaging to the database, so having a gatekeeper function made sense. Worst case here is someone creates an entity schema that is low-quality or isn't used. There are other ways to compensate for this. You could make it easier to delete entity schemas, you can add a quality classification to them (high, medium, low, unassessed), you can also prevent unconfirmed users to create them with an abuse filter. Is there some support for a filter? Infrastruktur (talk) 08:50, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Should be good to prevent unconfirmed user creating EntitySchema, other method may not be necessary for now.--S8321414 (talk) 11:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, preventing unconfirmed users from creating them seems like a good solution. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 19:57, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Should be good to prevent unconfirmed user creating EntitySchema, other method may not be necessary for now.--S8321414 (talk) 11:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Propery proposal 7[edit]
Add music.youtube.com as MusicYT ID property. Example of needed usage: Q551335 needs UCW-tVFyrwYL9NdLXbltL04w. --5.43.76.87; 09.32, 2024-05-09 (UTC)
- We have a process for property proposals. Posting a line on the project chat is not a property proposal. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 19:26, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
country or country of origin for intangibles like organisations or websites[edit]
For websites, and organisations, should country (P17) or country of origin (P495) be used? For organisations that have physical headquarters, then country (P17) could make sense, but so many organisations, or websites that have no clear organisation behind them, are purely virtual and are much closer to an intellectual idea like a book or product when country of origin (P495) would be used. I think my preference is the latter. Vicarage (talk) 13:02, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- Actully this property is a term of customs, Champagne comes from France, Kuckucksuhren from Germany, Wiener Würstchen from Vienna, Austria (except for those from Frankfurt am Main, but that's another story). Unfortunately the German description includes only creative works as in arts. Which is only part of it.
- However, for organisations P17 should be used. Not sure for websites. Matthiasb (talk) 12:04, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
area = 15,476046301239837 km²[edit]
Some municipalities in Norway, e.g. Grimstad (Q90590), Ullensaker (Q57917) (I would suspect most, if not all in municipality of Norway (Q755707) [1]) have in their area (P2046) truly precise values, I checked one, it was by User:Jeblad (bot) not active any more. Now 15.476046301239837 km² = 15476046.30124 m² or 154760463012.4 mm². What is demonstrated here, is a deep non-understanding of sound measurements and sound realistic precisions in a physical context. There are refs, but they lead to a general page (maybe someone can check whether these figures are from that website). Nobody can measure the area of ice (Q23392), snow (Q7561), glacier (Q35666), lake (Q23397), river (Q4022), forest (Q4421), bog (Q1681353) to that precision (fractions of square mm). And if, you have to give the timestamp in fractions of millisecs. Does Wikidata have an educational mission? Should we copy the dumbness of the world into wikidata? Copying data 1:1 from any source might be convenient, but rounding to that extent cannot be the burden of the user of these data. IMHO we need defined maximum precisions in certain contexts, that make sense in the context and are applied automatically at least when showing, returning, etc these values (e.g. lengths of rivers, areas of communities, heights of mountains, lengths of coast lines, etc. etc.). Adding error intervals in general would be great. An area of a community, parts of the community, can be measured quite accurately from satellite, but fraction of square mm is beyond anything. Rounding need not skip any decimals, but just keep them in the intestines. Not showing, not returning.
Let me compare this to coordinate location (P625), where you can at least define a precision, but the default precision is Spezial (±1e-8°) (which makes me also wonder). At least you can define the precision, alas this will round / truncate the figures. best --Herzi Pinki (talk) 16:50, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- I understand precision issues well, but I can't be bothered to pick a sensible number of decimal places when copying someone else's values into coordinate location (P625), often because they are the result of a calculation. I expect areas are the same. I always assume a bot will sort it out. When I query the same data I do apply a sig fig filter before displaying it because it bugs me like it does you. But an education campaign and obsession over the raw data seems misplaced. Perhaps WD could have user preferences for display precision. Vicarage (talk) 18:30, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- In Land Surveying, points are rarely assumed to be precise to any more than a millimeter; usually with 2 centimeters is considered accurate for as-builts. To avoid loss of possibly correct data, while rounding to a reasonable degree, I think all locations should be rounded to either the nearest centimeter or, better, a millimeter. That's likely overkill for most applications (especially geological features). Especially for the area of a polygon, if you're using decently accurate GPS to shoot the circumference (+- 2cm), your base uncertainty is +-4 cm in each direction, so 8cm^2 uncertainty at a minimum for a 4 point rectangle. Assuming the Surveyor was very diligent and took shots at all the key points along irregular sections, your uncertainty is going to be measured in meters by the time you've surveyed even a pond. DoubleCritch (talk) 22:40, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
I see the problem here. Honoris causa is in fact not an item but property: it is not a separate award or degree but a sort of some awards/degrees. A person might hold the degree of Q752297, Q2248352, Q837343, Q17379493 and so on assigned to them honoris causa, i.e. without providing required thesis etc. So I would argue that this is in fact an item of class Q189533, and the proper use of it for the persons must be as a qualifier for any of aforementioned (and some other) degrees within the property academic degree (P512){{{2}}}{{{3}}}. Андрей Романенко (talk) 12:14, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- Moved from Talk:Q209896, since this is a general issue. Ymblanter (talk) 18:38, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- seems like it's both an award and a kind of degree BrokenSegue (talk) 19:08, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- This kind of degree is an award (as distinct from any regular degree). But the award is not just "honoris causa", the award is "doctor of science honoris causa". Андрей Романенко (talk) 19:32, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
Could we switch the default interface skin to Vector 2022?[edit]
The current default interface skin is Vector 2010, which is now legacy. I've been trying the new Vector 2022 skin here for a while now, and it seems to be working well. You can try it by changing the interface at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. Are there any issues here that could prevent us from changing the default? Would it need a vote here, or should we just submit a request to make the change? Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 19:55, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
- I've been trying it out since you started this thread. My one bugbear with it is that the site links are all moved to the bottom of the page to make room for the new side bar. From Hill To Shore (talk) 08:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- I dislike it for the same reason and others, and manually select the 2010 version on all wikis I use. Changing it will effect everyone's custom JS/CSS, but I don't know what features there might break. Vicarage (talk) 09:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- The sitelinks move down when the page is too narrow, on all themes I believe. On my laptop screen, if I have the left-hand menu minimised (there's a switch for this), then the sitelinks appear at the top of the page for me. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- It seems to be a flawed implementation with Wikidata. I can only get the site links into the correct position if I set my 1920*1080 screen to "full width" (option within the Vector 2022 skin) and turn one of the side menus off, or I keep the screen in normal width and turn off both side menus. If the point of having the new skin is to include the two sidebar menus but you need to turn the sidebars off to correctly display the primary material on the page, where is the benefit over the old skin?
- It would be useful to see if there are other editors who experience similar problems with different screen sizes. From Hill To Shore (talk) 15:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- With my 2560x1440 Linux Mint display I can get site links only if I disable "limited width" mode. But then the text is too small for comfort. I prefer the limited width display with a single toolbar, as I can boost the font size more. Vicarage (talk) 20:43, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- The sitelinks move down when the page is too narrow, on all themes I believe. On my laptop screen, if I have the left-hand menu minimised (there's a switch for this), then the sitelinks appear at the top of the page for me. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- I dislike it for the same reason and others, and manually select the 2010 version on all wikis I use. Changing it will effect everyone's custom JS/CSS, but I don't know what features there might break. Vicarage (talk) 09:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- As far as the process goes, having this conversation open for a week seems enough for me so that anyone who might complain has the change to object. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 11:27, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
- Considering there are a lot of links to Wikidata pages in Russian Wikipedia, I think forcing the new interface without adapting it to the needs of Wikidata first (by having interwiki links higher etc.) is plainly unacceptable. I strongly oppose this proposal. stjn[ru]22:29, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
A new item was deleted, I need help with undeleting it and unblocking my user[edit]
I recently uploaded a few items on wikimedia commons and wikidata.
It was marked as spam and deleted.
One was a page about an award winning author, a media company that supports Non profits and a healthcare agency.
There was no sign of advertising or soliciting.
I'm a new user, please help me navigate to unblock and undelete the posts.
Thank You PRWithSagar (talk) 08:08, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- One generally starts by asking the person deleting for an undeletion. You can find more information at Wikidata:Guide to requests for undeletion, Commons have their own policies. I note that your talk page privileges were disabled on Commons, which is something that's usually not done at least on Wikidata unless the talk page have been abused or there is reason to suspect that it will be. Infrastruktur (talk) 13:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Commons blocking policy says, "Only prevent the blocked user from using their talk page or sending e-mail if they are likely to abuse these privileges." I don't see any indication of that in this case, but maybe I'm missing something. Regardless, we can't do anything about a Commons block here. Bovlb (talk) 18:20, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Bovlb and Infrastruktur: See my reply here. TL;DR: spammers tend to abuse talk page access to continue spamming unless it is preemptively revoked. The Commons uploads were blatantly promotional. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:49, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Commons blocking policy says, "Only prevent the blocked user from using their talk page or sending e-mail if they are likely to abuse these privileges." I don't see any indication of that in this case, but maybe I'm missing something. Regardless, we can't do anything about a Commons block here. Bovlb (talk) 18:20, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Ping @Ymblanter as deleting admin of Q125808243, Q125808543, Q125808616. At first glance, deletion was probably warranted (lack of notability) --Emu (talk) 14:20, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Also cross-wiki spam according to the nomination. Ymblanter (talk) 14:37, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- I reviewed the three deleted items. None established notability. This appeal does not add any information that would establish notability. Bovlb (talk) 16:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Wikidata weekly summary #626[edit]
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-06.
Translations are available.
Discussions
- Reminder: the period for feedback on the Wikidata Query Service graph split ruleset closes on 15-May-2024. More information here!
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 took place in Tallinn, Estonia. Wikimedians from all over came together to hack on a huge variety of topics, including Wikidata and Wikibase topics. See the entire Program
- International Museum Day 2024 on Wikimedia: Take part in the translation, media, and data challenges!
- Registration for Wiki Workshop 2024 is now open! The event will be virtually held on *June 20, 12:00-18:30 UTC
- Coordinate Me 2024 is an international Wikidata competition taking place over the month of May. This year, the focus is on enriching or creating Wikidata items with the Property: Coordinate Location (P625). To participate, enroll on the dashboard to ensure your edits are tracked.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Papers: MisgenderMender - A community-informed approach to interventions of misgendering.
- Videos
- Intro to Wikidata Query Service - hosted by User:Gnoeee, this comprehensive video will equip newcomers to Wikidata with the skills to effectively start querying Wikidata.
- Siobhan Leachman, NZ Citizen Scientist and Wikipedian - CitSciOz23 Keynote Speaker, this prolific editor discusses her passions and workflows for contributing and enriching Wikidata on topics as diverse as women scientists, scientific illustrators, artworks and citation data, moths and more.
- WikiSearch from Wikibase Data - Wout Geveart shows how the WikiSearch extension is using Wikibase data to explore and visualise the data in new ways.
- WikimediaAPIs: a WM Technology Training Session - Mr. Neechalkaran of the WM Indic MediaWiki Developers Usergroup introduces the function and utility of WM projects APIs, including the REST AOI, the Wikidata API and more.
- Accessing Wikidata's Data: An Introduction to the Wikidata REST API (Zoom recording). A WikiMentor Africa session by Eugene Egbe.
Tool of the week
- Wikidata periodic table - Tool by User:Ricordisamoa, to browse all chemical elements available on Wikidata, with atomic number, chemical symbol, and localized label. It also includes two charts of the nuclides, with links to every isotope in Wikidata, colored by half-life or decay mode.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A new UI mode is available for the online validator for EntitySchemas. It represents validation reports as a table rather than a very long string, and replaces most links with hyperlinks with some of the text behind them; making them easier to read. Currently being tested at https://shex-validator.toolforge.org/packages/shex-webapp/doc/shex-simple-improved.html, we are looking for participants to evaluate this tool. Some experience with editing Wikidata is appreciated, but no experience working with Schemas is required. If you are interested, you can sign up here. We hope to begin interviews around May 13. For more details, visit User:M.alten.tue
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest General datatypes:
- category for this time births (category item for people who born in this time)
- category for this time deaths (category item for people who died in this time)
- representation type (property to indicate the representation type as a qualifier for Wikimedia Commons SDC Depicts statements of such Wikidata items)
- source of transfer (entity that a transferred item is initially associated with, before this process associates it with another entity)
- destination of transfer (entity that a transferred item comes to be associated with as a result of this process)
- Newest External identifiers: FilmVandaag ID, FBW ID, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ID, Jerusalem Film Cinematheque person ID, PitchBook profile ID, New Oxford American Dictionary ID, Stichting Erfgoed Nederlandse Biercultuur brewery ID, Gentoo Wiki article ID, Dhliz person ID, RAG ID
- New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
- is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
- New External identifier property proposals to review: last appearance, Perlego ID, Bokkilden ID, Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID, The Law Dictionary entry, urban area census code, Wardah Books ID, The Lost Media Wiki page ID, The Sounds Resource game ID, Palula dictionary ID, CDC Stacks ID, Virtual Russian Museum artist ID, Pushkin Museum artist ID, NLR editions, الملف الاستنادي للمؤلفين العراقيين, Dhliz film ID, Dhliz TV series ID, glubinka.by, Azerbaijani National Assembly ID, TheLegacy ID, Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID, Transfermarkt competition ID, Quranic Semantic Search word ID
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: young mothers (source)
- Showcase Items: Deirdre (Q1183379) - heroine in Irish mythology
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Sources on inferrence/reconciliation of property from a "parent" item[edit]
Hello! I asked some questions here (Old revision of Wikidata:Project_chat) and it's been a while.
As a recap, I wanted to develop a bot to add IDs on episodes and series, starting with Trakt.tv ID (P8013). I have outlined a good enough process that should result in very small error, if not zero errors. It will miss some, but that doesn't matter as I can do manual work.
- Infer Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of television series episode (Q21191270) based on Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of television series (Q5398426) (or television series season (Q3464665))
- Check validity of inference by comparing the title on the Trakt.tv API of the same series ordinal (P1545) of television series episode (Q21191270) and television series season (Q3464665)
- Add inferred Trakt.tv ID (P8013) of television series episode (Q21191270) if it is valid
One problem that I haven't solve it is what source/reference to put in. As it is a must to add a source for such bots, I have tried to find it out, but I'm still not sure. Some ideas of me:
- Adding stated in (P248) of trakt.tv (Q84591894)?
- Adding based on heuristic (P887) of inferred from attribute of entity (Q105958742)? (I have to find something closer)
- Adding both of them?
Can anyone help me on figuring out what source to add? If anyone can help me with this, I would appreciate it. Hans5958 (talk) 04:52, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Hans5958 I usually do not add references to statements for identifiers reconciled in this manner. Every reconciliation is different and it is difficult to precisely represent the 'reconciliation method' using properties such as based on heuristic (P887), so I usually give up. It won't hurt to add based on heuristic (P887) : inferred from title (Q69652283) but that's just one part of your reconciliation process. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 05:31, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Vojtěch Dostál Thanks for the response (again)! I haven't thinking on doing inferred from title (Q69652283), but I don't think I would use it, since the title is not necessarily the primary resource (I think it would be Trakt.tv ID (P8013), but correct me if I wrong about the reconciliation in Wikidata.
- Also, so you are saying I can get away with it no source at all? Hans5958 (talk) 08:06, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Hans5958 I would say that most IDs in Wikidata have no meaningful reference. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 08:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Vojtěch Dostál Ah, you have a point. I would put your considerations on mind. Thanks for the insight, once again. For the note, I would still wait for other repsonses from other contributors. Hans5958 (talk) 17:36, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Hans5958 I would say that most IDs in Wikidata have no meaningful reference. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 08:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Changing several descriptions quickly[edit]
Is there a way of making the same change to multiple articles, like AWB on wikipedia? The main issue is that at some point multiple women's sport articles got the description "football tournament season" see history on 2001 NCAA Women's Water Polo Championship. It would be super cool if I could grab a wikipedia category and enter a description for all the entries. It would be extra neat if I could add properties that are identical for all the entries at the same time, like "instance of" and "sport". Not worth requesting a bot with batches of only 45 entries at most. Any ideas? or just keep plugging along? Thanks! Tbennert (talk) 05:59, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- maybe Help:QuickStatements? or probably a better fit is Wikidata:PetScan BrokenSegue (talk) 06:07, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- I did try PetScan but I'm at a loss how to link things up between the two projects. I'll read the manual and see if I can find an answer. Thanks! Tbennert (talk) 06:20, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Broken Biodiversity Atlas India properties[edit]
Birds of India ID (P7536), Moths of India ID (P7538) and Odonata of India ID (P7540) have stopped working after their respective sites changed how species pages work. They have abandoned numerical codes in favor of a "genus-species" code. For example, Rimator malacoptilus (Q1587719) has the ID 1724, which is supposed to link to https://www.birdsofindia.org/Rimator-malacoptilus. Unfortunately, the old IDs do not redirect to the new pages. Boylarva99 (talk) 17:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Boylarva99 Has the author of the property proposals been notified? I guess that would be the first step. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 13:44, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
please fix[edit]
The enwiki sitelink for Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Q174156) is now pointing at the redirect due to some disruption which was unknowingly spread here. 115.188.127.196 04:51, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- I fixed it; it now points to w:King of Malaysia. Kk.urban (talk) 04:54, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
What do with redirects?[edit]
Hello. I'm fairly experienced at Wikidata but there's one thing I don't know. I work at French Wikipedia and lately I've created a few redirects, for categorization purposes, for articles that don't yet exist at frwiki. For example: the Canadian documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story which has the English wiki article Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (Q124853370). On the French side, I have created this categorized redirect fr:Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. So should I create a Wikidata item for that, as a redirect, or just add it as the French entry at Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (Q124853370)? thanks, Shawn à Montréal (talk) 14:14, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- Adding a sitelink to Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (Q124853370) would be best. You'll need to add a redirect badge at the same time, in case you've not done this before — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:32, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- Got it. Thanks. Shawn à Montréal (talk) 14:45, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Odia (Q16290870)[edit]
Is it okay to have a single entry that is both a family name (P734) and given name (P735), or should it be split? Eastmain (talk) 02:00, 10 May 2024 (UTC)