| This page in a nutshell:
- Only link together pages marked as {{disambiguation}}
- Only link together the same strings (sequences of characters) ? there are some
exceptions
to this rule
- Never mix together disambiguations with pages about a
given name
and
surname
? they are used with
family name
(P734)
and
given name
(P735)
.
|
Disambiguation in Wikipedia is the process of resolving the conflicts that arise when a single term is ambiguous, as it refers to more than one topic covered by Wikipedia articles. For example, the word "Mercury" can refer to an element, a planet, a Roman god, and many other things. There are several methods to disambiguate in Wikipedia, the only one requiring a Wikidata item is the
disambiguation page
which represents 10% of all Wikipedia pages. Every Wikipedia should have templates for disambiguation pages in the specific language which add __DISAMBIG__ magic word to them. The features of disambiguation pages differ from usual article pages in major attributes, what makes it necessary to have separate rules to handle them in Wikidata.
Wikidata:WikiProject Disambiguation pages/guidelines
- Examples
- Items to cleanup:
https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/related_properties.php?q=claim[31%3A4167410]
It was created a tool to check if all sitelinks in a item are disambiguations page or not. Is based on magic word __DISAMBIG__.
To use it copy and paste the following line into your
common.js
.
mw
.
loader
.
load
(
'//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mat?j_Suchanek/checkSitelinks.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'
);
On 29th July 2018 there were 1,283,250 items with
instance of
(P31)
Wikimedia disambiguation page
(Q4167410)
.
On 28th October 2022 there were
1,414,334 items
with
instance of
(P31)
Wikimedia disambiguation page
(Q4167410)
, 1,499,455
considering also
items being
instance of
(P31)
of a
subclass of
(P279)
of
Wikimedia disambiguation page
(Q4167410)
.
The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{
Ping project
|Disambiguation pages}}