Wikidata talk:Community portal

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Untitled

Just because I can... I'd like to say:

FIRST!

Wittylama (talk) 10:39, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Why do the "articles" have strange names like Q386 and what does the Q mean?

--88.130.207.143 16:22, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Because it's a multi-lingual project and giving items a name in a particular language would be favoring that language. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 16:27, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Good idea. J. E. Abdullahi (talk) 13:41, 6 December 2020 (UTC)

Village pump

Is this talk page intended to function as a general discussion forum, or should we have something lie "Village pump" on en.Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons? Pigsonthewing (talk) 16:48, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Up for discussion but I think a separate one makes sense. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 16:51, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

See Wikidata:Project chat (which could really use a better name, imo). --Yair rand (talk) 21:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Automating tasks

Shouldn't updates like this one (and indeed the creation of that page, which I did earlier today) be done by a bot? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:18, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Yes and it likely will be at some point. However for now we asked bot authors to not run their bots yet to give people some time to get used to the system and play around without bots interfering already. --Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 19:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Can't see task forces

Why task forces doesn't appear (Wikidata:Community_portal#Task_forces)? --Stryn (talk) 07:09, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Looks good!

I like the current layout of this page. Maybe this could be set for translation? --Stryn (talk) 12:20, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Problem saving?

Hello,
I tried to add an interwiki for Q5072417 for : fr / fr:Pseuderemias striatus. Saving failed because "Site link frwiki:Pseuderemias striatus already used by item Q5079348".
This is true, but species Pseuderemias striata is a synonym of Pseuderemias striatus, so on fr: the first is a redirect on the second. I will not add an interwiki on a redirect, and whatever each wikipedia can follow different classifications (in one of them striata could be a valid taxa, on fr: it could even not exists).
So what to do in this case? In the same way the higher taxa can be fusionned with an other one (typicaly we do that when a higher taxa includes only a singler lower taxa on fr:, but other wikipedias create separated articles).

Regards, Hexasoft (talk) 21:08, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello. I added it as an alias in this edit. Also, the project chat is a more appropriate place to use in the future. :) — Hazard-SJ  ✈  20:56, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Note

Q662424 is the same as Q2826922.--91.81.68.157 11:41, 2 April 2013 (UTC) I've merged them. You can also perform merges by following the instructions at Help:Merge if you like. Del_♉sion23 (talk) 22:19, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

"no" instead of "Norwegian"

I have been looking around for a while but haven't found a way to replace "no" by "Norwegian" (or "Norwegian (nynorsk)"?) in the languages template (top of page, where the level of completion of the diferent translations is shown). Anyone can fix it? Thanks. --Qllach (talk) 14:12, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Typically no = nb or Bokmal. Nynorsk = nn. In essence whatever is no should be nb when it refers to the no.wikipedia. GerardM (talk) 10:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

new task force

I've created a new task force (Wikidata:Tennis task force), but it doesn't show up in the list on the front page. This seems to be true for at least another task force (Wikidata:Iranian Persian Taskforce).--Kompakt (talk) 06:36, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

After I purged the page, these task forces are shown. --Michgrig (talk) 08:39, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Alright, thanks.--Kompakt (talk) 13:37, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Spelling

Wikidata:Properties for deletions should be Wikidata:Properties for deletion, no s on the end. Danrok (talk) 15:36, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. --Stryn (talk) 16:43, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Q6499403/Q451539

I have a question at Talk:Q6499403 concerning how disambiguation pages are linked. There appears to be a need for two different WikiData pages for each disambiguation page. -- 76.65.128.222 11:55, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Also Talk:Q451539 with similar problems. -- 76.65.128.222 13:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Let me point you to Wikidata talk:Disambiguation pages task force/guidelines for guidance. Littledogboy (talk) 15:28, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

So, how do we fix this? Clearly, only the same spelling is acceptable, per the guidelines, how do I determine what the spelling is for the Q-page? How do I find other Q-pages to migrate the links to for the other spellings? -- 76.65.128.222 00:52, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm ashamed to say, we kind of do this manually. Look at 中山 (Q13713456), Nakayama (Q451539), and Zhongshan (Q13713349) now. The problem is, sometimes disambiguation in one language is linked to a non-disamb page in other, otherwise I'd say: throw them to the bots. Littledogboy (talk) 11:13, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Q764962 Somebody Up There Likes Me

Would like to link it with new German article “Die Hölle ist in mir” but when I press "add" it is only possible to “cancel” while it is not possible to press “save”. This error occurs for some days now. Who can help / explain? Best regards, Chivista (talk) 16:54, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Done. I had problems with the GUI, too. After I reset my preferences to default (German: Einstellungen => auf "Alle Standardeinstellungen wiederherstellen" klicken) everything worked again.--Kompakt (talk) 18:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your explanation and amendment. Unfortunately, I cannot find this path on my PC. Guess, I have to wait until my son will be returning from his vacation trip :-( Well, this won't be long and I guess I will find no time anyway to write a new article tomorrow or the day after. But if you - or anyone else - should read this, you (she/he) could also link my latest German article de:Blaues Hawaii with Q2075102. Thanks again and best regards Chivista (talk) 20:30, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Why does my "Site id" default always involve Canadian English?

Wikidata borrows en-ca from my user preferences to default the field values.
So I get helpful messages like this:

The site id "en-ca/eswiki" is unknown. Please use an existing site id, such as "enwiki".

when I am simply trying to update an eswiki link.
Varlaam (talk) 03:32, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Why can data pages not be edited today?

Both pages I wanted to update would not allow editing. Varlaam (talk) 02:52, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

What are the items in question? It's probably the result of page protection.--Jasper Deng (talk) 02:59, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Jasper.

Q3742347

The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

The [edit] buttons are there for me as an IP user.

When I log in, they vanish.

I had earlier added 4 of the links on that page.

Q40734

Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

I have edited this page many, many times.

Varlaam (talk) 14:17, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Also, since there is a problem here, I have gone back to adding interwikis in WP the traditional way.

Are bots still actively looking for such links there, and then updating Wikidata automatically?

Can I trigger a bot on a certain WP page?

Thanks, Varlaam (talk) 14:39, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Which browser are you using? Do you have any gadgets enabled? Aude (talk) 09:28, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Same problem today.

I am using an antique Internet Explorer on Windows XP.

(Since I only use this PC to write WP articles and read the news, that's good enough.)

I don't know what gadgets are. Is that in Preferences somewhere?

As you may have seen, I have edited here lots of times until recently. Every flavour of Wikipedia is still working for me, even the one where I'm blocked, as is Commons, and some Wiktionaries. Wikidata is unique in this respect, to my knowledge.

If you have a theory, I can try Wikiversity, or places I don't ordinarily visit.

I was our office's main software debugger in my day. Software is what got me on TV. Varlaam (talk) 17:27, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

P.S. Is my unaddressed Canadian English problem (see above) a factor in this?

My account has [edit] buttons here at the library where the PCs have a more current O/S and browser.

So it's a property of an archaic browser, and the problem began just a few days ago. The issue is why Wikidata and nowhere else.

Varlaam (talk) 00:18, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I can´t help, but this has been discussed on Wikidata:Contact the development team a few times, so ask there, or look it up in the archive. Best, Littledogboy (talk) 08:57, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata staff is already aware of this (Aude above is part of the staff), and also bug report has been opened. --Stryn (talk) 09:01, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi guys.

Something has definitely happened.

1) The [edit] buttons are here today for me so I was able to rename a link.  Done

2) When I did so, no field value was defaulted to "en-ca", my earlier reported problem.  Done

So, that's 2 for 2.

Great work. Varlaam (talk) 19:15, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Automatic update to the language sites?

How come, when you have changed/corrected the language link to one page, the page on that site can still have the old interwikilinks for a long time after this? Shouldn't this be automatically updated immediately?  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.251.154.202 (talk • contribs).

Old links shouldn't be there after a long time. And purging the page should refresh the links immediately. --Stryn (talk) 07:28, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Fredrik Larsson

Please correct the tangle between the Handball-Player [1] [2] and the Musican [3]. -- Hans Koberger (talk) 13:14, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

 Done. Handball player can be found now at Q15637377. --Stryn (talk) 14:38, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Help...

Hi, Can anyone help me to remove T N Rajarathinam Pillai (Q15671566). This is not required. --Selvasivagurunathan m (talk)

 Done. --Stryn (talk) 08:58, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Gadget for multiple page creation on Wikidata ?

Hi.. Is there any way to create multiple entries on Wikidata using off-wiki created csv files, similar to page creation by AWB? A group of editors have created a set of pages on Hindi wiki, and inspired by their efforts I have created a series of corresponding pages on Punjabi wiki. These pages, so far does not have entries on Wikidata. --Vigyani (talk) 02:01, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Huey Tlatoani vs Tlatoani; and... I can not edit manually those or other at all...

Can somebody fix both entries? because there are different articles on Wikipedia for both. Also, I cannot edit manually any entry at all since a few months ago... anyone has the same problem?... Best regards. —Jmvgpartner (talk) 02:09, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Help Required...

Hi, Anyone please help me...

• I have created this - Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala) (Q16268928). But this is not working. --Selvasivagurunathan m (talk) 16:43, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

@Selvasivagurunathan m: It can't be working since the page you want to connect doesn't exist. Of course, only if the page is Indian general election, 2014 (Kerala). Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:00, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

@Matěj Suchánek: Thank you for your attention; however i have corrected this. Now it is working well.Selvasivagurunathan m (talk) 03:24, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

please help us to have an account on the our language..... SUBANEN(Q4980498)

Can't figure out how to change wrong link from Gaelic > other languages

Currently [4] points to Cormorant and [5] to Great Cormorant but that's wrong as Sgarbh an sgùmain should point at European shag. But I can't figure how to fix that because when I go to Edit Links and try to change it it tells me the page already exists blabla. I've tried googling the problem but because I'm not sure what I'm trying to google for I'm not getting anything useful. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Akerbeltz (talk) 14:28, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

@Akerbeltz: Fixed. The problem is that two separate entries can't point to the same article, even for a second. You have to remove one entirely first and then add it to the other entry. Is there a gd entry for Great Cormorant (Q25440)? What is its name in Irish? Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:37, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Ah thanks! The link from Sgarbh to Great C is fine as is. Not sure about the Irish. Akerbeltz (talk) 21:22, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Invalid token

I am trying to add ro:Faianță (material) to Q209671 and I get "Invalid token" error. Can anyone help? —  Ark25  (talk) 18:51, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

It's already there, added by User:XXN. --Stryn (talk) 19:11, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

I see now, someone was quicker than me. Sorry for the false alarm. But I guess the system should give a more useful error, like "the item was already added". —  Ark25  (talk) 19:19, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Caminhão-cegonha

pt:Caminhão-cegonha should be connected to en:Car carrier trailer and the corresponding articles in other languages, not to en:Autorack. I've already updated the links here, but the Wikipedia articles haven't changed. Can you please fix it? -- Marawe (talk) 21:48, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

@Marawe: I'm trying to help but I don't understand the problem. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:57, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@Koavf: The links have been fixed. At the time of my post, pt:Caminhão-cegonha (a road truck) was pointing to en:Autorack (a rail vehicle), but now it is correctly linked to en:Car carrier trailer. -- Marawe (talk) 03:10, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

@Marawe: Obrigado. Have a nice day. Let me know if I can help in the future. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:40, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikiproject Links

The current link to the WikiProjects goes to a rather confusing collapsible bullet-list. Would anyone mind if that were changed to an alphabetical list? --Tobias1984 (talk) 13:17, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Can we add this to the page boxes? User:Tobias1984/Wikiprojects --Tobias1984 (talk) 17:05, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

<translate> WikiProjects</translate>

 Astronomy     Biology     Chemistry     Geology     Informatics     Mathematics     Medicine     Mineralogy     Molecular biology     Physics     Space     Taxonomy   

What's with all WikiProjects not related to science? --Pasleim (talk) 14:52, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

@Pasleim: This is just a showcase. If we add it to the community portal we can add all the WikiProjects (at least the active ones). --Tobias1984 (talk) 21:15, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

+1. You can create a new window which take the whole width of the page. Snipre (talk) 10:04, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

how about listing all the active projects on this community portal page directly? ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:21, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Mess corrected

I eliminated mixing of tarot playing, tarot divinating and tarot island. 83.30.13.191 17:10, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Busan (Q16520)

Why would one language link for an article not display on a lists of such links? I added ga:Busan a couple of days ago. The link to the Irish Wikipedia (which should appear as "Gaeilge") appears on the German Wikipedia and a couple of others, but I don't see it on most (Eng., French, Hindi, Breton). SeoMac (talk) 04:55, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

User:SeoMac: Sometimes it takes some time till the server's job queue is processed so the links show up on the Wikipedias. You can force this to be done manually for one article by purging the server cache for it then (e.g. by attaching "?action=purge" to its URL). However, in your case I don't know if this process may take up more than 24 hours (as your "a couple of days ago" was just slightly more than one), and I'm seeing the links without having purged the articles. Maybe it just is a cache issue on your site (e.g. your browser cached the versions without the link). --YMS (talk) 06:25, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, YMS. I should be more patient! The Busan article now appears on the list of language links for every language I checked, except for English. That will come soon doubtless. I have been spoiled by experiences like ga:Yongle, my 100Wikidays (Wikimedia) challenge article for Monday. The Gaeilge link displayed immediately on all Wikis that I checked. Your comment about the browser cache is appreciated and I suspect important. I will look into that. SeoMac (talk) 04:16, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Q780679/Q4822838

The pages contain similar items. One should contain names of people and the other one be general.Xx236 (talk) 11:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

As ar as I can tell from a quick look, Q780679 and Q4822838 are correctly separated by now. --YMS (talk) 15:48, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Q430700 and Q11710682

Both lists are linked by Interwiki. I believe that the two lists should be integrated or divided into another two lists. Xx236 (talk) 11:37, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

I don't see the problem here. Looks like one item about a location, and one about an event at that location. Has it been resolved since posting this, Xx236? If not, you should probably describe it in more detail at Wikidata:Interwiki conflicts. --YMS (talk) 15:50, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Ground blizzard Q9299029 and Blizzard Q205418

Should be corrrectly divided. Xx236 (talk) 11:53, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Don't see the problem here either. Please describe it in more detail at Wikidata:Interwiki conflicts. --YMS (talk) 15:51, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Q23797208 - wrong

Xx236 (talk) 12:05, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

What exactly should be wrong here, Xx236? --YMS (talk) 15:52, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

Durpang vs. Drupang. Xx236 (talk) 10:17, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Merge

Q4317707 and Q21083006

Merge request

Pls merge Q23751328 into Q7431932. They are the same. I dunno how to do it myself. 103.6.159.71 06:06, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the report. I merged them. See Help:Merge for how to do this yourself, if you want to do that in the future (though using an account probably helps here). --YMS (talk) 08:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Transform Wikidata:Community portal as the community center for announcement

Currently Wikidata:Project chat is used to spread announcements like adminship request, bot flag request or RfC. Wikidata:Project chat is one of the most important places of WD but this excludes people who don't visit this page mainly because English is not one of their spoken labguages. In the other hand it is not possible to require that all announcements having a community impact have to be translated and announced in every linguistic version of the Wikidata:Project chat.

Can we imagine to use the Community portal as the center for these announcements ? The idea is to create a new section with 3 subsections adminship request, bot flag request and RfC. Each time a contributor want to start one of these 3 requests, ha had to had a link to the request in the corresponding subsections. We should avoid any translation in order to allow everyone using a translated version of the community portal to be able to see the changes. Any comment ? Snipre (talk) 20:17, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

My experience is that most users don't visit pages like this. Notices on the watchlist and recent changes work much better. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 20:31, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Sjoerd de Bruin So the question is why: is it because nobody try to use these pages by providing up-to-date information or something else ? And don't you think your answer is true but only for contributors with a long experience of WD and completely wrong for newbies ? Snipre (talk) 20:39, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

I concur with Sjoerddebruin that Watchlist announcements are an effective means to communicate with logged in users; though that restricts alerts to administrators. So you simple need to work out the means to point to announcements wherever they are, and how you effectively collate your list. So I don't really mind where you have your announcements, it is the effective pointers to them that matter.  — billinghurst sDrewth 01:33, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

If a person doesn't speak English, how does it help them if they are alerted of an English RfC, adminship request or bot flag request? ChristianKl (talk) 20:59, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Does Wikidata automatically resolve Wikipedia redirects?

It appears to me that Wikidata automatically resolves Wikipedia redirects into the redirect target article. I think it should not do this. Just now, I tried to alter the en-wiki link for Q1956078 from en:w:Remença to en:w:Rebellion of the Remences which is currently a redirect on en-wiki, but although the input box sees that title and offers it for selection in type-ahead, when you select it and Save, it reverts back to Remença again. Imho, this is improper behavior, and it should allow the redirect article to be chosen, if that's what the user wants to do.

Although English doesn't currently have a main article at en:w:Rebellion of the Remences we do have the redirect and that is clearly the real equivalent in English to Q1956078. Some day, this redirect will undoubtedly be expanded into an article. When that day comes, why have Q1956078 pointing at the wrong article, when it could already be pointing at the correct one, the redirect-morphed-into-article?

It's too hard for software to determine whether a redirect is merely an alternative spelling or some other issue, so it shouldn't try; that's where humans come in. Let the software recognize the redirect, pop up another box containing the redirect, the redirect target, and if possible, the first sentence or two of the redirect target (like the wikilink hover pop-up), along with radio button selection, and offer the human the choice of leaving the redirect as is, or choosing the target article for that xx-wiki. For extra credit, also pop up all the other redirects pointing at the same target article (what links here, where source type=redirect) and include those in the radio button selection pop-up as well. That would be the ideal, imho. Mathglot (talk) 21:21, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

See phab:T54564 and Wikidata:Requests for comment/Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 06:54, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Merge request

Hi, could someone please merge Q18191228 with Q15995111, both are the same Isreali computer scientist. TIA --MAx59 (talk) 17:38, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

 Merged Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:40, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Consistency between Wikidata and Wikipedia

Wikipedia pulls data from Wikidata (in which time intervals?). Is Wikidata also updated from Wikipedia, e.g. after additions/changes to Wikipedia articles?

Each time you open a WP article, the latest version of WD data is used on the WP article. But the link between the WP article and the corresponding statement in WD has to hardcoded in the wikicode of the WP article.

Change in WP article are not uploaded in WD: only manual edit in WD can change Wikibase, the database of WD. Some WPs are experimenting special user interfaces allowing to edit WD from WP, but I don't have any news about this kind of experiments. But from what I know you can't change both WP article and WD item in one unique edit on WP side. Snipre (talk) 11:54, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Looking for references regarding the Wikidata license

Hello,

I started a research project regarding the choice of CC0 as Wikidata license on the French Wikiversity.

Admittedly, a driving force behind the launch of this project is an intuitive aversion against CC0, and the will of the Wikidata team to launch their lexicological solution with, without, or even against Wiktionary communities. But as intuition is never as useful as when feeding hypotheses of rational inquiry whose conclusions might reject it, I thought preferable to make such a research project so I could stand on a firmer vision of implications of this choice.

Also, whatever one might ethically feel about this topic is one thing, legal issues is a really different matter. So far, I have didn't found any evidence of a serious inquiry of letting people make mass import of data within Wikidata. But hopefully I'll soon be given links showing such an inquiry was indeed performed. Not requiring sources and evidence of a free license covering imported data is a great way to put at risk of massive legal infraction, not only the Wikidata project, but anyone who reuse its data.

I welcome any reference that you might judge valuable for the research project evoked above. That is anything speaking about how the license was chose, opinion of the community regarding this choice, ins and outs of the reuse ability, what notable partnership was ease or prevented due to the license, how external reusers do or do not give back through one form (better curated or enlarged set of data), or an other (technical advises, institutional promotion, funds…), and anything you think worth mentioning regarding Wikidata license. It would be kind to check it is not already in the list of sources I fetched so far, but I prefer duplicate over missing a source of information.

Also let me know if you would be interested with a translation of this project. So far I'm writing it in my native language to hasten the draft outcome and I don't necessarily expect huge interest for the subject beyond myself. But if people do show interest, or even would like to contribute, I can switch to Esperanto, or even the less likely demand of an English version. ;)

Inquirely, Psychoslave (talk) 10:23, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Take the Subject of Licenses Seriously: a 2017 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal

Hello Wikidatians,

Although I think every Wikimedian is concern, and even people reusing data from Wikidata beyond Wikimedia, but sure people in Wikidata might feel especially involved, there is a 2017 Community Wishlist Survey proposal regarding the topic of licenses. Your feedback and other contributions around this proposal are welcome.

Cheers, Psychoslave (talk) 09:30, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Where to report errors in the data?

It seems very typical of Wikidata that a far-too-long search has failed to find the page to do this (if any exists). It should be linked in bold at the top of several of the main landing pages. No, I don't want to learn how to fix it myself, thank you, or to contribute to Wikidata (which I've tried in the past). I want you to fix it. Grotta di Seiano (Q1547614) and Crypta Neapolitana (Q977606) are exactly the same thing - I'd merge to the latter. Thank you. Johnbod (talk) 13:57, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Grotta di Seiano (Q1547614) links to de:Grotta di Seiano, and Crypta Neapolitana (Q977606) to de:Grotta di Pozzuoli - it looks like the latter is a mix of different topics that need untwining/moving over to the former. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 17:18, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I'd already pointed that out to them. Johnbod (talk) 14:35, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

w:en:WP:SOFIXIT. Also, from the top of the page: "The page is for discussion of how to improve the Community portal. To share comments or questions about Wikidata, please visit the Project chat page."--Rschen7754 18:23, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

No, like I said, I don't want to fix it myself. No wonder WD is so unpopular with most of the community. Johnbod (talk) 14:35, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

What would you say to someone who said similar remarks about the English Wikipedia? After all, you have to learn wiki markup. --Rschen7754 18:05, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

@Johnbod: Please can you just explain us the principle of "wiki" ? We have perhaps a different definition because I never heard about a system where people have to do things. Snipre (talk) 20:46, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Ok, whatever. Just don't complain when people say WD is full of errors & crap, there's nowhere to report it, and nobody there is interested in doing anything about reported errors. Johnbod (talk) 22:55, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata:Showcase items

What do you think about adding Wikidata:Showcase items page in the "Getting started" section? It's waaay to hard to find this page and it actually serves as a tutorial, at least for me if I edit entry in topic I'm not fluent. Yarl 💭  22:23, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

RFCs are featured too prominently

RFCs currently occupy the second item in the "General discussion" section. This encourages many newcomers to start an RFC if they want to have some feedback about a particular edit they did, for instance. And they don't get any feedback because nobody sees these bogus RFCs.

RFCs are meant to provide a decision procedure for relatively important or contentious issues that have already been discussed at length elsewhere. So we should make RFCs less visible in this page, or change the wording to make it clear that newcomers should not go there. Each actual RFC should already be advertised on its own in the relevant places. − Pintoch (talk) 17:41, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Merge request

Hi,

Q6817617 and Q6906624 are about the same person, could someone please merge them? I tried to do it as Help:Merge described but got an error message. Alensha (talk) 04:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

 Merged Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:59, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikidata not supporting Khowar Wiki Incubator project

Wikidata not supporting Khowar Wiki Incubator project, please help and guide me--Rachitrali (talk) 10:01, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

→WD:DEV, phab:T54971. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 17:09, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Merge request

Hi,

Q17308174 and Q3512686 are about the same person, could someone please merge them? Thank you, --Sentruper (talk) 09:20, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

 Done See Help:Merge for guidance on this. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:43, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Stephen Moorbath merge request

Merge request Hello, could someone please merge Stephen Moorbath (Q64876804) and Stephen Erwin Moorbath (Q21166047) into Stephen Moorbath (Q23771174) The last one is the most fully described item. Can anyone merge identical items? Actia Nicopolis (talk) 14:57, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

 Merged Everybody can. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:34, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Q9391427 redirects to Q573869

Hi! Please solve the Q9391427 redirect to Q573869. It sould be possible to find an usefull link to report redirects either at Wikidata:Community portal or at Help:Contents. Regards
no bias — קיין אומוויסנדיקע פּרעפֿערענצן — keyn umvisndike preferentsn ^{talk contribs} 20:42, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Q11978574 redirects to Q8053529

Hi! Please solve also the Q11978574 redirect to Q8053529. Best regards
no bias — קיין אומוויסנדיקע פּרעפֿערענצן — keyn umvisndike preferentsn ^{talk contribs} 18:09, 30 July 2019 (UTC).

121.205.118.66

This guy or girls add flags that does not related to the towns or cities. SpinnerLaserz (talk) 01:02, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Rev delete request

Hi, could someone delete this version (blasphemy in italian) of Q26752 please? --Goth nespresso (talk) 17:05, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

 Done by Mahir256 (see [6]) --37.159.108.129 11:28, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Heritage GLAM 2020

Hello everyone,

In Punjab, India, we have been working on GLAM Wiki Project with government institutions of Punjab along with our community, a partnership we have maintained over the last year with numerous meetings with the officials.

This year, like last year, we are putting a project grant proposed by Open Heritage Foundation in 2020 round. We have successfully completed the 2019 project and are now moving forward with the second phase of the project which has now grown in scale with a non profit that we have built and grown over the past year.
Open Heritage Foundation is a non-profit based in India that works on focussed GLAM initiatives in alignment with Wikimedia's strategic direction.

This project is a Glam wiki project centered around Community growth supported by the GLAM partnerships for content generation, Integration with Community engagement around Wikisource and Wikidata, Wikipedia integration via the new tools we are creating in this project grant and the last and one of the crucial elements of the project is improving and expanding the readership scale for Wikisource project.

We will also be supporting other Communities via our micro grants and skill sharing knowledge pool that we have collected and grown over the years.

We lack adequate sources for citations for curating local encyclopedia content. To improve that, we need projects like these to generate that data so we can document our local knowledge with adequate sources to support that work, similar to the oral wiki project idea that talks about covering the indigenous knowledge sources with non traditional sources of information and knowledge creation.

Please feel free to ask any questions if you want to understand more about the project or have any questions for more clarification.

We look forward to your feedback, advice and suggestions for improvement in the proposal. We also welcome you to join us as Advisors and collaborators to work together for the success of the project.

Regards,
From behalf of Open Heritage Foundation
Rupika Sharma
Charan Gill
Sumita Roy Dutta

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Heritage_GLAM_2020
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM/
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Heritage_Foundation/Strategic_Plan_for_Open_Heritage_Foundation_2020-2022
[4] http://openheritagefoundation.org/

Anavra

Hello there.
Please, check the statement official website of Q2466227, because of dead link there.
Please, check also my request for interwiki conflict on Lampadarius.
Regards. --Francois-Pier (talk) 04:15, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Need merging help

Two Wikipedia articles have been merged, but the Wikidata is separate. Need to merge them. Can someone help? Here are the links:

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21008740
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2087952

Thank you in advance. Aditya Kabir (talk) 15:55, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

@Aditya Kabir: Even if there is a single Wikipedia article on a topic, there may still be two separate Wikidata items, e.g. w:en:Cohen brothers is one article about two subjects but we need three items here for structured data: one about Ethan Cohen, one about Joel, and one about the duo. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:51, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

I see. Aditya Kabir (talk) 00:30, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Waving off the import bots

Is there a way to flag a Wikipedia page as not appropriate for Wikidata? I recently created a test page, w:Search:Infobox country in order to support a question at w:WP:VPT. This is not a valid article title, and it will be deleted soon, after the VPT question runs it course. In the meantime, is there a way to stop it from being slurped into Wikidata uselessly? I assumed the bots worked off of legitimate namespaces, so would ignore this title, but it didn't; it was imported by GZWDer (flood) as Q97798633. I stripped out the en-wiki link, and changed the label to "Delete me" since I don't know how to delete an item here, or nominate it for deletion. On en-wiki, we have w:Template:Bots with the |deny=botname option; is there something like that I can use, to tell harvesting bots here that they really don't want to slurp this item? I have template-writing privs, so if you tell me what you need, I can probably write it. Or how about this: if we add pages like that to a dedicated, w:Category:Pages not useful to Wikidata, and then your bot can just check for the category, before importing? (ping, please) Mathglot (talk) 02:51, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Well, now the bot has gone ahead and added it again, creating Q97861414 in this edit. I won't unlink this one, because it will just do it again, probably; but after the trial run of this file at en-wiki, this file should be deleted. I'd still like to know how to stop the bot from doing this automatically. Mathglot (talk) 00:53, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Merging failed

Hi, I've tried to merge https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43099968 with https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3206248, but an error occurred:

Error while "Merge with: Q3206248": The two items cannot be merged because one of them links to the other using the properties: P4792, P4661

Can anybody fix this. Cheers. --Agentjoerg (talk) 08:48, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Name problem for human, requires renaming

Harry J. Jansen (Q21466565) is in fact A. J. Jansen (Alfred J. Jansen). He signed nearly all his many works as A. J. Jansen. Dutch marine artist. Only one work was ever signed Harry J. Jansen. Can this be fixed? -Broichmore (talk) 19:34, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

I had created a creator page, the correct one of Alfred J. Jansen, now its been changed or showing up as Harry J. Jansen which is wrong. The main page for the artist is (Q21466565) which is showing as Harry J. Jansen. That is WRONG. This is Alfred J. Jansen. This man signed possibly thousands of pieces of work as A. J. Jansen and only one picture as Harry J. Jansen. He (a Dutchman) is constantly confused with a Dane, Alfred Jensen (marine painter). This needs to be corrected... --Broichmore (talk) 16:47, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Merge request

Hi, can someone merge Q106311455 and Q960681 since both items are connecting articles on the Duchy of St. Sava. Thanks. Sorabino (talk) 05:25, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Sorabino See the sitelinks: elwiki and enwiki have 2 different links. See also inception (P571): they are different. The place to chat with the community is Project:Chat. Cordially.—Eihel (talk) 09:19, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello Eihel , thanks for the explanation. It seemed to me that those items could be merged, since they are pointing to the same set of articles. Sorabino (talk) 09:27, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikidata page, which is missing Commons Institution page (P1612) property

Hello!

I feel need for help to solve a problem concerning "Wikidata page, which is missing Commons Institution page (P1612) property".

As Institution pages are not my daily business, it would be nice if somebody here could solve the problem which is pointed on:

• commons:Institution:Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung, Koblenz

Thx & regards --Ｔｏｍ (talk) 20:52, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

 Done See Q2205919#P1612. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 10:34, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Country in the Google Knowledge Graph

Hello all,

Why is Morocco not mentioned in any of Moroccans' google knowledge graphs? The only thing that's mentioned is the city! I found this problem only in Moroccan knowledge graphs. Example: Abderrahim Harouchi (a Moroccan surgeon), (Born: January 31, 1944, Casablanca; Died: August 21, 2011, Casablanca). Is this problem from Google or Wikidata? -Suratrat (talk) 22:09, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Glebionis coronaria (Q6585129) and Chrysanthemum coronarium (Q15627835)

I think these are the same concept, in two disjoint sets of Wikipedia links attached to two source items in Wikidata:

• Glebionis coronaria (Q6585129) – includes (en:Glebionis coronaria (a.k.a. en: Garland chrysanthemum) has links in bg ceb en nl fr it ru es th uk (including es:Glebionis coronaria)
• Chrysanthemum coronarium (Q15627835) – has dozens of language links, including Spanish (es:Chrysanthemum coronarium), but not English or any of the other languages in the set above

Spanish is the only Wikipedia that has both of them, but I think those two articles are about the same thing. I don't know how to unscramble these. Mathglot (talk) 03:38, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Item in wikidata (Q4348663) links to disambguation page on wikipedia

Jutta Rabe (Q4348663) includes "director" in the "occupation" section. When this is used on the wikipedia article Jutta Rabe in the infobox it links to the disambiguation page "Director#Arts and design. I have no idea how to fix this on wikidata. Any help appreciated.Rodw (talk) 16:01, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

The item director (Q3455803) has been connected to en:Director (creative work) as a intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) which ultimately redirects to en:Director#Arts and design.

Now the question is where you would expect the link to point to instead. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 19:20, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

I am a helpless kitten

I am so sorry to bother and there's no rush but could the main image for

Q669315

be updated to:

File:Northwest Territory locator map (1787).svg

pls and Ty Jengod (talk) 18:42, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

 Done https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q669315&diff=1909019472&oldid=1901119979 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:50, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Disambiguation of Stalin Prize (Q2329480)

On en wikipedia the infobox for Eugene Kosminsky is populated from Yevgeny Kosminsky (Q4234979) which incudes the Stalin Prize (Q2329480). However his award was in 1942 and therefore the "USSR State Prize" (Q758861) rather than the "Lenin Peace Prize" (Q308907) which was awarded from 1949. I have no idea how to untangle/change this so that the correct link appears on wikipedia.Rodw (talk) 16:10, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

You should probably move this from the talk page to the Community portal itself. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:20, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

Technical question

I hope I can get some hints on possibility of copy/pasting statements' values instead adding one by one. Say I have same set of values needed for statement I want to create that already exist on some other subject - it would be very convenient to just open txt editing box and copy all values and paste them where you need, even if you don't need every single one you could edit / delete - something OSM have. Santasa99 (talk) 16:35, 13 September 2023 (UTC) I have found a gadget that helps copy values from entity to entity individually, but still don't know if that could be done with entire statement at once?--Santasa99 (talk) 19:44, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

You mean entire item? You can browse Wikidata:Tools and maybe you will find something suitable. duplicate_item.js could be it. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 07:54, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it - I meant entire statement when it contains more than just one value. It seems that duplicate item duplicates entire entity (where the entity and item are the same - a page)? Santasa99 (talk) 00:08, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

It seem that I was looking for Wikidata:Tools/Enhance user interface > Move claims It has your signature, and I am about to try it. Santasa99 (talk) 00:15, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

However, it's not - it is close but Move claims can only move/copy individual claims (values), one by one, not entire statement when it contains more than one claim (value). Santasa99 (talk) 07:49, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

A seal is not a seal

A seal

A seal

A seal is not a seal! When adding an image (P18) to e.g. Harp Seal (Q209324) or Bearded Seal (Q149405), because the image filename includes the word 'seal', it flags it with a warning, telling me I should use seal image (P158) instead of image (P18). This is obviously wrong, as P158 only applies to seals (the emblem stamps), not to seals (the marine mammals) . . . can this be sorted, please? This problem has been running for several years, only just got round to querying it now.
- MPF (talk) 15:38, 12 May 2024 (UTC)