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I prefer to add coordinates in decimal format and would like to see them in decimal rather than DMS format. Is there a gadget like thing that can help with this? Arjunaraoc ( talk ) 14:56, 15 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I'm not aware of one. If you want to write your own, I'd start by looking at Wikidata:Tools/Enhance_user_interface#Userscripts_to_enhance_the_display_of_values . Bovlb ( talk ) 15:19, 15 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Why is the default DMS? There is en:ISO 6709 . If I understand it right, they say: "Fraction of degrees (decimal degrees) is preferred in digital data exchange, while sexagesimal notation is tolerated for compatibility" . Please can we change the default? -- sk ( talk ) 09:29, 16 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Sexagesimal is easily divisible for humans. Coordinate notation in DMS is mostly historical at this point, made irrelevant by the advent of computers. And I still see coordinates presuming to be accurate to 10000th of a second on Wikidata, which is dubious seing as commercial GPS is accurate to between 1-10 meters. If mathematicians ruled the world we'd probably have coordinates based on radians instead. :P Infrastruktur ( talk ) 10:14, 16 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I'd vote to change the default to decimal. Its easier to mentally compare 2 numbers at the precision level I'm interested in, and copy the information out to other places. Vicarage ( talk ) 10:36, 16 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I support. Arjunaraoc ( talk ) 14:55, 16 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I would have no objection to switching to decimal. Bovlb ( talk ) 03:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

"digital data exchange" means things like APIs and file formats (things designed for computers to read). How it should be displayed for humans to read is a different matter, which that page covers in the section " Representation at the human interface (Annex D) ". - Nikki ( talk ) 15:13, 20 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

@ Nikki , Thanks for providing the link, which helps clarify the current situation. I think a gadget is certainly required to add adding decimal display a, as it is more convenient and less error prone for humans also to work with. Arjunaraoc ( talk ) 00:35, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Thanks to @ RamSeraph for implementing the request as part of his gadget . Arjunaraoc ( talk ) 08:34, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

At Halsted House (Q96358236) "attribution text" is giving an error. When I looked to see how it was used at another The Musicians (Q655705) it is used the same way with the same error message, any ideas? RAN ( talk ) 05:12, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

The property is designed for use on structured data on Commons and should not be used on Wikidata itself. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 07:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

+1, this property was not meant for that (as indicated on the constraint itself). I see that DaxServer did a big import using this property wrongly. I guess it should be removed (or moved, maybe as a qualifier of collection (P195) ??). Also ping Fuzheado . Cheers, VIGNERON ( talk ) 08:52, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Ah, I didn't notice the constraint. I'll remove it. But where should the credit line go, as described in MET object https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/132 ?? DaxServer ( talk ) 09:23, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

collection doesn't seem to have the attribution text, but has a donated by (P1028) . However, not all cases in the MET collection were donated with some being purchased. MET doesn't have that data categorized and just puts everything under " creditLine " DaxServer ( talk ) 09:27, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

@ DaxServer : Wikidata is about structured data so a text like "Gift of Henry U. and Emma B. Halsted, 1968" should be converted in the relevant provenance statements. That is not an easy task at all! Multichill ( talk ) 16:23, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Now I understand why. Thanks again Multichill! DaxServer ( talk ) 17:25, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

• @ DaxServer : Ah, now I get it. I have seen that error message before. Is there anyway the error message could be reworded to say "this property is to be used exclusively for structured data at Commons" instead of how it is currently worded? Is there a specific reason it is not allowed at Wikidata? Does it have to do with copyright of the attribution sentence? -- RAN ( talk ) 17:01, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Dear all

I was wondering if there is an existing mechanism in Wikidata for adding datasets connected to deprivation indexes, such as the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) and POLAR in England?

This data is currently available under a OGL3.0 and provides rich population-level data on access to healthcare, education, income levels, rurality etc. It is comprised of datazones that are ranked approximately every 4 years and are used heavily by Scottish Government and local authorities to decide on policy changes. It is currently available for 2012, 2016 and 2020, with the next one in 2026, in an XML format. More info about 2020, including the type of data that can be downloaded, are available here .

Any thoughts about whether it is suitable for adding to Wikidata, or whether it would be better as a standalone Wikibase would be deeply appreciated. Drkirstyross ( talk ) 10:58, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I don't think in principle including them would be a problem, similar to any other demographic data, but there's a major practical issue: what items would we put these on? The published data zones are MSOA or similar, very small areas - and we don't tend to have items corresponding to those geographies. We'd have to duplicate that hierarchy and then tie them back into existing regions, which would be tricky. Andrew Gray ( talk ) 13:17, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

That's the tricky thing. Some areas are small (a couple of streets in some cases) but others are vast (those in the Highlands and Islands) as they are designed to encompass ~500 members of the population. Each datazone can contain multiple postcodes and/or council authorities. The ranking from each year is one thing, but it is made up of a plethora of measures that might be really useful additional information.

In the interests of transparency, I am hoping to combine various open population datasets as part of an undergraduate degree module I am coordinating in September 2023, so it would be amazing if the data were incorporated into Wikidata. It won't be the end of the world if it couldn't be done and/or done by then. Apologies, not really answering your question Andrew! Just wanted to start a conversation about it, as I imagine that there are similar governmental datasets available elsewhere. Drkirstyross ( talk ) 15:01, 22 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I think if you're adding more data to these that sounds fine - my concern would be that if we just had an item saying "this tiny bit of Cumbernauld has SIMD 7, and it's in Cumbernauld", there wouldn't really be much more you could do with it. I think ONS provide enough existing data to link them back up to the overlying areas?

It might be worth running up one or two examples and seeing what they look like. Andrew Gray ( talk ) 23:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

decommissioned (Q11639308) and out of service (Q56651571) are two terms used to describe the state of use (P5817) property. In my opinion, there is no difference between these items, so I propose to merge them. If this difference exists, just I don’t see it, please point out what it is, to make it possible to note this fact in the description of the items (especially in the case of out of service (Q56651571) , the description is now meaningless). I think the items also should have the different from (P1889) property added then (as in not in operation (Q111802839) ). Pyrlandczyk ( talk ) 08:19, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I think something can fall out of use without being actively decommissioned ??Martin ( MSGJ ?·? talk ) 12:28, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

A mothballed power station can be out of service, but can return to service quite quickly. A decommissioned one normally has irrevocable changes. Vicarage ( talk ) 14:38, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

• A vending machine can be temporarily "out of service" because it is empty or unplugged, but at the point where it is beyond repair it becomes "decommissioned". -- RAN ( talk ) 16:22, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Hi everyone,

the statement perpetrator of Holocaust is not added anywhere.

Here is the fitting SPARQL statement

SELECT DISTINCT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE]". }
 {
   SELECT DISTINCT ?item WHERE {
     ?item p:P8031 ?statement0.
     ?statement0 (ps:P8031/(wdt:P279*)) wd:Q113546439.
   }
   LIMIT 100
 } 
 }

There is a Wikipedia category that lists those people. How do I go about batch adding those statements?

I can pipe together the various api's , but maybe there is a better way. also, if there is some kind of sandbox api endpoint, I'd be very interested as not to break anything.

Is this the right endpoint for adding a claim?

lastly, the Adolf Hitler entity is protected, so can an admin please ad purpotrator of holocaust to that enity?

best wishes. FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 08:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

The Holocaust (Q113546439) doesn't seem to be the correct item. I also think these kind of statements are too general. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:30, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

We don't have a "perpetrator of" property in Wikidata. Before you want to add anything in bulk, it would be good to understand how Wikidata works and that goes better if you add individual statements.

Q113546439 was just a doublicate that existed because nobody over at WikiBooks added it to the correct Wikidata item which is The Holocaust (Q2763) (you could easily find it by typing Holocaust into Wikipedia to see where that article is). That item actually has a statement that Hitler was a perpetrator of the Holocaust. That statement lacks citations and we have a constraint that citation are necessary for this property. ChristianKl ? ? ? 11:01, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

@ ChristianKl

That is confusing to me as I have built that query using Wikidata Query Builder , I was trusting that the autocomplete to give me correct suggestions. I assume you now added a redirect from Q113546439 to Q2763 , if so, cheers for that.

I was talking about the perpetrator property here and added "of" to make it a correct English sentence. I did add the perpetrator statement for Goebbels, so the linked statement now returns one result. I did look at the Wikipedia article for holocaust, but failed to find a reference to Q2763 or Wikidata on it, I see now it's hidden behind the "tool" dropdown. The citations constraint does not link a citation policy directly, adding a link to Help:Sources in the description seems like a good idea to me - or is there a more fitting page?. I am still unsure if linking a given person's Wikipedia article via imported from Wikimedia project (P143) meets the citation constraint. I suspect that there are a lot of wikipedia categories similar to Category:Holocaust_perpetrators that allow to infer statements, so implementing tooling to facilitate seem useful to me. My initial question is aimed if such tooling already exists and if not, how I can help in providing it. FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 12:16, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Autocomplete is going to give you an item that matches the name that you are searching for. Wikidata does not yet process mind-reading techonology to know which item you actually want.

Help:Sources is unfortuantely no policy page and does not reflect current policy in regarding sources in Wikidata.

perpetrator (Q4445088) is an item and no property. The Holocaust did not perpetrate Joseph Gobbels, so the claim you added is wrong.

Claiming that someone is a Holocaust perpetrator is a quite serious charge and thus not something that shoudl be added simply because of a Wikipedia category but if such a claim would be added it should have a proper source. ChristianKl ? ? ? 12:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Autocomplete is going to give you an item that matches the name that you are searching for. Wikidata does not yet process mind-reading techonology to know which item you actually want.

sometimes it is better just to say nothing if you have nothing constructive to say. Just feedback as you are part of the welcome new user initiative. You made me stop contributing all together.

FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 13:18, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I explicitely told you that we have no "perpetrator of" property and you still assumed that another property does what you want a "perpetrator of" property to do. If you contribute on the basis of adding a lot of wrong statements to Wikidata because you don't engage in effort to understand what you are doing, that's bad for Wikidata and that's why I was as explicit as I was. ChristianKl ? ? ? 23:33, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

P143 is not adequate as a source for statements which are covered by the Living people policy which was mostly written by ChristianKl by the way. Sources for things like perpetrator are mandatory for living people or recently deceased. There might be people alive that was involved in the Holocaust. It would be a really bad idea to add such statements unsourced in batch. Infrastruktur ( talk ) 15:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Relating to this I'd like to point out that we are using subject has role (P2868) for pointing people that are Holocaust victim (Q5883980) on over 128000 items. Maybe P2868 could be used for Holocaust perpetrators as well if there aren't more suitable properties? ? Samoasambia ? 11:37, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

That usage is already a bad attempt to circumvent our decisions about property creation. Using it for perpetrators would however even worse because mistaken claims about victims are not as serious as mistaken claims about perpetrators. ChristianKl ? ? ? 12:39, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I want to add statements that X was/is a perpetrator of the Holocaust, where X is a person. The Holocaust is well researched, so sources are not a problem.

Could anyone kindly point me to resources so I can add those statements in bulk (with sources) via the API? FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 17:59, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

You can look at comparable items and check how they do it, for example, Osama bin Laden (Q1317) : significant event (P793) , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (Q319068) : nothing, Hamza al-Ghamdi (Q653287) }: nothing, Mohamed Atta (Q110067) : participant in (P1344) etc.

Property participant in (P1344) looks like a good candidate to me. Difool ( talk ) 02:00, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

the holocaust Q2763 has the P8031 perpetrator property with the Value Adolf Hitler. When I understand the definition of P8031

it should be the statement Hitler participant in (P1344) Holocaust and participant should have qualifier "object has role perpetrator" and that claim should have a citation FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 05:31, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

This query shows humans, with a statement subject has role (P2868) perpetrator (Q4445088) :

SELECT
 ?human
 ?humanLabel
 ?y
 WHERE
 {

  ?human
 wdt
:
P31
 wd
:
Q5
.

  ?human
 ?x
 ?y
.

  ?y
 pq
:
P2868
 wd
:
Q4445088
.

  SERVICE
 wikibase
:
label
 {
 bd
:
serviceParam
 wikibase
:
language
 "en"
.
 }

}

Try it!

You could also use convicted of (P1399) , probably less controversial. Difool ( talk ) 08:38, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Still objecting mass-adding statements like this without proper sourcing. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 08:47, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Yes, I would call it a requirement, but I assumed the statements would be added with sources after reading "sources are not a problem" above. Difool ( talk ) 09:28, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

@ Sjoerddebruin I plan add sources as @ Difool suspected. I also want to follow all rules and requirements. That's the whole reason I am writing here instead of just doing it. I don't see a reason to repeatedly do the same manual steps if I can write a script once, create a table containing person ids and sources , to then finally run the script. FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 11:33, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Thank you @ Difoolfor the query, but what I am looking for would be an insert statement/api call.

There are several people that perpetrated the holocaust but never were convicted. Also, holocaust is not a criminal charge. I could however add the charges from the Nuremberg trials. FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 11:38, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

It's not trivial to decide who was a perpetrator of the Holocaust. Were the perpetrators only those people who actively killed Jews? Those who helped to kill them? Those who commanded killing them? Or everybody who was a member of the Nazi Party? You definitely need a good source to add such statements. What soure are you planning to use? D3rT!m ( talk ) 11:51, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I will add undisputed perpetrators. This is not a fact finding commission. I will follow the guidelines that apply to Wikipedia, meaning to stick to the scientific consensus and sources that satisfy academic criteria. FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 12:13, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Wikidata items don't do well with having thousands of claims of the same type.

The best way to add perpetrators would be to create new items like "killing of Jewish people in Ausschwitz" with:

"killing of Jewish people in Ausschwitz" part of (P361) The Holocaust in Germany (Q3188158)

"killing of Jewish people in Ausschwitz" perpetrator (P8031) person-who-did-bad-thing ChristianKl ? ? ? 10:19, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Wikidata items don't do well with having thousands of claims of the same type. can you elaborate? aren't there a lot of statements like x is male etc? [User:FerhatUnvar|FerhatUnvar]] ( talk ) 19:02, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

When it comes to sex or gender (P21) each item usually has only one value. In a complex case with a person who transitioned a few times, you might have a handful of sex or gender (P21) claims but never a thousand for a single person. ChristianKl ? ? ? 22:20, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

@ FerhatUnvar You can use the query to see how the statements are used, i.e. not a lot, and mostly for murders. I would use QuickStatements to add the statements. Difool ( talk ) 12:22, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

thank you very much QuckStatements was the tool I assumed to exist but could not find. FerhatUnvar ( talk ) 16:13, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I created Zig Zag Productions (Q126074734) because the VIAF currently attached was being used by 4 completely different entries, a rolling paper, a magazine a Japanese band and a Latvian band. If someone can figure out the nationality of the musical group, it can be changed from "conflation" to "musical group", or merged with an existing band. I have not been able to figure it out. RAN ( talk ) 16:26, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Ok it does not make sense f Elonathi ( talk ) 19:10, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

If it's the list of works in https://viaf.org/viaf/127976276/ it seems to be related to https://www.discogs.com/label/215164-Zig-Zag-Productions and https://www.discogs.com/label/2736131-Zig-Zag-Productions-USA - I looked at a few and they seem to be mentioned in the copyright information rather than a specific role. It seems to be a company, and is mentioned in https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=myxMAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=zig+zag+productions where it says Christian De Walden (Q5109486) is president and producer. What I'm unsure of is if that and https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138847893 (the source of the list of works in VIAF) are the same company, or if there are separate Italian and American companies both associated with De Walden. Peter James ( talk ) 19:12, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Most of the records listed at https://d-nb.info/gnd/10285190-6 seem to be by https://www.discogs.com/artist/1048919-Zig-Zag-6 which is a pop rap group, possibly Dutch or German, active in the 1990s, but one is https://www.discogs.com/release/194092-Various-Stickman-Musica where "Zig Zag" is https://www.discogs.com/artist/662191-Zig-Zag-3 who is Canadian. Peter James ( talk ) 19:22, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

http://isni.org/isni/0000000122539320 has "Italian" from the the BNF, the list of records from DNB, and a link to http://musicbrainz.org/artist/5d62061d-73ed-4478-b5d2-dcc6792ae857 (also https://www.discogs.com/artist/617824-Zig-Zag-2 ) which is a synth-pop group, probably German, active in the 1980s. Peter James ( talk ) 19:31, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

The ISNI website has a form on each ISNI page to report errors, sometimes they create new ISNI when a conflation in an ISNI record is reported and one of the conflated entities doesn't yet have an ISNI. ISNIplus ( talk ) 06:22, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Several initial ISNI records were created from VIAF clusters, if VIAF had a conflation at that time it could end up in ISNI. ISNIplus ( talk ) 06:32, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

• Any solutions? Should it be kept as an conflation or converted to Zig Zag Productions, I will make it Zig Zag Productions for now, you can move it back if disagree. -- RAN ( talk ) 00:58, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I've deprecated the image, because it is apparently the wrong Charles Odegaard. Should it instead be removed entirely? Because we do not have any correct image of him, its inclusion (even deprecated) makes it appear in Infoboxes, etc. - Jmabel ( talk ) 21:40, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

This is a good thing. Errors that are visible are more likely to be fixed. Hiding the problem doesn't fix anything. It falls on Hungarian Wikipedia to make sure their infoboxes are properly programmed. Infrastruktur ( talk ) 22:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I can't speak for every infobox on every project, but generally they should only be using " truthy " statements, so deprecating the claim will make it not used. One advantage to deprecating over deletion is that a bot will not attempt to re-add a deprecated claim. Bovlb ( talk ) 22:59, 23 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

• Jmabel, amazing detective work. I created an entry for the other person and migrated the image there, still deprecated until we get more evidence, I found his obit, and now looking for an image in newspapers from when he was appointed. The Flickr account never misidentifies him, it looks like we misidentified him. -- RAN ( talk ) 02:45, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

"Mr. Odegaard is not to be confused with, and is not related to, Charles E. Odegaard, former University of Washington president, though the two were good friends. Evelyn Odegaard said they both took to signing their names with their middle initials to avoid confusion. They also had an unofficial pact to both do good work to better their shared name, she said." -- RAN ( talk ) 02:48, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

• Here is him in later life: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125230618/charles-h-odegaard -- RAN ( talk ) 03:25, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Special:Contributions/KrBot2 ISNIplus ( talk ) 06:06, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

@ ISNIplus : that bot has an operator. If a bot is not functioning as it supposed to, you should always contact the operator. No point in complaining here at all.

This bot runs on private infrastructure on closed source code so you really need Ivan to fix it. Multichill ( talk ) 16:09, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I've tried to connect these two pages, and it seems to be a bit complicated.

• English wiki en:2014 Nahal Oz attack

renamed from en:2014 Nahal Oz military base raid

• and ar: ????? ???? ??? on Arabic wiki

these pages here

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122963853
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20420465

I think I need to merge those, but I don't know how?

FourPi ( talk ) 10:04, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Hey, thanks for noting us. I have now merged the items into 2014 Nahal Oz attack (Q20420465) . Next time you can find instructions at Help:Merge . ? Samoasambia ? 10:17, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

@ Samoasambia thank you. FourPi ( talk ) 10:20, 24 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Pursuant to the instructions on Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Oversight , I am notifying the community that a new request for oversight has been filed. Please see the request at Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Oversight/KonstantinaG07 -- DannyS712 ( talk ) 16:13, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

1. What needs to happen so each Wikidata item lists "usage on other wikis", like is routine on Wikimedia Commons?

• On a few occasions, Wikidata administrators have tried to delete Wikidata items that I've created. If those items are not used on other Wikis AND if they have few properties and no links from other Wikidata items, that may be okay. However, I currently don't know how to get that information. The "what links here" feature within Wikidata identifies other uses within Wikidata but not from other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

2. What needs to happen so w:Template:Cite Q displays more than just the QID?

• I've been challenged this past month by two other users on Wikipedia who did NOT like my use of w:Template:Cite Q in new articles I've created on Wikipedia. The first challenger replaced several of my w:Template:Cite Q references with the more traditional w:Template:Citation style. I complained, and the other user grudgingly allowed me to continue using Wikidata citations.
• To make it easy to understand a QID, I've been including comments, e.g., <!-- Lewis Diuguid (2004) A Teacher’s Cry: Expose the Truth About Education Today-->{{cite Q|Q126074936}}.
• I believe that meta:WikiCite would be much better received if {{cite Q|Q126074936}} could be understood without a comment expanding that QID into a text description, like I just did with the comment in this example.

3. What needs to happen so Wikipedians who are "watching" an article that has a Wikidata infobox ({{infobox .../Wikidata}}) could get a useful notice when the relevant Wikidata item changes?

• I think I first became aware of Wikidata via emails that Wikipedia articles I was "watching" changed, and I could NOT see what had changed. Eventually, I learned that a Wikidata item used in an infobox had changed. That was several years ago. I have not seen that recently, but I wonder if it's still an issue that pushes many Wikimedians away from Wikidata?

FYI, I've logged over 22,000 edits in Wikidata since 2018 and over 15,000 in other WMF projects since 2010. DavidMCEddy ( talk ) 19:08, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

1) There are multiple issues here. Page Information does contain information about Wikidata items being used on other Wikimedia projects.

The deletion interface does warn about usages within Wikidata but does not warn about usages by other projects. Lastly, our notability rules do not result in "Cite Q" making an item notable.

3) There's the option "Show Wikidata edits in your watchlist" in Watchlist preferences over at Wikipedia. The problem is that a lot of changes to Wikidata items are of no interest to Wikipedia users. If there's another external ID property added that does not affect Wikipedia it still shows up in the watchlist and thus Wikipedians generally don't have "Show Wikidata edits in your watchlist" on. ChristianKl ? ? ? 20:20, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

2. I'm assuming Cite-Q will display the QID if there is no label available for the wiki's language. The fix is then to add a localized label.

I like Cite-Q myself and have been using it extensively on select Covid-19 articles. Adding comments defeats the purpose of using Cite-Q, I would recommend turning the reference into a named reference instead e.g. <ref name="roentgen1895">{{Cite Q|Q54525969}}</ref> Infrastruktur ( talk ) 21:01, 25 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

When it comes to QID being displayed instead of labels I hope it will get soon better with mul. Does names of articles and names of people should be in mul and then be displayed in any language. ChristianKl ? ? ? 11:27, 26 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

There does seem to be a language fallback already. I don't know the specifics of it but it would seem if a journal, book or paper specifies language of work or name (P407) then Cite-Q will fall back to using labels in that language if there is no native labels. If you need specifics it might be easier to ping Mike Peel or Pigsonthewing. It's very likely mul support will be implemented too. Infrastruktur ( talk ) 16:59, 26 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

This item should probably be merged into material (Q214609) , however the interwiki links conflict. Someone speaking Zulu should verify this. It is possible the former entity and its only associated Wikipedia article are vandalism, they were created from a disruptive IP range. Janhrach ( talk ) 09:26, 26 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

According to ChatGPT : "In Zulu, "Isithako" is more commonly used to refer to ingredients or components, especially in the context of cooking or making something that involves combining different substances. On the other hand, "I-Material," borrowed from English, is often used in more technical or industrial contexts to refer to raw materials or substances from which products are made."

For it to be merged, ZuluWiki would need to merge their pages. You would need to ask over at ZuluWiki to request them to merge their pages which they might or might not do. ChristianKl ? ? ? 10:31, 26 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Discovered I can't simply rollback vandalism on translated pages.

Permission error

You do not have permission to quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page, for the following reason:

This page cannot be updated manually. This page is a translation of the page Wikidata:Introduction and the translation can be updated using the translation tool.

Do I seriously have to undo every single one by hand or is there a better way? Infrastruktur ( talk ) 16:08, 26 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

You need to find the edit in the Translation: namespace and undo that (or delete it, if the page was previously untranslated and the vandal edit created the translation). If the vandalism is coming from a single user, it would be a matter of filtering their contributions by namespace and doing mass rollback or mass delete. ? FlyingAce ^?hello 16:30, 26 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

That's a big help. Thanks. Infrastruktur ( talk ) 16:37, 26 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

The enwiki sitelink for Tagore (Q21507646) (a surname) is w:en:Tagore (disambiguation) . The disambiguation sitelink should be moved to Tagore (Q2408695) (a disambiguation) and w:en:Tagore (name) go to Tagore (Q21507646) (currently does not have a item link). 122.56.85.105 22:30, 26 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

?Done Estopedist1 ( talk ) 11:13, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I am new here I use to work on many categories on DMOZ many years ago, would anyone like any help doing anything? Tidying up etc. Please let me know. Jane. Janethecobb ( talk ) 09:33, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

What interests do you have? Do you see yourself doing edits manually or are you playing to automate the process via quickstatements? ChristianKl ? ? ? 09:53, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Hello, there are always unconnected (new) articles in every language version, which need to be connected to existing wikidata items (if existing) or connected to a newly created item (if not yet existing):

• https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/duplicity/#/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UnconnectedPages&limit=500&offset=0
• https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:P%C3%A1ginasSinConexi%C3%B3n?limit=1500&namespace=0
• https://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Specjalna:Niepo%C5%82%C4%85czone_strony&limit=500&offset=0
• ...
• https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/#game=82&opt=%7B%22type%22%3A%22all%22%7D New Wikipedia article and category matches-Game
• https://wikidata-game.toolforge.org/distributed/

M2k~dewiki ( talk ) 15:03, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Also, the AutosuggestSitelink -Gadget might be usefull for this purpose. It opens a wiki pop-up (not a browser pop-up), so articles, which are not yet connected to a wikidata object can be connected to an object (see screenshot). M2k~dewiki ( talk ) 15:08, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

currently building complex (Q1497364) is a subclass of (P279) architectural ensemble (Q1497375) which is a subclass of (P279) of group of structures or buildings (Q18247357) which explicitly says "architectural structures or buildings that do not form a building complex, but are treated as a group"

I agree building complex (Q1497364) and group of structures or buildings (Q18247357) should be alternatives, expressing the tightness of the link between structures. architectural ensemble (Q1497375) is rather wooly, but because of that should probably be the parent for both. My interest is separating between buildings at a particular point, and ones spread across a larger area. Vicarage ( talk ) 10:38, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-05-27. Please help Translate .

Discussions

• New requests for permissions/Bot: ELMCIPBot - Task: Import records from ELMCIP Knowledge Base (Q113705072) as part of the Wikidata WikiProject Digital Narratives
• New request for oversight: KonstantinaG07 - RfP scheduled to end 8 June 2024 16:09 (UTC)

Events

• Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call May 28, 2024: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Call on Tuesday, 28 May, 2024 at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Please join us for a community discussion on the LCCN Wikidata Bot with Mary Campany, Steven Folsom, and Matt Miller. 2024-05-28: Wikidata Affinity Group Call Agenda
• Coordinate Me 2024 (Spanish): An international Wikidata competition around geolocation content, from towns, hospitals, public art and natural monuments to improve or create Wikidata elements with a coordinate location (P625) in focus countries. Contest ends 31 May 2024.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

• Blogs
  • Using Wikidata (and Mapbox) to make a UNESCO World Heritage Sites map Stefan Bohacek documents a follow and code along project to make a map displaying UNESCO World Heritage sites on a Mapbox, fuelled by Wikidata.
  • Libraries using Wikidata: 11 examples - following on from the previous post , this Diff blog highlights 11 projects where Libraries and Librarians are using Wikidata in their projects.
  • Use SPARQL to query for movies, then watch them Bob DuCharme inspired by WikiFlix demonstrates how SPARQL queries can be used to find YouTube-hosted media content entered in Wikidata to curate your next Watchlist.
  • Enhancing KG's with LLM's : A novel approach to keyword extraction and synonym merging. This blog post shows an example of using a Wikidata subgraph with AI to discover new connections and relationships.
• Papers
  • RQSS: Referencing Quality Scoring System for Wikidata - The authors show how RQSS framework can be applied to Wikidata subsets to qualify Reference Quality. By S. Beghaeiraveri, A.Gray & F. McNeill.
  • Automatisierte semantische Anreicherung von historischen Texten: Erkennung und Verknupfung von Entitaten mit Wikidata und Wikipedia (German) - The paper discusses using AI and Wikipedia and Wikidata as Knowledge Graphs to identify, classify and link entities from the Berlin State Library.
  • ParaNames 1.0: Creating an Entity Name Corpus for 400+ Languages Using Wikidata - ParaNames is a multilingual parallel name resource consisting of 140 million names spanning over 400 languages. Names are provided for 16.8 million entities, and each entity is mapped from a complex type hierarchy to a standard type (PER/LOC/ORG). Using Wikidata as a source, the authors created the largest resource of this type to date.
• Videos
  • FOSSGIS 2024 Das Zusammenspiel von Wikidata, Wikipedia und OpenStreetMap (German) - A presentation of ??what tags are present in OpenStreetMap that connects to Wikidata and Wikipedia.
  • IWD Inspire Inclusion Campaign English Wikidata Training - Rhoda James gives an introduction to Wikidata, its principles and common misconceptions and how to begin editing.

Tool of the week

• Wikipedia:WE-Framework : WE-Framework is a tool developed by Sergey Vladimirov that allows editing related Wikidata elements in an article without having to go to Wikidata. When you save your Wikidata edit, it will reference the utility in the edit summary.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for a machine learning project manager to make it easier to use Wikidata's data in machine learning settings.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

• Newest General datatypes:
  • category for births in this time period (category item for people who born in this time period)
  • category for deaths in this time period (category item for people who died in this time period)
  • 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)
  • LombardiaBeniCulturali collection ID (ID of a collection on lombardiabeniculturali.it)
  • population by native language (native language population of a place)
  • tartan (item's tartan; Tartan is a Scottish cloth pattern symbolizing a clan, region, or group.)
• 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 ID , RAG ID , ?The Sounds Resource game ID , The Lost Media Wiki page ID , Cbonds company profile , Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID , K?mako author ID , urban area census code , The Law Dictionary entry , CDC Stacks ID , Authority file of the Iraqi Authors , Gentoo GURU package ID , TheLegacy game ID , Explanatory Ukrainian Dictionary ID , Grand Theft Wiki ID , Folkets lexikon ID , Pushkin Museum artist ID , Virtual Russian Museum artist ID , LGD Block Code , Australian Oxford Dictionary ID , ICPE establishment ID , case number (mainland China) , Lille norske leksikon ID , WiiG.de developer ID , WiiG.de publisher ID , The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ID , Azerbaijani National Assembly ID , Canadian Oxford Dictionary ID , ?GOG product ID , Archnet authority ID , Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable ID , Comprehensive Dictionary of the Contemporary Ukrainian Language ID , Archaeological investigations in Hungary ID , Global Egyptian Museum ID , Historic Synagogues of Europe ID , TheLegacy company ID , Nintendo Life game ID , Push Square game ID , Pure Xbox game ID , Palula dictionary ID , Oxford Dictionary of English entry ID , Slovenian Etymological Dictionary ID , ?Jedipedia.net ID
• New General datatypes property proposals to review:
  • last appearance (last work featuring a fictional character or item)
  • is ontological root of (forms the root element of the ontology)
  • located in the Islamic territorial entity (the item is located on the territory of the following Islamic entity.)
  • address of addressee (address of the address e.g. on a postcard)
  • TheaterEncyclopedie ID (An item of the TheaterEncyclopedie)
  • relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator (indicates a relation between the subject and the SDGs or one of the components)
  • taxon synonym of (taxon item (considered a preferred name according to a given reference) of which this taxon name is a synonym - the new property will be the inverse property of {{P|1420}})
  • Competitor (Competitors in game shows)
  • basionym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a basionym (original name, for botanical and similar items) - inverse property of {{P|566}})
  • land acknowledgement ()
  • protonym of (taxon item of which this taxon name is a protonym (original name, for zoological taxa) - inverse property of {{P|1403}})
  • replaced synonym of (taxon item which replaced this taxon name (now only a synonym) - inverse property of {{P|694}})
  • student count by gender (I think there should be a way to document the number of students at a university by their gender, as data for student counts (at least if they come from GENESIS Online - german universities) contain that data divided in male and female students. I think it would make more sense to implement that as a qualifier for {{P|2196}} than implementing it as a new property as that wouldn't make old data obsolete, but also it could interfere with tools that retrieve that data automated and are then confused by having multiple counts at the same time.)
  • has semantic role (item that describes a role in an event class)
• New External identifier property proposals to review: Perlego ID , Bokkilden ID , Wardah Books ID , NLR editions , glubinka.by , Transfermarkt competition ID , Quranic Arabic Corpus topic ID , Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World: Digital Collection ID , The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature ID , The Oxford Companion to World Mythology ID , Yandex.Music track ID , promodj album ID , The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World ID , The Oxford Companion to the Mind ID , Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard ID , person ID in MNAHA , New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary ID , IAFD actor UUID , The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ID , Zoraptera Species File taxon ID , Dermaptera Species File taxon ID , Plecoptera Species File taxon ID , Grylloblattodea Species File taxon ID , Mantophasmatodea Species File taxon ID , Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka ID , vehicle keeper marking / VKM , Embioptera Species File taxon ID , Isoptera Species File taxon ID , Aphid Species File taxon ID , Coleorrhyncha Species File taxon ID , LGD Subdistrict Code , PLC (Primary Location Code) , Sinhala Cinema Database ID , LGD District Code , LGD Village Code , LGD State or UT Code , Korrespondenzen der Fruhromantik , Bundes-Klinik-Atlas Hospital ID , JJM Habitation id , McDonald's US product , Justapedia , Atarimuseum ID , PNG School Code , Filozofia jezuitow w Polsce w XX wieku ID , Garner's Modern American Usage ID , Meurgorf historical dictionary , SNARC ID , milog.co.il entry ID , Green's Dictionary of Slang (Oxford Reference) ID , F.C. Copenhagen player id , Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player id , Milldatabase ID , A Dictionary of Biology ID , Chinese Basketball Association ID , WHO Country Database ID , Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number (LLPIN) in India

You can comment on all open property proposals !

Did you know?

• Query examples:
  • Birthplace of French Heads of State
  • Films starring Cary Grant, directed by Howard Hughes, available on YouTube
• Newest WikiProjects : Wikidata:WikiProject Solarpunk - aims to collects Wikidata Items ( focus list ) and supports the Solarpunk Movement.
• Newest database reports : Items without Labels - explore Wikidata Items that are missing a Label. This list is handy for finding abandoned, incomplete or vandalised Items.
• Showcase Items : Hessischer Rundfunk (Q23565) - German public broadcaster
• Showcase Lexemes : L1221007 - Nynorsk noun, translates to "a spy ring"

Development

• EntitySchemas: We continued work on the new datatype for linking to EntitySchemas in statements. We focused on the input so it shows the label of the EntitySchema when entering the ID. Search by label and aliases will follow. ( phab:T362004 )
• Wikibase REST API:
  • We looked into how to improve error messages.
  • We wrapped up the route for modifying the data of a Property. ( phab:T347394
  • We are nearing the finish line for the route for creating a new Item. ( phab:T342990 )
  • We are continuing work on the route for modifying an Item. ( phab:T342993 )
• Developer advocacy: We are collecting content for a new landing page for developers who want to build applications with Wikidata's data.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here . If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer .

Weekly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above .
• Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above .
• Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge :
• Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

· Unsubscribe · Help translate · MediaWiki message delivery ( talk ) 15:12, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Some statements are only correct under certain conditions, and we have several restrictive qualifier (Q61719275) properties to express some common and generic types of such conditions ( list ). However, many statements would require more specific ways to express conditionality, and I do not think we would want to always create dedicated properties for them. Instead, we might want to give some thought to more generic ways of expressing conditionality.

To give an example where I could not find a way to express conditionality using existing Wikidata statements: A square pyramid (Q1075704) can only be considered a Johnson solid (Q1059659) if each and every one of the triangular faces of the square pyramid (Q1075704) is a equilateral triangle (Q157002) . A square pyramid (Q1075704) meeting this particular condition would then be a square pyramid with equilateral triangle sides (Q17370383) , which will always be a Johnson solid (Q1059659) . How can we express that statements like square pyramid (Q1075704) subclass of (P279) Johnson solid (Q1059659) are only true for a given ?qid if ?qid ( instance of (P31) or subclass of (P279) ) square pyramid with equilateral triangle sides (Q17370383) ?

Should we think here about generic properties like "has condition" or "applies under condition" or so, or should we perhaps try to be even more generic by looking into frameworks like the SuperPattern Ontology (Q111972233) ? Or would the current approach of creating dedicated properties indeed be preferable? Daniel Mietchen ( talk ) 16:18, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

First the pyramide a base carree et cotes equilateraux (Q17370383) is both a subclass of solide de Johnson (Q1059659) and pyramide a base carree (Q1075704) , so it meets both conditions

• ?? square pyramid with equilateral triangle sides (Q17370383)    ?? subclass of (P279) ?? Johnson solid (Q1059659)    ??
• ?? square pyramid with equilateral triangle sides (Q17370383)    ?? subclass of (P279) ?? square pyramid (Q1075704)    ??

This would mean that it both satisfies the conditions of the definitions of a Johnson solid (Q1059659) and a square pyramid (Q1075704)

Maybe this would miss the "these are the "only" solid that meets both". This might be expressible with disjoint union of (P2738) but maybe not simply. I think

• ?? Johnson solid (Q1059659)    ?? disjoint union of (P2738) ?? list of values as qualifiers (Q23766486)    ??
  list item (P11260) ?? square pyramid with equilateral triangle sides (Q17370383)    ??
  list item (P11260) ?? square pyramid with non equilateral triangles ??

would express this uniqueness. But we still would have to define negatively "square pyramid with non equilateral triangle" which could be done in this particular case by does not have part (P3113)

• ?? square pyramid with non equilateral triangles ?? subclass of (P279) ?? square pyramid (Q1075704)    ??
• ?? square pyramid with non equilateral triangles ?? does not have part (P3113) ?? equilateral triangle (Q157002)    ??

author?  TomT0m / talk page 19:14, 27 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

What is current guideline for the topic in subject? Should they have relations? If so, which direction via which properties? Should such answers be found in Talk:Q4167410 ? Thanks

Examples?: Trinomial coefficient (Q96152020) and trinomial coefficient (Q123472215) JuguangXiao ( talk ) 02:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

This has been asked a few times recently and I think the general consensus is no. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 08:12, 28 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

I'd just have paired disambiguations between concrete items here, if they could be confused under our name/description system. WP disambiguation pages reflect the constraints of their no-duplicate name systems, and are of limited used as a second-level connection between items. Vicarage ( talk ) 08:16, 28 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

In what way, do you pair them? JuguangXiao ( talk ) 12:53, 29 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

different from (P1889) is sometimes okay if there's danger that someone in Wikipedia would try to merge sitelinks between the two. ChristianKl ? ? ? 08:37, 29 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

For humans, we have a simple rule. P31 should always be human (Q5) . This makes it very easy.

For organizations, the approach is much more complex. We can have a lot of values:

• company (Q783794) (ex Perplexity AI, Inc. (Q124333951) )
• enterprise (Q6881511) (ex Hugging Face SAS (Q118182434) )
• business (Q4830453) ( TotalEnergies (Q154037) )
• multinational corporation (Q161726)

Is there any discussion about using one value for all organisations? I would propose to use organization (Q43229) . PAC2 ( talk ) 20:18, 28 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

There was some discussion on the WikiProject_Organizations talk page in December/January, off the back of Data Modelling Days 2023. I have no idea if discussion or work have progressed elsewhere on that front, though. M2Ys4U ( talk ) 21:38, 28 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Hi. At Category:Megan Compain over at Commons, the Wikidata Infobox image is showing as this image but the wikidata image for Megan Compain is this image . I can't figure out how to get the image to update. I have tried opening the page on multiple devices and browsers, so I don't believe it is cache and cookies related. Thanks in advance. DaHuzyBru ( talk ) 12:04, 29 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Try purging the page, it's a cache issue. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 13:22, 29 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

Hello,

You may recall our previous announcement inviting you to test a new EntitySchema datatype on Test Wikidata . Once fully implemented, this data type will allow editors to refer to existing EntitySchemas in statements to indicate what class of Items are governed by an EntitySchema for example. Many thanks to everyone who provided feedback during the initial testing phase.

Based on your input, we have reassessed the architecture of the datatype. It should now return as a ‘wikibase-entityid’ when accessed through the API. See phab:T339920 for more information on this.

In addition to this update, we have made the following improvements:

• Improved Display : EntitySchemas linked in statements, Wikitext, edit summaries and Special Pages are now displayed by their labels instead of their IDs, making them more readable and easier to understand.
• Language Support : We've added support for language fallback to ensure EntitySchemas are legible across different languages.

We invite you to test these changes once again and provide us with your feedback by June 6 . Unless any major issues arise, we will enable the new datatype on Wikidata during the next train deployment. Once this is done, the open property proposal at Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pending#Shape_Expression_for_class can be created.

Please note when testing: the data type still needs to be registered with Wikibase Client to ensure full accessibility of Items with EntitySchema statements on client wikis. See phab:T363153 for more information on this.

If you encounter any issues, have questions or concerns, or want to provide feedback, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Wikidata talk:Schemas or leave a comment on this ticket ( phab:T332157 ).

Cheers, - Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) ( talk ) 13:32, 29 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q289058&diff=1896359096&oldid=1873684513 Rostworowski ( talk ) 14:38, 29 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata%3ARequests_for_checkuser%2FCase%2FMrProperLawAndOrder&diff=2161755106&oldid=2029518263 . Multichill ( talk ) 16:34, 29 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

As part of postmarketOS we track a significant amount of information about the specs of computer hardware, mostly tablets and phones (e.g. the OnePlus 6 ) . However, since this info is fixed, I've been thinking it probably makes more sense to find a more central datastore and put this info there and to pull from it instead. Found that some of our devices are already in Wikidata. We'd want to add some more fields probably, but a bunch would already be usable for us. Does this seem like a good use of Wikidata? 2A02:168:F912:0:0:0:0:1001 19:42, 29 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

It could be a good use case. The main problem though is that we require information to have references (or at least be referenceable). I'm not clear on where your information is sourced to. Also it would depend on exactly how many new properties you would want made. You may want to consider using https://www.wikibase.cloud/ which I believe would let you federate somehow with wikidata while maintaining your own database separate from wikidata (which you could link bidirectionally to wikidata). If you went that route you wouldn't need to follow our rules about sources or notability. BrokenSegue ( talk ) 01:07, 30 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]

When I add a statement, after saving, property PID are displayed instead of property label. I need to reload the page to have them correctly displayed. Are you facing the same issue? Ayack ( talk ) 07:42, 30 May 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]