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== problem with "quantity" datatype for properties.... ==

Hi, 

all properties with quantity datatype have the type indicated in greek in fr-interface [https://screenshots.firefox.com/Ak5vaCk8JLHdILc6/www.wikidata.org as can be seen on this screencapture] !! how is it possible to correct this, please ? I could not find the page that allows translation from "quantity" :( --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:14, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

*I think it's the translate-wiki message for [[MediaWiki:Datatypes-type-quantity/fr]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 15:11, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

:exact... thanks [[User:Jura1|Jura]] :)
:what bothers me is translatewiki has been corrected almost 2 weeks ago [https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=MediaWiki:Datatypes-type-quantity/fr&diff=7773569&oldid=7715169 ] but I still get wrong input in greek (el) instead of ''fr''. Purging [[MediaWiki:Datatypes-type-quantity/fr]] did nothing... - is there a lagging problem, or is it something else that I cannot see ? --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:16, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:: {{Reply to|Hsarrazin}} Translations have to be deployed like code changes, and there were no deployments over the holiday period. If I’m not mistaken, the next Wikidata deployment should happen in a few hours (20:00 – 22:00 UTC, see the “MediaWiki train” in [[wikitech:Deployments#Wednesday, January 03]]). --[[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:12, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
::: Seems to be fixed now :) at least I now see «Quantité» on [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P4714?uselang=fr Property talk:P4714?uselang=fr] --[[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:11, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
:<small>This section was archived on a request by: [[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:11, 4 January 2018 (UTC)</small>

== Bahamas Leaks ==

Could a Japanese or Chinese speaker say whether {{Q|27021541}} and {{Q|27449990}} should be merged, please? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 17:58, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{done}} Google translate indicates that they are the same subject matter, with document counts, and dates. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 03:11, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
:<small>This section was archived on a request by: [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:36, 5 January 2018 (UTC)</small>
== Deboosting {{Q|Q13442814}} ==

I've received a number of requests to apply same de-boosting in search rankings as we do for disambiguation pages to items that are {{P|P31}} {{Q|Q13442814}}. I think it makes sense, since these articles, by their nature, match a lot of terms, but usually they are not the item one looks for when searching for things (i.e., if you look for "dog", you'd probably expect stuff related to {{Q|Q144}} on top and not all scientific articles mentioning dogs, at least not on top). Thus, I plan to apply some negative adjustment to their rankings. Note that this would not remove them from search results, just make them rank lower. I would like to hear if anybody sees any problems or can bring any objections to this? If there's no strong opposition, this will be done somewhere in January, once the holiday deployment freeze is over. [[User:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Smalyshev (WMF)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:47, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
:{{support}} [[User:Pamputt|Pamputt]] ([[User talk:Pamputt|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:02, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
:{{s}} [[User:Mahir256|Mahir256]] ([[User talk:Mahir256|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:29, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
: Sorry, searching for "dog" (I switched to enUI) gives no [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=dog&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 top results] marked as {{Q|Q13442814}}. --[[User:Succu|Succu]] ([[User talk:Succu|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:45, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
:: "dog" is likely no good example. "heart rhythm" was one example that I suggested that led to this change. In the new search (http://wikidata-wdsearch.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Search) it didn't show in the top 500 items at the time. In general it's often hard to find items for technical terms that are similar to "heart rhythm" when the items don't have much use. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 01:43, 22 December 2017 (UTC) 
::: Then maybe implementing search options like "-scientific article" are a better way to follow. --[[User:Succu|Succu]] ([[User talk:Succu|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:07, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
:::: I agree, having such option would be nice. But: a) it's not possible to use it in completion suggesters and b) implementing an option will take time (we'd need to do some refactoring work on underlying parser, probably) and boosts are available right now. [[User:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Smalyshev (WMF)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:14, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
::::: Sorry, [[User:Smalyshev (WMF)|Stas]] but I have no idea what „boosts“ are? --[[User:Succu|Succu]] ([[User talk:Succu|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:50, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
:::::: {{ping|Succu}} Changes in search score (and thus ranking) of certain items according to certain rule (in this case, value of {{P|P31}}). [[User:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Smalyshev (WMF)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:52, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
:And how does that help users searching for scientific articles? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 23:26, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
:: Can you give specific queries of how you see users seeking scientific articles? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 01:21, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
:::Andy, that was pretty indelicate. :-/  I would think that a statement along the lines, of "good initiative, though we also need to look to how people wishing to search for scientific articles, or other entity based search, are able to perform searches more functionally to get results."  Would get a response of "good point, let us see what we can do" rather then "sit and spin Captain Grumpy".  I support Smalyshev's suggestion though do share Andy's concerns. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 13:17, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
:::: The problem with even your reformulated version is that it contains no concrete ideas of what kind of queries Andy has in mind where this would be a problem. If you do share his concerns, do you have specific queries in mind? Having specific examples would be helpful for discussing the effects. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 19:43, 22 December 2017 (UTC) 
:::::I have no idea of Andy's desires in the area. If you are asking what I consider possible, well freethinking how about {{Q|19389637}} for {{Q|23}}? Do I pine for it now? No. Is it a particular search we would like to be able to be run internally, I would think so if we want to have {{P|1343}} filled with our sources. PS. I didn't add examples as I didn't think that it was that great a leap of invention. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 01:55, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
::::::Basically your idea is that articles about George Washington should be ranked higher than people called George Washington? Even without any deranking of scientific articles, {{Q|5545995}} that's currently on place 100 ranks higher than any scientific article. Searching scientific articles on Google Scholar is much more efficient than doing so on Wikidata. On the other hand if you searh the item for a person on Wikidata who shares it's name with 30 other people you are dependent on the Wikidata search engine. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 15:29, 23 December 2017 (UTC) 
:::::::No mate, you miss my point. Sometimes I think that you need to stand back a little further and see what is being said. On this forget it, I am not in the mood. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 21:25, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
:::::::: The fact that I take your answer as being an answer to the question I asked, doesn't seem to me as needing to take a step back. I asked for examples because I can't think of examples where I think it's valuable to not downrank the scientific articles. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 19:55, 26 December 2017 (UTC) 
::::Unsurprisingly, Smalyshev's reply was far more civil than you suggested it would be. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 21:35, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
:: It wouldn't help when you search for scientific article, of course, the article would be appearing lower in ranking. The ranking in general is the game of tradeoffs - you frequently find many more results that you can display, and of course only one can be the first, so you need to try and guess what the user means. One approach is to optimize for the common case - which means the users with an uncommon case would have it slightly worse, and the users with common case for have it slightly better. As we add more syntax to it (which will happen eventually, at least for fulltext search) it would be easier to tell the engine what you are looking for, but there will always be tradeoffs. So what I am trying to do is to find a set of tradeoffs with more optimal summary usability. [[User:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Smalyshev (WMF)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:30, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
:{{support}} but {{Ping|Smalyshev (WMF)}} I think a better general solution rather than de-boosting rank of particular P31 values is to look at the length of the label: shorter labels that contain the search string would in general be more likely to match what the searcher was looking for, and scientific articles (among other less likely matches) generally have much longer labels. Though maybe that should apply only with the main label and not aliases (which can be just abbreviations). Another option I'd like to see: allow an advanced search option that lets you deliberately filter by including or excluding common P31 values (Q5, Q13442814, ...), similar to how search can now be filtered by namespace. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:27, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
:: Interesting idea, I will check if this is feasible. [[User:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Smalyshev (WMF)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:14, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
:::I would be in favour of such advanced search options that allow to combine the text search and/or completion suggestors with elements of the semantic graph. Not sure deboosting is the best approach for the specific issue at hand &mdash; label length and perhaps something closer to {{Q|796584}} would seem more promising, especially if they could be tuned by the users as they work on different things at different points in time (e.g. on cardiology-related topics today, on matching papers tomorrow). --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] ([[User talk:Daniel Mietchen|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:34, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
*{{support}}. Or we should change the search algorithm so that a search needs to match a certain proportion of keywords in the title of a scientific article for it to float onto the top of a result... [[User:Deryck Chan|Deryck Chan]] ([[User talk:Deryck Chan|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:54, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

== Erroneous request for merging ==

Hello. I have just been requesting an item for merging, but I found out that this was a mistake. Any suggestions to what I can do? The item is [[Q12320419]], which I tried to merge into [[Q1857341]]. In my attempt I ended by pressing a Postpone-button - I am not quite sure, what this does, but I supposed it put the request in some sort of queue, and eventually the merging takes place.

I am sorry for the problems, I've created. --[[User:Amjaabc|Amjaabc]] ([[User talk:Amjaabc|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:16, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
:{{Q|Q1857341}} describe a film from 1944. Are you sure you want to merge {{Q|Q12320419}} into it? --[[User:Pasleim|Pasleim]] ([[User talk:Pasleim|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:05, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
::"I found out that this was a mistake. Any suggestions to what I can do" [[User:Mateusz Konieczny|Mateusz Konieczny]] ([[User talk:Mateusz Konieczny|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:57, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
::: As you can see, this button will do nothing with those items. It is supposed to save the item id for later but I'm not sure whether it still works. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:31, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
::::Sure, but {{ping|Sjoerddebruin}} doesn't seem agree. --[[User:Liuxinyu970226|Liuxinyu970226]] ([[User talk:Liuxinyu970226|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 04:23, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

== Please remove items ==

Please remove all speculative items at {{Q|20977110}}. The principal photography is only set to begin in half a year! Maybe it never will, maybe people will leave the project or even be dead by then. Wikidata should contain definite data and not speculations! --[[Special:Contributions/88.71.165.225|88.71.165.225]] 16:02, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
:Done a little pruning and left a note on the item's talk page. It is just one of those things, planned/contracted/actuality <shrug> all can be argued to be valid. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 13:48, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
== AGPL vs. AGPL ==

Happy new year! Now I have a question which asked last year but still haven't any answers, specifically about those items:
* {{Q|1131681}}
* {{Q|28130012}}
* {{Q|27017230}}
* {{Q|27017232}}
* {{Q|27020062}}
Both enwiki and ptwiki are having separated articles, describe different histories of different AGPL, but in many other languages they say both are same, with just a potential purchasing from GNU, to the best of my knowledge merging any two or more of them won't be helpful, and unlikely be possible, so how do I do something for them? --[[User:Liuxinyu970226|Liuxinyu970226]] ([[User talk:Liuxinyu970226|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 01:44, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
:As I mentioned at [[WD:IC]], I temporary marked second as {{Q|21286738}}. --[[User:Liuxinyu970226|Liuxinyu970226]] ([[User talk:Liuxinyu970226|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 01:45, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{Q|27017230}} is the same as {{Q|28130012}}, as there is zero chance of another version of the original non-GNU Affero GPL.  IMO they should be merged.
:Likewise {{Q|Q27017232}} is the same as {{Q|1131681}}.  In this case, there is a chance of another version of the license being established, and in addition there is often legal wording like "version 3.0 or later" vs "version 3.0" (and not later), so there could be a case for Q28130012, Q27017232 and Q27020062 being considered to be separate items covering slightly different concepts.  But I find that to be too much extra complexity without any real world use cases to justify it.
:All Wikipedia articles will be talking mostly about the (unversioned) GNU AGPL, as that is the name of the 'most commonly used' concept in this area, and the history of GNU AGPL is included in those article. [[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] ([[User talk:John Vandenberg|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:44, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

== Excel file as a source ==

If a source is an excel file:

1) How can we use {{P|2701}}? With {{Q|11272}}?

2) Is there a property to show in which sheet the data is?

[[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 03:36, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
: Excel is a software and not a file format. The item on excel lists the various file formats it can deal with under {{P|1072}}. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 11:00, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

== Calendario Gregoriano ==

In English: publication date 4 April 1881 Gregorian

In Greek: ημερομηνία δημοσίευσης 4 Απριλίου 1881 Calendario Gregoriano

Calendario Gregoriano is now Greek. How can I change it?

[[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 04:05, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
:→[[translatewiki:MediaWiki:Wikibase-time-calendar-gregorian/el]]. Seems that somebody experimented or chose wrong language. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:44, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

== Wikidata weekly summary #293 ==

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* '''[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events|Events]]/[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press coverage|Press/Blogs]]'''
** Past: Wikidata team and volunteers were at 34C3. Check the videos, [https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%2334C3%20Wikidata&src=typd the tweets], a new design made by Bleeptrack for [https://twitter.com/Auregann/status/946002931899346944 a cake]. Videos of Wikidata-related workshops will be published soon.
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*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20most%20common%20years%20of%20birth%20in%20Wikidata%0ASELECT%20%3FyearOfBirth%20%28SUM%28%3Fcount%29%20AS%20%3Ftotal%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3FdateOfBirth%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fprecision%20%7B%20%229%22%5E%5Exsd%3Ainteger%20%2210%22%5E%5Exsd%3Ainteger%20%2211%22%5E%5Exsd%3Ainteger%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP569%2Fpsv%3AP569%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3FdateOfBirth%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3Fprecision%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3FdateOfBirth%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20BIND%28YEAR%28%3FdateOfBirth%29%20AS%20%3FyearOfBirth%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3FyearOfBirth%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Ftotal%29%0ALIMIT%20100 Most common years of birth in Wikidata] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/946066633096880130 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fphare%20%3FphareLabel%20%3Fcoord%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fphare%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ39715%20%3B%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D Map of lighthouses around the world] ([https://twitter.com/envlh/status/945975443672453121 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Bubble%20chart%20showing%20number%20of%20out%20of%20school%20children%20per%20country%20in%202013%0A%23defaultView%3ABubbleChart%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20%3Fnumber_of_out_of_school_chidren%20%3Fdate%20%3FmethodLabel%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ6256%20.%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20p%3AP2573%20%3Fout_of_school_chidren%20.%0A%20%20%3Fout_of_school_chidren%20ps%3AP2573%20%3Fnumber_of_out_of_school_chidren%20.%0A%20%20%3Fout_of_school_chidren%20pq%3AP585%20%3Fdate%20.%0A%20%20%3Fout_of_school_chidren%20pq%3AP459%20%3Fmethod%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28year%28%3Fdate%29%20%3D%202013%29%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%7D%20%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%20%28%3Fnumber_of_out_of_school_chidren%29 Bubble chart showing countries with the highest number of children out of school in 2013] ([https://twitter.com/NavinoEvans/status/948171228229111809 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20xsd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2FXMLSchema%23%3E%0APREFIX%20schema%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fschema.org%2F%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FdateOfDeath%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Fsitelink%29%20AS%20%3Fsites%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%28wdt%3AP106%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%29%20wd%3AQ214917.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP570%20%3FdateOfDeath.%0A%20%20%3Fsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER%28%28%3FdateOfDeath%20%3E%3D%20%221947-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%20%26%26%20%28%3FdateOfDeath%20%3C%3D%20%221947-12-31T23%3A59%3A59%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FdateOfDeath%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fsites%29 Playwright dead in 1947 (whose works are now in Public Domain)] ([https://twitter.com/derechoaleer/status/947591894153953280 source])

* '''Development'''
** Fixed a problem with references in history of items ([[phab:T182767]]) Thanks to [[d:user:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] who helped providing a workaround
** Make statements on forms persistent for lexicographical data ([[phab:T163724]])
** Fix a bug that removed the collapse button ([[phab:T175492]])
** Remove cache constraint check results on purge ([[phab:T182107]])
** Add sitelinks to hif.wiktionary ([[phab:T180785]])
** Read constraint check results from cache and check freshness ([[phab:T182106]])
** Re-label the "Save" links to "Publish" ([[phab:T161367]])

[[phab:maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R|You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here]].

* '''Monthly Tasks'''
** Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
** Comment on property proposals: [[d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Overview|all open proposals]]
** [[d:Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested and open tasks|Suggested and open tasks]]!
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** [[d:User:Pasleim/projectmerge|Help merge identical items]] across Wikimedia projects.
** Help [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]]


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== Quality control and constraints on subsets ==

I've been working on improving quality mostly related to [[Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings|paintings]]. Quality has different aspects. I'm currently looking at completeness. For example every {{Q|3305213}} should have a {{P|170}}, should be in a {{P|195}}, has at least one {{P|170}}, should have {{P|571}}, etc etc. One way to do this is to set constraints on certain properties, but this only works if you happen to have a property that covers your interest. Because the numbers are rather large, I focus on subsets. For example [[Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Wiki monitor/nlwiki]] only looks at painting items that have a link to the Dutch Wikipedia. This makes it more humans scale. You can actually finish it and keep the quality standard for this subset. The [[:Category:WikiProject sum of all paintings|sum of all paintings category]] contains many more examples of subsets.

This all doesn't scale very well. Wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of tool to assist in this? Some sort of next generation [[Help:Property constraints portal|constraints]] or [[Wikidata:Recoin|Recoin]]? As a user I would like to set a focus area (in this case {{P|31}} {{Q|3305213}}). The tool would offer property coverage and intersections. A user could work on a subset and add the missing data. The next step would be to be able to flag subsets with things like "I'm working on this", "cleared it" or maybe even "needs bot import". A user could come back later or get a report of all the cleared subsets which need some attention (like Listeria updating the [[Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Wiki monitor/nlwiki|report page]]).

Do you think this is feasible? Would this be something to work on in 2018? [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:56, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
: Why doesn't listeria do the job? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 18:06, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
:: It's all static, it doesn't scale. You have to make a report yourself for everything. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:38, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
::: I have the impression that working through work lists takes a lot more time than creating worklists. Sure it would be possible to make the creation of worklist easier, but I would expect that will result in a lot of work lists with undone tasks. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 11:53, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
This Recoin idea would be nice to have for [[Wikidata:WikiProject Women]] too. Items should have a few basic {{Q|5}}-related properties, plus some guidelines about {{P|106}}, especially for women born before 1850 who could not be professionally trained but whose occupation is still more than "daughter", "wife", "mother", or "noble". After working on various women items I am starting to see some trends, but it is slow-going by hand. It would be nice to be able to generate some specific reports on the fly for certain occupations. [[User:Jane023|Jane023]] ([[User talk:Jane023|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:57, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
:Ping {{u|Ls1g}} about Recoin. @Multichill what you want to have looks a lot like the features provided by [[:en:SHACL|SHACL]]. It is an RDF vocabulary done in order to express constraints on the RDF graph. It allows to express things like "all the nodes that are results of this SPARQL query must have exactly one value for property X, may have values for property Y that are integers between 0 and 10 and must not have values for property Z. It could be nice to have a tool able to evaluate such constraints on Wikidata using the Query Service. {{u|Andrawaag}} have already done some investigation on using such constraints systems with Wikidata. [[User:Tpt|Tpt]] ([[User talk:Tpt|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:00, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
::We had some thoughts on building a tool for a similar purpose, so I am very curious to understand what you have in mind. What we were thinking of was something like shown on the right: After the user has specified a class, a set of properties that should be present, and a set of facets, the tool essentially shows the distribution of completeness wrt. the chosen properties along the chosen facets (mock shown on the right, inspired from [[Wikidata:WikiProject_Q5/lists/riders_and_their_horse|Listeria examples]]). [[File:Mock Wikidata Profiling.png|thumb|Mock Wikidata Profiling Tool]]

::That should work with Dutch paintings or humans of gender female as well, though to do anything beyond instanceOf, I guess a bit of SPARQL might be needed.

::Does that have some similarity with what you have in mind? What do you refer to with "intersections"?

::Cheers, [[User:Ls1g|Ls1g]] ([[User talk:Ls1g|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:37, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Ls1g}} {{Q|Q185837}} let's say all painting items are a set. The set of paintings that have an article in Dutch is a subset. The set of paintings that don't have a {{P|170}} is another subset. These two combined (painting with article in Dutch, but no {{P|170}}) would be an intersection. I want to do arbitrary intersections and keep track of them.
:::With these intersections you get subsets of a size that humans can handle. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:15, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

== Search anomaly "nap" ==

When I type "nap" in the top right search box, neither {{Q|Q901586}} nor {{Q|Q5242962}} appears. This is annoying - I came close to creating a duplicate item because I could not find the one I was looking for.  Can the search team explain what's happening here? Thanks! - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:41, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
: {{Q|33845}} has the language code "nap" and therefore the alias nap. It has 76 sitelinks while the {{Q|Q901586}}/{{Q|Q5242962}} have less and only three statements each. The other hits also have "nap" as aliases. 
: The new full text search does a more resonable job at finding the right items: http://wikidata-wdsearch.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?search=nap&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1&searchToken=7m0erkmodnwn7r4kfya1yik51
: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Suggester_ranking_input is a page for adding searches where the top right search box does a bad job. I invite you to add this example and any further you encounter to that page.[[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 11:00, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks for that explanation!  Will do. -  [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:03, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

== Importing data about electric vehicle charging stations ==

Yesterday I tried out the Query:

https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fcoord%20%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ10373548.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%7D

which gives me a world map of Whisky Distilleries.

I was wondering why the Query
https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fcoord%20%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ2140665.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord.%0A%7D

starting from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2140665

does not work the same.
I found something like:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Electric_vehicle_charging_stations_in_Germany

But nothing for official list of stations e.g.
https://tank.rast.de/emobility/

I would love to work on import for such data if that makes sense.
So 
* '''How much sense does the idea make?'''
*'''How to proceed?'''
--[[User:WolfgangFahl|WolfgangFahl]] ([[User talk:WolfgangFahl|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:36, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
:Any import of missing information from realiable source is always appreciated. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:06, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
::This is certainly useful information to import, assuming the source includes coordinates. I don't know how complete OpenStreetMap is, maybe [[openstreetmap:Tag:amenity=charging_station]] helps. [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]] 20:09, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
:::The query does not work because there are no item about {{Q|2140665}} with {{P|625}} in Wikidata.
:::Data about charging station in France (IRVE file): https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/fichier-consolide-des-bornes-de-recharge-pour-vehicules-electriques-irve/ ([https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.fr&sl=fr&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do%3FcidTexte%3DJORFTEXT000033860733&usg=ALkJrhh8MFBThEL6hWulqtsVlGiUoQ1dFQ decree]).
:::20:39, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

== Changing data type ==

[[Property:P627]] has a data type of "string", but it should probably be "external-id" instead. I'm not that familiar with Wikidata -- what is the correct venue for requesting this change? --[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]] ([[User talk:Ahecht|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:44, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
:There is a disagreement that this should happen, see [[Wikidata:Identifier migration/0#Not going to convert]]. It's not the first time this question is raised. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:04, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
::It was also discussed at [[Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2015/10#About_Property:P627]]. --[[User:Jarekt|Jarekt]] ([[User talk:Jarekt|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:05, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

== How to merge ==

{{Q|3025885}} and {{Q|1208191}} can be merged. How do I do this? Naively I would add Q1208191 to Q3025885 and then add ask for deletion for Q1208191. Thanks --[[User:Nobelium|Nobelium]] ([[User talk:Nobelium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:19, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

:Try [[Help:Merge]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 11:25, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

::{{done}} --[[User:Liuxinyu970226|Liuxinyu970226]] ([[User talk:Liuxinyu970226|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:32, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
:<small>This section was archived on a request by: [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:23, 9 January 2018 (UTC)</small>
== Population property and census item ==

Hello. I need a property to use as a qualifier to connect census item with the value of the population of a place. A user suggest {{P|805}}, but it is not a valid qualifier for {{P|1082}}. I don't want to use {{P|248}} as a source. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:10, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Xaris333}} Why not? P248 seems like the right way to do this. --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] ([[User talk:Yair rand|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:16, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
::I don't want the census item to be the source. I have add an online url as a source. {{P|248}} make a mess the source in wikipedia articles. Plus now it shows both the sources. Moreover, the census item can not have many properties that need as a property. For example, {{P|1065}}. I know that this is wikipedia problem, not wikidata. But, do we really want to have both sources? {{P|854}} and {{P|248}} for the same statement? I am confused. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:22, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Can I use {{P|248}} and {{P|854}} to the same source? [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4831306&type=revision&diff=616287639&oldid=616112803] [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:12, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:I do that frequently.  Example at {{Q|47014250}}.  - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
::Great. Thanks. I though we had to create two different sources. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 02:26, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

== Constraints about villages ==

I am trying to add statements about a village but some constrains are not clear to me. {{Q|4831306}}

1)  {{P|6}}
"value requires statement constraint. Christodoulos Milonas should have a statement 	
{{P|39}}." That means I have to create an item like "Ayios Therapon President of Communal Council" and add it to the person item? A lot of work, maybe useless for small villages.

2) {{P|208}} --> {{Q|29385989}}

"distinct values constraint
This property's value must not be present on any other item, but is also present on the following items:..."

That means I have to create an item like "Ayios Therapon Communal Council" and add this item to the property? "Ayios Therapon Communal Council" -->{{P|31}} --> {{Q|29385989}}. A lot of work, maybe useless for small villages.

[[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:52, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

:Not necessarily - you can use the property {{P|642}} as a qualifier, like it is done for the bishop {{Q|152944}}. Then only thing needed for your village heads would be a generic item "President of Communal Council". [[User:Ahoerstemeier|Ahoerstemeier]] ([[User talk:Ahoerstemeier|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:09, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks. That solves the first problem. But not the second one. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 02:25, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

== Interlanguage links with anchors and redirects ==

According to [[Help:Sitelinks#Interlanguage links with anchors]] I guessed it is not allowed here to add interlanguage links with anchors, but what about redirects? There are already a lot of added here, so one can do this or one should avoid it? See for instance de-wiki links on [[Q43304118]] or [[Q29924639]]. [[User:Florentyna|Florentyna]] ([[User talk:Florentyna|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:15, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:Such links [[Wikidata:Notability|are not allowed]] yet but if you change an already connected page to a redirect, nothing changes in Wikidata (unless you do cleanup). So the item should be treated as if there was no link (the link can be eventually removed and the item may even get deleted).
:See also [[Wikidata:Requests for comment/Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata]]. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:47, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:: As far as I understand the notability policy, it says that redirect don't create automatically notability but not that they "shouldn't" or "mustn't" be created.
:: The current majority community opinion as shown in the open RfC suggests that the community believes links to redirects are a good idea. If you currently want to create a redirect you have to first create the page as a non-redicrect page. Then you come to Wikidata and add it as sidelinks and then you change the page to be a redirect. On the other hand, you can't simply set a sitelink to a redirect page. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 02:15, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

== Renaming a maintenance category ==

<small>''Posted by {{u'|Niridya}} [[Topic:U50s7opvshz1v864|on the French Project chat]] in English. I copy here his message. [[User:Tubezlob|Tubezlob]] ([[User talk:Tubezlob|🙋]]) 21:15, 3 January 2018 (UTC)''</small>

Hello everyone,

I think it should be a great idea to rename the category [[:Category:Wikidata:Deletion]] to [[:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion]] because it will be the same name than in others english Wikis.

I post this message because I done it today but my modifications was deleted and the wikipedian said me to reach an administrator consensus.

Cordially.
: I don't think our Wikidata category equals what counts as Candidates for speedy deletion on EnWiki and see no good reason for renaming it. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 21:41, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Hi, the reason I see is to harmonize names between all English-speaking wikis. --[[User:Niridya|Niridya]] ([[User talk:Niridya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:02, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
::: BTW [[Wikidata:Bistro]] is meant for the French-speaking, not the English-speaking. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 22:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
::: Given that the deletion system isn't the same there's no good reason for it having the same name. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 01:54, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
== Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish ==

Hello all,

Following the change that have been happening since  2016 on all the wikis of the Wikimedia movement, the “save” button will be replaced by “'''publish'''” on Wikidata.

The main reason for this change is to avoid confusion for new editors, who need to be clearly aware that what they add on the wiki is immediately published online.  ([[m:Editing/Publish|more information here]]).

On Wikidata, this will mainly have an impact on the editing interface of the items (blue link next to the field one's currently editing). On any other page like the project pages, discussion pages, etc. the button has already been changed to “publish changes”.

[[File:Screenshot of publish link on Wikidata.png|600px]]

The change will be deployed on January 3rd. In the meantime, you can try it [https://wikidata.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Q380445 on Beta].

If you speak another language than English, please consider helping '''translating in your language'''. You can find the translations [https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikibase-publish/en here] and [https://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikibase-publish-inprogress/en here] (change the language code at the end of the URL to find or add a language). 

Once the change is made, the '''documentation''' will need to be updated. Feel free to help updating the screenshots and other mentions of the former “save” link.

Thanks a lot for your understanding, [[User:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:05, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
:Edit: it's now done. Please [[phab:T161367|let us know]] it anything displays wrong on your side. [[User:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:56, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

== Is it worth contributing to pywikibot? ==

I considered submitting a patch for pywikibot, but digging in the source code confirmed by concerns about the state of this  project, to the point that I am not even sure it is worth trying to fix anything there. I have [[User:Pintoch/Issues_with_pywikibot|summarized my concerns in my userspace]], if anybody is interested in that. I think [https://github.com/SuLab/WikidataIntegrator WikidataIntegrator] is more promising and I encourage people to use and contribute to that instead. It is still a young library but at least the foundations look saner. Any thoughts? − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:45, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Pintoch}} I've used both pywikibot and WikidataIntegrator; the latter was definitely much more in line with what I expected a python library to do, as you outline. I've also attempted to contribute code to pywikibot and ran into trouble getting their tests to run. The data model has problems handling floating point and other special data types correctly relative to what wikidata expects - I was trying to fix that. But I'm sure there are users who do a lot with it, it does generally sort of work. I think it may be trying to do too much to handle both wikidata structure and normal wikipedia pages, which is where the problems stem from. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:09, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
::{{Ping|Pintoch}} I've been using and contributing to Pywikibot for over 10 years now. It's a collection of scripts to do things and a library. It's used and written by people who want to scratch an itch. The old version (the now gone compat version) was still using screen scraping. The current version (core) is API based. The switch between the two and the double effort was a huge burden on the developer community. After that was over, some people thought it was cool to have a pypi version. We ended up with two branches again and nobody maintaining the Pypi branch so we killed it and switched it to release every once in a while releasing when all tests are green. I'm not happy with the pypi situation at all. I don't think anyone is actively maintaining it right now. I've never actually used it myself. I always use the git version and tell other people to do the same.
::I've seen many times people coming up with big plans to split up Pywikibot, to rewrite it or just generally complaining. In the end it was usually just a waste of time that could have been spent much better on improving what we have. So yes, contributions are very much appreciated. If you run into things, file tasks in Phabricator and tag [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/pywikibot-wikidata/ pywikibot-wikidata]. Please do contribute code. Small easy to digest patches work best. Also [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open%20project:pywikibot/core%20-label:Code-Review%3C=-1%20-label:%22Code-Review=%252B2%22%20is:mergeable%20label:%22Verified%252B2%22 code review] could use a hand.
::This all helps the many people running Pywikibot. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:37, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Multichill}} I don't dispute the value of pywikibot for many people, but I am questioning its usefulness as a Python library. What I personally need is a Python library to interact with Wikibase. I tried to explain in my note why pywikibot really isn't a satisfactory library yet, and why I think it would be a lot of effort to transform it into a proper library. It's fine to build things that are not libraries - but they should not be advertised as such, because then people invest time into it before they realize they cannot use it for what they need.
:::I feel bad about complaining without proposing any patch - but that is because after investing a lot of time working with pywikibot (both for Wikipedia and Wikidata), I have just given up: the foundations are broken beyond repair as far as I can tell.
:::Maybe it's just a cultural issue - the Wikimedia community does not use Python much and does not value the standards from the Python world. In that case, that's obviously fine - take my rant as an explanation of why these two communities differ and why you are losing contributors who have  the same sort of expectations as I have. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:03, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
: Pywikibot is not only Wikidata, unlike ''Wikidata''Integrator. It can work with multiple wikis at once (eg. Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons). [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:53, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
::Sure - it would be great to have a Python library for the MediaWiki API in general, not just for Wikibase. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:03, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
:::What do you think would be needed to have WikidataIntegrator do what you want? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 00:56, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: {{Ping|ChristianKl|Pintoch}} As the "inventor" and one of the main developers of Wikidataintegrator, the intention always was to create something which resembles a database driver for Wikibase/Wikidata which integrates the API and the SPARQL endpoint, ignoring most of the other parts of the MediaWiki framework API, so if there are useful features, just let me know about them, we will see if how/these can be implemented, or just submit a pull request. [[User:Sebotic|Sebotic]] ([[User talk:Sebotic|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:25, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
::::: {{Ping|Sebotic|ChristianKl}} I have only used WikidataIntegrator a few times so I am not very familiar with it yet. From what I have seen, the library tries to provide a convenient high-level interface, but I am not sure all concepts of the Wikibase data model are accurately represented. It looks like users are expected to manipulate dictionary-based representations directly - I have not seen any classes for the various concepts of the data model, for instance (like statements, qualifiers or references). I think a more object-oriented architecture would be nice. Something like WikidataToolkit for Python would be ideal. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:45, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
:I've added a reply at [[User talk:Pintoch/Issues with pywikibot]]. [[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] ([[User talk:John Vandenberg|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:31, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks, I have replied there too. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:45, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

== How to improve the usefulness of Wikidata descriptions? ==

The latest discussion about disabling showing Wikidata descriptions alongside enwp content is going on at [[:en:Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RfC:_Populating_article_descriptions_magic_word]]. I'm mentioning this not to encourage people to !vote in it, but because there's an interesting discussion there about a [[:en:User:DannyH (WMF)/10k random Wikidata descriptions|sample of 10k descriptions]] that {{ping|DannyH (WMF)}} assembled. In particular there are concerns about the usefulness of the descriptions (there's also a ranking going on with a sample of 1k descriptions at [[:en:User talk:Pbsouthwood/Wikidata description Quality Assessment experiment]]), and concerns about how long vandalism takes to be reverted here. I'd encourage reading through the comments posted there.

Any ideas how we can fix these problems here? I've been looking into using Huggle here, but it doesn't seem to work ([[phab:T183141]]) - are there other anti-vandalism tools? ([[:m:2017 Community Wishlist Survey/Wikidata/Better countervandalism tools]] didn't make it into the top 10 sadly.) Or are there ways we could systematically (usefully) improve the descriptions? Thanks. [[User:Mike Peel|Mike Peel]] ([[User talk:Mike Peel|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:19, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

:I am still not convinced that we have a problem with Wikidata descriptions at all. They work as desired (disambiguation of items with identical labels) and they are intentionally very short, thus I do not agree with the rating scheme invented on the page of User:Pbsouthwood. Display of Wikidata descriptions in mobile apps and search fields was invented later and one can of course question whether the descriptions as they are used inside Wikidata are useful for that task as well. Personally I think that it is a no-brainer to find that they are, but I understand that others may have a different opinion.
:On vandalism: filtering the RC stream to patrol changes is indeed an important problem, and we would be happy if more editors were engaged in counter-vandalism activities. There are some tools which provide filter options, such as Pasleim’s [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pltools/rech/ reCh tool] (login, then filter for terms and "en" language code) or [[User:Yair rand/DiffLists.js]]; the ORES markers for potentially critical edits are useful as well. RC editors are also encouraged apply for the ''rollback'' right to work efficiently. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:55, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
: See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Counter-Vandalism for more about our counter-vandalism efforts. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 08:40, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
:Looks like another car-crash engineered by the anti-Wikidata cabal™ on en.Wikipedia. That said, one of the issues raised is the discussion is that of Wikidata editor notes in descriptions (the example given being  "determined sex of an animal or plant. Use Q6581097 for a male human"). It is in our gift to fix that, and we should do so promptly. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 09:23, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
::There was a separate property for usage notes ({{P|2559}}), but since they aren't shown when you want to add information on Wikidata, there currently is no other option than to use the descriptions. [[User:Mbch331|Mbch331]] ([[User talk:Mbch331|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:05, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
::The example in question can be easily fixed by merging {{Q|6581097}} as I proposed on the talk page with is very benefitial for other concerns as well. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 14:09, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
:::There are many other examples of Wikidata-specific instructions in descriptions. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:37, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

== Monuments ==

{{P|1456}} link to the list of heritage monuments in the place/area. If a place has only one monument? We can't have a list. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:43, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
: Why not? I had [https://lv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valsts_aizsarg%C4%81jamie_kult%C5%ABras_pieminek%C4%BCi_Garkalnes_novad%C4%81&oldid=2346202 such list] in Latvian WLM lists. --[[User:Voll|Voll]] ([[User talk:Voll|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:49, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
: We can have lists out of one monument, no problem.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:40, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

== Format of {{P+|3424}} ==

*Please comment at [[Property talk:P3424]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:30, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


== Format of {{P+|782}} ==

*Please comment at [[Property talk:P782]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:30, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
== Geocodes of Cyprus ==

In Cyprus, the {{Q|28863790}} have statistical codes of municipalities and communities constitute a 4-digit coding system. It called them  geographical codes (geocodes). They are national codes. Should I propose a new property for these code or there is another way to add the data to wikidata? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
:4-digit system, that is 10,000 possible identifiers? If the identifier is truly an "identifier" (unique etc.), I suggest going ahead. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:35, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
::Yes, they are unique. 4-digit system (only for quarters are 6-digit numbers). See [[Wikidata:Property proposal/Statistical Service of Cyprus Geocode]]. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:44, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

== Signs displaying the name of a place where they are not situated ==

Can anyone answer [[Property talk:P1766#Signs displaying the name of a place where they are not situated]]? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 02:50, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
== Inconsistencies between Q937130, Q3540821, and Q788723 ==

Dear Wikidata users,

Being not used to modify Wikidata, i need your help to correct the inconsistencies observed between [[Q937130]], [[Q3540821]] and [[Q788723]]. They all refer to articles related to the Tibesti Mountains.

[[Q937130]] refers in 3 languages to the place called ''Trou au Natron'', but redirect in French to the place called ''Tarso Toussidé''. We have in French an article called ''Trou au Natron'', but it is associated with [[Q3540821]] (where French is the only language).

We have in English an article called ''Tarso Toussidé'', associated to Q788723, which refers in most languages to the highest point of this massif, the ''Pic Toussidé''.
By consequence, I suggest:
# to associate [[Q937130]] only with the term ''Trou au Natron'', remove the incorrect French link, and replace it with the single link from [[Q3540821]]
# discard by consequence [[Q3540821]] which becomes unused
# have [[Q788723]] only related to the ''Tarso Toussidé'' (largest massif)
# create a new object only related to the articles referring exactly to the ''Pic Toussidé'' (the highest point of the Tarso Toussidé).

What do you think of these suggestions?

I thank you for your help --[[User:Ndiver|Ndiver]] ([[User talk:Ndiver|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:57, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

*{{ping|Ndiver}} Sounds good. 
:[[Q937130]]: the statements on this item seem to be about "Trou au Natron". Maybe {{P|31}} needs a better value, but coordinates and elevation seem ok. So I agree with you. From a Wikidata point of view, it's important that the sitelinks are added to the item that has the correct statements.
:[[Q3540821]] can be [[Help:Merge|merged]] into [[Q937130]], once the frwiki sitelink deleted from [[Q937130]]. 
:If you know other features of these massifs, you might want to create items for them as well. It's not required that there are Wikipedia articles about these. Thanks for spotting the problem and suggesting a solution. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 22:04, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

== Civil Rights Memorial ==

The article for the [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q2974874 Civil Rights Memorial] mentions the people named on the memorial and the "forgotten" where the documentation of their death was not fully documented at that time. How do I model this? Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:31, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

:Maybe, as a starting bid
:{{claim|The Forgotten|P279|Q16334295|P1196|killed in struggle|P793|Q13406660}}
:and
:{{claim|killed in struggle|P279|Q2438541}}
:? --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

== Worldcat Identities ==

Would it be a good idea to make a property/identifier "WorldCat Identity", linking to the OCLC/WorldCat Identities
like e.g. [[Q27825073|Charles Henry Hull]] with identity http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85377312/ 

The WorldCat Identities contain a lot (but not all writers) that have texts in WorldCat with overviews of publications etc. 

This is really an important authority control. See: [[:w:en:Help:Authority_control]].

I have no idea how to do this, but perhaps someone can create this new property/identifier.... --[[User:Dick Bos|Dick Bos]] ([[User talk:Dick Bos|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:06, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
: In this case WorldCat says "lccn-n85377312". That means the person with the {{P|244}} "n85377312". [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 16:40, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:: On the English Wikipedia, they use the VIAF identifier to link to Worldcat .. Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:53, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

== Produced sound ==

I didn't notice it during the property proposal discussion, but it seem to me that the new {{P|4733}} is redundant to {{P|P51}} - if not, many (but not all!) values will have to be moved from the latter to the former. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 19:22, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Thierry Caro|ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2|Jsamwrites|ChristianKl|ArthurPSmith}} from the proposal discussion. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 19:23, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
::The new property has the item datatype, while the other one has the Commons file one. How can it be redundant then? "produced sound" is to link to the item describing the sound something makes. [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  19:25, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
:::{{Reply to|Pigsonthewing}} {{P|P51}} is {{Q|Q18610173}} and the data type is different.Thank you [[User:ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2|David]] ([[User talk:ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:05, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
::::Ah, sorry, I missed that. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:27, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

:<small>This section was archived on a request by: <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:27, 12 January 2018 (UTC)</small>
== Free image available at url property? ==

Hi everyone, for the [[Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings|Sum of all paintings]] I add and update a lot of items about paintings on Wikidata. Often these paintings don't have an image available on Commons, but do have a free image available on the source website. Uploading these images is currently not part of my workflow and I don't have any plans to add it, but I would like to do something with this data. 

What I'm thinking of is a new property (of type URL) "free image available at url" in which we can store the direct link to the out of copyright work that can be uploaded to Commons. As qualifiers some data can be stored that would be needed on Commons to properly upload the image. For example for {{Q|46924693}}:<br/>
The new property -> [http://collections.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/pictiondmz/ump.di?e=4C36D94713293518451249F6419DF088AFA28295C9C09B27F1430AACF2815D73&s=21&se=149022812&f=], qualified with:
* {{P|973}} -> http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=17993350
* {{P|1476}} -> "Red Sail in the Harbor at Venice "
* {{P|2093}} -> "Frank Duveneck (American, b.1848, d.1919), painter"
(exact properties to use here open for suggestions and improvements)

This data combined with the data already on the [[Q46924693|item]] should be enough for a (semi-)automatic tool to upload these images to Commons. The tool should:
# grab the data from the Wikidata item
# do some checking (to prevent non-free works from slipping through)
# upload it to Commons using [[:Commons:Template:Commons|the artwork template]] with a linkback to Wikidata.
# update the Wikidata item with the new image and remove the "free image available at url" property

Currently we have 234.162 painting items of which (only) 70.696 are illustrated. I think we can get at least double that using this approach. What do you think? [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:43, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
:Yes that would be great to have. Especially if you have the url at hand but no time for the upload (yet). [[User:Jane023|Jane023]] ([[User talk:Jane023|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:16, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
{{Ping project|sum of all paintings}} some more input would be nice. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:27, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
: This is also useful for works not out of copyright but with a {{P|3893}} in the near future for semi-automatic uploading to Commons once date has been reached. I would propose we don't call it 'free' as it is not clear what that will mean. I would also propose to have a property with the .jpg file (or even the zoom file (.dzi or ImageProperties.xml etc) as to have the direct download of the image available. In your example: http://collections.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/pictiondmz/ump.di?e=4C36D94713293518451249F6419DF088AFA28295C9C09B27F1430AACF2815D73&s=21&se=149022812&f=%5Cd9335%5Cu17993350%5C1915.135_v01_o4.jpg --[[User:Hannolans|Hannolans]] ([[User talk:Hannolans|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:42, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
:: Thanks for your reply Hanno,
:: As for soon in copyright. That would make it impossible for someone to clean it out. Some statements can't be fixed. And what is soon? 1 year? 1 century?
:: How would you propose to call it? You just said you didn't like the 'free' part, but you didn't propose an alternative
:: My link was to the direct download, but it's just a crappy website with multiple options in this case so both links seem to return the same jpeg file. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:59, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

:Good idea! --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:01, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
:{{S}} - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:09, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
:'''{{S}}''' - But it needs clarification of what is meant by 'free'. Maybe 'openly-licenced image available' would be more accurate. [[User:Xcia0069|Xcia0069]] ([[User talk:Xcia0069|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:58, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
It would make sense to make a proper property proposal for this to have further discussion. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 01:10, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
:That was of course the plan, but I first wanted people the time to comment on this. The proposal is now at [[Wikidata:Property proposal/Commons compatible image available at URL]]. Let's continue over there. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:44, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

== Area precision ==

{{Tracked|T155910}}
How serious we are to take the data like this [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q633624&diff=617133159&oldid=617133155]? Shoudn't this be just six? Courtesy pinging {{ping|MB-one}}--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:58, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:Or at least 5,99. --[[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]] ([[User talk:Edgars2007|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:01, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
::The value, that was entered from the source was in this case 5.99 km². These values are a result of [https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikidata-todo/issues/65/quickstatements-should-not-add-decimal this issue with QuickStatement].  While the seemingly random addition or subtraction from the entered value is certainly annoying, it doesn't create any problem here, because the deviation in the result is several orders of magnitude smaller, than the accuracy of the value itself. --[[User:MB-one|MB-one]] ([[User talk:MB-one|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:21, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
::: Thanks. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point, either from the QuickStatement end or from our end.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:09, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
::: I haven't been successful with [[phab:D911|my fix]]... [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:25, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

== Time to split [[Wikidata:List_of_properties/Terms]] ==

The page displays lua overflow error messages - it's just too long and needs a careful split. Apologies for writing here - the issue was raised on appropriate talk page half a year ago, nothing happened. [[User:Retired electrician|Retired electrician]] ([[User talk:Retired electrician|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:08, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
* [[Wikidata:List of properties/all]], too. Perhaps these lists can be generated as static text, rather than live lua calls? [[User:Retired electrician|Retired electrician]] ([[User talk:Retired electrician|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:10, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:* If you want to edit the page feel free to go ahead. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 19:32, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:*A static version of [[Wikidata:List of properties/all]] exists at [[Wikidata:Database reports/List of properties/all]] --[[User:Pasleim|Pasleim]] ([[User talk:Pasleim|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:21, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

== Intercardinal direction items - constraint ==

If an item Y has a property (for example {{P|47}}) with value item X with {{P|654}}-->{{Q|667}}, then shouldn't item X has the same property with value item Y with {{P|654}}-->{{Q|659}}? Is that an appropriate constraint? If yes, I don't know how to do it. :)

However, on {{Q|15410629}} items there are more than one value to {{P|461}} with {{Q|21012911}}, {{Q|22672535}} and {{Q|22672531}}. Can we have the constraint only if the qualifiers is using with {{P|47}} or other specific properties?

Cases (for {{P|47}}: 
*{{Q|667}} - {{Q|659}}
*{{Q|684}} - {{Q|679}}

*{{Q|Q6497686}} - {{Q|Q2381698}}
*{{Q|Q5491373}} - {{Q|Q6452640}}

[[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:03, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
:We can use {{tl|Complex constraint}} and also generate statements with missing qualifiers for QuickStatements. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:21, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

:Not necessarily true. For instance, Netherland is on the Northwestern side of Germany, however Germany is on the weastern side instead of southeastern side of Netherland. [[User:C933103|C933103]] ([[User talk:C933103|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:27, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
::Ok. I understood. It's now always true. So we can do nothing? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:36, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

== How does Wikidata handle projected data? ==

Hi all

Is there any information or any examples of how Wikidata handles projected data? Some projected data forms the basis of large decision e.g project sea level rises by a certain date or projected temperature increases by increased atmospheric CO2. It seems incredibly important to have this data in Wikidata especially in relation to Wikidata fed maps and charts on other Wikimedia projects.

Some thing to consider may be:

* There may be several projections by different groups or studies eg projected extinctions of species due to overfishing or habitat destruction
* The same organisation may have changed or updated their predictions over time as the situation changes or modelling improves eg actual and projected ozone layer depletion by a certain date before CFC bans came into place

Thanks

--[[User:John Cummings|John Cummings]] ([[User talk:John Cummings|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:33, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
: My first instinct would be to use {{P|1480}} as a qualifier but I don't know whether there's an existing way to do this. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 12:22, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
== Idiot's guide to add interwiki link? ==

{{Tracked|T163713}}
I edit Wikipedia for more than decade. Links to other language articles were always part of the article text. Never had any problem with it. But now I am thrown inside wikidata project, into some web form and here I fail. I simply do not know what to do, where to click. Nothing seems to work (in Chrome).

Is there guide for a complete idiot, how to add interwiki (and nothing else)? I tried to look it up but failed too. [[Special:Contributions/85.70.87.168|85.70.87.168]] 18:32, 4 January 2018 (UTC)


Specifically I tried to connect this page:
  https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronika_trojánská
with
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_destructionis_Troiae

On Czech wiki the interwiki web form is different (much simpler) but it gave me error message: "Chyba: $1. Attempted modification of the item failed."

[[Special:Contributions/85.70.87.168|85.70.87.168]] 18:48, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

:The en. article is linked to {{Q|1241142}}. The cs article is linked to {{Q|12031574}}. Those two wikidata records need to be merged. (However, for reasons not clear to me, they're currently refusing to merge.) --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:53, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
::[https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk%3AGadget-Merge.js&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=616605273&oldid=614556364 Duly reported] --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:56, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
:::{{Q|12031574}} has {{P|629}} {{Q|1241142}}, that's why they cannot be merged.--[[User:Ssola|Ssola]] ([[User talk:Ssola|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:17, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
::::I've added an English label and description to {{Q|12031574}}.  It looks like the cs article is specifically about the 15th-century Old Czech translation.  Wikidata is more granular than Wikipedia.  In Wikidata, a Latin work and a translation of it are two separate things. - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 02:49, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::They should be interwikilinked, and that is, what Wikidata is supposed to deliver. An article about Harry Potter in any given language will use the names in that language instead of the original ones, and only give the original ones as another information, but nevertheless all those articles should be interwikilinked. Wikidata has to deliver such stuff, it's the main purpose of wikidata to organise this in a manner wanted by the other projects, where WD is used as a database. So how are those articles, that are about the same item (sometimes in different translations) be interwikilinked? And if Wikidata doesn't deliver such basic needs, the stuff it was build for after all, any longer, where to organize this outside Wikidata? [[User:Sänger|Sänger]] ([[User talk:Sänger|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:24, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::15th century is two centuries after 13th century. If you think it's the same for cswiki, you could use local interwiki links. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 08:35, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::1997 is not 1998, so why is [[:de:Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen]] interwikilinked with [[:en:Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]? [[User:Sänger|Sänger]] ([[User talk:Sänger|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:11, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::The translation of a work two centuries after the original version are inter-related though different concepts. The translation has a translator, which the original does not, the language is different; the editing is different, etc. One could put forward a case that for the Harry Potter works should be different, though there is a lot more commonality and central control to these works. Personally, I would have them as separate items, though I am a separationalist when it comes to works and their translations. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:09, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::::So what is your suggestion for the interwikilinking of this articles? How should this be done in Wikidata, the tool used for interwikilinking in the wikiverse? How could this main purpose of wikidata, besides storing data about relevant items from the wikiverse, be solved in a way usable by the main clients of this database, the different language versions of the wikipedia? [[User:Sänger|Sänger]] ([[User talk:Sänger|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:14, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::::Hopefully sooner or later the RfC for redirects will be resolved and we will have that tool for providing links in cases like this. Currently, it seems it isn't resolved because WMDE doesn't give feedback. I added https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#WMDE_feedback_for_the_RfC_%22Allow_the_creation_of_links_to_redirects_in_Wikidata%22 to ask for feedback. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 14:07, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::::::{{ping|Sänger}} The Wikisources face this issue extensively for interwiki between the Wikisources (edition to edition/translation) and from the Wikisources <-> Wikipedias (edition to creative work/translation).  At this time the immediate solution is manual interwikis. The Wikisources are looking at how we utilise the {{P|629}} and {{P|747}} links and using lua scripts to put in place interwikis. The evolution of Wikidata has highlighted that interwikis are a looser relationship than what occurs on an item, so the wikis can continue with manual interwikis for loose relationships or have scripts to work it out; it is not Wikidata's responsibility to do that.<p>I am not in agreement with ChristianKl that redirects are the means to address that, it seems a mongrel of an approach to dupe the system. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 03:20, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::::::{{ping|Sänger|billinghurst}} for your information, a {{ping|Tpt}} is now working on a solution to be able to autolink editions of books to the actual work item from wikisource, and this probably could be usable for wikipedia afterwards. In the meantime, manual interwikilinks, or a specific template can use the {{p|629}} info [[Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/11#wikilinks_on_wikisource_editions_through_wikidata|like the one used by sv wikisource]]. --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:57, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

:::::::::::::: How could one do manual interwikilinks? I started the discussion and, so far, it gave no answer to my question. I would happily use the traditional method I know. Btw, there's no realistic chance in Czech Wikipedia to have separate article for the original chronicle. Trojánská kronika is our oldest (or one of the oldest) incunabulum and all it got is a small shallow article. [[Special:Contributions/85.70.87.168|85.70.87.168]] 18:31, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::::::::You cannot do 'manual sitelinks', beyond the normal mechanism in wikidata of adding the wikipedia page to the wikipedia section of the item record. The issue in this instance is that wikidata allows a wikipedia page to be added only to a single wikidata item, and your cs article is already linked to a wikidata item. Other language articles about a similar subject are linked to a different wikidata item. So you will not get interwiki links from the cs article until this issue is sorted out. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:37, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::manual interwikis = traditional interwiki links at the source site, here we are talking csWP so <nowiki>[[en:Historia_destructionis_Troiae]]</nowiki> &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 06:44, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

== Film narration in different languages ==

Hi. I've become more active in Wikidata again, as a result of shifting work from enwiki to frwiki. I'm very impressed by how frwiki is now using Wikidata to generate Film Infoboxes. I have one question: do you think it'll ever be useful or practical to assign a language to the "narrator" field, sort of like we do with film titles where there's a mandatory language field? Canada is an officially bilingual country (English/French) and films with narration often exist in the two languages, with different people doing the narration. I guess it's true for any non-subtitled film with narration that gets versioned internationally. A good example of this would be the Oscar-nominated short doc [[Q5123702]]. As you can see from the respective Eng. and Fr. articles (both of which I worked on) there are two notable voice actors, one for each language. (And different script credits too). But if I add the various names into Wikidata currently, it'll seem like [[Q606553]] and [[Q3435174]] jointly narrated the film -- which they did, but in their respective languages. Hope this makes sense. thanks, [[User:Shawn in Montreal|Shawn in Montreal]] ([[User talk:Shawn in Montreal|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:08, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
: {{re|Shawn in Montreal}} The usual way toi treat that kind of case is to create 3 items: one item for the work, one item for the french version and one item for the canadian french version and to link the 2 versions to the work. The work item will contain all data common to all versions of the movies and the other items will contain only the data rlevant to the version they represent. But this system seems to not be compatible with the rules of the [[Wikidata: WikiProject Movies]], so th ebest is to ask the people from that project to answer. [[User:Snipre|Snipre]] ([[User talk:Snipre|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:49, 5 January 2018 (UTC) 
: {{ping|Jura1}} Please explain the good way to model data for movies. [[User:Snipre|Snipre]] ([[User talk:Snipre|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:49, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
: {{ping|Shawn in Montreal}} I've found [[Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies/Properties#doublage|this]] in the Wikiproject movies documentation. A separate element for each different adaptations looks like a solution to the problem. -- [[User:Peuc|Peuc]] ([[User talk:Peuc|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:48, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

== 2017 Chile census ==

The final population data for the {{Q|Q21001879}} are available since December 22 (censo2017.cl, ''[http://www.censo2017.cl/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Cantidad-de-Personas-por-Sexo-y-Edad.xlsx Cantidad de personas por sexo y edad]'' - XLSX format). I manually uploaded the {{P|P1082}} data (but not {{P|P1539}} and {{P|P1540}}) for the {{Q|Q590080}} (first-level subdivision). It is necessary to upload the data of the {{Q|Q1153408}} (second-level subdivision) and {{Q|Q1840161}} (third-level subdivision). Is there a simpler way to load the information than to do it one by one? If it is not possible, could someone help me finish? Thanks you, [[User:Metrónomo|Metrónomo]] ([[User talk:Metrónomo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:59, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
:[[Help:QuickStatements|QuickStatements]] can help you. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:17, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
::OK. I tried it but it did not give a good result (or I do not know how to use it correctly). The command <span style="font-family:monospace">Q2118	P1540	315014	P585	+2017-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	P459	Q39825</span> produced [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?&diff=617494021&oldid=616385724 this]. The command was correct? How do I add the "preferred level"? It is necessary to distinguish it from the old population data. I can not find it in the documentation. --[[User:Metrónomo|Metrónomo]] ([[User talk:Metrónomo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:39, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
::: I forgot that QS still cannot work with ranks... (we have [[user:PreferentialBot|a bot]] that can rearrange them, though).
::: I prefer having the gender-related population as a qualifier of the statements like this: <code>Q1|P1082|2|P1540|3|P1539|4|P585|+2017-00-00T00:00:00Z/9|P459|Q39825|S248|...</code> (it would be nice to include the source as well). [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:57, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

== Rules for linking to WD from WP ==

Does anyone know what the rules are for linking to wikidata when wikipedia does not have a corresponding article. I have noticed people removing the links, But I cannot find the rule they are following. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
: Probably depends on the language edition of Wikipedia.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:12, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
== Dataset on typhoon warning messages issued by authority ==

See [https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=強烈熱帶風暴米雷_(2011年)&diff=47120217&oldid=46976302] and [https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=強烈熱帶風暴米雷_(2011年)&oldid=46976302].

At past, in some articles about typhoon in Chinese Wikipedia, there were a list that includes information about all the trihourly warning issued by Taiwanese meteorology office when a typhoon is affecting Taiwan. These information are now being removed from related articles for various reason. Should these data be included into wikidata? [[User:C933103|C933103]] ([[User talk:C933103|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 03:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
: How much data points are we talking about per item? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 12:42, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Usually a few dozens data point?  The one I linked have 14 entry. Each entry include issued time, serial number, advisory/alert type, cyclone center position, radius for Beaufort scale 7 wind, max wind speed near center, max instantious wind speed, predicted position 24 hours after the issued bullet, and also the area covered by the warning/advisory. [[User:C933103|C933103]] ([[User talk:C933103|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:24, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

== {{Q|Q2068935}} ==

In most languages wikipedia version, the wikidata entry is about the original Russian folklore story. However, in Israel, the linked article is about the Israeli adaption of the story. Many of the descriptor for the wikidata item was also about the Israeli adaption instead of the original work, like the claim that the wikidata item subect was originally written in Hebrew. These claims have been removed, but should the hebrew song get separated into a different wikidata item which would contain those specific details that only applies to the Israeli adaption? While doing so would have the advantage of clearly separating the two entries, it would also mean that it would be impossible to interlink between the Hebrew version article and the English version article. Also, there is a Chinese article regarding the Chinese version adaption of the story but it is not linked in the wikidata item here and thus readers are not able to use interwiki link to navigate between different languages. How to fix that?[[User:C933103|C933103]] ([[User talk:C933103|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:57, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
:We need separate items here to be as accurate as possible. For wikis it is still possible to use "old-style" interwiki to connect pages from another item.--[[User:Jklamo|Jklamo]] ([[User talk:Jklamo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:18, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
::Are those old interwiki bots still functioning in this aspect?[[User:C933103|C933103]] ([[User talk:C933103|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:17, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
== Books and articles ==

What's the current consensus on creating wikidata records for books and articles that are used as sources in wikipedia articles? Say, {{Q|29384930}}. These works don't have corresponding articles about them, and most of them never will. Reading [[Wikidata:Notability]] and [[Wikidata:What Wikidata is not]] together suggests that the answer is ''no'' - ?? [[User:Retired electrician|Retired electrician]] ([[User talk:Retired electrician|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
* A somewhat related question: is there a way to check usage of [[:Q29384930]] in wikipedia(s)? [[User:Retired electrician|Retired electrician]] ([[User talk:Retired electrician|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
** See [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q29384930&action=info Page information] of Q29384930, section “Page properties”. If you click on the ruwiki link, you’ll find the ruwiki page that uses that item. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:51, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
* Books are generally clearly defined conceptual entities that can be described with serious sources and are thus notable under that passage. WorldCat and Google books are both such kind of sources. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 22:58, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
* {{ping|Retired electrician}} There are currently many articles that have their items where the published books or journals have existing items. For example, all the articles from the 63 volumes of {{Q|15987216}} have their own WD item, and interwiki link to Wikisource, and to their respective main subject items.<p>If adding an article you would generally have: {{P|31}} article or biographical article or news article, etc.; {{P|1433}} "work name" of book/journal, with qualifiers of things like ... volume, issue, pages, publication date; {{P|921}}; then either {{P|50}} or {{P|2093}}; you might have other components, but these are the main that I have used.  At the main subject you would have {{P|1343}}} "work name" of book/journal, and qualified with {{P|805}} pointing to the item on the article. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 11:43, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
* {{ping|Retired electrician}} See also [[Wikidata: WikiProject Books]], [[Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData]], and [[m:WikiCite]]. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:30, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

== Wikidata weekly summary #294 ==

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* '''Discussions'''
** Open request for adminship: [[d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Jarekt|Jarekt]]
** New request for comments: [[d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/Changes to P2737 and P2738|Changes to P2737 and P2738]], [[d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/Privacy and Living People|Privacy and Living People]]

* '''[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events|Events]]/[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press coverage|Press/Blogs]]'''
** Upcoming: IRC office hour on January 30th - you can [[d:Wikidata:Project_chat#Next_IRC_office_hour_on_January_30th|share ideas for topics to discuss]]
** [[m:WikiIndaba conference 2018/Submissions|Call for papers for WikiIndaba is open]]
** [https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships Scholarship applications for Wikimania are open]
** [[mw:Wikimedia Hackathon 2018|Registration is open for the Wikimedia hackathon]]
** Paper submission deadline for [http://wikiworkshop.org/2018/ Wiki Workshop] (part of The Web Conference) is closing later this month
** ''[https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2017/12/19/the-tom-longboat-awards-as-wikidata/ The Tom Longboat Awards as Wikidata]'' - Mita Williams
** ''[http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2017/paper/view/496/609 Using the Semantic Web to Improve Knowledge of Translations]'' - Karen Smith-Yoshimura (OCLC)
** ''[https://commonists.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/there-is-no-deadline-so-every-second-is-one-on-anxiety-perfectionism-and-wikimedia-projects/  There is no deadline so every second is one: on anxiety, perfectionism, and Wikimedia projects]'' by Léna
** ''[https://www.schoenitzer.de/blog/2018/Up2date%20softwareversions%20for%20Wikidata.html Up2date software versions for Wikidata] by [[d:User:MichaelSchoenitzer|Michi]]''

* '''Other Noteworthy Stuff'''
** [[d:Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_in_read-only_for_30min_on_January_9th|Wikidata will be in '''read-only mode''' on January 9th from 06:00 to 06:30 UTC]]
** The [[m:Grants:Conference/WMDE/WikidataCon/Report|WikidataCon 2017 report]] has been published
** Results of two research projects for [[c:Commons:Structured_data|Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons]] have just been published:
*** [[metawiki:Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by_GLAM_institutions|Supporting Commons contributions by GLAM institutions]]: an overview of how cultural institutions contribute to Wikimedia Commons, and which issues they encounter there
*** [[metawiki:Research:Baseline_Metrics_for_Structured_Data_on_Wikimedia_Commons|Baseline Metrics for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons]]: an overview of measurable behaviors on Wikimedia Commons, against which the effectiveness of structured data can be measured in the future
** You can start organizing an event for [[d:Wikidata:Sixth Birthday|Wikidata's 6th birthday]] in October 2018
** A short summary of the workshop with historians using Wikibase to collect data about the Illuminati has been published at [[d:Wikidata:FactGrid|Wikidata:FactGrid]]
** [[d:Wikidata:Wikidata Concepts Monitor/WDCM Journal#§ WDCM Journal, 4. January 2018. The Twisted Geography of Wikidata|How would the World look like if countries were as large as their Wikidata items are used across the Wikimedia projects?]]
** New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/836 Rolling Stone artist]
** New tool: [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/ Hub]

* '''Did you know?'''
** Newest [[d:Special:ListProperties|properties]]: [[:d:Property:P4721|MuBE Virtual ID]], [[:d:Property:P4720|Basketball-Reference.com WNBA coach ID]], [[:d:Property:P4718|Basketball-Reference.com NBA coach ID]], [[:d:Property:P4717|Académie française member ID]], [[:d:Property:P4716|Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres member ID]], [[:d:Property:P4715|Guide to North American Birds ID]], [[:d:Property:P4714|title page number]], [[:d:Property:P4713|Walters Art Museum ID]], [[:d:Property:P4712|Minneapolis Institute of Art artwork ID]], [[:d:Property:P4711|CHGIS ID]], [[:d:Property:P4710|Guardiana ID]], [[:d:Property:P4709|Barnes Foundation ID]], [[:d:Property:P4708|VOGRIPA ID]], [[:d:Property:P4707|Rugby Canada ID]], [[:d:Property:P4706|Ent'revues ID]], [[:d:Property:P4705|World of Spectrum ID]], [[:d:Property:P4704|Smithsonian American Art Museum ID]]
** Query examples: 
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20events%20starting%20in%202017%20and%20ending%20in%202018%2C%20shortest%20duration%20first%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fstart%20%3Fend%20%3FdurationInDays%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ1656682%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP580%2Fpsv%3AP580%20%5B%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fstart%3B%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FstartPrecision%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP582%2Fpsv%3AP582%20%5B%20wikibase%3AtimeValue%20%3Fend%3B%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%20%3FendPrecision%20%5D.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%222017-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3C%3D%20%3Fstart%20%26%26%20%3Fstart%20%3C%20%222018-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%222018-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%20%3C%3D%20%3Fend%20%26%26%20%3Fend%20%3C%20%222019-01-01%22%5E%5Exsd%3AdateTime%29%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FstartPrecision%20%3E%3D%2010%20%26%26%20%3FendPrecision%20%3E%3D%2010%29%20%23%20precision%2010%20%3D%20month%0A%20%20BIND%28%3Fend%20-%20%3Fstart%20AS%20%3FdurationInDays%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%2Cfr%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20ASC%28%3FdurationInDays%29 Events starting in 2017 and ending in 2018, shortest duration first] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/947539555187675136 source])
** Newest database reports: [[d:Wikidata:WikiProject_Calendar_Dates/lists/days/2018|days of 2018]]

* '''Development'''
** Tweaked the ranking of the results in the entity suggester
** Finished persistently storing edits of statements on forms ([[phabricator:T163724]])
** Cleaned up some of the hard-coded demo data on the [http://wikidata-lexeme.wmflabs.org demo system for lexicographical data] 
** Working on diff support for Forms on Lexemes ([[phabricator:T182424]])
** Prevented checking of constraints on "Wikidata property example" statements ([[phabricator:T183267]])
** Added link to the property's talk page to the constraint violation dialog to guide people there to discuss the constraint if necessary ([[phabricator:T164351]])

* '''Monthly Tasks'''
** Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
** Comment on property proposals: [[d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Overview|all open proposals]]
** [[d:Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested and open tasks|Suggested and open tasks]]!
** Contribute to a [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase item]].
** Help [[d:Special:LanguageStats|translate]] or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
** [[d:User:Pasleim/projectmerge|Help merge identical items]] across Wikimedia projects.
** Help [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]]

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== Recoin now available as gadget ==

Dear community,

I am glad to announce that [[Wikidata:Recoin|Recoin]] is now available as gadget. Recoin adds a status indicator to entities which quantifies the extend of information (completeness) relative to other entities of same profession or type. Furthermore, it shows the top 5 absent properties of an entity at the top of the page. [[File:Kompatscher-red.png|thumb|[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15074414 Arno Kompatscher]: Politician missing basic information]]

Looking forward to your comments!

Cheers, [[User:Ls1g|Ls1g]] ([[User talk:Ls1g|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:56, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

:That's excellent, Lsig. But would be more useful if the list produced could be used directly to enter into the addition of a missing property. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Good. Where can we translate it? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:13, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

::{{ping|Xaris333}} Thanks for the suggestion! We are working on multilinguality and will push the changes soon. Property labels will be translated automatically, few other strings need to be manually translated [[Wikidata:Recoin/translation|here]]. Preview see picture on the right. [[User:Ls1g|Ls1g]] ([[User talk:Ls1g|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:18, 9 January 2018 (UTC) [[File:Recoin-multilingual.png|thumb|Preview of multilingual version of Recoin]]

::excellent [[User:Ls1g|Ls1g]] !! a very useful feature would be a button or link to directly add the wanted property :) --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:59, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

:::{{ping|Tagishsimon|Hsarrazin}} Looking into this now! [[User:Ls1g|Ls1g]] ([[User talk:Ls1g|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:23, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

::::Good work, {{ping|Ls1g}}; thank you very much. Let's have Recoin on steroids. You might take a look at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/12#New_userscript_quickpresets which is a different thing; but presumably Recoin could drive a presentation a little like this for the missing statements? And thank for for Recoin even as it is; it's a very useful UI addition. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:53, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

== toclimit ==

Are the CSS classes <code>toclimit-1</code> through <code>toclimit-6</code> not enabled on this wiki? I tried adding <code>class="toclimit-3"</code> to a div containing <code><nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki></code> in the header template used on [[Wikidata:Property proposal/Place]] but it doesn't seem to be working (even though the class is transcluded properly). [[User:Jc86035|Jc86035]] ([[User talk:Jc86035|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:24, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:They are in [[:en:MediaWiki:Common.css]] but not in [[:d:MediaWiki:Common.css]]. That's what you need.--[[User:Ssola|Ssola]] ([[User talk:Ssola|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 06:18, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
:: {{re|Ssola}} Thanks. [[User:Jc86035|Jc86035]] ([[User talk:Jc86035|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:32, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

== Wikidata data model "deficiency" ==

{{ping project|Companies}}

The WD data model is more powerful than RDF because of references and qualifiers.
But IMHO it's also weaker in that people are less willing to create items than general RDF nodes.

Eg how to model that Hewlett Packard split into HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2015? I added two "followed by" values https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80978#P156 but it really is ONE event with 1 preceding entity and 2 succeeding entities.

Guess I could make a prop "significant event" but there's no standard property to link the participants (succeeding companies).

And I don't think many people would agree to make out the Event as an Item... and to standardize a vocabulary of event participant roles. --[[User:Vladimir Alexiev|Vladimir Alexiev]] ([[User talk:Vladimir Alexiev|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:12, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
: And I guess we have the same issue in the other direction for mergers? I could argue that if a specific corporate event (like a breakup or merger) had sufficient significance in itself it should have its own item. I'm not sure that all such events deserve an item, but the HP example seems like a good one. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
:Mergers and splits are complicated, but there is no deficiency. 
:In fact in most cases of mergers there is no new entity, just second company is merged to the first and first change its name. The correct way to represent this is no new item, but record appropriate changes to existing items. Problem is that sometime new wiki article is created for "new" entity. But that is more likely deficiency of wikpedia, not wikidata.  
:Same for splits, in most cases there is no one old entity and two new entities, just new entity is created and old one change its name. Again the correct way to represent this is one new item for new entity and record appropriate changes to existing item. Again the problem is that sometimes two new articles are created. 
:That is the case of HP, "Hewlett Packard Enterprise" is really new entity, but "HP Inc." is nothing but renamed "Hewlett-Packard Company". So correct way to record this is rename {{Q|80978}} to HP Inc. (also add appropriate {{P|1448}}), leave {{P|156}} and {{Q|19923099}} but delete {{P|156}} {{Q|21404084}}, and at {{Q|21404084}} left just {{P|2959}} and {{Q|80978}}. But problem it that articles connected to {{Q|21404084}} already exist.--[[User:Jklamo|Jklamo]] ([[User talk:Jklamo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:04, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
:: There are different scenarios:
::* A + B = A 
::* A + B = C
::* A = A + B
::* A = B + C
:: So we need 4 different event names and 4 different ways to model these events. [[User:Snipre|Snipre]] ([[User talk:Snipre|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:58, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
:*As statements about HP before and after might be considerably different, I'm not entirely convinced by the purely formal approach suggested by Jklamo.  <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 10:46, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

== Wikidata in read-only for 30min on January 9th ==

Hello all,

On January 9th, Wikidata will be moved to a dedicated server, in order to allow more resources for the project, due to its growth. ([[phab:T181645|ticket]])

In order to do this move in good conditions, Wikidata will be in '''read-only mode on January 9th, from 06:00 UTC to 06:30 UTC'''. (For some places in the world, it will be January 8th: you can check with your time zone [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20180109T060000&p1=1440&p2=224&p3=179&p4=37&p5=248 here]). During approximately half an hour, humans and bots will be able to read Wikidata, but not to edit it. 

Thanks for your understanding, [[User:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

:Bumping; '''This is 9.5 hours from when I write''' (early tomorrow morning, in Europe; 11:30 in Delhi, India; 13:00 Jakarta, Indonesia; 14:00 in Perth WA; 17:00 in Sydney NSW).  <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:36, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

*How did it go? Should everything be faster now? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 10:02, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
** Everything went fine. Not everything will be faster now ;-) --[[User:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)|Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:13, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

== How to query old revisions of items? ==

Hi,

I am trying to programmatically access old revisions of items. The [[Wikidata:Data_access#Linked_Data_interface|documentation of the linked data interface]] mentions it is possible to specify a revision parameter, yet for all cases expect the example of [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q42.json?revision=112 Q42/Revision 112] I get an error (either ''Not Found'' ([https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q42.json?revision=111 example Q42/Revision 111]) or ''Internal Server Error'' [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q42.json?revision=1 (example Q42/Revision 1)]).

Does anyone know why I am getting these errors? Are there any other ways to get old revisions as RDF/JSON/... other than downloading old dumps? In the [https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbgetclaims MediaWikiAPI] I did not find revision parameters.

Would be thankful for any hints! 
[[User:Ls1g|Ls1g]] ([[User talk:Ls1g|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

: The revision needs to belong to the specified entity: [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q42.json?revision=612406093 Q42.json?revision=612406093] works. --[[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

:: Thanks! How do I know which revisions belong to an entity? (To explain better, my intention is to make a binary search through revisions until I find one where a specific change I am interested in happened.) [[User:Ls1g|Ls1g]] ([[User talk:Ls1g|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:14, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

::: For that you would probably use the regular MediaWiki Action API, e. g. something like on [[Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Q42&rvprop=ids&rvlimit=500]]. --[[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:18, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

: However, the ''Internal Server Error'' is probably a bug – I’ve opened [[phabricator:T184537]] for it.

:::: Great, that solves my problem. Thanks! [[User:Ls1g|Ls1g]] ([[User talk:Ls1g|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:23, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
== Google Knowledge Graph API ==

I have the Google Knowledge Graph API and a valid key, but can't find the identifier for {{Q|40786519}}. Can someone look it up for me? <small>&nbsp;&ndash; {{Autotranslate|base=Unsigned/text|1=Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|2=00:47, 2 December 2017‎}}</small><!--Inserted with Template:Unsigned-->
:<small>To get this thing archived. --[[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]] ([[User talk:Edgars2007|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:38, 10 January 2018 (UTC)</small>

== How to model 'infant mortality rate'? ==

I'd like to import the {{Q|Q835884}} data from UNESCO. It's defined as the 'number of deaths per 1000 live births', and the imported data would be added to items for countries (using a {{P|585}} qualifier to add yearly data).

As the definition is so specific, it seems we may need model it with a new ''''infant mortality rate'''' property. The other option is to create a more general ''''mortality rate'''' property, and then use qualifier {{P|518}} -> {{Q|998}} ''OR'' {{Q|835884}}.

I really like this second more general option as we can then use the same property for any other mortality rates of interest. The problem is that 'mortality rate' in itself does not specify exact parameters for how the rate is defined, so we would technically need to add some sort of other qualifier to say for example "per 1000 people" - this seems like it gets very messy!

So I'm leaning towards the specific property for infant mortality rate. Any feedback or other ideas? Thanks [[User:NavinoEvans|NavinoEvans]] ([[User talk:NavinoEvans|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:38, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
: The "per 1000 people" could be treated as the unit, (if there's not an item for that now, create one) - I don't think that's a significant problem. We have a related property proposal for [[Wikidata:Property proposal/subpopulation|subpopulation]] that may be helpful for this. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:53, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

:: I hadn't thought of that, thanks for the suggestion. I'll wait a bit for any other input but that's swayed me back to going for the more general property. [[User:NavinoEvans|NavinoEvans]] ([[User talk:NavinoEvans|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:31, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

== License page? ==

I just set up [[Wikidata:Licensing]] because I could not find a page with Wikidata's license presented. I suspect that I am mistaken - does anyone know of an existing license page?

Where is the page which presents Wikidata's copyright license? I see the license in the footer. Is there anything here like [[:en:Wikipedia:Copyrights]] or [[en:Wikipedia:Copyrights]] [[User:Bluerasberry|<span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">''' Blue Rasberry '''</span>]][[User talk:Bluerasberry|<span style="cursor:help"><span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">(talk)</span></span>]] 20:46, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

:I thought there was a page, but I only found [[Wikidata:Copyright]] as an interwikilink of [[:en:Wikipedia:Copyrights]]. Not much, but hey… ;-) —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks, that resolves this. [[User:Bluerasberry|<span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">''' Blue Rasberry '''</span>]][[User talk:Bluerasberry|<span style="cursor:help"><span style="background:#cedff2;color:#11e">(talk)</span></span>]] 14:52, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

== Format of {{P+|4491}} ==

*Please comment at [[Property_talk:P4491]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 08:59, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

== Box office in visitors ==

In the film {{Q|23899238}} {{P|2142}} are measured in {{Q|215627}}. Looks like violation of {{P|2142}}? - [[User:Kareyac|Kareyac]] ([[User talk:Kareyac|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:34, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
:Yes. checkConstraints does not find it, though. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:44, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks. - [[User:Kareyac|Kareyac]] ([[User talk:Kareyac|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:11, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:<small>This section was archived on a request by: - [[User:Kareyac|Kareyac]] ([[User talk:Kareyac|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:24, 17 January 2018 (UTC)</small>

== Custom javascript breaking other scripts ==

Hi, I don't know where else to ask this. I added a one-line jQuery thing to the bottom [[User:Jon Harald Søby/common.js|my common.js]]. It works as it should, '''but''' has the unintended consequence of breaking some of the other scripts I'm using, and I don't understand why. Could someone with some more know-how figure out what I've done wrong? [[User:Jon Harald Søby|Jon Harald Søby]] ([[User talk:Jon Harald Søby|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:36, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

: You’re using <code>$(".wikibase-title-id").html().slice(1, -1)</code> to get the item ID and then replace <code>$(".wikibase-title-id")</code> with something else. If another gadget tries to read the item ID using the same code, it will no longer work. This could be avoided by using <code>mw.config.get( 'wbEntityId' )</code> instead (both in your common.js and in the hypothetical gadget or user script that also uses <code>$(".wikibase-title-id")</code>).
: A few random other notes – if you keep the <code>wikibase-title-id</code> class on the new element, you can remove most of your custom style (color, font size and margin will be inherited from the class). It probably also makes sense to set the <code>readonly</code> attribute on the <code>&lt;input&gt;</code> – I’m guessing this is just intended as a quick way to copy the entity ID? --[[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:55, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks [[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas]]! I tested your suggestions, which worked fine, but the problem persevered – I then tried reverting my common.js back to what it was before, and the problem was still there, so I finally figured it wasn't my common.js that was the problem, but rather [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/custom-javascript-for-web/poakhlngfciodnhlhhgnaaelnpjljija?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog the Chrome extension] I used to test this. Even though the extension's input was empty, it was still enabled for Wikidata.org, and it loaded jQuery even though jQuery is already here via MediaWiki. So when I turned that off, everything works as it should. Thanks for helping! :-)
::Oh, and yes, it's mainly for copying ID without having to use the mouse to select it, but also useful for a couple of other (Python) scripts I'm running. :-) [[User:Jon Harald Søby|Jon Harald Søby]] ([[User talk:Jon Harald Søby|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:24, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

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== Cleanup of unsourced “ethnic group (P172)” claims ==

{{Property|P172}} is and has always been a controversial property that has a “claim requires source” constraint for good reasons; see [[Property talk:P172#Constraints]] and [[Property talk:P172#Rules for Usage]] for further requirement regarding applicable sources. However, only 861 claims are sourced, and 48269 are not (i.e. 98.2% of all claims violate the constraint, see [[Wikidata:Database reports/Complex constraint violations/P172]] and [//query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Title%3A%20Claims%20without%20source%0A%23%20Complex%20constraint%20from%20%5B%5BProperty%20talk%3AP172%5D%5D%0A%23%20Each%20P172%20claim%20needs%20to%20have%20at%20least%20one%20(non%20Wikipedia)%20source%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP172%20%3Fethnicity_claim%3B%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fethnicity_claim%20prov%3AwasDerivedFrom%20%5B%20%3Fpr%20%3Fref_value%20%5D%20.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER(%3Fpr%20NOT%20IN%20(pr%3AP143%2C%20pr%3AP3452))%20.%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20FILTER(!BOUND(%3Fref_value))%20.%0A%7D this query]). In my opinion the constraint itself is not debatable, thus I suggest to remove all constraint-violating claims with a bot.

We have had a similar discussion for {{Property|P91}} at [[Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2016/08#Unsourced and Wikipedia sourced P91 statements]] and [[Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2016/10#Unsourced sexual orientation (P91) statements]], which ultimately led to the removal of unsourced P91 claims. Any thoughs on this one? —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:13, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
:If you look at [[#Country of citizenship is Wales]] you can see that this can be quite a passionate subject matter. Personally I find it a minefield. For some who live in countries where there has been little migration maybe it is easier, however, for those who live in countries with significant migration, in different waves, and resulting inter-marriage it is quite problematic, vaguely or ill-defined, and problematic in its application. So, if we are going to have it then I would agree that it should be sourced by a contemporary source, and the target categorisation should also be notable/encyclopaedic. If we are to bot remove, I believe that any edit summary should have a good link to a page that clearly defines how to add, qualify and cite the link. I would wish to avoid edit wars, complaints about politics, nationalism, etc. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
* I finished my work on an [[Wikidata:Requests for comment/Privacy and Living People|RfC for Privacy and Living People]]. Given that {{P|172}} likely makes it into a category, the RfC does provide a way to deal with unsourced {{P|172}} for living persons. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 14:02, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

* As far as I recall, the cleanup on P91 went fairly well. I think we should handle P172 in the same way. It's odd that people ignore the relevant constraint.   <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 10:09, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
** Yes it did go fairly well. After the linked WD:PC discussions were finished, I removed ~5000 P91 claims, and there were no serious complaints raised. A couple of removals have been reverted, particularly by one user, who has always added sources to the reverted claims subsequently. The number of unsourced P91 claims is still low at a bit over 100, although I have never repeated another removal run (no idea whether someone else did so). —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:15, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
*** {{Ping|Heathart}} care to comment here? I just ran {{SPARQL|query=SELECT ?item WHERE { ?item p:P172 ?ethnicgroup . ?ethnicgroup ps:P172 wd:Q49085 . MINUS { ?ethnicgroup prov:wasDerivedFrom [] } } }} and this seems to affect quite a lot of African American artists. I'm not sure if {{P|172}} is as controversial as {{P|91}}. I don't have a strong opinion on this, but it would be a waste to loose so much date just to be political correct. More practical problem: Sourcing this is going to be hard. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:25, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
**** {{Ping|Multichill}} and all... I think it is important to “Use this property only together with a reference in that the person itself states her/his ethinicity" but also would propose using notable sources (including Wikipedia or credible news sources) where this information is dependable but secondary, I'm not sure how to state that. Basically if there are no interviews with said person, but they appear in a catalog for an exhibition at the MoMA of paintings by African American Artists, I'd count that as a reference to the persons P172 property. Otherwise I avoid this and agree that something that does not have a reference in this case should be removed. It would be great if all 48269 could be automatically vetted and sourced but I agree the property shouldn't just be assumed. --[[User:Heathart|Heathart]] ([[User talk:Heathart|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:28, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
*I understand the issue but I would like to discuss another aspect of the problem. For {{Q|535711}} I wanted to add the information that he is a member of {{Q|626136}}, which is kind of trivial information (it's in his description and the title of the English Wikipedia article). I used {{Property|P172}}, and since there is a need for reference, I added "imported from English Wikipedia" . But there are lot of other people we have, for instance, pictures on Commons (with good quality metadata) without an article in Wikipedia (yet). Should we reference them with "imported from Wikimedia Commons" in these cases ? [[User:Léna|Léna]] ([[User talk:Léna|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:58, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
** According to the talk page of this property, the requirement for the reference is: “Use this property only together with a reference in that the person itself states her/his ethinicty”. This means we need external references anyway, and {{Property|P143}} references to Wikimedia projects are (in probably all cases) not enough anyway. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:18, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
*{{comment}} It would be interesting to hear from contributors who monitoring recent changes/IP edits with this property.  <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 08:51, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

== PetScan ==

I can not log-in WiDar in Petscan to edit Wikidata since last few days due to some strange reason. I used to edit a lot but had to stop bulk editing since last few days. Can anybody tell me what should I do? I can edit from other tools using WiDar.--[[Special:Contributions/157.32.0.22|157.32.0.22]] 06:28, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
== Titles for {{Q|Q3305213}} ==

I would like to ask about how original titles for {{Q|Q3305213}} should be modeled. There's {{P|P1476}} and {{P|P1705}}, and I am not sure I see the difference between the two and which should be used to model the original name of the artwork. I see two options:
# {{P|P1476}} is used for all titles in every language and {{P|P1705}} only for the original one. Then I do not see how {{P|P1476}} is different from the label/alias. Shouldn't the same thing that goes into {{P|P1476}} be a label? It seems so.
# {{P|P1476}} is the original title (or titles) in the original language that the creator gave to it or that it was first published/discovered/etc. All the rest of translations go to labels/aliases. But then I am not sure what {{P|P1705}} is for and whether it should be used for paintings at all?

Right now we have 1094 paintings with {{P|P1476}} and 184 paintings with {{P|P1705}}. Clearly {{P|P1476}} is leading. But, I am not sure all usages are correct - i.e. that only original title and not all the translations which were originally never used are there, e.g. see  {{Q|Q12418}} - it has a Russian title and I am reasonably sure {{Q|Q762}} did not speak Russian.

So, could we have some agreed rules (maybe recorded in [[Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings]] page?) that all paintings would follow? We can fix non-complying items with a bot or script, it's not hard, but we should figure out the rules first. 
{{Ping project|sum of all paintings}} [[User:Laboramus|Laboramus]] ([[User talk:Laboramus|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:44, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
*I think there is some bug in the Russian infobox tool that keeps adding P1705. We had the same problem with films. Unfortunately Putnik isn't following up on bugs in his tools when reported in English at Wikidata ([[User talk:Putnik]]). <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 08:55, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

I use {{P|1476}} for all titles I can find in authoritative works. For paintings in Danish GLAMs it often means the Danish and the English titles and sometimes a German title. Multiple Danish titles if there are authoritative title changes (I cannot find an example). As an example: {{Q|6644913}}. I have never used {{P|P1705}}. &mdash; [[User:Fnielsen|Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen)]] ([[User talk:Fnielsen|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:36, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
:Most paintings have names made up by later generations. I doubt Leonardo da Vinci ever called it Mona Lisa in any language. So does {{P|P1476}} even apply here? [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:09, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
:: True so I am not even sure about {{P|P1476}} - but it looks like {{P|P1705}} is not the way to go and probably first thing {{P|P1705}} should be moved to {{P|P1476}} and then we should figure out what to do with {{P|P1476}}. I agree that many paintings don't have original titles, but some do, and then if we just use it the same way as labels, why use both? [[User:Laboramus|Laboramus]] ([[User talk:Laboramus|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 01:09, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Sounds reasonable! I once wrote [[Wikidata:WikiProject Visual arts/Item structure#Titles]], I don't know of a discussion about artwork titles up to know. Please add advice you consider useful or agreements from here there! The [https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/guidelines/cona_3_3_terms_names.html CONA guidelines] are also worth seeing. --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:40, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

== pywikibot / iterating over SPARQL causes error ==

{{Tracked|T138364}}
Hi project chat,

I am running into an error with pywikibot when iterating over the results of a SPARQL query following the instructions from  https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Pywikibot_-_Python_3_Tutorial/Iterate_over_a_SPARQL_query
My query<p>
<syntaxhighlight lang="sparql">
SELECT ?item WHERE {
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P856 ?official_homepage. }
}
LIMIT 50000
</syntaxhighlight >
<p>
The python script (official_homepage.qr contains the query from above)
<syntaxhighlight lang="python">
import pywikibot
from pywikibot import pagegenerators as pg

with open('official_homepage.qr', 'r') as query_file:
    QUERY = query_file.read()
site = pywikibot.Site("wikidata", "wikidata")

def get_items_with_offical_webpage():
	generator = pg.WikidataSPARQLPageGenerator(QUERY, site=site)
	items_with_official_webpage =[]
	for result in generator:
		try:
			itemID = result.getID()
			print(itemID)
			items_with_official_webpage.append(itemID)
		except Exception as e:
			print(e)
	return items_with_official_webpage

print(get_items_with_offical_webpage())
</syntaxhighlight >
<p>
The output looks something like this<p>
<syntaxhighlight lang="python">
Q534258
Q642056
Q2157563
Q2157563
raw write() returned invalid length 20 (should have been between 0 and 10) #this one is strange, but the try-expect handles it
Q2638147
Q2056103
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".\official_webpage_query.py", line 20, in <module>
    print(get_items_with_offical_webpage())
  File ".\official_webpage_query.py", line 11, in get_items_with_offical_webpage
    for result in generator:
  File "C:\Users\tozi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\pywikibot\pagegenerators.py", line 2787, in <genexpr>
    items_pages = (pywikibot.ItemPage(repo, item) for item in data)
  File "C:\Users\tozi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\pywikibot\page.py", line 4101, in __init__
    super(ItemPage, self).__init__(site, title, ns=ns)
  File "C:\Users\tozi\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\pywikibot\page.py", line 3592, in __init__
    % (self.id, self.entity_type))
pywikibot.exceptions.InvalidTitle: 'P349' is not a valid item page title
<class 'pywikibot.exceptions.InvalidTitle'>
</syntaxhighlight>
<p>
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and/or how to fix this?<p>
Thanks for your input!<p>
Regards, --[[User:Tozibb|Tozibb]] ([[User talk:Tozibb|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:28, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

*I'm not sure about python, but the SPARQL query seems nonsensical. What do you want to query? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:55, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
** It seems problematic here that there are some properties which have a {{Property|P856}} claim, see [//query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Fofficial_homepage%20.%20%3Fitem%20a%20wikibase%3AProperty%20%7D this result]. Apparently pywikibot does not expect properties to show up in query results. Try to use this query: <code>SELECT ?item WHERE { ?item wdt:P856 ?official_homepage . MINUS { ?item a wikibase:Property } } LIMIT 50000</code> (which does not time out without a limit, btw.) —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:43, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
* Yeah, that's just [[phab:T138364|a bug]] in PWB. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:24, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
** Merged the patch. {{Ping|Tozibb}} should be solved if you update to the latest git version of Pywikibot. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:30, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

== List of properties directly related to Wikimedia projects ==

Is there a list somewhere of Wikimedia-related properties? I just found this one: [[Wikidata:Property proposal/Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent]]. Thx. [[User:Jane023|Jane023]] ([[User talk:Jane023|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:19, 11 January 2018 (UTC) Oops should link {{P|3921}}. Also found this {{P|1455}}. [[User:Jane023|Jane023]] ([[User talk:Jane023|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:21, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

:I don’t fully understand what you look for. “directly related” and “Wikimedia project” leave much space for interpretation… We do in fact have much more properties that help us to organize content, you can find many of them by using [[Special:Search]] with keywords “Wikimedia”, “Wikidata”, “Wikipedia”, etc. and the namespace-prefix “Property:”. I don’t know of any systematic list. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:32, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
::I just tried that unsuccessfully. It would be useful to have a list of these somewhere. [[User:Jane023|Jane023]] ([[User talk:Jane023|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:43, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Like that: [//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Property%3A+Wikidata&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1 Property: Wikidata], [//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Property%3A+Wikimedia&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1 Property: Wikimedia], [//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Property%3A+Wikipedia&title=Special:Search&profile=default&fulltext=1 Property: Wikipedia], and so on. Mind the space after the namespace filter. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:55, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
:::We have many properties related to {{Q|Q4391019}}: [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Q18667213&namespace=120]. We also have properties more directly related to Wikidata, e.g. {{P|2803}}, {{P|2837}}, {{P|4316}}, {{P|4570}} or related to WikiVoyage ({{P|948}}) --[[User:Pasleim|Pasleim]] ([[User talk:Pasleim|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:57, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
:I've just created {{Tl|Wikimedia project properties}} - please feel free to populate it as you see fit. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 10:25, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
::Nice - that seems to work fine! [[User:Jane023|Jane023]] ([[User talk:Jane023|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:28, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

== Translate "publish" ==

To save something in wiki data item there is "publish". This word was correct translated in Greek (el). Now we can see the English word. What is going on? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:14, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
:I [[translatewiki:MediaWiki:Wikibase-publish/el|can't see it translated]]... [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:20, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
::But it was a Greek word before. Did something changes on Wikidata? Maybe the English word was "save"? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:41, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Right, see [[Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2018/01#Change on the editing interface: save becomes publish]]. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:45, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
== Castles as occurrences ??? ==

For a project finding Commons categories for map images, I am trying to find the items with a CommonsCat nearest to a known geographical coordinate-pair.  I also prefer to avoid items in the subclass tree of {{Q|Q1190554}}, i.e. to prefer {{Q|39671}} over {{Q|1407488}}.

However, I've just run a set of lookups, and I'm finding all instances of {{Q|Q23413}} (and other classes) now in the subclass tree of {{Q|Q1190554}}. 

Using this query <code>tinyurl.com/y7g8t9ek</code> to extract the chain, it looks like the problem is down to the following sequence of P279 links:
:{{Q|811979}} -> {{Q|684740}} -> {{Q|Q6422240}} -> {{Q|Q1146011}} -> {{Q|780687}} -> {{Q|Q321839}} -> {{Q|Q93288}} -> {{Q|Q327197}} -> {{Q|27095657}} -> {{Q|Q451967}}

Where do people think would be the right place to break this?  It seems to me a castle is not a legal transaction (though ''ownership'' of a castle might be the ''result'' of a legal transaction).

The immediate cause of the chain creation was this edit ([https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1146011&diff=prev&oldid=614316087 diff]) by [[User:Osteologia]] on 27 December, making {{statement|Q1146011|P279|Q780687}}; but that in itself doesn't seem so inappropriate.

How would anyone suggest this could be fixed?  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:47, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
<small>{{Ping project|Ontology}} [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:55, 12 January 2018 (UTC)</small>

* One place to break it would be after {{Q|684740}}. The two first are tangible where as the rests are abstract. &mdash; [[User:Fnielsen|Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen)]] ([[User talk:Fnielsen|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:14, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

* « Property », for a start, is a relationship between a good and an owner. It’s also a right to own something, that allows the former relationship to be assessed by the state. But the two senses are definitely not to be mixed up. Also, as a class of stuffs, the definition of the property class could be « the class of all stuffs that are legally owned by someone ». But a castle may not be owned by someone, so it’s not really a superclass of castle.
*: I think it’s safe to break the chains here, for a start. Then we need items to disambiguate the different meanings. The relationship is best modeled with a property, of course, which may be associated with a Wikidata item. The legal right should be in a legal class tree. The class of all (real estate) stuffs owned by someone is more casual and may not be needed. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 13:18, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*::I do not see that {{st|Q811979|P279|Q684740}} is universally correct. Pyramids aren't necessarily real property and "legally defined", I'd (also) remove that. --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:25, 12 January 2018 (UTC)=
*::Wait a moment, that's just the English (whatever country defined it) description, the German one is closer to the Latin original, i.e. just not mobile (and not natural). You should not make such statements based just on one judicial system (and imho definitely not on any English one;). Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 14:27, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*::: That’s why we need to split the item. One meaning, one item. Actually my definition is definitely not an official one, in any language, that I know of. Just an idea of what is conflated here <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 14:43, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*::::If we split the item, how will we keep the articles in the Wikipedias interwikilinked? That's one of the main use-cases for WD, and if you destroy interwikilinks with nitpicking granulation, you should have a resolution for this problem first. Interwikilinks are more important than such sophistries. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 15:58, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
* Another issue, that would be my first instinct to think about, is the question of time.  "Occurrence" one would normally associate with a point in time (or perhaps a short interval, or a limited number of repetitions).  But "rights" are an enduring state.  I think the meaning-leak comes with "contract", being a subclass of both "legal transaction" (an event), but also "agreement" (an ongoing state) -- and also "document".  Not all of these meanings are applicable to all of its current subclasses.  (A castle is quite definitely not a document).  So how does one address something like that?  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:59, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*: {{Reply to|Jheald}} My interface is in french, so I don’t see any occurence of « occurence » (lol) in the label of the items on my screen. Which item are you specifically referring to ? My knowledge of « occurence » used as an ontological term is about the token type distinction : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%E2%80%93token_distinction#Occurrences and is rather subtle - how to count stuffs that occurs several times in a type. Not really seems relevant here. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 14:54, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*::{{ping|TomT0m}} {{Q|1190554}} -- used here (I think) to mean: something that has occurred, ie an event. [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:58, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*::: {{Reply to|Jheald}} Mmm in the type token distinction the meaning is not an event at all, the occurrences of a letter in a word are not events. I guess an event is more something that « occurred at some point in time ». A building is not an event, its building is. And the points in time at which its ownership changes. I guess also that there is a totally temporal thing about the fact that someone owns something, as its totally limited in time. Maybe sentences like « Louis XIV’ reign is a big event in France history » for example. But the event is then delimited by the period the ownership itself lasted. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 15:13, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*:::: {{Reply to|TomT0m}} Well, indeed.  So where do you think fixes need to go in, in the chain above?  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:15, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*::::: See above. The item « property » is a key. For a start. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 15:25, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
* The clearest problem here to me is {{Q|6422240}} is defined as the thing (concrete or abstract) that may be owned, but is subclassed to {{Q|1146011}}. That is clearly wrong. {{Q|11917765}} maybe should be a subclass of {{Q|1146011}}, but not the property itself. If nothing better strikes anyone, I would just make {{Q|6422240}} subclass {{Q|35120}}. {{unsigned2|15:36, 12 January 2018‎|ArthurPSmith}}
*:{{reply to|ArthurPSmith}} On the other hand one does quite strongly want to keep the chain {{Q|253623}} -> {{Q|Q131257}} -> {{Q|6422240}} -> {{Q|Q1146011}}.
*:{{Statement|Q11917765|P279|Q780687}}, I think, not {{Statement|Q11917765|P279|Q1146011}} -- the right to hold property is a fundamental human right (Art 17 of {{Q|7813}}).  That's distinct from property rights over any particular piece of property, which are something a person might or might not hold.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:09, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*:: Intellectual property is definitely ontologically not on the same level than concrete stuff. A patent is a right to claim money or whatever whenever someone use the processes described. A concrete property is an object. A concrete property is not a right. What you own is the right to use the concrete object as you like. 
*:: [[Q253623|brevet (Q253623)]] -> [[Q131257|propriété intellectuelle (Q131257)]] - I don’t think this is right. IP refers either to the legal field of patents and copyrights, or, for a legal person, to the set of patent and copyright owned. Ontologically, instances or IP are then « Microsoft IP ». A correct claim on « Microsoft IP » would be {{C|Microsoft IP|has part of the type|patent}} or {{Microsoft FAT patent abc|part of|Microsoft IP}}. 
*:: On [[:en:patent]] we also can read « A '''patent''' is a set of exclusive rights ». This means that a single patent is NOT an instance of exclusive right by itself. A patent grants you a set of right. Also beware that « exclusive right » seems to be an anglo-saxon law concept. In short, stuffs are way too complicated to be modeled by a simple chain like that, you can’t mix easily concrete instances and abstracts stuffs like a patent which abstractly describes concrete process and grants you the right to sue person when they concretely use the process to build objects they sell without telling your lawyers (headeach). It seems hopeless and full of traps to use only « subclass of » to describe the complexity of this. The good news is that there seem to be existing work on legal ontologies : https://www.google.fr/search?q=law+ontology . <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 18:49, 12 January 2018 (UTC) 
* {{Ping|Jheald}} Hmm. Well {{Q|131257}} is already {{P|279}} {{Q|Q1146011}}, there is no need (and I argue it is wrong) to have that relation on {{Q|6422240}} - that implies that *ALL* instances of property are rights, which is untrue. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*: I have added {{P|1552}} {{Q|6498684}} to {{Q|Q6422240}}, which now makes me a lot more comfortable with {{P|31}} {{Q|35120}}.  We should probably have an item for "property right" (as distinct from: "right for any property rights one has to be respected"), and that should probably be linked somehow -- perhaps "property right" {{P|1269}} {{Q|Q6422240}}.  Linked articles to {{Q|8799101}} tend to specialise in economic analyses, though some of the external links appear to relate to the concept more generally.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:25, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

== Ink Master Spin Off Show Data ==

There isn't any information about the Ink Master spinoff show.

Ink Master Angels 
Ryan Ashley
Kelly Doty
Gia Rose
Nikki Simpson


Season 1 Face-Off Winners

S1 Ep1 Viva Las Angels 
"Tone Chingon" vs (w) Angels "Ryan Ashley"

S1 Ep2 Bigger'n Dallas  Angels "Gia Rose" vs
(w) "Deanna Smith"

S1 Ep3 Moons Over Miami 
"Jose Rosado" vs (w) Angels "Kelly Doty"

S1 Ep4 Smells Like Seattle Spirit
"Graydon Payne" vs (w) Angels "Nikki Simpson" 

S1 Ep5 Angels in Hotlanta
Angels "Gia Rose" vs 
(w) "Tim Furlow"

S1 Ep6 Golden Gate Angels
Angels "Ryan Ashley" vs (w) "Daniel Silva"

S1 Ep7 Music City Ink
"Tai Orten" vs (w) Angels "Kelly Doty"

S1 Ep8 Steel City Showdown 
Angels "Gia Rose" vs
(w) "Rachel Helmich"

S1 Ep9 Keep Austin Inked 
Angels "Kelly Doty" vs (w) "Sparks"

S1 Ep10 Angels in the Big Easy
"Tai Viper" vs (w) Angels "Nikki Simpson"

S1 Ep11 Angels of the Inner Harbor 
"Tony Scientific" vs (w) Angels "Ryan Ashley"

The artists that are going on to compete on "Ink Master" Season 10 “Return of the Masters” are:
Deanna Smith
Tim Furlow
Daniel Silva
Rachel Helmich
Sparks
[[User:Geralyn69|Geralyn69]] ([[User talk:Geralyn69|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 06:16, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

:You should probably get your head around wikidata and sort that omission out, {{ping|Geralyn69}} :) . --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:47, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

== Query Service ==

Could someone perhaps tell me a little more about the implementation of this functionality? Is it intended to replace in the future the standard categorization systems on the Wikimedia projects? Is it just an additional functionality? [[User:De Wikischim|De Wikischim]] ([[User talk:De Wikischim|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:47, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
:To the extent I understnd your question {{ping|De Wikischim}}, wikidata is additional to Wikipedias, and is not designed to replace standard categorization systems on Wikimedia projects. Wikidata contains records of 'items' to which structured 'statements' are attached. The query service enables sets of items and their statements to be selected and displayed. A number of tools and techniques exist to utilise wikidata within Wikipedias, such as as lists - e.g. {{Q|24045615}}; wikipedia templates that extract data from wikidata; and interwiki language links. If you can clarify your query, more can be said. hth --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:34, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

== Python problem ==

I'm trying to add (300, so no - I don't want to do that manually) single value exceptions to {{P|1447}} via bot. Basically I have [https://tools.wmflabs.org/paste/view/8fbc8b95 such code]. The problem is, that in line 32 the apires structure gets back to state, that it had in line 24, although I see, that in the for loop (line 31) exceptions gets added to apires. Some ideas? Also on making the code less hacky (formatting isn't important). --[[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]] ([[User talk:Edgars2007|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:58, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:Somehow fixed the issue by adapting [https://github.com/Pascalco/DeltaBot/blob/master/fixClaims/fixClaims.py#L259 DeltaBot] code. Thanks, {{u'|Pasleim}}! --[[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]] ([[User talk:Edgars2007|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:32, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:<small>This section was archived on a request by: --[[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]] ([[User talk:Edgars2007|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:32, 20 January 2018 (UTC)</small>
== Search without 'scientific articles' ==

{{Tracked|T183510|Resolved}}
Is it possible to use search and get rid of hundreds of 'scientific article' items? Sometimes I get a few hundreds results and 99% of them are scientific articles... Also: is it possible to search within properties (and without using SPARQL for this)? E.g. I can't find an item using labels in several languages but I know {{P|231}}. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 02:48, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

*It would be good if there were buttons on the search result page to include/exclude scientific articles, people, places, properties. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 07:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
**Oh, yes! +1.--[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:13, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
*For the second question, try: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php It should work for identifiers like {{P|231}}, but the question as to searchable properties remains (it would be most welcome for addresses and other text fields, for example) --[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:13, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
** Thanks ;) ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 13:22, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
* This [[phab:T183510|should have]] already happened. {{ping|Smalyshev (WMF)}} Is this waiting for a re-index? [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:16, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Yes it's already {{done}}. If something doesn't work, please note on the phab task. [[User:Smalyshev (WMF)|Smalyshev (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Smalyshev (WMF)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:04, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
**I have already noticed a lot of improvements, especially when searching for English terms using another language. Maybe Wostr can give us some example query? [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  13:45, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
*** I had a problem with searching for e.g. ''aliphatic hydrocarbon''. Now there is an item about it, but I've just created it. Before, I got some 'scientific articles' in the first place, then some chemical reactions and biological processes, and again a bunch of 'scientific articles', then one book and {{Q|151375}} (which was something similar to the searched phrase). In the first 200 results there wasn't {{Q|8900110}} (I found it just right now and I could link this item to the newly created). But still, I'm not sure whether there was some item describing ''aliphatic hydrocarbons'' before and I just missed it in the results. But that was not an isolated problem: I've created some items that I had to merge with older items when I had accidentaly found such items. I think deprioritization of 'scientific articles' won't be of much help here, because (1) items are still poorly described, (2) sometimes I need to find not only specific item, but also categories, disambigs etc. and check connections to existing chemical classification. Maybe there is some hack with search to exclude unwanted phrase with regex or something? ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 15:48, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
**** Fortunately, we have now reduced the ranking of the scientific article items so hopefully when the right item exists it will show up. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 09:24, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{ping|Wostr}}
:well, for simple search on the labels/alias of items, I'm pretty sure {{ping|Magnus_Manske}} made a simple tool, that can return all items with the same string you are looking for (I use it for Names). I can't find it right now (not on the right machine)... maybe someone can give it... or I'll do when I'm home ^^ --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:01, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
:got it : https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/relabel.php? - simple but efficient when you are looking for a name or a scientific designation of a substance, taxon, etc. ;) --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:26, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Ok, that is something. Not a solution for the whole problem, but may be useful for me, thanks :) ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 22:53, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
* This whole deboosting thing with 'scientific articles' is still far from ideal. I lost over 20 minutes today while searching for "alginate" (I stopped at 2k result, as from about 1,5k there were only scientific articles). I found 9 results that I was looking for (incl. 2 duplicated items), but {{Q|9147958}} was ~900th result? (right now, it's ~400-500th result) Probably because it hadn't English label/description (only French). Fortunately, I knew about this item before searching, but I was determined to find it this way (also, I didn't know if there were more items like this, so I had to check it anyway). Wihout some way to exclude 'scientific articles' from search results, using search at this moment is, sadly, just a waste of time. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 15:54, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
*: If the item doesn't have an English name, then I think it's understandable if it's ranked badly when you search in English. As far as the subject matter goes, should {{Q|Q11685373}} be linked with {{P|4149}} to {{Q|422092}}? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 20:41, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

== Cyprus places at the north part ==

Hello. Many places of the island of Cyprus has a problem. An example:

*{{Q|3241528}} {{P|17}} {{Q|Q229}} de jure {{Q|132555}}
*{{Q|3241528}} {{P|17}} {{Q|Q23681}} de facto {{Q|712144}}

and 

*{{Q|3241528}} {{P|131}} {{Q|59147}} de jure
*{{Q|3241528}} {{P|131}} {{Q|28221946}} de facto

There are many other properties that the item have 2 values, one for {{Q|Q229}} and one for {{Q|Q23681}}.

What to do? How to show these informations in Wikidata?

[[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:41, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

:Well it is & isn't a problem. Item statements can take multiple values; ideally there'll be a qualifier which can be deployed to provide some context. From the top of my head, perhaps a qualifier of {{P|1480}} taking a value of {{Q|18912752}}. Ideally P1480 would take values of {{Q|132555}} and {{Q|712144}} - but right now, they're not listed as permissible values. Obvs, from Turkey's point of view, Northern Cyprus is both de jure & de facto. The rest of the world may disagree with the first of those; which is why Q18912752 might be a better option. (And there may well be other useful qualifiers, or other useful properties to be employed - I note in passing {{P|1336}}). --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:29, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks. But I need a more specific answer what property to use. To be sure about it. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:10, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

:::I'm afraid there's a certain amount of making-it-up-as-you-go. {{Q|7835}} has the same issue, and solves it with {{P|1310}} and {{P|1336}} qualifiers for an {{P|31}} value (which could equally have been applied to the {{P|17}} value in that record). That might be the way to go? --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:05, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

::::{{Q|215664}} Seems likely, its {{P|17}} value were [[Special:Diff/334758086|removed]] 2 years ago, and I restored this property as <unknown value> [[Special:Diff/615516265|in 1 Jan]]. --[[User:Liuxinyu970226|Liuxinyu970226]] ([[User talk:Liuxinyu970226|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 04:37, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

== Creating many items ==

Hello. Is there a tool to create many items by just using the labels?

[[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:07, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

:Not sure what you mean by 'just using the labels'. {{Q|29032512}} is an excellent way of creating items and /might/ fit your brief. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:14, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

::Thanks. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:11, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Xaris333}}, just to be clear: You don't intent to create items with no statements, but only labels, right? --[[User:MB-one|MB-one]] ([[User talk:MB-one|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:44, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::Don't worry. I just want to create the item easily, to add the statements later. Already done. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:48, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
== Next IRC office hour on January 30th ==

Hello all,

The Wikidata team will organize an IRC office hour, '''[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20180130T170000&p1=1440&p2=37&p3=224&p4=179 January 30th, at 17:00 UTC]''' (18:00 Berlin time). It will take place in the Wikimedia office IRC channel {{Channel|wikimedia-office}}. As usual, we will present you some news from the development team, the projects to come, and collect your feedback.

This year, we would like to try something different, and have a topic to focus on during the office hour. If you have any topic you'd like to bring for the first meeting, please share it here!

Thanks, [[User:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

* Thank you for the information. I would like to learn more about strategies that are being considered for how to address the growth of Wikidata. [[User:YULdigitalpreservation|YULdigitalpreservation]] ([[User talk:YULdigitalpreservation|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
* There is that [[Wikidata:Requests for comment/Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata|redirect RfC]] from last year which we still wait WMDE to comment on. I fully understand that the outcome is not easy to implement and maybe somewhat undesired by WMDE (I don’t like many of the details of it, either). However, there is clear demand for improvements regarding sitelink management (per RfC), and several disputes of the past months could have been avoided if a solution akin to the proposal of the RfC was available. I thus think that it would be fair to have a WMDE/dev comment on the outcome of this RfC, and in case that this comment leaves space for an actual implementation at a later time, an IRC office hour could be used to discuss critical aspects with the community. {{Ping|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)|ChristianKl}} FYI. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:30, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
** {{s}} [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:30, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

== ''Facto Post'' – Issue 8 ==

The first 2018 issue of the ''Facto Post'' newsletter is [[w:User:Charles Matthews/Facto Post/Issue 8 – 15 January 2018|out today]] on Wikipedia's birthday. Editorial "Metadata on the March", and a prompt to get involved in the #1lib1ref campaign. Subscription details are in the newsletter footer. [[User:Charles Matthews|Charles Matthews]] ([[User talk:Charles Matthews|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:01, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

== Making P18 values usable ==

Is there some kind of library that allows to automatically build attribution text for a given image on the commons? 

I plan on reusing large amount of images querried from P18 properties and I need some way to automate generating credit. I prefer to avoid writing parser of commons templates from scratch - reusing existing code would be preferable.

I expected that there is some pywikibot script already and I am unable to find it.

I found https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-MultimediaViewer  https://github.com/wmde/Lizenzhinweisgenerator https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Stockphoto.js but all three are usable only as an inspiration

I am pretty sure that somebody already made such code, I would not expect to be the first person who is using WIkidata to find multiple images and intends to not violate their attribution requirements

[[User:Mateusz Konieczny|Mateusz Konieczny]] ([[User talk:Mateusz Konieczny|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:48, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
== Opening days and prices ==

I just discovered this project and did some experiments with SPARQL and it's awesome.

Since I'm currently planning some tourism trips, I am currently digging into castles data.

Some pieces of information which are quite difficult to specify are the opening days and prices of admission.

I saw three properties realted to opening days, but these do not seem to allow specifying things such as "open from 9h00 to 18h00 on Tuesdays, but closed on public holiday, except a particular day for which the opening times are different"

Do any of you know if there's currently some ongoing work on these subject ?

--[[User:Gzorg|Gzorg]] ([[User talk:Gzorg|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:26, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
:I'd like to propose to create a new property using the scheme of [[osmwiki:Key:opening hours/specification]] with a new property once again! --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:30, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
::That seems quite interesting indeed. Let's see. The Louvre is open from 9h to 18h on Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and from 9h to 21h45 on Wednesdays and Fridays, but is open from 9h to 18h on 04/16 04/17 05/25 06/04 06/05 07/14 11/1 11/11 and closed on 05/01 08/15 and 12/25. Can the hours specification handle this case ?
::Another example which is a little different is the Amboise castle : 9h - 16h45 from 01/01 to 07/01, 9h-12h30 and 14h to 16h45 from 01/08 to 31/01, 9h-12h30 and 13h30-17h in February, 9h-17h30 in March, 9h-18h30 in April and May and June, 9h-19 in July and August, 9h-18h in September and October, 9h-18h on 11/01, 9h-17h30 from 11/02 to 11/15, 9h-12h30 and 14h-16h45 from 11/16 to 11/30, 9h-12h30 and 14h-16h45 from 12/01 to 12/24 and 9h-16h45 from 12/26 to 12/31, and closed on 01/01 and 12/25. --[[User:Gzorg|Gzorg]] ([[User talk:Gzorg|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:44, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

:There was a proposal to add open days and opening hours: [[Wikidata:Property_proposal/opening_hours]]. Most of the proposal was accepted, except opening hours because it was judged that not enough people were interested in them. Now that more and more people (including me) are interested in them, and with Wikivoyage having integrated Wikidata in their listings editor, I think it is time to open a new discussion about this. I know someone will always be able to find a tricky case such as "everyday except when it snows", but I am confident we can find a way to make this work for 99.9% of the cases. Cheers! [[User:Syced|Syced]] ([[User talk:Syced|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
::From having used Foursquare, google places and facebook places editing a lot, I can tell you that opening hours is really hard to keep accurate and up to date. You have seasonal times to model, exceptions like holidays, 24 hours open, does not apply, open to general public, open to tours, open for kids, open vs. consultation hours, open for as long as people drink beer. Most often, people can't be bothered to accurately specify all of those details and then next year, they change it up again... There is a reason why facebook and google back this with automatic "popular times" features, it simply proved more accurate then what people were entering into the entry fields quite often. Another problem was that it was VERY hard for those parties to find reviewers of this information. Most of it is now auto approved if you are an experienced places editor, simply because no one will approve or disapprove small things like this, esp when it gets complicated. When disputed, or when contributed by non-experienced users, they will ask app users when they visit the specific location ("Please confirm if the following opening hours are correct for this venue"). So i'd put some significant consideration into it. [[User:TheDJ|TheDJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:44, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Each Wikivoyage has been maintaining opening hours for a decade, and is doing a reasonably good job at it. Sharing this data via Wikidata would reduce the maintenance cost by factorizing the efforts of all Wikivoyages. I believe this is exactly what Wikidata was built for in the first place, so I support the creation of the property. I agree that now is the time to decide what is the best format, and I see no reason to not use the OpenStreetMap format. Cheers! [[User:Syced|Syced]] ([[User talk:Syced|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:31, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

:In any event, here's the expression for the Louvre : <nowiki>Mo,Th,Sa 09:00-18:00, We,Fr 09:00-21:45 ; May 05, Aug 15 closed ; Apr 16, Apr 17, May 25, June 04, Jul 14, Nov 1, Nov 11 09:00-18:00</nowiki>, and there is an [http://openingh.openstreetmap.de/evaluation_tool/ evaluation tool] which is quite fun to play with. I plan on doing Amboise soon for the sake of completion --[[User:Gzorg|Gzorg]] ([[User talk:Gzorg|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

== Wikidata weekly summary #295 ==

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* '''Discussions'''
** Open request for adminship: [[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Mahir256|Mahir256]]
** Closed request for adminship: [[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Jarekt|Jarekt]] (as successful)

* '''[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events|Events]]/[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press coverage|Press/Blogs]]'''
** Upcoming: [[d:Wikidata:Events/Vienna/2017-02-03|Wikidata workshop in Vienna]]
** [https://wikijabber.org/wikijabber-0005-with-pigsonthewing WikiJabber podcast with Andy Mabbett]

* '''Other Noteworthy Stuff'''
** [[mailarchive:wikidata/2018-January/011721.html|GraFa, a new faceted browser for Wikidata is looking for feedback.]]
** [[d:Wikidata:Wikidata Concepts Monitor/WDCM Journal#§ WDCM Journal, 11. January 2018. How much use of Scientific Article, Gene, and Chemical Entity Items Do You Make in Your Project|Analysis: How much are items about scientific articles, genes and chemical entities used on the Wikimedia projects?]]
** New catalogs in Mix'n'match - for example [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/864 Nobel Prize People Nomination] ([https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fq%20%3FqLabel%20%7B%20%3Fq%20rdf%3Atype%20wikibase%3AProperty%20%3B%20wdt%3AP2264%20%3Fmnm%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20 More than 600 properties now have a corresponding catalog in Mix'n'match.])
** Next round of [[m:Grants:Project|Projects Grants]] is open for applications until the end of January (see also [[wmfblog:2018/01/08/inspire-new-readers-campaign/|this blog post]])

* '''Did you know?'''
** Newest [[d:Special:ListProperties|properties]]: [[:d:Property:P4750|National Historic Ships certificate no.]], [[:d:Property:P4749|Dictionnaire des auteurs luxembourgeois ID]], [[:d:Property:P4748|Line Music album ID]], [[:d:Property:P4747|Line Music artist ID]], [[:d:Property:P4746|Elhuyar ZTH ID]], [[:d:Property:P4745|is proceedings from]], [[:d:Property:P4744|Basketball-Reference.com NBDL player ID]], [[:d:Property:P4743|animal breed]], [[:d:Property:P4742|Uniform Resource Identifier Scheme]], [[:d:Property:P4741|OpenEdition journal ID]], [[:d:Property:P4740|Brooklyn Museum artwork ID]], [[:d:Property:P4739|Musée des Augustins artwork ID]], [[:d:Property:P4738|Yale Center for British Art artwork ID]], [[:d:Property:P4737|Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum artwork ID]], [[:d:Property:P4736|IBM graphic character global identifier]], [[:d:Property:P4735|IBM coded character set ID]], [[:d:Property:P4734|IBM code page identifier]], [[:d:Property:P4733|produced sound]], [[:d:Property:P4732|IUPAC GoldBook ID]], [[:d:Property:P4731|The Baseball Cube player ID]], [[:d:Property:P4730|Mir@bel journal ID]], [[:d:Property:P4729|INRAN Italian Food ID]], [[:d:Property:P4728|uBio ID]], [[:d:Property:P4727|Deutsche Synchronkartei dubbing voice actor ID]], [[:d:Property:P4726|Sign@l journal ID]], [[:d:Property:P4725|C-SPAN organization ID]], [[:d:Property:P4724|Le Maitron person ID]], [[:d:Property:P4723|GSMArena phone ID]], [[:d:Property:P4722|Érudit journal ID]]
** Query examples: 
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ1439691.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%20%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Gallery of photography techniques]
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Flabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fstreet%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3Fstreet%29%20AS%20%3Fstreets%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fstreet%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ79007%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ183%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP131%2B%20wd%3AQ64.%20hint%3APrior%20hint%3Agearing%20%22forward%22.%0A%20%20%3Fstreet%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Flabel.%0A%20%20FILTER%28LANG%28%3Flabel%29%20%3D%20%22de%22%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Flabel%0AHAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29 Street names that exist several times in Berlin] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/952260901008232448 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20average%20duration%20of%20movies%20by%20genre%20and%20year%0A%23defaultView%3ALineChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20%28AVG%28%3FdurationInMinutes%29%20AS%20%3FavgDurationInMinutes%29%20%3FgenreLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fgenre%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP136%20%3Fgenre.%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fgenre%0A%20%20%20%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Ffilm%29%29%0A%20%20%20%20LIMIT%2025%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%3Ffilm%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fdate%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP2047%2Fpsn%3AP2047%2Fwikibase%3AquantityAmount%20%3FdurationInSeconds%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP136%20%3Fgenre.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3FdurationInMinutes%20%3C%2060%2a24%29%20%23%20I%20take%20the%20editorial%20liberty%20to%20exclude%20these%20films%20%28some%20stupidly%20long%20documentaries%29%2C%20because%20they%20just%20absurdly%20skew%20the%20averages%0A%20%20BIND%28STR%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%20%20BIND%28%3FdurationInSeconds%2F60%20AS%20%3FdurationInMinutes%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear%20%3FgenreLabel%0AHAVING%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%20%3Ffilm%29%20%3E%3D%2010%29 Average length of movie by genre and year] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/950503579881701376 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20things%20Republicans%20have%20%E2%80%9Cdiscovered%20or%20invented%E2%80%9D%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemDescription%20%3Frepublican%20%3FrepublicanLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Frepublican%20wdt%3AP102%20wd%3AQ29468.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP61%20%3Frepublican.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Inventions by Republicans] ([https://twitter.com/csl_/status/950510713541361665 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%0A%20%20%28COUNT%28%3Fpage%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fperson%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fbirthdate%20.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28MONTH%28%3Fbirthdate%29%20AS%20%3Fmonth%29%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fmonth%20%3D%201%29%0A%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fperson%20p%3AP569%2Fpsv%3AP569%20%3Ftimenode%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftimenode%20wikibase%3AtimePrecision%2011%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20VALUES%20%3Fyear%20%7B%201956%201960%201964%201968%201972%201976%201980%201984%201988%201992%201996%202004%202008%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28YEAR%28%3Fbirthdate%29%20AS%20%3Fyear%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20LIMIT%201000000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25persons%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25persons%0A%20%20%3Fpage%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fperson%20.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fperson%20%3FpersonLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%0ALIMIT%20200%0A Celebrities born in January of a leap year] ([https://twitter.com/fnielsen/status/950705578376036353 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20countries%20with%20no%20rivers%0ASELECT%20%3Fcountry%20%3FcountryLabel%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fcountry%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Friver%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ4022%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%20AS%20%25countriesWithRivers%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ160016.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20INCLUDE%20%25countriesWithRivers.%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ19953632.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FcountryLabel Countries with no rivers] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/951568753816457217 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3ATimeline%0Aselect%20%3Fbooks%20%3FbooksLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%3Fbooks%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP106%20%20wd%3AQ2095549%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdate%20FILTER%20%28YEAR%28%3Fdate%29%3C1900%29%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fbooks%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%2C%20de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20%0A Female aviation pioneers born before 1900] ([https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/951582861399871488 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Zgin%C4%99li%20na%20K2%0ASELECT%20%3Fhimalaista%20%3FhimalaistaLabel%20%3Fdata%20%3FplecLabel%20%3Filustracja%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fhimalaista%20wdt%3AP20%20wd%3AQ43512%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP570%20%3Fdata%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%20%3Fplec%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fhimalaista%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Filustracja%20.%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D People who died on K2] ([https://twitter.com/dziennikarz/status/952629249944547329 source])
** [[d:Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase items]]: [[d:Q45919591|15 January 2018]]

* '''Development'''
** Wikidata moved to a new and bigger server.
** Added support for a constraint scope in the constraint check gadget ([[phabricator:T183542]])
** Now ignoring deprecated constraints in the constraint check gadget ([[phabricator:T180874]])
** Added new Lua function getAllStatements ([[phabricator:T166056]] - thanks Eran!)
** Worked on diff support and edit summaries for edits on Forms ([[phabricator:T182424]])
** Worked on persistent editing of the grammatical features of a Form ([[phabricator:T173742]])
** Google Code-In 2017 work on the Wikidata Query Service UI:
*** add highlight and selection for query result table, by Anpans ([[phabricator:T183807]])
*** keyboard accessibility, by eflyjason ([[phabricator:T173213]] and subtasks)
*** make more areas translatable, by Albert221 ([[phabricator:T171636]])
*** mobile / responsive menus, by eflyjason ([[phabricator:T154890]])
*** lazy loading in ImageGrid, by Sydney ([[phabricator:T166216]])

* '''Monthly Tasks'''
** Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
** Comment on property proposals: [[d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Overview|all open proposals]]
** [[d:Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested and open tasks|Suggested and open tasks]]!
** Contribute to a [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase item]].
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** Help [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]]

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== Gadget for Scholia? ==

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We have a gadget to add a sidebar link to an items Reasonator equivalent. Could someone do the same for Scholia, please? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 11:52, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

== English Wikipedia banned links to Wikidata ==

English Wikipedia banned links to Wikidata and they are being deleted. The discussion was at [[w:Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Linking_to_wikidata]] &nbsp;[ < outdated link, was probably archived to [[w:Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_202#RfC%3A_Linking_to_wikidata]] ]&nbsp;, too bad no one at Wikidata participated when I brought it up earlier. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:10, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

:'too bad' only from the persective of wanting to preserve inappropriate links to wikidata on en.wikipedia. From the quick skim, one/some en.wiki users were linking to wikidata by way of referencing notability ... that seems altogether against en.wiki's reliable source & external links policies; and so it's unsurprising that en.wikipedians are taking a dim view of it. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:16, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
::The example is [[w:Mayors of Teaneck, New Jersey]] and you argue it is "inappropriate", can you explain what makes it inappropriate. The mayors appear on the list ''because they were mayors of Teaneck, New Jersey'', not because they appear in Wikidata. Removing the link at the table of mayors leaves us with a names like "John X" that can be ''any'' John X. The whole point of Wikidata is to be able to distinguish between people of the same name and point to more data on that person, like their entry in Findagrave or in LCCN and VIAF. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:31, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
:::I don't really want to relitigate an en.wikipedia matter here, if it's all the same to you. The discussion you linked to discusses the point you are trying to reheat, and I think speaks for itself. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:19, 15 January 2018 (UTC) 
I fail to see the problem. In deWP links to outside deWP are as well forbidden in the article text ([[:de:Wikipedia:Weblinks#Wo_können_Weblinks_eingefügt_werden?|with just five exceptions]]). They are allowed in references, as web-links and in infoboxes, that's it. We have this rule for quite some rime, and it's fine that we do. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 19:17, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
* I also don't see a problem. Such inline links would be forbidden in pl.wiki as well and I really don't know why it should be discussed here – it's en.wiki problem not WD. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 19:25, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

* I'm not really convinced by the inline links either, but there should be a way to link rows in lists to Wikidata items they relate to similar to Wikivoyage. This when Wikipedia has no article about the person. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 19:39, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
*: It can be done similarly to how it links to other language Wikipedias - essentially, this is an external link. The difference is that Wikivoyage links to entities which can not be at Wikivoyage because they are out of scope, whereas in Wikipedia everything is in scope - if the subject is notable and the article is not there, it should be a redlink.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:47, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
*:: There are fields where English Wikipedia accepts content in list form, but not as separate items (e.g. TV episodes). Each episode would have an item at Wikidata (and might supply basic information), but there wont be a full Wikipedia article about it. The same may be the case for some mayors. (To be complete, the list needs to include every one, but an individual one might not be noteworthy enough for an article). <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 19:51, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
: Now the full RfC started, which will likely result in the full prohibition of having anything from Wikidata transcluded to the English Wikipedia.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:35, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Ok, my two attempts to explain what Wikidata actually is ended catastrophically. People somehow assume that we are a service project which must deliver data to the English Wikipedia exactly in the format they want, and anything else results in personal attacks. I do not think I will try further. We probably need to ignore this and future similar discussions. If they do not need data, let them not have data.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:40, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
::::{{reply to|Ymblanter}} A useful fact in such circumstances can be to remind them that over the last month WDQS has been answering 3 to 4 million queries per day [https://discovery.wmflabs.org/wdqs/], a number that in recent months has sometimes gone as high as 10 million queries a day. (A number which is also quite distinct from serving up interwiki links or template values, neither of which use WDQS).  So yes, Wikipedias are certainly an important group of customers for Wikidata, but Wikidata serves a lot more than just Wikipedias. [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:52, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
::::: I actually mentioned that they are likely not the biggest user, but the most vocal opponents obviously only care about themselves. Anyway, I had my portion of shit, I am not going to do it anymore. I am personally not using Wikidata in what I am doing on Wikipedia, and I am not going to do such things out of principle. If people are short-sighted and refuse to order glasses, I can not help.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:58, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

:::Just to make sure: which RfC do you talk about? I see one being drafted, and a rather odd one regarding linking to Wikidata from main namespace. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:59, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: The second one (which is also linked from the first message of the thread). Whereas it was indeed supposed to be a technical issue (and IMO a pretty useless one) most of the voters commented no on the technical issue, but on Wikidata in general.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:31, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

== Two elements on the same concept have different links to Wikipedia in Arabic ==

Evidently {{Q|Q24900376}} and {{Q|Q16743146}} deal with the same concept, but there is a conflict with the element in Arabic. I do not understand anything Arabic, can someone help me solve the conflict? --[[User:Metrónomo|Metrónomo]] ([[User talk:Metrónomo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 03:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:<!-- inserted to fix broken indenting-->
::These two do not deal with the same concept: one deals with "botanical taxa", the other with "species". There is some overlap, but not all that much. - [[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:50, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:::That is not the difference (at least it is not in the Arabic Wikipedia). [[:ar:أوفتية]] (genus ''Oftia'') is categorized in [[:ar:تصنيف:نباتات وصفها ميشال أدانسون]] (Plants described by Michel Adanson), which is categorized in [[:ar:تصنيف:نباتات حسب الواصف]] ({{Q|Q16743146}}). Besides there they also categorize botanists (why?). [[:ar:تصنيف:أصنوفات علم النبات حسب الواضع]] ({{Q|Q24900376}}) is categorized in [[:ar:تصنيف:أصنوفات حسب الواضع]] ("animals by author"), which it is linked in {{q|Q4155659}}! ar.wikipedia have a very exotic classification system, or very disorganized. I see that there is no difference between what they categorize in both categories (species + other taxa + botanist), but I do not know Arabic and I can not affirm it with complete certainty. I'm confused. --[[User:Metrónomo|Metrónomo]] ([[User talk:Metrónomo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:53, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:There are two separate issues:
:* Should these two items be merged? No, they deal with different topics.
:* Are the arwiki sitelinks correctly placed? I have no idea, since I don't understand what arwiki is doing.
:[[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:34, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

== Structure of compound=structure of molecule? ==

Is this statement correct: "structure of compound is the same as structure of molecule"? Argumentation: "in the most popular definition of compound, it is substance composed of one kind of molecules, and the terms 'structure of compound' and 'structure of molecule' are used interchangeably" --[[User:Fractaler|Fractaler]] ([[User talk:Fractaler|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:35, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
: I don't think they are generally used interchangeably. Wikipedia suggests that H<sub>2</sub> for example isn't a compound. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 11:11, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
::Yes, I agree: compound (substance) consists of (identical) molecules. Molecule consists of atomes/groups of atoms. Thus, we have two different objects. And they can not be united by any fractal structure. --[[User:Fractaler|Fractaler]] ([[User talk:Fractaler|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:41, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
: {{re|ChristianKl}} As I tried to explain it in WikiProject Chemistry, these two statemantes means the same in most cases. And the problem is not based on title statement, as Fractaler is trying to suggest, but it is strictly connected to chemical classes: we have chemical class {{Q|47317020}}
:# pyridines are a class of compounds containing pyridine ring in their structure (here 'chemical compound' means 'chemical substance = portion of matter consisting of identical molecules')
:# pyridines are a class of compounds containing pyridine ring in their structure (here 'chemical compound' means 'molecule', i.e. 'molecular entity')
: Both statements are correct, as both are describing molecular structure (on the same level microscopically), but with two different (both correct) definitions of chemical compound. That's all from me, because from the previous discussions I came to the conclusion that further discussion is pointless. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 12:50, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

== Newly created items are not available. ==

Hoi, I created "[[Q47455274|Governor of the Territory of Alaska]]".  I cannot add it to the office holders.. What is going on? Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:51, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
:It took some time, now it is available.. Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:56, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
::I reported this earlier as [[phab:T185079|T185079]], but then it solved itself… Then I had the same problem again a bit later. So it seems there is just an unusually long delay in some cases – maybe related to [[phab:T183053|T183053]]? [[User:Jon Harald Søby|Jon Harald Søby]] ([[User talk:Jon Harald Søby|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:12, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

== Using data on software versions from Wikidata in Repology project ==

Just wanted to report that I'm using Wikidata in my [https://repology.org Repology] project (a service which aggregates data on software packages from a lot of package repositories and other sources, compares software versions etc.) and it was quite pleasant experience as the data is nicely structured and rather fresh (the most useful data for the project is fresh software versions, and about 85% of projects (see [https://repology.org/statistics#wikidata statistics]) I get from wikidata have actual versions listed). Thanks to all Wikidata editors.

Repology can be used to improve Wikidata too, for example [https://repology.org/metapackages/?inrepo=wikidata&outdated=1 here's] the list of software which may need version data updated in Wikidata. I've also shared some [[User:AMDmi3|other thoughs]] on how Wikidata could be improved.

While here, maybe someone could review the [https://github.com/repology/repology/blob/master/repos.d/wikidata.yaml#L20 SPARQL request] I use to aggregate all data I need per software project. It turned out to be quite heavy because I need to gather all software versions and their properties. [[User:AMDmi3|AMDmi3]] ([[User talk:AMDmi3|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
: That looks very nice. Thanks for sharing! --[[User:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)|Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:43, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
== Retracted papers ==

We have an issue at {{Q|45182324}} where [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] insists on repeatedly removing {{P|P279}}={{Q|18918145}}; apparently in order to justify his repeated removal of {{P|31}}={{Q|45182324}} from {{Q|28264479}}. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 12:23, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

:Thanks for the misrepresentation and for the edit war. As it is, retracted papers are scientific papers. When they are retracted, all kinds of options are open including that papers are reinstated sometimes with changed information but not exclusively so. Consequently the notion that there is such a thing as retracted papers as a subclass is wrong and, what is left is to identify retracted papers as a significant event. Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:27, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Using {{P|793}} rather than {{P|31}} to model this sounds fine to me, but we should strive for a reasonable discussion and consensus on this. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:06, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
:: I agree that significant event is more appropriate for modeling this relationship then {{P|31}}. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 13:12, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{Tq|"retracted papers are scientific papers. "}} Some retracted papers are humanities papers; which is why {{P|P279}}={{Q|18918145}}. {{Tq|"papers are reinstated sometimes"}} So class them as such. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:39, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
::: Are we really going to discriminate in the kind of paper involved.. REALLY !! Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:10, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: If you speak about the identity of the paper than the kind of paper obviously matters a great deal. If you don't want a solution that cares about the kind of paper {{P|31}} isn't your property. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 13:47, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

*In relation to this, there is an interesting suggestion by Daniel at [[Wikidata:Property proposal/publication status]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:30, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

=== Subclass as a variable property ===
@Pigsonthewing is edit warring on the notion that a retracted paper is in a different subclass as scientific paper. It follows that subclass is no longer stable. As has been indicated, a retraction can be followed by a re-publication. Help me understand, can a subclass be this fickle or is it something that should be solid. If not can you please provide other examples where a change of state changes the subclass for an item? Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 06:41, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
: [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] All subclass (P279) means is that if X is a subclass of Y, then when item A is an instance of X (A P31 X), it should also be considered to be an instance of Y, without having to explicitly add that statement in wikidata. If a specific article (A) is retracted (so A P31 X where X is "retracted paper", though as I mentioned above I think the significant event approach is better) then with the current subclass statement, A is also an instance of Y (academic journal article). This seems fine to me. Can you be clearer about what your concern is with this? [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:05, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
:: In my opinion being part of a subclass is not something fickle that changes on arbitrary events. This is imho quite basic. I understand quite well what a subclass is, my understanding is that the arbitrariness of this approach is wrong. Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:26, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
::: Can you clarify? We start with item A, an instance of "academic journal article". It is retracted, and its P31 statement is changed to "retracted paper". Then the retraction is rescinded or whatever and it becomes "academic journal article" again. There is no change in "subclass", the change is to the P31 (instance) statement on A. This seems ok to me. Or did you have a different scenario in mind? [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:42, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: Ok another item .. a human .. he dies ... so we change the instance to "corpse"? Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:27, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
::::: No, all humans are P31 Q5, but that's a wikidata policy decision. And we don't have a wikidata class for "deceased human" at the moment anyway as far as I can see - if we did it would still be legitimate to make it P279 Q5. We do have {{Q|467}} {{P|279}} {{Q|5}}. We could make a similar policy decision here if the consensus is for that, I certainly agree that would be sensible. But you're the one who created {{Q|45182324}}, what did you have in mind with it if not as a subcategory of academic journal articles? [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:29, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
::: We have many things that have {{P|580}} and {{P|582}} attached to their {{P|31}} statements — e.g. most countries have conditional subclass status for being {{Q|185441}} or {{Q|202686}} or {{Q|6688521}} etc. I think we often use {{P|31}} for things that would probably be better expressed using some other property, but currently this is a fairly well established approach. --[[User:Oravrattas|Oravrattas]] ([[User talk:Oravrattas|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:38, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: It shouldn't change based on arbitary events and that's why it's bad to model arbitary events like retraction with {{P|31}}. 13:48, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫
::::: Not sure what "arbitrary" means here. "Retraction" for an academic journal article is a major major event, important for anybody considering making some use of the article to be aware of. It would be unwise to favorably cite or otherwise rely on the results of a retracted paper after it was retracted, for instance. So I can see an argument for making that more obvious via the P31 relation. I don't think that's necessary, but I really don't see a significant problem either way. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:50, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::I also am a little unclear in all this, in my own area I only deal with scientific and academic publications, retracted means the paper is '''''not''''' published and hence is not a citable resource. For the purposes of science, retracted papers effectively do not exist. Why would you try to list them at all? Whatever the reason of retraction there is no implicit garuntee of peer and editorial review, hence they are no better than a self published doc on a website. Cheers [[User:Faendalimas|<font color="#004730">Scott Thomson</font>]] (<small><span class="nickname">Faendalimas</span></small>) <sup>[[User talk:Faendalimas|<font color="maroon">talk</font>]]</sup> 21:15, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::{{re|ArthurPSmith}} The core question is whether the event of the retraction is an event that happens to the paper or whether it's something that changes the core about what the identity of the paper happens to be. It's arguable whether the word "arbitrary" is good for speaking about this. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 00:50, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

== Lua request for form ==

Hi all

I can't find a place for a Lua request like on Wikipedia so I'm hoping someone can help me out, I want to create a very easy to use form for the [[Wikidata:Data Import Hub |Wikidata Data Import Hub]] for people to record new datasets. Currently there is a [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Index.php%3Ftitle%3DWikidata:Data_Import_Hub%26action%3Dedit%26section%3Dnew%26preload%3DWikidata:Data_Import_Hub/Request_preload%26preloadtitle%3DNAME%2BOF%2BTHE%2BDATASET&action=edit&redlink=1 prefilled template] which uses Source Editor which many non Wikimedian's find confusing and hard to fill out (one of the key demographics I'm trying to reach). ''All'' I want is a when you click a button you get a pop up box with a few fields with a short desciption next to them. I would really love something similar to when [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center/For_program_coordinators you click this link], chose any section and then click '''add new resource''', I understand this is all done in Lua. The fields I would like are (with guidance after the colon):

* Name: The name of the dataset you want to import
* Source: The source of the dataset e.g the organisation who created it or published it
* Link: A URL link to the dataset 
* Description: A short (less than 20 word) description of the dataset outlining the contents e.g ''A list of protected areas in Pakistan''

These fields then then populate a new section on the main Wikidata Import Hub page like so:

<nowiki>==NAME==</nowiki>

{| class="wikitable"
!Description of dataset
!Create and import data into spreadsheet
!Structure of data within Wikidata 
!Format the data to be imported 
!Match the data to existing data
!Importing data into Wikidata
!Date import complete and notes
|-
|'''Name:'''NAME
'''Source:'''SOURCE

'''Link:''' <nowiki>[LINK here]</nowiki>

'''Description:''' DESCRIPTION
|'''Link:''' 
'''Done:''' 

'''To do:''' 

'''Notes:''' 
|'''Structure:'''
'''Example item:'''  

'''Done:'''

'''To do:'''  
|'''Done:''' 

'''To do:'''

'''Notes:'''  
|'''Done:'''
'''To do:''' 

'''Notes:'''
|'''Done:''' 
'''To do:''' 

'''Notes:'''  

|'''Date complete:''' 

'''Notes:'''  
|}

Is this possible/easy for someone to set up?

Thanks

--[[User:John Cummings|John Cummings]] ([[User talk:John Cummings|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
: (The discussion on enwiki has determined that the page does not actually use Lua to generate the pop-up form, but probably uses JavaScript. [[User:Jc86035|Jc86035]] ([[User talk:Jc86035|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 03:00, 18 January 2018 (UTC))
== List of mayors redux ==

Another mayor list is up for deletion at [[w:List of mayors of Traverse City, Michigan]]. The previous discussion for a mayor list involved whether these lists belong on Wikidata, or Wikisource ''instead'' of Wikipedia. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:39, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
:Wikidata is not a site for hosting lists, per se, it may have the data that enables a list to be built; it may have the data that resembles a list. Wikisources have published works, and if that list is contained within a published work, then yes, if not, then no. Wikipedias have compiled lists, though where they make their notability standards. Wikipedias can have their discussions about their notability data and probably can look to see whether sites have that inclusion data, they should not be theorising on what other sites should have if they choose not to have something. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 15:32, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
::We do not host lists, we have position=Mayor of X with "replaces" and "replaced by" that would house this type of data as a concatenation. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:16, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

== Best practice - list and not-lists ==

{{Q|Q1889337 }} is an example of an item tagged as a Wikimedia list article where at least one of the linked Wikipedia articles is a list (FR wiki) but many are not. I have created {{q|Q47451002}} but if I move the not-list wiki articles and the not-list statements to this item, I'll break the interwiki links. What would you do? - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:26, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
: If it were up to me I would remove all {{P|31}} {{Q|13406463}} statements and replace them with statements relevant to the '''concept''' being described on those wikipedia pages - that's what Wikidata should be about, right? In this case I think adding {{Q|Q1889337}} {{P|279}} {{Q|1151752}} (or {{Q|47450979}} or both) would be fine. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:35, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:: It happens frequently that a Wikipedia has both a regular article about a concept and a list article, removing the concept of a list article isn't a good idea. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 11:18, 17 January 2018 (UTC) 
::: Yes, political information is full of a nasty mix of "Finance Minister of [some country]" vs "List of Finance Ministers of [some place]" type articles, with some Wikipedias having both, and others having only one or the other. I've done a lot of work teasing apart versions that are mis-combined or mis-joined. (It's also worth noting that these should generally also be connected via, e.g., {{claim|Q14211|P2354|Q10729319}}, and ''{{P|360}}'' back again.) --[[User:Oravrattas|Oravrattas]] ([[User talk:Oravrattas|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:37, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

: Creating a new item to separate it, seems curently the agreed upon way. Once the RfC fro redirect is closed, additionally it would be good to create redirects when doing that. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 11:18, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

== {{Q|5524624}} - {{Q|3098512}} a probable mess ==

{{Ping project|Movies}}

Hi, 

While trying to add {{p|345}}, I found {{Q|5524624}} which seems to be a mixup of 2 different persons...

the description read "chiropractor and photographer" but enwp says "American television and film writer, director and producer" :( - should it be linked to {{Q|3098512}} instead ?

Could someone please try and clean this up ? it seems very akward.  --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:18, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I rewrote [[User:Tambo|Tambo]] ([[User talk:Tambo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:50, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

*Looks like enwiki first had an article about one [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gary_Auerbach] then the other. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 07:05, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
::This comes up a few times a year. Wikipedia does a switch of the main topic for people with the same name. They swap who gets the name "John Smith" because one is considered more notable than the previous one. They never fix the Wikidata entry. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:09, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

== Also known as ... symbol ==

Ukraine [[Q212]] shows a few aliases, including 🇺🇦. A similar symbol is at other items such as Netherlands [[Q55]]. What is the idea? [[User:Johnuniq|Johnuniq]] ([[User talk:Johnuniq|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:17, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

It seems to be a flag symbol, or rather emoji. See e. g. https://emojipedia.org/flag-for-ukraine/  --[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:10, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:Not only Unicode. ASCII also: +, -, *, /, etc. For example, [[User_talk:Andreasmperu/2016-2017|Here]] and [[User talk:Andreasmperu|here]] I asked about this. Symbol=group of symbols? "+" and "plus sign" are the same ({{Q|Q6265342}})? "🇺🇦" and "Ukraine" are the same ({{Q|Q212}})? email and "@" are the same ({{Q|Q9158}})?  --[[User:Fractaler|Fractaler]] ([[User talk:Fractaler|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:35, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:On one hand, it seems weird, on the other hand, I can certainly imagine use-cases, for example, automated analysis of Twitter content, where you'd want the system to understand that a mention of "🇺🇦" most likely means a reference to Ukraine. --[[User:PeterisP|PeterisP]] ([[User talk:PeterisP|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

== Should we re-allow {{P|17}}-{{Q|22}}? ==

As {{Q|891905}} still exists, the {{Q|22}} is now somewhat like {{Q|15239622}}, which is also OKay as a P17 value.

Currently we automatically replace this claim to {{statement||17|145}}, but now is it still fair for us? If still yes, then why don't we autoreplace {{statement||17|26}} to that?

Please also note that there's at least {{statement|47456453|17|5705}} (even the {{Q|893331}} is simply illegal under any of EU laws) {{statement|13415595|17|844930}} (which I'm also confused: How was {{Q|1524}} independented?) and others available, so I think it's the time to unfreeze such claim. --[[User:Liuxinyu970226|Liuxinyu970226]] ([[User talk:Liuxinyu970226|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:56, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

:It don't make sense for me {{statement||17|145}} substitute {{statement||17|22}}, once {{Q|145}} is a sovereign state, and in that case, I think the most specific is the better option.
:Unfortunately, I can't give a not biased opinion on {{Q|5705}}, but in the case of {{Q|1524}} and {{Q|844930}}, we are talking about the {{Q|515}} city of {{Q|41}} since 1832 and {{Q|844930}}, which were a {{Q|133442}} that was dissolved in 85 BCE. [[User:Ederporto|Ederporto]] ([[User talk:Ederporto|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:17, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

:If consensus on P17 is to treat it as "sovereign state", then the status quo for Scotland seems sensible to me. Scottish independence is a political movement that says Scotland ''should'' be independent; it does not say that it currently ''is'' independent, so generally speaking it's not really "disputed territory" - if and when it becomes independent, we can switch all the items easily enough, but doing that now wouldn't be appropriate.
:In the case of Northern Ireland, as there is an autoreplace for England, Wales & Scotland it may just be an oversight that there isn't one for NI. If we look at the list of items using {{statement||17|26}}, it turns out about 80-90% of them are sporting seasons or sports teams. Only about 20 of the items are physical places like {{Q|Q2239914}}. For comparison, there are [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23UK%20%26%20P131%3ANorthern%20Ireland%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ145.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%2a%20wd%3AQ26%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D almost 2000] physical places which are located in Northern Ireland but use {{statement||17|145}}. The sporting ones could presumably be moved to {{P|P1532}} or similar (using whatever method we already have for sports in England or Scotland) and the others changed to UK for consistency. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:04, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

See also [[#Country of citizenship is Wales]], above. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 17:36, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

== P4020 format ==

Please can someone take a look at [[Property talk:P4020#Font style: should be Roman (upright), not italics|Property talk:P4020]]: the property should be formatted Roman (upright), not italics. -[[User:DePiep|DePiep]] ([[User talk:DePiep|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:25, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
== Units with quickstatements ==

Adding unit with quickstatements2 is still unavailable? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:01, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:See [[Help:QuickStatements]], the pattern is <code>1U11573</code> for 1 {{Q|11573}}. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:38, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

And anyone knows why, if I am adding for example 34,708, the value in Wikidata is 34,708000000009345? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:28, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
: There is a problem that is diffcult to fix: [[Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2018/01#Area precision]]. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:38, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:It shows 34,708000000009345 because the number is internally converted to a floating point numbers. {{ping|Magnus_Manske}} hasn't yet good around to fixing the bug. https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikidata-todo/issues/65/quickstatements-should-not-add-decimal is the bug report and it might be worthwhile for other people who have problems with that to leave comments on the bug report or vote on it to show it's importance. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 19:42, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

== {{Q|1391249}} and {{Q|16678077}} ==

I just stumbled upon this couple of elements related to discoid steles a type of funerary monument, particularly encountered in the Basque culture. Some of the links have local names, whereas others have the Basque name. The two elements should probably be sorted out so that one has the links with the local language terms and the other one has the Basque name. But doing the corresponding changes within Wikidata seems harder than in most cases I've encountered to date, so I wanted to ask the community.

Right now we have this situation:

{| class="wikitable"
! {{Q|1391249}}
! {{Q|16678077}}
|-
|
* [[:an:Estela discoidal]]
* [[:ca:Estela discoïdal]]
* [[:de:Hilarri]]
* [[:en:Hilarri]]
* [[:es:Estela discoidal]]
* [[:eu:Disko-formako hilarri]]
* [[:fr:Hilarri]]
* [[:he:הילארי]]
|
* [[:fr:Stèle discoïdale]]
|}

My proposal would be to have something like this:

{| class="wikitable"
! {{Q|1391249}}<br>(local names)
! {{Q|16678077}}<br>(Basque name "hilarri")
|-
|
* [[:an:Estela discoidal]]
* [[:ca:Estela discoïdal]]
* [[:es:Estela discoidal]]
* [[:eu:Disko-formako hilarri]]
* [[:fr:Stèle discoïdale]]
|
* [[:de:Hilarri]]
* [[:en:Hilarri]]
* [[:fr:Hilarri]]
* [[:he:הילארי]]
|}

Alternatively, both could be merged and the two articles in French Wikipedia [[:fr:Stèle discoïdale]] and [[:fr:Hilarri]] merged as well. [[User:Sabbut|Sabbut]] ([[User talk:Sabbut|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:38, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:Be bold to change, why not? --[[User:Liuxinyu970226|Liuxinyu970226]] ([[User talk:Liuxinyu970226|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:19, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{ping|Sabbut}} I don't think anyone else should have objections to your proposal; go for it! [[User:Mahir256|Mahir256]] ([[User talk:Mahir256|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

== Research in programming Wikidata ==

FYI, there's an interesting learning project at Wikiversity from [[w:Petrozavodsk State University]] about using [[w:SPARQL]] and Wikidata called [[v:Research in programming Wikidata]] that may be of interest to the community here. --[[User:Mu301|Mu301]] ([[User talk:Mu301|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:42, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

== Patron saint ==

{{P|417}}. Why {{Q|21510865}} have only {{Q|5}} and {{Q|375011}}? Some place have {{Q|235113}}s, like {{Q|45581}}, who never been a human. [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:50, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
== HTML formatting (<i>italics</i>, <sup>superscript</sup> and <sub>subscript</sub>) in labels ==

Hello, I just started a new subject on [[Help talk:Label#HTML formatting for labels]]. I report that the impossibility of HTML formatting for labels poses serious problems for Wikidata-based citations in sister projects such as Wikipedia (an exemple is [[:en:Template:Cite Q]]). I would like to know who cares about it (we have millions of Wikidata items for scientific articles, it could be great to use it rather than filling bibliography templates by hand), and how to ask developpers to consider implementing a solution. [[User:Totodu74|Totodu74]] ([[User talk:Totodu74|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:40, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
* HTML tags aren't essential. What might be essential is formatting. If we introduce formatting we have to choose between the different semantics. In addition to HTML there's also Wikitext and markdown. I personally would prefer markdown. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 18:33, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
* Yes, any option of formatting would be good, but I saw some phabricator ticket with statement that this won't be possible. But this has more uses than citations, e.g. chemical nomenclature requires formatting for some prefixes (italics, small script) etc. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 23:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC) [[:phab:T139573]] ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 23:52, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Maybe a workaround? A qualifier property "italics" that could be added to any statement and that includes the regex necessary to identify the parts that have to be italicized? Same for superscript and subscript? If it's added to the item itself, it would adhere to the label, with qualifiers for language. However, it probably wouldn't help directly for Wikipedia citations (unless Lua is able to process stuff like that, which I don't know). --[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:08, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
*Or maybe just a qualifier with string-datatype that includes text and html-markup. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 11:55, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
::Yes, that sounds much easier. --[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:48, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

: {{Reply to|ChristianKl}} while I like Markdown as well (specifically {{Q|Q18019138}}), I don’t think it’s a good fit for this use case, since it doesn’t support super- or subscript.
: I also just realized that we already have one markup format with software support in Wikibase: LaTeX. For example:
: <blockquote>
: <nowiki>\text{Evidence suggesting that }\textit{Homo neanderthalensis}\text{ contributed the H2 }\textit{MAPT}\text{ haplotype to }\textit{Homo sapiens}</nowiki> → <math>\text{Evidence suggesting that }\textit{Homo neanderthalensis}\text{ contributed the H2 }\textit{MAPT}\text{ haplotype to }\textit{Homo sapiens}</math>
: </blockquote>
: <blockquote>
: <nowiki>[\mathrm N_2 \mathrm H_5]^+_2 [\mathrm N_4 \mathrm C - \mathrm N = \mathrm N - \mathrm C \mathrm N_4]^{2-}\text{: A New High-Nitrogen High-Energetic Material}</nowiki> → <math>[\mathrm N_2 \mathrm H_5]^+_2 [\mathrm N_4 \mathrm C - \mathrm N = \mathrm N - \mathrm C \mathrm N_4]^{2-}\text{: A New High-Nitrogen High-Energetic Material}</math>
: </blockquote>
: It might even kind of make sense to use LaTeX here because there’s a good chance the original article, including the title, was set in LaTeX as well. (However, we still face some difficulties – we’re in math mode, not in text mode, and we also lack some packages. For instance, the second example above should probably use mhchem’s <code>\bond{}</code> command.)
: What do you think? —[[User:Galaktos|Galaktos]] ([[User talk:Galaktos|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:09, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

== Titus Atilius Rufus is not American Treaty Shore ==

But somehow the article on en.wikipedia for this consul (which should be to Q47452755) is now attached to the Wikidata item "American Treaty Shore" (Q4745275). I'm not seeing an easy way fix this. Any suggestions? -- [[User:Llywrch|Llywrch]] ([[User talk:Llywrch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 03:36, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

:Purge the wikipedia page (which I've now done). Seems to be fixed. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 03:40, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Okay, that did it. Guess I should have tried that first. Thanks. -- [[User:Llywrch|Llywrch]] ([[User talk:Llywrch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 01:36, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

== Merge help ==

Can someone help merge {{Q|192364}} into {{Q|42673836}} - ie the genus should be ''Hultholia'' and not in ''Caesalpinia''. [[User:Shyamal|Shyamal]] ([[User talk:Shyamal|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:49, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
{{done}} I think it's done. [[User:Shyamal|Shyamal]] ([[User talk:Shyamal|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:02, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
::These are two separate concepts, not to be merged. - [[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:30, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
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== Date ==

Hello. Is there a way to have with {{P|580}} the date "at the end of 17th century"? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:48, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
: As far as I know you can only say 17th century with century precision with {{P|1319}} to express it in a structured way. You might add {{P|1932}} to provide the unstructured way it was expressed in the source. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 17:58, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
::How do you suggest to do it in {{Q|4831288}} --> {{P|417}}? [[User:Xaris333|Xaris333]] ([[User talk:Xaris333|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{P|4241}} was created for this. [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  18:09, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:See [[Help:Dates#Qualifiers]]. --[[User:Kam Solusar|Kam Solusar]] ([[User talk:Kam Solusar|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:02, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{Ping|Xaris333}} "1800 +-10 years" (adjust "10" to suit your case), qualified with {{P|1326}} = "1800". <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:25, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
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== Centuries ==

In time values, why is the English format for "12th century" ''12. century''?  This is not a standard constructon in English, and I was confused for years as to whether "12. century" means "1200s" or "12th century".  {{Q|Q7061}} says it's "12th century". - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:42, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

{{phabricator|T95553}}
:Yes, I've wondered about this for a while - millennia are rendered the same way. Digging around on Phabricator it seems to be a known bug that would require an unexpected amount of effort to fix, which is a bit annoying. We could change it to "12 century" in English ([https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7061?uselang=it#P585 Italian misses out the dot], for example) but not easily turn it into "12''th'' century". [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

::it does not concern only English format, but also French format, which should be ''at least'' a "e" following the number like "15e siècle"... {{ping|Père Igor}} --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:27, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

:In fact, this is quite harmful, I have found quite a few cases where this caused wrong values. Even worse in my eyes is that a keyboard input "17th century" is processed as <code>{"time":"+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z","precision":7" … }</code> internally which WDQS and Listeria etc. output as "Jan 1, 1700" so that an event that took place in the year 1600 of which only the century is sourced can be displayed as a century later!! This undocumented inconsistency follows nearly all of [[User:JakobVoss|JakobVoss]]’ [https://zenodo.org/record/1025743 guidelines for bad data standards]! --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:49, 22 January 2018 (UTC), 16:18, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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== Converting Latin names to statement Q codes ==

Can some one tell me how I would go about finding the Q codes / statements of Latin names? I have the Latin labels / names only. Is there a tool which would automatically generate their Q codes - for a batch of 450? I can then use QuickStatements to add the Welsh and English names of mosses with references. Thanks! [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:02, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
:Nothing you've written makes me think that the wikidata query service couldn't help, {{ping|Sian EJ}}. Can you be more specifc: you say "I have the Latin labels / names only" ... what exactly is the set of records for which you want QIds? We can progress from there. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:40, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
::Sorry! The first column of my spreadsheet contains Latin names of different species of mosses eg ''Blasia pusilla''; however, Quickstatements needs the code (Q17299165) so that I can add the label in other languages ("Cenddail-lys" in Lcy). [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:45, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

:::{{SPARQL|query=SELECT ?scientificname ?item WHERE
{
  VALUES ?scientificname { 'Arbor' 'Leo' 'Alces' 'Blasia pusilla'}  # add your 450 labels here
  ?item wdt:P225 ?scientificname .
}
ORDER BY ?scientificname
}}
:::--[[User:Larske|Larske]] ([[User talk:Larske|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:54, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
::::What Larske said. Come back if you need more, {{ping|Sian EJ}}. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:20, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::Fansastic! Many thanks! I'll add a couple and wait for ok. [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

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== formatter URL (P1630) - distinct values constraint ==

I have opened a discussion at [[Property_talk:P1630#Distinct_values_constraint]]. --[[User:Rotpunkt|Rotpunkt]] ([[User talk:Rotpunkt|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:05, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

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== Dates when a style or item "flourished" ==

Often working with costume and textiles, sources will indicate a date range when an item "flourished" or was "popular".  Sometimes this is specifically different from the first appearance.

For example, my source states that {{Q|Q5436787 }} first appeared in the last quarter of the 17th century, which I have used as the ''<inception>'' date, but "flourished from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries".  How should that date range be modeled when it doesn't conveniently fit into an era, and what property can be used? - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:39, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
:I am staring at {{P|2031}} and {{P|2032}} and thinking that maybe they have potential, though they are worded as being people orientated. I remember them as being floruit start and finish, and wording being less people orientated, and wondering whether that is preferable. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:57, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
::Perhaps we need a new pair of properties parallel to {{P|2031}} and {{P|2032}}?  I'm not sure how to label them - "popular from date" with aliases "common from date", "fashionable from date"? - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{i::nt:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:26, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
::I'm considering whether we could handle this with a ''<significant event>'' "peak popularity (peak influence)" described as "period when the subject was most influential, popular, common, or fashionable" and then qualified with start/end times.  Is this better than new properties? - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:14, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:::I think that makes a lot of sense.  Also, clients like Reasonator or Histropedia will immediately understand it as an event, and therefore work it into timelines. A controlled vocabulary could be developed to cover slight shades of meaning too -- anything up to total hegemony? [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:48, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Good choice of expressive qualifiers on {{P|793}} too.  And useful to have the event on one statement, rather than across two -- eg if one wanted to record that {{Q|Q42005}} had peak severity in different places at differernt times.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:57, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Jheald}} Excellent point re: Reasonator.  I hadn't thought of that.  I'm going to move forward with this solution. - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:13, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
{{outdent}}
Created '''{{Q+|Q47468023}}''' as ''<subclass of>'' {{Q|Q2245405}} and {{Q|Q186081}}. - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:21, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

== {{P|1896}} ==

Do we accept Wikimedia projects as a value for this property? See this [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property:P4758&oldid=prev&diff=621588244 revert]. --[[User:Succu|Succu]] ([[User talk:Succu|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:01, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:Yes we do since i) that's what was in [[Wikidata:Property proposal/MONA ID|the property proposal]], where there were no objections and ii) that's, er, the source used. BTW, you seem to have accidentally forgotten to notify me that you were discussing my work. Again. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:: This is not about you and your work. And it's not about what you [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Property_proposal/MONA_ID&oldid=614911015 proposed] to be a source for {{P|4758}}. It's a general question. --[[User:Succu|Succu]] ([[User talk:Succu|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:44, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:::The diff ''you cited'' was an edit I made, to a property I proposed, reverting your (unexplained) removal of a value I included in the property proposal I wrote. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:23, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: The world is not spinning around you, Mr. Mabbett. And you did not answer my general question. So, why do we not add this property to all properties where we import values from Wikimedia projects? --[[User:Succu|Succu]] ([[User talk:Succu|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:56, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

== Petscan question ==

I am doing a Petscan search that combines a Sparql query with a template search on en-wiki (stored as a PagePile) to find the pages don't currently have the template, but should.

I can get Petscan to run the SPARQL, and subtract the set of pages with the template -- but it insists on giving me the results as a list of Wikidata items.

From [[:m:PetScan]] it seems I ought to be able to choose for the results to be a list of wiki pages instead, that I can then save and load into AWB.  But everything I try still seems to give me Wikidata items.  Is there anything I can do, just to get it to output a list of wiki pages?  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 01:57, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{ping|Jheald}} at tab "Other sources" choose "From categories" in "Use wiki" field. Helped? --[[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]] ([[User talk:Edgars2007|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:01, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{reply to|Edgars2007}} Thanks!  That's exactly what I needed.  I wasn't using the categories tab, so I never thought of that button to choose.  But it works a dream.  Result!  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:09, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Second question ({{ping|Edgars2007}} ?).  

On Commons, I'd like to use Petscan to give me a list of Commons categories corresponding to query results, that aren't already in a Category:X.   I find it's easy enough to get Petscan to find the categories already in Category:X, but is it possible to get it to find the categories that correspond to the query results?  When I select "Use wiki" = "From categories", it returns a list that's a mixture of Commons categories and Commons galleries.   What I really want is all Commons categories, as given by {{P|373}} on the items that match the query.   

Is there a way to generate such a list with Petscan, perhaps first creating a PagePile?  Thanks,  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:41, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

== Creating a redirect ==

I can't seem to redirect Q33323856 --> Q24204315. Thanks! [[User:Daylen|Daylen]] ([[User talk:Daylen|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:01, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

:Done, using the (gadgets) merge script. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:19, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

::{{ping|Tagishsimon}} Can you please move Q5340340 --> Q30271639 as well. I can't seem to get the gadget working. Thanks! [[User:Daylen|Daylen]] ([[User talk:Daylen|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 05:45, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
:::{{Done}} by [[User:PLbot|PLbot]]. You can also use [[Special:MergeItems]] if the gadget does not fit. [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

:<small>This section was archived on a request by: [[User:Matěj Suchánek|Matěj Suchánek]] ([[User talk:Matěj Suchánek|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC)</small>
== Aliases of {{Q|43270}} ==

We had 160 English aliases of {{Q|43270}}. Some of the 160 are lower and upper letter combinations of the name, some are last name first versions, some are other languages. Strangely Wikidata does not use references for Aliases, so I have no ides where they come from and it is hard to verify if they are real or made up. Any objections to cleaning that up? I have hard time imagining an item with more than 10 valid English aliases (someone will likely prove me wrong here), 160 is crazy. --[[User:Jarekt|Jarekt]] ([[User talk:Jarekt|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 04:53, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
*Check the edit history. Why should we be missing some names while keeping others? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 05:42, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
*While we don't have references for aliases we do have references for {{P|2561}} (and subclasses of it). In cases where it's desired to add references those properties can be used and the also specify more information about the name. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 09:52, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
*The aliases are bot added - see [[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/MerlIwBot]]. I'm uncertain what benefits you foresee in pruning the alias list, unsure what harm you see in the status quo. Your inability to imagine more than 10 valid English aliases and your assertion that 160 aliases is crazy don't seem to have a bearing on the matter one way or another. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:11, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
* The particular aliases for Pieter Brueghel all seem necessary for any solution that would look for mentions of this entity in English text (full-text search, named entity recognition, entity linking tasks), they are informative about spelling variations and various combinations that seem likely to occur in real published mentions of this person. --[[User:PeterisP|PeterisP]] ([[User talk:PeterisP|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
* The ones in other languages are superfluous no matter how one looks at it. But a lot of the spelling variations are deadwood also, and have no practical effect, beyond confusing the reader. - [[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:55, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
*It's certainly worth removing those worth only differences of capitalisation. Perhaps a bot could do that, as a regular cleanup job? I recall [[User:Jane023|Jane023]] having argued that foreign names of artists are needed, as art institutions vary in which versions they use in catalogues. And of course genuine spelling variants - far from being "dead wood" - are needed for aliases' prime purpose: to aid searchability. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 12:02, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
::The problem with excessive number of aliases in a given item is that they are being displayed in the item and by the infobox templates. For example, I am working on new version of [[c:template:Creator]] that displays aliases from Wikidata. An infobox  might be able to display some aliases but not 160, so it will have to either disregard all or pick random few. --[[User:Jarekt|Jarekt]] ([[User talk:Jarekt|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:29, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Sorting out UI issues by throwing away data is somewhat baby out with the bathwater --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:36, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
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:::::Throwing away data is always wrong. And so is mistaking junk for data. Genuine spelling variants should be included, but a lot of the "spelling variations" here are deadwood. - [[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::Which ones? (I've fixed your broken indenting, again). <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:24, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::Answer came there none... <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 18:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:::When it comees to the infobox, you could just display the top X aliases. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 17:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Hi, why not use a collapsible list of aliases? See [[w:pt:Constituição brasileira de 1946|the infobox in Constituição brasileira de 1946 (ptwiki)]] for example. There's a lot of information from Wikidata in just one field, so we have collapsed them. [[User:Ederporto|Ederporto]] ([[User talk:Ederporto|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:07, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:::I think {{tq|“that displays aliases from Wikidata”}} is the problem. Aliases are not suited for what is needed by [[c:template:Creator]] {{para|Alternative names}} IMHO. We should rather put that information into statements which can have a datatype, ranks and references. Aliases are a bad fit for that. --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:04, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Well I agree that simple changes in capitalization could be removed. We see this on multiple artist pages with "Xxx Yyy Zzz the elder" vs "Xxx Yyy Zzz the Elder". The others are needed. [[User:Jane023|Jane023]] ([[User talk:Jane023|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:43, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
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::If things are working even remotely like they should be, it is nonsensical to include a German, French, etc name among the English aliases, since they will be included already among the German, French, etc aliases. - [[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:::German and French aliases are used in English, just as my name, which is English, is used in German and French texts. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:24, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
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:::::The search algorithm makes no distinction between English aliases and the German, French, etc aliases. Having the same alias as an English alias and as a German, French, etc alias is pure redundancy. - [[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 06:55, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::Which algorithm, at what date and which interface? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 07:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::The search algorithm that runs in Wikidata, any time in the past month, or so. - [[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:13, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:Yes, I object to that. Dutch has changed quite a bit since most of these people lived, variations are very common, translating it is very common and on top of that we have load of English speakers who tend to misspell names (if I would get an Euro for every time my name gets misspelled....). So yes, we end up with a lot of different aliases. Deal with it in the interface. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:56, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

:{{comment}} I boldly [[Special:Diff/621433507|removed]] one en alias "Bauer=Breughel", which looks like a pseudo-equation and, IMHO, how is this person related to {{Q|395}}? --[[User:Liuxinyu970226|Liuxinyu970226]] ([[User talk:Liuxinyu970226|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:27, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
::Was probably intended to be a {{q|1242843}}. --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:11, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

== Specify {{P|P421}} (and similar properties) on every place or just the most expansive place only? ==

There are many properties for places such as {{P|P421}} and {{P|P2884}}. Should these be specified for ''all'' places? Or just on the largest encompassing place only for which the property is true? For example, the whole of {{Q|Q1384}} state is in the {{Q|Q941023}}. So should we only specify {{Statement|Q1384|P421|Q941023}} or should all places (cities, towns, villages, counties, islands, highways, buildings, national parks, etc.) inside New York also have {{P|P421}}? —[[User:Seav|seav]] ([[User talk:Seav|talk]]) 04:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
:If you put {{P|P131}} {{Q|Q1384}} inside those items (cities, towns, villages, counties, islands, highways, buildings, national parks, etc.) wouldn't be enough? It's a suggestion, of course, based on your example. [[User:Ederporto|Ederporto]] ([[User talk:Ederporto|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 04:53, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{ping|Ederporto}} that is my preferred method as well. Data consumers would just need to traverse up the {{P|P131}} tree to determine the timezone (or another property) that applies to a more local place. —[[User:Seav|seav]] ([[User talk:Seav|talk]]) 02:57, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:In order to think in a cenario of "all" places with {{P|421}}, I think only capitals of states, states or countries should have. [[User:Ederporto|Ederporto]] ([[User talk:Ederporto|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 04:55, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
OK. Unless anybody has any reasonable objection, I will be modeling data such that if a place's item's {{P|P421}} or {{P|P2884}} (or other similar property) is already specified in a parent or ancestor {{P|P131}}, then adding that same property on the place's item is redundant and may be deleted. In this case, data consumers can then traverse up the {{P|P131}} tree if needed.

For example. If we already have the following statement: {{Statement|Q1384|P421|Q941023}}, then the following statement is redundant and ''may'' (not should) be deleted {{Statement|Q60|P421|Q941023}} as long as {{Q|Q1384}} is in the {{P|P131}} tree of {{Q|Q60}}. —[[User:Seav|seav]] ([[User talk:Seav|talk]]) 06:45, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

*Currently, plenty of items have this property. Notably, most places in China. Stats for the US: [[Wikidata:Database reports/time zones/US/by state]]. Personally, I don't find them terribly useful, but some people seem to be fond of them. Unless there is some data quality issue with them, I don't seem much benefit in removing or adding more of them. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 07:00, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

== Formatter URLs for DOIs ==

It seems to me that several of the {{P|P1630}} for {{P|P356}} should actually be {{P|P3303}}. What do others think? Would moving them break any tools? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 09:09, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
: {{support}} I think only the doi.org ones should remain as {{P|P1630}} there, the others should be moved. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:52, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
: {{support}}, that seems clear to me. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:40, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

OK, done. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 21:26, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

:<small>This section was archived on a request by: <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 15:53, 28 January 2018 (UTC)</small>
== Module:Wikidata handle novalue ==

On the Dutch Wikipedia the special value ''novalue'' is seen as a normal value. When getting claims for {{P|345}} this results in IMDb id ''geen waarde'', which creates strange IMDb links (and the space makes it even worse). The text in the infobox now becomes <code>(en) waarde/ IMDb-profiel</code>. I could urlencode it, but that gives a wrong url. Is there a way to let [[:nl:Module:Wikidata]] handle this as if the value was empty? An example of how it now looks is: [[:nl:Anna Maria Snoek]]. [[User:Mbch331|Mbch331]] ([[User talk:Mbch331|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:38, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
:Different language versions of the Wikidata module have implemented different "solutions" to this problem. In frwp [[:fr:Module:Wikidata]] you can add a parameter ''excludespecial=true'' to the call and in the svwp [[:sv:Module:Wikidata2]] version you can add the parameter ''novalue='' to suppress the "no value". No such possibility is described on the Module documentation for the nlwp module as far as I can see. If you don't want to (wait for someone to) implement a feature to handle "no value" in the nlwp module, you can modify the Infobox template as a workaround. 
:If you want to avoid the IMDb-link in the case of P345 returning ''Geen waarde'', you can test for that particular value in the [[:nl:Sjabloon:Infobox acteur]].
:Try replacing the line 
<code><nowiki>
| other2   = {{#If:{{{imdb|}}}|{{en}} [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm{{{imdb}}}/ IMDb-profiel]|{{#if:{{#invoke:wikidata|claim|P345}}|{{en}} [http://www.imdb.com/name/{{#invoke:wikidata|claim|P345}}/ IMDb-profiel]}}}}
</nowiki></code>
:with this line
<code><nowiki>
| other2   = {{#If:{{{imdb|}}}|{{en}} [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm{{{imdb}}}/ IMDb-profiel]|{{#if:{{#invoke:wikidata|claim|P345}}|{{#ifeq:{{#invoke:wikidata|claim|P345}}|Geen waarde||{{en}} [http://www.imdb.com/name/{{#invoke:wikidata|claim|P345}}/ IMDb-profiel]}}}}}}
</nowiki></code>
:The result is as before when the value returned is anything else than "Geen waarde", but when that particular value is returned the effect is like there was no P345 at all and thus no strange link is presented. 
:--[[User:Larske|Larske]] ([[User talk:Larske|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:16, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks. I've gone for the infobox solution for now. Changing [[:nl:Module:Wikidata]] is a lot more work as I'm not a lua guy. [[User:Mbch331|Mbch331]] ([[User talk:Mbch331|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:28, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

== Wikidata weekly summary #296 ==

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<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">''Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.''</div>
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* '''Discussions'''
** Closed request for adminship: [[d:Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Administrator/Mahir256|Mahir256]] (as successful)

* '''[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events|Events]]/[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press coverage|Press/Blogs]]'''
** [https://blogs.pjjk.net/phil/getting-data-wikidata-wordpress-custom-taxonomy/ Getting data from Wikidata into WordPress custom taxonomy]
** [https://pidapalooza.org/ PIDapalooza] - Girona, 23-24 January,with a [http://sched.co/Cwmd session on PIDs in Wikidata] by Andy Mabbett
** [https://easychair.org/cfp/europeanatech2018 The EuropeanaTech Call for Proposals is open till February 7]. Themes are Data, Discovery, Delivery. The conference will take place in Rotterdam, NL, May 15-16, 2018.
** [https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cynhadledd_Celtic_Knot_2018 Call for papers for Celtic Knot conference is open]

* '''Other Noteworthy Stuff'''
** [[metawiki:Stewards/Elections_2018|Nominations for the Steward elections are open]]
** Grant proposal for [[m:Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSync|GlobalFactSync]]
** [https://repology.org repology] is a nice new project about software packages with the help of Wikidata. They have a [https://repology.org/metapackages/?inrepo=wikidata&outdated=1 list of potentially outdated packages on Wikidata] that might need updating or fixing.
** [[toolforge:mix-n-match/painters.php|Painters]] gives you a list of paintings that don't have a creator statement but "painting by" in the description
** [[d:Wikidata:Wikidata Concepts Monitor/WDCM Journal#§ WDCM Journal, 18. January 2018. Big City Lights|Big City Lights: where are the cities whose items are most used across the Wikimedia projects?]]

* '''Did you know?'''
** Newest [[d:Special:ListProperties|properties]]:
*** General datatypes: [[:d:Property:P4765|Commons compatible image available at URL]], [[:d:Property:P4770|is a hydrated form of]], [[:d:Property:P4774|biological phase]], [[:d:Property:P4775|lot number]], [[:d:Property:P4776|MAC Address Block Large ID]], [[:d:Property:P4777|has boundary]]
*** External identifiers: [[:d:Property:P4751|SRCBB coach ID]], [[:d:Property:P4752|Manus Online ID]], [[:d:Property:P4753|Ecocrop ID]], [[:d:Property:P4754|Harvard botanical journal ID]], [[:d:Property:P4755|UK railway station code]], [[:d:Property:P4756|V Live channel ID]], [[:d:Property:P4757|Songwriters Hall of Fame ID]], [[:d:Property:P4758|MONA ID]], [[:d:Property:P4759|Luminous-Lint ID]], [[:d:Property:P4760|LTI Korea Library ID]], [[:d:Property:P4761|Images d'Art artwork ID]], [[:d:Property:P4762|Common Database on Designated Areas ID]], [[:d:Property:P4763|crates.io ID]], [[:d:Property:P4764|Arcade artwork ID]], [[:d:Property:P4766|Australian honours ID]], [[:d:Property:P4767|cinematografo company ID]], [[:d:Property:P4768|cinematografo name ID]], [[:d:Property:P4769|GameRankings game ID]], [[:d:Property:P4771|compArt institution ID]], [[:d:Property:P4772|compArt person ID]], [[:d:Property:P4773|MobyGames company ID]], [[:d:Property:P4778|USA Rugby player ID]], [[:d:Property:P4779|MYmovies actor ID]], [[:d:Property:P4780|MYmovies movie ID]], [[:d:Property:P4781|MYmovies director ID]], [[:d:Property:P4782|Movieplayer characters ID]], [[:d:Property:P4783|Movieplayer film ID]], [[:d:Property:P4784|Movieplayer TV-series ID]], [[:d:Property:P4785|MYmovies name ID]]
** Query examples: 
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0Aselect%20%3Fbooks%20%3FbooksLabel%20%3Fdate%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%0A%7B%0A%3Fbooks%20wdt%3AP31%20%20wd%3AQ210112%20%20%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fbooks%20wdt%3AP571%20%3Fdate%20.%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fbooks%20wdt%3AP18%7Cwdt%3AP154%20%3Fimage%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%2C%20de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20 Map of nuclear tests] ([https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/953009741680214018 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20languages%20with%20more%20than%20one%20writing%20system%0ASELECT%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3FwritingSystem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FwritingSystemLabel%3B%20separator%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3FwritingSystems%29%20WITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Flanguage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flanguage%20p%3AP282%2Fps%3AP282%20%3FwritingSystem.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Flanguage%0A%20%20HAVING%28COUNT%28%3FwritingSystem%29%20%3E%201%29%0A%7D%20AS%20%25languages%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20INCLUDE%20%25languages.%0A%20%20%3Flanguage%20p%3AP282%2Fps%3AP282%20%3FwritingSystem.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flanguage%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlanguageLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FwritingSystem%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FwritingSystemLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Flanguage%20%3FlanguageLabel%0AHAVING%28%3Fcount%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29%20ASC%28%3FlanguageLabel%29 Languages with more than one writing system] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/953959895535161344 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0APREFIX%20gas%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigdata.com%2Frdf%2Fgas%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fpic%20%3FlinkTo%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20SERVICE%20gas%3Aservice%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20gas%3Aprogram%20gas%3AgasClass%20%22com.bigdata.rdf.graph.analytics.SSSP%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Ain%20wd%3AQ14001%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AtraversalDirection%20%22Reverse%22%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout%20%3Fitem%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3Aout1%20%3Fdepth%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AmaxIterations%204%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20gas%3AlinkType%20wdt%3AP279%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP279%20%3FlinkTo%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fpic%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7Bbd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D Subclasses of malware] ([https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/954058770862215169 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20male%20actors%20who%20starred%20in%20a%20trilogy%20of%20movies%20when%20they%20were%20in%20their%2020s%20and%20then%20no%20fewer%20than%2040%20years%20later%20played%20the%20same%20character%20again%0A%23%20source%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40hitRECordJoe%2Fa-new-old-skywalker-253efda3809c%2C%2013th%20paragraph%0A%23%20%28%E2%80%9Cyoung%E2%80%9D%2C%20%E2%80%9Cprotagonist%E2%80%9D%20and%20%E2%80%9Cas%20an%20older%20man%E2%80%9D%20are%20elided%3B%20%E2%80%9Cactor%E2%80%9D%20is%20taken%20to%20be%20implied%20by%20a%20%E2%80%9Ccast%20member%E2%80%9D%20statement%20on%20a%20movie%20without%20requiring%20an%20%E2%80%9Coccupation%E2%80%9D%20statement%20on%20the%20actor%29%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Factor%20%3FactorLabel%20%3FcharacterLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Factor%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP569%20%3Fdob.%0A%20%20%3Fmovie1%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP179%20%3Ftrilogy%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fmovie1Publication.%0A%20%20%3Ftrilogy%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ13593818.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fdob%20%2B%20%22P20Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%20%3C%3D%20%3Fmovie1Publication%20%26%26%20%3Fmovie1Publication%20%3C%20%3Fdob%20%2B%20%22P30Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%29%0A%20%20%3Fmovie2%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ11424%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20p%3AP161%20%5B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20ps%3AP161%20%3Factor%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20pq%3AP453%20%3Fcharacter%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%5D%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP577%20%3Fmovie2Publication.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%3Fmovie1Publication%20%2B%20%22P40Y%22%5E%5Exsd%3Aduration%20%3C%20%3Fmovie2Publication%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Male actors who starred in a trilogy of movies when they were in their 20s and then no fewer than 40 years later played the same character again]([https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/954134597096427520 source] - see whole thread for more)
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fband%20%3FbandLabel%20%28AVG%28%3Fage%29%20AS%20%3FavgAge%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fband%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ215380%20.%0A%20%20%3Fband%20%28p%3AP740%2Fps%3AP740%2Fp%3AP17%2Fps%3AP17%29%7C%28p%3AP495%2Fps%3AP495%29%20wd%3AQ145%20.%20%23%20country%20of%20inception%20%2F%20country%20of%20origin%3B%20Q145%20is%20UK%0A%20%20%3Fband%20p%3AP527%20%3Fms%20.%0A%20%20%3Fms%20ps%3AP527%20%3Fmember%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fms%20pq%3AP582%20%5B%5D%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%3Fmember%20p%3AP569%2Fps%3AP569%20%3Fdob%20.%0A%20%20BIND%20%28YEAR%28NOW%28%29%29%20-%20YEAR%28%3Fdob%29%20AS%20%3Fage%29%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fband%20%3FbandLabel%0AHAVING%20%28AVG%28%3Fage%29%20%3E%3D%2070%20%26%26%20COUNT%28%3Fage%29%20%3E%201%29%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3FavgAge%29 Bands from the UK whose member's average age is at least 70] ([https://twitter.com/korenchkin/status/955410384323792898 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Disney%20animated%20movies%20and%20their%20narrative%20location%20on%20a%20map%0A%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20%3Fmovie%20%3FmovieLabel%20%3Fnarrative_location%20%3Fnarrative_locationLabel%20%3Fcoordinates%20%3Fcompany%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP840%20%3Fnarrative_location%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ29168811%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP272%20%3Fcompany%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fcompany%20wdt%3AP127%2a%20wd%3AQ7414%20.%0A%20%20%20%3Fnarrative_location%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Disney movie narrative locations] ([https://twitter.com/csl_/status/955506614085316608 source])

* '''Development'''
** Worked on persistent editing of grammatical features of a lexeme’s form ([[phab:T173742]])
** Made diffs for statements, grammatical features and representations of a form work ([[phab:T182424]])
** Turned off access to lexicographical data from the clients for now ([[phab:T178904]])
** Started logging warning on pages that use too many items ([[phab:T184319]])
** Added support for [[d:Property:P2309|relation]] [[d:Q30208840|instance or subclass of]] in the constraint checks ([[phab:T169858]])
** Now also checking [[d:Q19474404|single value]] and [[d:Q21510857|multi value]] constraints on qualifiers and references ([[phab:T175566]])
** Now also checking [[d:Q21510854|difference within range]] constraints on qualifiers and references ([[phab:T175565]])
** Fixed a bug with duplicate items in “distinct values” violation message in the constraint checks gadget ([[phab:T184705]])

* '''Monthly Tasks'''
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== Quick community survey: deletion of items about “relatively unknown persons” on their own request ==

'''Case description:''' A couple of months ago we had the following situation: there was an item about a human subject, who requested item deleted via another editor whom they trust. The item was formally notable according to our notability criteria, since it was equipped with three serious external identifiers (#2 of [[WD:N]]); however, it did not have a sitelink (#1 of WD:N), and it was also not backlinked from any other item (#3 of WD:N, so there was no structural need).

The item was deleted by me after the case has been discussed with three other editors at [[WD:RfD]], per (proposed) [[Wikidata:Deletion policy#Deletion of items (Phase I)]], which allows item deletion per “Any other common-sense reason for deletion not listed above.” I made a reference to English Wikipedia’s BLP policy at [[:en:Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Deletion of BLPs of relatively unknown subjects]] due to the fact that we do not have a local equivalent, and rated the subject as “relatively unknown” (which has not changed since then, to the best of my knowledge).

Please note: There is no value in providing a link to the discussion of the case, thus I’d like to avoid doing so. In case of questions feel free to ask for more details or clarifications.

'''My questions to the community:''' What do you think about such borderline cases as described above? In which situations and to which degree do you think is a deletion upon the subject’s request appropriate—or not appropriate? Should we adopt our policies, and if so, how? I am happy to see any kind of input at this stage, to get an impression of the community perspective on the matter. Thanks in advance, [[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:40, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
:* I think it is appropriate. However, it would likely not be appropriate if they had a sitelink - the project article should have been deleted first.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
:* I agree it is appropriate with no sitelinks or backlinks; if there is a backlink (unless that also can be removed) I would recommend to remove only potentially controversial or private information, rather than the entire item. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 05:16, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
::* I think in borderline cases err on the side of discretion and the privacy of the person doing the request. It would need to be judged case by case, but from what you say of the case you described it was a good decision to delete. Cheers [[User:Faendalimas|<font color="#004730">Scott Thomson</font>]] (<small><span class="nickname">Faendalimas</span></small>) <sup>[[User talk:Faendalimas|<font color="maroon">talk</font>]]</sup> 05:45, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
:::* Hi. I personally don't agree with this proposal; what is exactly a "borderline case"? I find it really subjective. In such cases, I rather suggest, as said by Arthur, to "remove only potentially controversial or private information"—and so (once again, IMO) there will be no more problem. [[User:Nomen ad hoc|Nomen ad hoc]] ([[User talk:Nomen ad hoc|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:51, 22 January 2018 (UTC).

:* If the person fulfills a structural need - e.g. being the author of a book in Wikidata or similar - I am having trouble with seeing how to delete the person. But we should have a policy that allows people to ask to have their date of birth or similar be made unspecific (i.e. instead of saying "May 20, 1965" it says "20th century", or instead of "Springfield, Oregon" it says "United States of America", etc.) --[[User:Denny|Denny]] ([[User talk:Denny|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:55, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
:* I can agree with Denny above about authors of books/articles and other publications – there is no reason to delete items describing them (also, I don't think that libraries etc. would be willing to delete such record of living author from the catalog based on author's request). What's more, I think that items describing living people should exist (i.e. should not be deleted on request) if there is at least one link to any serious database (e.g. library catalog etc.). However, any personal properties (date/place of birth, occupation, nationality, religion etc.) should be deleted on request if (i) there is no source provided or (ii) notability is not clearly established. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 20:17, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
:* I don't think we have a policy that allow this at the moment. There's https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Privacy_and_Living_People which actually proposes a policy and the proposed policy would only allow deletion of individual statements by request. If you want deletion of whole items I would advocate that you add your option of how the policy should read as an additional option to the RfC. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 11:12, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:* Totally agree with Wostr. [[User:Nomen ad hoc|Nomen ad hoc]] ([[User talk:Nomen ad hoc|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:36, 24 January 2018 (UTC).
:* totally agree with [[User:Wostr|Wostr]]. As a librarian, the idea of deleting the record of an author, needed for cataloguing a book, is completely absurd. For problematic properties (relative to pricacy), not needed to properly identify the author and differentiate them from homonyms, could be deleted or made vague (i.e. centuries, decades, instead of specific dates), when not already public (to me, data that can be found in a public library catalog IS public), ''on request from the person'', after appropriate identification of the person who requests (OTRS ?). --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:21, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

== Production - help? ==

Can anyone who speaks Japanese or Chinese better disambiguate the EN descriptions for {{Q|Q739302}} and {{Q|Q36492844}}? Or perhaps {{Q|Q36492844}} should be merged with something else? Thanks!  - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:11, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
== Bonnie and Clyde problems ==

These aren't interwiki conflicts per se, but result in a broken interwiki map.  Can we find a better solution?  Is there a tech&data discussion about this already? 

Example:  '''electrical resistivity''' and '''electrical conductivity''' are common concepts in all major languages.  In en:wp they are combined, because one is the inverse of the other, into [[:en:Electrical_resistivity_and_conductivity]].  We should be able to show interwiki links for the combined concept, somehow.  Right now, instead, "Electrical resistivity" shows no english interwiki link, and "Electrical resistivity and conductivity" shows almost no interwiki links at all.

[[User:Sj|Sj]] ([[User talk:Sj|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

:This situation is called the “Bonnie and Clyde problem”, and it is as old as the concept of interwikilinks. There has been [[Wikidata:Requests for comment/Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata|this RfC]] last year in which the Wikidata community expressed the desire to have a technical solution for this problem, but we still wait for WMDE/developer input on the matter. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:05, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Many thanks, I appreciated that page's discussion. Updating the section title; it's great to have a phrase for it.  I know a full solution is an unsolved problem, but perhaps we could at least return to the pre-wd method of capturing one direction of the asymmetric link. [[User:Sj|Sj]] ([[User talk:Sj|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:25, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

:::You can (and should) still use old style local interwikilinks in Wikipedia pages to accomplish that. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:44, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

:::Or LUA. Sample at [[Q21533309]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 21:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

On this, see a dedicated wikiproject : [[WD:XLINK]]. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 17:48, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

== ?action=edit ==

The ?action=edit isn't works when i try edit a page. [[Special:Contributions/83.31.193.132|83.31.193.132]]

:?action=edit - on the end of the URL - does nothing. There's an edit at the top of the page which allows you to edit the label, description or aliases. Individual statement boxes have their own edit links. New statements are added via the Add Statement link. Does that help? --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:31, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::Yes, but why it doesn't work? It works on wikipedia. [[Special:Contributions/83.31.193.132|83.31.193.132]]
:::because this is not wikipedia. There you get the ability to free-text edit a section of, or the whole of, an article. Here, you're mainly constrained to select a priori properties, and add links to other records ... in that context, an edit page concept does not make much sense. It seems to work :) --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:46, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::::Pages at wikidata are of a different [[mw:manual:Page content models|content model]] (type: Wikibase item); whereas those at Wikipedias are wikitext. {{unsigned|Billinghurst|26. 1. 2018, 10:32‎}}
== {{P|1661}} for a municipality? ==

I just saw that the [[User:Alexabot]] added a property {{P|1661}} to a municipality (that of course has a web-page as a property) [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q933458&type=revision&diff=618119777&oldid=617122525]. As a property for the web-page that may be fine, but the item is a municipality, not a web-page. Should I simply revert the bot, or is there a possibility to put the property to the property of the web-page? Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 22:25, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
::Just revert the entry - sorry for it. --[[User:Tozibb|Tozibb]] ([[User talk:Tozibb|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:44, 9 January 2018 (UTC) (operator of Alexa bot)
:::Could your bot please revert all this false {{P|1661}} I see in their [[Special:Contributions/Alexabot|history]]? Only items with {{Property|P31}}: {{Q|Q35127}} should have it, and I don't see a single correct edit by your bot in this regard in the last 500 edits. It's a bit too much for a real person to clean up after a bot, that ran amok. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 22:57, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Tozibb}} I've reverted the last few of your wrong Alexa-spam, could you please clean up yourself after this mess you created? I think it's very unfriendly to do so much bot-vandalism and leave the clean-up to humans. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 20:38, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::{{ping|Tozibb}} Any reaction from you? Your bot hasn't done anything to clean up this mess. OK, it's as well not vandalising non-webpage properties up to now, but probably hundreds of those edits are still not reverted.
:::::@All: Is there some other bot who can resolve this, or does it have to be done by humans? Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 05:13, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

::::::One would at least use Petscan to query for items where a P1661 claim is not appropriate, and let this tool remove the claims. Nobody has to do that manually. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 06:06, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
::I am working on this - thinking about a SPARQL query to search for {P|1661} and delete the wrong ones
::{{ping|Sänger}} reaction {{unsigned|Tozibb|09:56, 12. Jan. 2018‎}}
:::::::{{ping|Tozibb}} What are your plans about this mess? When will you start to do anything about the havoc you created? You and your Bot haven't done anything at all since your vandalism, do you plan to do anything contructive at all? Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 13:46, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
::: {{ping|Sänger|Tozibb}} Maybe add a constraint violation to the property? This would need to be quite broad and include any instance of a subclass of a part of {{Q|75}} to allow it on e.g. {{Q|355022}} ({{P|31}} {{Q|2721136}}). (Tozibb, you should sign your posts with <code>{{4~}}</code>.) [[User:Jc86035|Jc86035]] ([[User talk:Jc86035|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:47, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::: Also, the constraint violation should disallow things like sub-domains, though I'm not sure if that's possible. [[User:Jc86035|Jc86035]] ([[User talk:Jc86035|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:50, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::::As far as I see this, it's already there on [[Property_talk:P1661]]. Or how should I read the fifth clause under the big one? The bot just doesn't act according to it. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 10:55, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::That constraint [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property:P1661&diff=618356749&oldid=611720757 was added on Jan 10], so after this topic was started. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:14, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::OK, so it was probably a reaction to the bot vandalism. It still hasn't happened anything in regard of reverting this vandalism besides my meagre efforts by hand. How hard is it, to revert a bot, that was wreaking havoc? Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 12:04, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::We talk about 2867 items that have a {{Property|P1661}} claim, but not {{Property|P31}}: {{Q|Q35127}} (or subclass thereof) ([//query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1661%20%5B%5D%20.%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ35127%20%7D%20%7D list of items]). It is a matter of less than 5 minutes to set up a petscan batch that removes just all of them (the removal itself takes more time, but no human interaction is required; one just has to leave the petscan browser tab opened).
:::::::However, on second sight [//query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fclass%20%3FclassLabel%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1661%20%5B%5D%20.%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ35127%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20%3Fclass%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20'en'%20%7D%0A%7D the instance-of] relations imply that many of the items listed in the query above may qualify for a P1661 claim, so just removing all of them seems to be inappropriate either. I am not sure whether one could come up with a query that exactly finds the ones which are to be removed—it would probably be easier to remove in smaller sets, i.e. first from human items, then municipalities, then zoos, and so on. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:15, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::Yes, on first sight and with a big thumb it looks like ~2-5% could be rightfully included in those items with an Alexa rank. That's not much, I think we should remove first all of those completely rubbish claims, like for municipalities, persons, universities and so forth, and leave it to those, who want this rank added to the more complicated cases to add them by hand. Or to invent a method, that fits the description. I fail to see why those bogus properties should be in those items any longer. (And regarding your ''5 minutes'': I don't have the faintest idea how a ''petscan-batch'' could be executed, that's nerdy insider stuff, nothing for me as a normal user. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 12:37, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::::Running petscan batches is a pretty common job here. First authorize [//tools.wmflabs.org/widar/index.php Widar], then open [//petscan.wmflabs.org/ Petscan] and go to the “Other sources” tab, run a query such as the [//query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20WHERE%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20p%3AP1661%20%5B%5D%20.%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279*%20wd%3AQ35127%20%7D%20%7D this one] in the “SPARQL” field. When the results are loaded, you’ll see another input box in the upper right corner of the results list. A command like "-P1661" removes all P1661 claims from all checked items in the results set, as long as the tab remains open.
::::::::::I have meanwhile started with the more obvious cases (humans, municipalities, etc). I still expect the bot operator to help here. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:28, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::::There are still almost 1&nbsp;300 non-website items that has the property {{P|P1661}}. Here is a query showing the distribution on {{P|P31}}. Note that some objects may have more than one P31:
:::::::::::{{SPARQL|query=SELECT ?p31 ?p31Label (COUNT(?item) AS ?count) WHERE 
{ 
  ?item p:P1661 [] . 
  OPTIONAL { ?item wdt:P31 ?p31 . } 
  MINUS { ?item wdt:P31/wdt:P279* wd:Q35127 } 
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en,de,fr". }
} 
GROUP BY ?p31 ?p31Label
ORDER BY DESC(?count) ?p31Label
}}
:::::::::::--[[User:Larske|Larske]] ([[User talk:Larske|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:30, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::::Addition: Basically the same information can be found on [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P1661#Types_statistics this database report page]. --[[User:Larske|Larske]] ([[User talk:Larske|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:51, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:Is there any objection to shifting the P1661 to be a qualifier on the website statement?  It seems reasonable useful information to have, if its readily available -- eg making possible queries like: what are the 100 most accessed city websites in the United States?  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:13, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::AFAIK the idea was to add multiple P1661 claims with time, in order to be able to have the Alexa rank evolution of each website as well. This would be impossible with a qualifier approach. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:17, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:::We already have 167 items with more than one {{P|P1661}}. Unfortunately the {{P|P585}} qualifier is missing for many of them.
:::{{SPARQL|query=SELECT ?item ?itemLabel (COUNT(?p1661) AS ?count) (SUM(?with_P585) AS ?with_time) WHERE 
{ 
  ?item p:P1661 ?p1661 . 
  OPTIONAL {?p1661 pq:P585 ?t }
  BIND(IF(BOUND(?t),1,0) AS ?with_P585)
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
} 
GROUP BY ?item ?itemLabel
HAVING (?count>1)
ORDER BY DESC(?count) DESC(?with_time) ?itemLabel
}}
:::--[[User:Larske|Larske]] ([[User talk:Larske|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:47, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

== Sources in the average Wikipedia infobox ==

One of the arguments againt Wikidata from Wikipedians seems to be that not all data on Wikidata has source. At the same time no Wikipedia has a rule that requires everything do be sourced. Are there any statistics of how many of the claims in the infoboxes of various Wikipedias are sourced? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 22:48, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:Not a direct answer, but there are more than 200K articles lacking sources, some of them tagged as such for more than 10 years.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources See list here] - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:36, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
: That's not entirely true – according to pl.wiki VER policy ''every'' information has to be sourced — it is however very hard to accomplish (because of many articles without sources were created years before such version of VER policy came into force; AFAIR it was about 2011), but it is a common practice now to revert any new unsourced edit. Some statistics for pl.wiki are available [[:pl:Wikipedia:BATUTA 2017/Do zrobienia|here]], but ''percentage of sourced articles'' (''odsetek uźródłowionych'') indicates only presence or lack of <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> template (and there are many situations where only some informations in article are sourced, and the rest is not).
: As of infoboxes, it is more complicated, because most informations that appears in infoboxes should be sourced in the text (as infoboxes are just some kind of summary of most important informations from the article). But, I can give an example of chemistry infoboxes in pl.wiki: in 2012 there were over 5300 unsourced values (e.g. melting point, density, solubility etc.), now it's 1795. Unfortunately, chemistry infobox is the only one for which such statistics exist in pl.wiki. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 16:26, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
:* {{ping|Wostr}} "most informations that appears in infoboxes should be sourced in the text ". And how do you check what is present in the WP article when the infobox in doing the automatic data extraction from WD ? [[User:Snipre|Snipre]] ([[User talk:Snipre|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:04, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
:** {{re|Snipre}} at this moment this is not important for me, so I don't check it – (1) chemistry infoboxes are one of the few infoboxes in pl.wiki in which data is not a summary of the text, (2) only Commons category is imported right now (with local value with higher priority, so it's more about checking if local and WD values are identical or importing Commons cat if it's missing in infobox), the rest (CAS, PubChem, DrugBank) are used for data validation (checking if ids are correct, if articles is linked to proper WD items etc.), (3) this whole data extraction to chemistry infoboxes in pl.wiki is now more about checking if Listeria lists are sufficient tool to watch changes in WD items and how often vanadlisms or incorrect changes happen. AFAIK in other pl.wiki infoboxes only Commons categories, labels, images are being imported at this moment (and incorrect labels and images are always the cause of mass criticism, rightly or not and despite the fact, such situations happen quite rarely).<br /> As for this specific quote of me: I don't know how it will work in the future. Right now is is some kind of ''ideal article how-to'' or ''best practice'' to write articles in a way, that the introductory paragraph and the infobox are only a summary of the text. However, I don't think that WD will be used to e.g. 'write' article if there is no such article in pl.wiki – that is very unlikely to happen in pl.wiki and simply not possible in the foreseeable future (next few years). ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 10:38, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
*For dates of birth/death of people, in most languages they are generally sourced in the text itself, not the infobox. plwiki and jawiki seem very thorough. Some wikis use odd places to add sources, e.g. edit summaries on dewiki. itwiki has some special template for the lead sentence of articles. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 17:19, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
*Sources in the infobox? The infobox should only summarise the info from the article, it's not a substitute for text. And sources should be given to the information in the article text (or, if some menial data is changed manually in the box, like goals of footballers or such, in the summary). Sources in the infobox should be a rare exemption. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 18:59, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
*:{{ping|Sänger}} And what happens when a stub is created in one wiki but more data in available in WD ? How can you check what is present in the WP article when you have an automatic extraction of the infobox from WD ? [[User:Snipre|Snipre]] ([[User talk:Snipre|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:04, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
*:{{ping|Sänger}} Your vision is outdated with wikidata: WD will offer much more data in the future than what is available in some articles. So if you built a infobox which retrieve all data available from WD, then there is no more connections with the articles. Just take the example of the creation of a stub in WP:de. If WP.en has already a good article on the subject and someone transferred the data in WD (with sources), then your stub article will never from the beginning contains all the data available in the WP:en and in WD. But the infobox with an automatic extract from WD can propose more data. 
*: So the question is to know if your wiki allows the use of automatic extraction from WD in the infobox. If yes, then your approach is to restrict the access to available data because WP contributors are not working fast enough to integrate all data available in WD in the article. Perhaps not the best approach when promoting information access. [[User:Snipre|Snipre]] ([[User talk:Snipre|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:04, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
::also, we mustn't ignore the fact that, on some wikipedias, there is a habit to put basic biographical data in the infobox, and NOT in the text... thus, sourcing the data  in the infobox is a need ^^
:::It's a policy of the concrete Wikipedia, how to deal with infoboxes. Small wikipedias will handle this in another way as big ones. What you describe looks like a Botpedia, something that is frowned upon in deWP. If anyone would dare to mass-create articles with a bot from WD (or anywhere else) that mainly consist of an infobox, s/he would probably be banned/blocked asap and most articles speedy deleted or at least moved to the user name space. If some WP would only have a few thousand articles yet, and stubs are needed very much, it would probably not this way. The headline here is about sources in the infobox, and I can only write about my WP, not something like the cebWP. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 12:08, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Sänger}} I was not referring to cebwiki or other bot-created articles. While trying to retrieve dates for biographical articles I found thousands of articles where the basic biographical data were in the Infobox of the article, and not in the article that was more "he did this and he did that"... even with long articles... ukwiki, ruwiki, thwiki, etc... have that kind of Infoboxes. I do not say that they use wikidata, I say that they use infoboxes in a way that requires sourcing for Infobox data... --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:28, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Hsarrazin}}: yes, there are a few wikis (or articles in these wikis) where information is merely given in the infobox and not necessarily repeated in the article itself. Still, I think I had a hard time trying to find what references are used in some of these wikis. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 09:59, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::Yes, it is sometimes very difficult to find the used sources... which is why sources in the Infoboxes should be important (I think of lua-fed Infoboxes which can give sources added to wikidata : ) --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:34, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::*There might not be any. Maybe the place is somewhere as obscure as dewiki edit summaries. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 10:38, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

:OK, here is a random sample from enwiki, 10 articles with infobox selected using Random article:
:[[:en:Zigzo]] - no sources in infobox
:[[:en:Todd Raleigh]] - no sources in infobox
:[[:en:C. Madhavan Nair]] - no sources in infobox
:[[:en:Basepoint Centres]] - no sources (and no content) in infobox
:[[:en:Tulovo, Serbia]] - no sources in infobox
:[[:en:Phazaca interrupta]] - one source for one statement
:[[:en:WQHA]] - no sources in infobox
:[[:en:William G. Harrison House]] - one source for one statement
:[[:en:Soren Baker]] - no sources in infobox
:[[:en:Myrsine lessertiana]] - no sources in infobox
:Now random sample of relevant 10 WD items (no templates or categories) selected using Random item (omitting imported from xxwiki "sources"):
:{{Q|15777739}} - app. 50% of statements sourced
:{{Q|14854516}} - mostly unsourced
:{{Q|14686335}} - unsourced
:{{Q|20978033}} - unsourced
:{{Q|33591925}} - well sourced
:{{Q|31423713}} - unsourced
:{{Q|43509137}} - well sourced
:{{Q|43921457}} - well sourced
:{{Q|13822142}} - unsourced
:{{Q|46813953}} - well sourced
:Conslusion - average item on wikidata is better sourced than average enwiki infobox.--[[User:Jklamo|Jklamo]] ([[User talk:Jklamo|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:49, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
::There is at least one use case for putting source information in an infobox: infoboxes that contain facts relevant to many articles. An example at the English Wikipedia is the template "Year in various calendars". Ideally, there would be a citation within the infobox for each fact. In the example I gave, there are no such sources, but at least there is a link to the appropriate Wikipedia article, where we can hope there are sources. [[User:Jc3s5h|Jc3s5h]] ([[User talk:Jc3s5h|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:30, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
:: This 10-article/10-items statistic shows nothing. 3 of 4 ''well-sourced'' items are in fact about scientific articles... ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 13:41, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
::: {{ping|Jklamo}} J-PAS uses a Wikidata infobox. Although that doesn't change your conclusion as there's no references in that Wikidata entry. ;-) Thanks. [[User:Mike Peel|Mike Peel]] ([[User talk:Mike Peel|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:51, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

== Governors of US territories who refuse their appointment ==

Multiple governors of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Idaho Territory of Idaho] rejected their appointment. The question is how to indicate this using qualifiers. In addition, as all [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q47490394 these people] were appointed, does it follow that they are civil servants and not politicians ie should all appointed governors be considered civil servants ? Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:21, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service#United_States covers the distinction between civil servants and political appointees well; by my reading we would not term the Governor a civil servant. The opening line of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician suggests we would tag all ITGs as politicians. no answer on how you represent a declined job offer; neither office holder nor position held seem appropriate. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:02, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

:: We also have a parallel case (as yet unsolved satisfactorily IMO) in people who stand for election and win, but then decide not to take up their seat. There is also the slightly more distant version, such as with the recent Australian dual-nationality issues, where the courts later rule that someone never actually held an office — even if everyone had been acting all along as if they'd held it (in some cases for decades). Simply removing the {{P|39}} statement seems inadequate here, so again I think we need some sort of modifier qualifier to note the exceptional situation. --[[User:Oravrattas|Oravrattas]] ([[User talk:Oravrattas|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:44, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

:::When you consider governors of territories, it should be obvious that at the same time there were regular governors in other states. The governors of territories were employed by the state and in order not to take a position, they often resigned. My problem with many "definitions" is that they are applied after the fact. Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:51, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::::I would have thought that they were not governors, but governors-designate, or similar. If they do not have the powers they didn't have the role. One would think that appointees who refused, died, ... in many roles are quite common. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:29, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
== Preventing to merge disambiguation items with regular items ==

I've noticed there have been many cases (and regulary there still are) of merging of disambiguation items with "regular" items. This is wrong, since disambiguation items must contain only disambiguation pages (cfr. [[Wikidata:WikiProject Disambiguation pages]] and [[Wikidata:WikiProject Disambiguation pages/guidelines]]. Is it possible to prevent this kind of merges by a filter which does not allow it, and provides a pop up which explains why this is wrong to the user who is trying to merge the items? Or do you think there are other technical means which are better? (maybe at least a "tag" at the edit, so regularly people can check edits with that "tag" in order to verify if that was correct). --'''[[User:Superchilum|<span style="color:#209090;">Superchilum</span>]]'''<sup>([[User talk:Superchilum|talk to me!]])</sup> 08:28, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
: If an item links to another item in one of the statements (for example with "different from") then they can not be merged. Maybe that helps? --[[User:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)|Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:48, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
::Not really. In the cases of disambiguation item, it works only when trying to merge, for example, a disambiguation ([[Q217465]]) with a surname ([[Q1158446]]) because they have {{P|1889}}, but it does not work when someone tries to merge the disambiguation item with another page. --'''[[User:Superchilum|<span style="color:#209090;">Superchilum</span>]]'''<sup>([[User talk:Superchilum|talk to me!]])</sup> 17:33, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:::I'd like us to block merging any item with ''<instance of>'' {{Q|Q13406463}} or {{q|Q4167410}} (or any subclass of {{Q|Q17442446}}) with any item that has any statements other than {{P|1889}}.  These are very difficult to untangle after the fact. - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:30, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
::::"These are very difficult to untangle after the fact" yes, totally agree. That's why some sort of block is needed IMHO. --'''[[User:Superchilum|<span style="color:#209090;">Superchilum</span>]]'''<sup>([[User talk:Superchilum|talk to me!]])</sup> 21:14, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::There is a ticket for taking care of everything around it, but apparently WMFDE isn't interested ("need volunteer"): [[phabricator:T139912]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 04:10, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::Even better: [[phabricator:T141845]]. Thanks. --'''[[User:Superchilum|<span style="color:#209090;">Superchilum</span>]]'''<sup>([[User talk:Superchilum|talk to me!]])</sup> 07:44, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::{{ping|Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)|PKM|Jura1}} from phabricator they say there is no need for a ticket since it's a gadget of Wikidata, which should be simply improved from here. --'''[[User:Superchilum|<span style="color:#209090;">Superchilum</span>]]'''<sup>([[User talk:Superchilum|talk to me!]])</sup> 16:53, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::It can be solved in whatever way possible. I don't think if it's useful for the community, it needs to be developed by volunteers. Isn't WMF providing IT services for the community as it's thought that this benefits from having paid staff? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 19:49, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

== Tool for easily searching for a specific ID (Viaf, Bnf, IMDb, etc.) ==

Is there an easy tool that allows to find which item uses an ID : for example, I'd like to find if there is an item with IMDb= nm0311623... 

I think of an easy tool, like https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/relabel.php? by [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]], that would allow to easily find items, without having to make a SPARQL query each time ? So, is there something ? --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:42, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

:[//tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php resolver] by … Magnus Manske ;-) —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:00, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

::Yes, one can use Resolver, but because of the way it jumps automatically to the new page (and forces you to look up the property number), I quite often find it's easier just have a query in a tab, and cut & paste values into it, eg:  
::{{sparql|query =
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P345 "nm0000402" .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
}} -- [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:42, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::Indeed, I thought [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] had done something for that :D - Thanks for the adress... and for the tool, Magnus.
::too bad you can't keep the tool open, with persistence of last Property requested, to be able to check series of IDs ;) --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:55, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:::You can query multiple values at once in SPARQL, [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fv%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fv%20%7B%20%22nm0000402%22%20%22nm0000401%22%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP345%20%3Fv%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D like so]. Anyway, I have added a "no autoload" checkbox to resolver. --[[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] ([[User talk:Magnus Manske|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:19, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Thanks a lot [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] :)
:::However, in this mode, I do not see any result [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/resolver.php?prop=345&value=nm3159427&project=&no_autoload=1 ]. Where should it be displayed ? --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:24, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Magnus Manske|Jheald|MisterSynergy}}
::::Thanks a lot for Resolver : in fact, I found a way to get items in a new tab (by right-clicking on the button "Find wikidata item", thus keeping Resolver in the first tab, ready to change the ID I want to check... Perfect ! --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:00, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

:{{Ping|Maxlath}} is it something your [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/ hub] could do? − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:09, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{Ping|Pintoch}} you could indeed resolve such an id with the Hub, either by being redirected (to Wikipedia [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P345:nm0000402 https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P345:nm0000402], or to Wikidata [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P345:nm0000402?site=wikidata https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P345:nm0000402?site=wikidata]), or by getting a JSON version of the request [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P345:nm0000402?format=json https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/P345:nm0000402?format=json]. If you have to look for a lot of those, I recommend [https://tools.wmflabs.org/hub/#query-the-hub-as-a-search-engine configuring the Hub as a browser search engine]. Alternatively, for those who enjoy using the terminal, you could use [https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli wikidata-cli] [https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli/blob/master/docs/read_operations.md#wd-query wd query] command: <pre>wd query --property P345 --object "nm0000402"</pre> or for short, <pre>wd q -p P345 -o "nm0000402"</pre>. -- [[User:Maxlath|Maxlath]] ([[User talk:Maxlath|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:02, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

== Unified login ==

Is it just me, or does the unified login not work on Wikidata? I always have to login here again in addition to the wikipedia login. [[User:Agathoclea|Agathoclea]] ([[User talk:Agathoclea|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:41, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:Clearing your cookies mostly works. [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  20:52, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

== Creación de un nuevo actor de doblaje ==

Hola, quiero crear la ficha de un actor de doblaje, la verdad es que lo estoy leyendo todo, pero no soy capaz de encontrar como hacerlo. Alguien me puede ayudar por favor?

:{{ping|Javi.abengozar}} Empieza aqui / start here [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewItem]. Vuelve si necesitas más ayuda / come back if you need any help. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:24, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
== 10k 404 URLs for Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection ==

The {{Q|18600731}} has changed its website since we added 10,885 of its URLs as {{P|973}} statements, resulting in HTTP 404 errors.

{{SPARQL|query=SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?inventory_no ?url  WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q3305213 .
  ?item wdt:P973 ?url .
  ?item wdt:P217 ?inventory_no .
  FILTER(CONTAINS(str(?url), "http://data.collectienederland.nl/resource/aggregation/rce-kunstcollectie/") )
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],nl". }
}
}}

A URL which works in /some cases/ can be constructed from the {{P|217}} ... but in some cases not:
*http://data.collectienederland.nl/search/?q=B1108 {{tick}}
*http://data.collectienederland.nl/search/?q=E735 {{cross}}

I'm guessing we need to remove the URLs, but thought to bring the issue here for discussion before precipitate action. Beyond the search examples, above, I've not found another URL template to use. cc. {{ping|Multichill}} whose bot, afaik, added the original data. thanks --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

:Why not deprecate? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 06:09, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{ping|Multichill|Tagishsimon}}
:I tried to understand this site, which is not easy with only Google translate to understant nl ;)
:is it possible to build something with this kind of permalink adress ? http://data.collectienederland.nl/page/aggregation/rce-kunstcollectie/E735 (for E735) --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:43, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

{{Od}}
I think this is the second time they changed their website breaking all urls. I wanted to wait and see what happened

{{SPARQL|query=SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?inventory_no ?url ?newurl WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q3305213 .
  ?item wdt:P195 wd:Q18600731 . 
  ?item wdt:P973 ?url .
  ?item p:P217 ?invstatement .
  ?invstatement ps:P217 ?inventory_no .
  ?invstatement pq:P195 wd:Q18600731 .
  BIND(IRI(CONCAT("http://data.collectienederland.nl/page/aggregation/rce-kunstcollectie/", ?inventory_no)) AS ?newurl)  .
  FILTER(CONTAINS(str(?url), "http://data.collectienederland.nl/resource/aggregation/rce-kunstcollectie/") )
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],nl". }
}
}}
:seems to return the right url's. Needs more checking before someone actually replaces it. And of course the references need to be fixed too. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:00, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
::On a tangent, {{ping|Multichill}} what's with the multiple collection statements on {{Q|28060147}}? Where does that data come from? Confused. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:17, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|Tagishsimon}} that's provenance data. Quite a lot of works have been stolen around WW2 by the German occupier and after the war [[Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Collection/Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit|returned to the Netherlands]]. Some were returned to the (heirs of) owners, some not and ended up in this collection. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:26, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
::::{{Ping|Tagishsimon|Hsarrazin}} doing a new run of the collection [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q28103827&type=revision&diff=622250813&oldid=544173905 including some more info] and [https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q28103827&type=revision&diff=622260681&oldid=622250813 fixing the urls]. Seems to leave us with a duplicate {{P|973}}, I fixed that too. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:06, 21 January 2018 (UTC) 
:::::Thanks {{Ping|Multichill}} good work much appreciated. I'm sorry collectienederland.nl is keeping you unnecessarily busy :(. Not sure if you're aware, btw, that Magnus has a [https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/painters.php tool aimed at adding creators to painting items] ... that's another thing we need to do. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:45, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

{{od}}
For completeness sake the current query:

{{SPARQL|query=
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?inventory_no ?wrongurl ?righturl WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P31 wd:Q3305213 .
  ?item wdt:P195 wd:Q18600731 .
  ?item wdt:P973 ?wrongurl .
  ?item wdt:P973 ?righturl .
  ?item p:P217 ?invstatement .
  ?invstatement ps:P217 ?inventory_no .
  ?invstatement pq:P195 wd:Q18600731 .
  BIND(IRI(CONCAT("http://data.collectienederland.nl/resource/aggregation/rce-kunstcollectie/", ?inventory_no)) AS ?newurl)  .
  FILTER(CONTAINS(str(?wrongurl), "http://data.collectienederland.nl/resource/aggregation/rce-kunstcollectie/") ) .
  FILTER(?righturl=?newurl && ?wrongurl!=?newurl)
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],nl". }
}
}}
:I've been working on missing creators for a while. See [[Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings/Missing creator]] for an overview.
:My bots add missing creators based on the description, but problem with {{Q|18600731}} is that they don't include the full name of the creator making it nearly impossible to find a match for the bot. The tool is probably inspired by https://tools.wmflabs.org/multichill/painters/index.php?collection=Q1043967 . Which you can use to create new painters (and the bot will update the paintings). I haven't advertised it that widely because we have quite a few people who just press the buttons and don't check all the links if it's actually the same person. [[User:Multichill|Multichill]] ([[User talk:Multichill|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:49, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
:All the more reason to have an external-ID property rather than using P|973. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 16:00, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

===Another 16k Bavarian State Painting Collections URLs give 404===
<s>Our lookup to the {{Q|812285}} is kaput.</s> --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 02:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

:Works for me. --[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:46, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
::Agreed. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:50, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

===and now {{p|4663}} ===
trying to access artist's page through their ID access a blank record (see [https://www.dacs.org.uk/licensing-works/artist-search/artist-details?ArtistId=66097 for {{Q]47496}} - the adress for this artist is now https://www.dacs.org.uk/licensing-works/artist-search/artist-details?ArtistId=a57b7941-8e4e-4cf9-a531-6fb4d8f85ab7) --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:27, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

== Documenting and describing PIDs ==

I'm currently at {{Q|47486859}} ([https://pidapalooza.org/ website]) and have been discussing with a few people how to document PIDs. As an example, I've created {{Q|47489994}}. How could we improve that? For instance, we have no property to hold an example value. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:45, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

=== Side discussion ===
{{collapse top|title=Side discussion about "free format descriptions"}}
:At [[w:KoreaMed Unique Identifier]]? In general, the best way would be at [[Wikidata:Property proposal/KoreaMed Unique Identifier]]. Once created, Wikidata can be queried for countless samples. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 18:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{ping|Jura1}} I believe he's referring to things like {{Q|25670}} or {{Q|19832964}}, which are in fact items ''about'' identifiers, and how we can describe them ''even if the properties themselves don't exist yet'' (for examples of such identifiers, see Mix'n'match's catalogs without Wikidata properties). [[User:Mahir256|Mahir256]] ([[User talk:Mahir256|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:55, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Here is another identifier at Wikipedia: [[w:Volcano Number]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 19:00, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Thank you, [[User:Mahir256|Mahir256]], that is of course what I meant. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 19:33, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:::I think we all understood that. So it doesn't change the answer to the question: where to place free format descriptions. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 11:13, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::::Who said anything about "free format descriptions"? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:55, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
{{collapse bottom}}

*Let's repeat it: At [[w:KoreaMed Unique Identifier]]. In general, the best way would be at [[Wikidata:Property proposal/KoreaMed Unique Identifier]]. Once created, Wikidata can be queried for countless samples. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 18:59, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
**I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here; repeasting something {{diff|Wikidata:Project chat|623559523|623559066|''you'' had already marked as resolved}}; but it does nothing to address the question I asked. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 16:08, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
***If you are not interested in feedback, it might be better if you don't ask for it. If don't know how to apply it, ask for help. Accusing people who provide you with feedback is not helpful. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 16:16, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

== LCCN ==

{{ping project|Books}}

I added a Library of Congress identifier to [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q47492342 this book] How do I / we get the link to work? Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:44, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:[https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q47492342&type=revision&diff=623295549&oldid=623194926 this] ;) ... something to do with the difference between a work and an edition of a work? --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:55, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:: I really wonder to what extend this difference helps or hinders.. What we should achieve is that people can read the books as they are in the Open Library and link them to library systems. So far it is utterly opaque to me.. PS thanks for your help
:::{{ping|GerardM}}
:::this is an {{Q|3331189}}, since there is a date of publication and a publisher (G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode). 
:::Ordinary users will ordinarily need to rely on "editions" to have access to read them : any traditional library catalog record is "edition-level". The "work" level has been introduced (with FRBR) to allow to connect all editions together (and also to translations, movies, etc. done after them), which was not possible before.
:::For clarifications between Works and Editions, please refer to [[Wikidata:WikiProject Books]]. --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:38, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: As a user I want to read a book. I do not want to choose when there is only one edition. When you talk about editions, often there is only one and consequently we do not even add an edition but add "edition" info on the book itself (as I did). To be perfectly honest, from a practical point of view this hinders and does not help. Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:26, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::well, lua can take perfect care of this so that ''readers'' do not have to care about it ;) - this is a database, not a library catalog.
:::::but, just for the possibility of re-editions, or translations, this is needed. If ''you'' don't want to get involved in the work of doing it, do not make the work more difficult for those who do it, please : each edition must have it's own item... --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:33, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::: what does LUA have to do with this ? Also you want an edition for every book that is added... REALLY ??? Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:58, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::*lua ? I don't think ''readers'' will access wikidata directly to find books, will they ? lua templates (like [[:w:fr:Modèle:Bibliographie]] can easily retrieve info from work ''and'' edition, and render properly, so that, neither the reader, nor you, will have to know how data is structured on wikidata ;)
:::::::*as for the structure, ''I'' do not want anything... this is a [[Wikidata:WikiProject Books|whole Project]] and a ''collective effort'', like all wikidata : please take the time to read it, and you may even discuss with people who take part in it...  --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:20, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::{{ping|GerardM}} Users don't come to WD to read books. It is the job of the coders to utilise the data to point to articles about books (at Wikipedias) and the editions (at Wikisources, or other places). That certain books only have one edition and others have many, or that they are translated into languages, and one of the editions may then spawn translations are in one or many editions is just a demonstration of the complexity of the system that needs to be determined. Hell, I am sure with Shakespeares works the translations have come a variety of different editions. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:25, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::: Indeed, there are many reasons why people do not come to Wikidata to read books. It is a shame. I have added a book by Angela Davis. Is [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=47507276 this] the right way to provide the information? Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 01:11, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

== Is there a Findagrave bot ==

Since English Wikipedia is removing links to Findagrave and the people removing the links refuse to migrate the data to Wikidata before deletion ... I wonder if we have a bot that finds the most probable matches and just needs a human eye to confirm or deny? Both Ancestry.com and Familysearch have this function. We migrated over the Findagrave ID if it used a standard template in external links in Wikipedia but most articles did not use that template. Most articles used it as a reference for the place of burial, and those are the ones being deleted now. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:21, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
*There is a mix'n'match for some of them: [[Property:P535#P2264]]. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 19:06, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
::That looks like it only ran for flagged "famous" people, mostly actors. I add politicians, and they are almost never famous at Findagrave and I have to search for them manually. Can the bot be adjusted, I would love to have that as a project. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 05:51, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
* {{reply to|Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )}} The first thing to do would be to use [[:en:Special:LinkSearch]] to find all pages that still link to Findagrave, then PetScan or similar to map those pages into Wikidata items.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:52, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
== Use of P1282 OpenStreetMap tag or key ==

I am new to this property and have some questions for the use of it. Item {{Q|Q12323}} uses {{P|P1282}} Tag:waterway=dam. Should then {{Q|Q890545}} and {{Q|Q350495}} as a {{P|P279}} of {{Q|Q12323}} have {{P|P1282}} Tag:waterway=dam?. In other Words, should all three items mentioned have {{P|P1282}} Tag:waterway=dam? I have tried to read the property proposal discussion but do not find a clear statement. Best regards [[User:Pmt|Pmt]] ([[User talk:Pmt|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:45, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
:No, just the parent (or otherwise, most applicable) item. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:24, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

== Batang Gembira ==

{{Q|47483547}}, labelled in the Malay language as "Batang Gembira", has properties for both a book and an author. There is one interwiki link, [[:ms:Batang Gembira]]. Can someone who speaks Malay clean it up, please? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 19:24, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{ping|Pigsonthewing}} The article is about the book. Removed the author identifiers. [[User:Mahir256|Mahir256]] ([[User talk:Mahir256|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:18, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{Ping|Mahir256}} Thank you. But instead of discarding that data, why not create an item for the author (or use an existing item, if there is one). <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 20:23, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
== Label bots ==

Do we still have bots that add labels for new sitelinks? I'm constantly adding labels to items that have been created months ago. [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  09:36, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
: I do it, but only in some case, where Upper/Lower case  isn't a problem. --[[User:ValterVB|ValterVB]] ([[User talk:ValterVB|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:37, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

== BREAKING CHANGE: ''wbcheckconstraints'' status parameter ==

Hi all!

This is an announcement for a breaking change to the default value of a parameter of the WikibaseQualityConstraints constraint checking API, to go live on {{ISOdate|2018-02-26}}. It potentially affects clients that use the ''wbcheckconstraints'' API action. (We are not aware of any such clients apart from the ''checkConstraints'' gadget, which is not affected.)

Recently, we added a <code>status</code> parameter to the ''wbcheckconstraints'' API action, with the intention that API users can declare ahead of time which results they’re actually interested in, so that other results don’t need to be sent to them: specifically, for most items the vast majority of results indicate compliance with a constraint, which we expect most users aren’t interested in.

'''On {{ISOdate|2018-02-26}}, we will change the default value of the <code>status</code> parameter to <code>violation|warning|bad-parameters</code>.''' We assume that most users of the API will only be interested in results that actually indicate problems, and this should significantly reduce the size of API responses. Users who wish to receive all results, regardless of status, should specify <code>status=*</code> in their API requests.

Our motivation for this change is that we want to enable caching of constraint check results, but don’t want to bloat the cache with tons of compliance and not-in-scope results that we don’t even show in the gadget. With the <code>status</code> parameter, we can store only problematic results in the cache, while still guaranteeing that the response we send is complete, since the request indicated that it only needs these results anyways. This also means that when we enable caching (see [[phabricator:T184812]]), only requests with <code>status=violation|warning|bad-parameters</code> will benefit from it.

Relevant tickets:
* [[phabricator:T183927]]
* [[phabricator:T184812]]
* [[phabricator:T184937]]

Please let us know if you have any questions.
--[[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:01, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

== WikidataJS grant proposal ==

I have created a [[m:Grants:Project/WikidataJS|draft proposal]] to support the development of [https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-sdk wikidata-sdk], [https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-edit wikidata-edit], [https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-cli wikidata-cli], [https://github.com/maxlath/wikidata-filter wikidata-filter]

If you have ever used those tools, or considered using them, or just like the fact that they exist, please review and eventually endorse the proposal :) -- [[User:Maxlath|Maxlath]] ([[User talk:Maxlath|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:40, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

== Wikidata weekly summary #297 ==

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* '''Discussions'''
** Closed request for comments: [[d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/Defining account creators|Defining account creators]]

* '''[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events|Events]]/[[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press coverage|Press/Blogs]]'''
** Upcoming: IRC office hour on the channel #wikimedia-office, January 30th, at 18:00 (UTC+1). Special topic: how to address the growth of Wikidata
** Upcoming: [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-hackathon-in-london-all-levels-of-experience-welcome-tickets-42426460686 Wikidata hackathon in London], February 3rd
** Past: [https://pidapalooza.org/ PIDapalooza 2018] - [https://pidapalooza.figshare.com/ Slides on FigShare]
** [https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/mapping-wikidata-to-bibframe-f674a4eab748 Mapping Wikidata to Bibframe] (representation of books)

* '''Other Noteworthy Stuff'''
** Breaking change: [[d:Wikidata:Project_chat#BREAKING_CHANGE:_wbcheckconstraints_status_parameter|wbcheckconstraints status parameter]]
** [[:commons:Commons:Village pump#Would small Wikidata-enabled infoboxes be useful on category pages?|Wikidata-driven infoboxes]], with multilingual labels, are now available on Wikimedia Commons category pages
** [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2018-January/011741.html Wikidata vandalism dashboard for Wikipedians]
** Grant proposals looking for review: [[m:Grants:Project/WikidataJS|WikidataJS]], [[m:Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSync|GlobalFactSync]]

* '''Did you know?'''
<!-- NEW PROPERTIES DO NOT REMOVE -->
** Newest [[d:Special:ListProperties|properties]]:
*** General datatypes: none
*** External identifiers: [[:d:Property:P4786|cinematografo film ID]], [[:d:Property:P4787|CiNii author ID (articles)]]
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** Query examples: 
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AMap%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3FsubjectLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%20%20%3Fheight%20%3Fsubject%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ41176%20.%0A%20%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fheight%20FILTER%20%28%3Fheight%20%3E%20300%29%20%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP729%20%3Ftime%20.%7D%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%7D%0A%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%3Fsubject%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2C%20fr%22%20%7D%0A%7D Buildings higher than the Eiffel Tower] ([https://twitter.com/SciHiBlog/status/957677571595960321 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AScatterChart%0ASELECT%20%3Fyear%20%28COUNT%28%3Fperson%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%0AWHERE%0A%7B%0A%20%20wd%3AQ3044%20wdt%3AP40%2a%20%3Fperson.%0A%20%20%3Fperson%20wdt%3AP569%20%3FDoB%20.%0A%20%20BIND%20%28year%28%3FDoB%29%20as%20%3Fyear%20%29%0A%20%20FILTER%20%28%20%3Fyear%20%3E%20700%20%29%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fyear Descendants of Charlemagne by year of birth] ([https://twitter.com/belett/status/957571805048397826 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fct%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FitemDescription%20%3FbezirkLabel%20%3FortsteilLabel%20%3FaddressLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%2B%20wd%3AQ64.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ41253.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP4129%20%3Fct.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP131%20%3Fbezirk%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP276%20%3Fortsteil%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP969%20%3Faddress%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%2Cde%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Cinemas in Berlin] ([https://twitter.com/AndreasP_RV/status/956909575109783555 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fobject%20%3FobjectLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP361%20wd%3AQ13915.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP180%20%3Fobject%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fobject%20%3FobjectLabel%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 Things (or people) depicted in the xkcd webcomic] ([https://twitter.com/johl/status/956170983555002369 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3FawardeeLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP166%20wd%3AQ55200.%0A%20%20%3Fawardee%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage.%0A%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%7D Image grid of inductees to WITI Hall of Fame] ([https://twitter.com/WikiDigi/status/956157242855784448 source])
*** [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20%3Fmovie%20%3FmovieLabel%20%3Fplace%20%3FplaceLabel%20%3Fcoord%20%3Fimage%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11424%20.%0A%20%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP915%20%3Fplace%20.%0A%20%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP17%20wd%3AQ40%20.%0A%20%20%3Fplace%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoord%20.%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fmovie%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22de%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Movies filmed in Austria] ([https://twitter.com/WikidataAT/status/955867103797575687 source])
** Newest [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects|WikiProjects]]:
** Newest gadgets: [[d:User:Magnus Manske/mixnmatch gadget.js|Mix'n'Match gadget]]: loads all Mix’m’match entries about an item, shows descriptions, lets you drag’n’drop entries as references

** Newest database reports: [[d:Wikidata:WikiProject Tennis/Lists/federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams|tennis federations, Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams]]
** [[d:Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase items]]:

* '''Development'''
** Constraint violations can now be checked on qualifiers and references ([[phab:T168532]])
** Implemented usage tracking deduplication to reduce database load ([[phab:T178079]]). This should not have any effect on what users see on recent changes and watchlists.
** Redirects on client wikis that are connected to a Wikidata item can have a [[w:MediaWiki:Connected-redirect-category|tracking category]], if set up ([[phab:T185743]]). Thanks, Matěj!
** Improved [//www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bpageterms documentation] of the <code>pageterms</code> query module ([[gerrit:406240]]). Thanks, Niedzielski!
** Improved empty "content was:" in deletion logs for entities ([[phab:T184025]])
** Fixed links to external user pages in recent changes ([[phab:T183019]])
** Fixed user names beginning with a star sometimes being rendered as a list ([[phab:T182800]])
** Fixed constraint check results possibly showing up in the wrong language ([[phab:T185688]])
** Fixed ArticlePlaceholders possibly not showing up in search results ([[gerrit:406168]])
** Some of the developers attended to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2018. You can find some notes [[phab:project/view/3119|on the Phabricator board]]

[[phab:maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R|You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here]].

* '''Monthly Tasks'''
** Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
** Comment on property proposals: [[d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Overview|all open proposals]]
** [[d:Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested and open tasks|Suggested and open tasks]]!
** Contribute to a [[d:Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase items|Showcase item]].
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** [[d:User:Pasleim/projectmerge|Help merge identical items]] across Wikimedia projects.
** Help [[d:Wikidata:Status updates/Next|write the next summary!]]


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== Automatically copied labels to other languages ==

I've encountered many items that have wrong/inappropriate LV labels, because they have been automatically copied from EN labels.

For example {{Q|27913439}} Andrey Kravchanka (should be Andrejs Kravčanka most likely), {{Q|104816}} Wolfgang Pepper (should be Volfgangs Pepers) and many, many others. History shows that these labels have been created by different users with Widar, copying the EN label to all languages using latin script. This doesn't seem appropriate - there are many other languages as well that (unlike English) transform/transcribe names to their own language instead of using the original transcription. It certainly would be much better if the labels would be missing (so that any users or tools see that they're missing) instead of filled with incorrect data; and at least in LV case copying the EN label is almost certain to be incorrect.

Eyeballing the data it seems that about half of all LV labels for person names are broken in this manner. What would be the proper action in this case?

I'm considering a script that removes the LV label in all cases where it matches the EN label and was created by Widar instead of manually; but it leaves open the question about how to prevent such wrong data in future, and how to identify other languages where such a fix would be necessary. --[[User:PeterisP|PeterisP]] ([[User talk:PeterisP|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:13, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

:Should they not be moved to aliases, rather than removed? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 11:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:: *Should* they be moved to aliases? I don't know what exactly is the policy about aliases in wikidata, would that really be appropriate? They are a valid translation in another language, but that's already reflected in the source data; but they are not valid alternative names in written Latvian (for example, they don't even conform to Latvian alphabet that does not use 'y' or 'w', but that's not the only issue). --[[User:PeterisP|PeterisP]] ([[User talk:PeterisP|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:24, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Are those names used by Latvian people, and in Latvian texts? The last time we discussed a similar case, that turned out to be so. Also, note that, for example, the Wikipedia page [[:lv:Džons_Lenons]] includes "John Winston Ono Lennon" as an alias, and gives one of his works as "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:26, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
: Can conversion of "English" to Latvian labels be automated?--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:34, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Sadly, it's a non-trivial issue, I believe it can't be fully automated in the general case. We could get an approximation that's works for most cases, but getting correctly translated names often requires human expert involvement (I myself am not sure in some cases, there are published guidelines but they're quite large and complex) and extra contextual information such as the origin of the name and how it is in the original language. For example, the EN label for {{Q|276885}} is Andrei (based on the Russian transliteration), but the LV label is Andrijs, according to the original Ukrainian Андрій, so a correct conversion needs to know and take into account that *this* Andrey comes from Ukraine. --[[User:PeterisP|PeterisP]] ([[User talk:PeterisP|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:24, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:::<small>Labdien, [[User:PeterisP|Pēteri]]. Jā, zināma problēma. Ir manā bezgalīgajā to-do listē. Daļa šo nepareizo nosaukumu rodas, jo daži dalībnieki ielikuši latviešu valodu to valodu sarakstā, uz kurām var kopēt nosaukumus no citas (parasti angļu) valodas. Un "aproksimācija" nederēs. Pats noteikti zināt, cik sarežģīti dažkārt veidojas vārdi.</small> For others: yeah, they probably should get moved to aliases. And no - no automation. Each language has own complex rules, how names are written in Latvian. Problem also comes from nameGuzzler (or whatever it was called), where people have "marked" Latvian as good language, to which labels can be copied. --[[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]] ([[User talk:Edgars2007|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:57, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
::::Yep, unfortunately not all users know that different languages use different names. In Finnish we have different rules for cyrillic names. Why would every languages use the English transliteration which "Andrey Kravchanka" seem to be. [[User:Stryn|Stryn]] ([[User talk:Stryn|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:17, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

I agree for actual transcriptions (from Cyrillic alphabets), but certainly not for the example where a German person name without any connection to Latvian should be "translated". That can only done for monarchs, popes and historic figures of that kind, certainly not for a normal mayor of a German city like in the example. If there is any indication that such a "translated" name has been used anywhere outside Wikidata/Wikimedia, go ahead and add an alias, and if it's indeed the mostly used name in the Latvian press, you may change the label, but translating names of virtually unknown people seems a really bad idea. --[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:21, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:That's not how you do things in Latvian. In Latvian, in media and other places you generally won't hear the original version of name (as main one). In media, you probably will hear the wrong version, but that's another story. And note, that we transliterate (maybe it's not the precise verb, but you got the idea), not translate names (very big difference). And this isn't some thing that we Latvian Wikimedians have come up with. It's written in [https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=85209 law], that you do transliterate names, but don't leave original version. --[[User:Edgars2007|Edgars2007]] ([[User talk:Edgars2007|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:30, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:In written Latvian language *every* usage of people names will be transformed. That's a core rule of grammar, partly to ensure that reading is possible (i.e. when you pronounce the written text according to Latvian rules, you hear something comparable to the original name; if any text in Latvian would contain "John" then it must be read/pronounced similarly to German word Johann, and if you want to pronounce it similarly as English John, then you must write the appropriate form Džons) and also to ensure that the words can be properly inflected to be used in sentences. The word endings carry significant syntactic and semantic meaning, so if we want to speak about John in Latvian, we need the whole range of systematic inflections Džons-Džonam-Džonu-Džona. The same applies for some other languages, at least Lithuanian. It absolutely applies to every single random German person with no connection to Latvia - if we want to talk about that person in Latvian language, if we use that name in a Latvian sentence, then the name will be, must be transformed. The LV label reflects that usage - the label should contain the spelling that will be used if that person is mentioned in LV texts. In some contexts, the original spelling might be shown as a footnote or once in parenthesis as a clarification. For example, "Volfgangs Pepers (Wolfgang Pepper) bija Augsburgas mērs." is a valid sentence describing that he was the mayor of Augsburg, but simply using Wolfgang Pepper would not be grammatically correct. This is not about press, it's about all written language. --[[User:PeterisP|PeterisP]] ([[User talk:PeterisP|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:19, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{Tq|"In written Latvian language *every* usage of people names will be transformed"}} Really? So you would change "Wolfgang Pepper" when translating the test "The painting was signed "Wolfgang Pepper"? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 13:29, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Yes, in common usage (e.g. if a literary work would contain the exact sentence you used) it usually would be expected to be translated. However, if necessary (e.g. when the translator expects that the exact original spelling is important to the reader) it might be preserved in this case as it is a literal quotation and not proper nouns within a sentence - "The painting had the signature of Wolfgang Pepper" must be translated, "The inscription under the painting said "Wolfgang Pepper"" would be permissible though would be rarely used (if there's a real need) and feel a bit weird, it's not the default choice. It's analogous to other literal inclusions/quotes of untranslated material in another language; as a rule of thumb, the original form of "Wolfgang Pepper" could be used in those (and only those) contexts where you could/would use the original form of Лев Толстой or 毛泽东 without attempting to transliterate them. <small>&nbsp;&ndash; {{Autotranslate|base=Unsigned/text|1=PeterisP|2=23:32, 19 January 2018‎}}</small><!--Inserted with Template:Unsigned-->
:::: So the claim {{Tq|"In written Latvian language *every* usage of people names will be transformed"}} is false. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 15:58, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
* I can only support PeterisP. I think almost every language has its own transliteration and transcription rules. Adding English names automatically or semi-automatically by users that do not know transliteration/transcription rules in specific language is a huge mistake (I had to delete this Andrey Kravchanka Polish label, because in Polish it would be something like Andriej Krawczanka, but even I, as a Polish language speaker, do not know these rules good enough to be able to write this name 100% correctly; BTW this 'Andrey Kravchanka' shouldn't be kept even as a Polish alias, because it's just not correct in this language). Such edits (adding names based on English label) should be stopped and forbidden. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 18:40, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
::We could certainly add a “best practices” note in our help topics that names in English (or any other language using the Roman alphabet) should not be automatically copied to Polish. However, I don’t see any way to “forbid” an editor from making such an edit.  I’m sure most of the copies are done in good faith. - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:44, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
::: That's not about Polish only, I think it's about most languages. And I know that most (all?) such edits are done in good faith. But good faith is not an argument (cf. [[:en:Wikipedia:Competence is required]]) and no information is better than wrong information. In most wikis adding such name would require a source; unfortunately, it's not possible in WD to add a source to label, description or alias (BTW that's one of several reasons, why Wikipedia communities reject WD being connected to infoboxes etc.; that is a reason in pl.wiki right now, because in a few attempts to connect infobox to WD, there were too many such 'good faith' labels and pl.wiki users simply do not want to correct this and reject WD as a possible source of data in infoboxes, as it's much easier to maintain such data in local wiki). ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 00:13, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

:{{comment}} There are also again and again problems where names from various languages that need translation like “Master of ABC” or “XYZ the Younger” are incorrectly copied. For this a blacklist of name parts could help perhaps. --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:20, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

I just stumbled across this script: [[User:Jitrixis/nameGuzzler.js]]. Isn't the main purpose of this script to fill item names without any thinking with some self-proclaimed transcription? I ping {{ping|Jitrixis}} the author of that script to say something here. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 18:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
:I can only confirm things {{ping|PeterisP}} and {{ping|Edgars2007}} are saying. We would prefer empty label instead of English, French or other variants added automatically. Someone copied all French names of communes in France and these are not correct versions, but sometimes it is hard to tell it. I invite to look at some fun pages in Latvian Wikipedia how the transcription is done for [[:lv:Franču īpašvārdu atveidošana|French]], [[:lv:Spāņu īpašvārdu atveidošana|Spanish]], [[:lv:Poļu īpašvārdu atveidošana|Polish]]. --[[User:Papuass|Papuass]] ([[User talk:Papuass|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:08, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
: I kindly ask to permanently delete 'pl' language from this tool. Many edits made using this script would be a reason of indefinite block on some wikis. ''[[User:Wostr|Wostr]]'' <small>([[User talk:Wostr|talk]])</small> 19:02, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

== Dams and reservoirs ==

Hello. [https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23Dams%20without%20P4661%20but%20with%20reservoirs%20within%201.5%20km%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fbarrage%20%3FbarrageLabel%20%3Flac%20%3FlacLabel%20%3Floc%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fbarrage%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ12323.%0A%20%20%3Flac%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ131681.%0A%20%20%3Fbarrage%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Floc.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Aaround%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flac%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Flocation.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Acenter%20%3Floc.%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Aradius%20%221.5%22.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fbarrage%20wdt%3AP4661%20%3Fxxx%20%7D%0A%20%20MINUS%20%7B%20%3Fyyy%20wdt%3AP4661%20%3Flac%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%2Cfr%2Ces%2Cde%2Cit%22.%20%7D%0A%7D Here] is a (probably poorly written) request that returns a list of dams with no {{P|4661}} set but with reservoirs nearby according to their {{P|625}}. Would you be kind enough to check a few of them and add the missing property if they do have a match? Some merging and splitting will be necessary in quite a few occasions. [[User:Thierry Caro|Thierry Caro]] ([[User talk:Thierry Caro|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:24, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

:That's a pretty damn fantastic query, Thierry Caro. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:23, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

::Quite a nice to-do-list. Seems a lot of them still have instance of set to both reservoir and dam, since most Wikipedias do not separate these two concepts. [[User:Ahoerstemeier|Ahoerstemeier]] ([[User talk:Ahoerstemeier|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:56, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Thanks. I've been separating dams and reservoirs whenever I had time. [[User:Thierry Caro|Thierry Caro]] ([[User talk:Thierry Caro|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:35, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I also thought about that problem and I wondered about the whole made of the dam and its reservoir. I think the entity composed of the dam and its reservoir could have its class, if it does not have yet. Actually the following query shows a number of candidates, by searching for each dam who are part of an entity the classes of that entity :
{{SPARQL|query=select ?dam ?bigitemLabel ?class ?classLabel {
  ?dam wdt:P279*/wdt:P31 wd:Q12323  .
  ?dam wdt:P361 ?bigitem .
  ?bigitem wdt:P31 ?class .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}
}}
Conversely this is type of bigger entities reservoirs are part of:
{{SPARQL|query=select ?dam ?bigitemLabel ?class ?classLabel {
  ?dam wdt:P279*/wdt:P31 wd:Q131681  .
  ?dam wdt:P361 ?bigitem .
  ?bigitem wdt:P31 ?class .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en". }
}
}}
The most interesting are « power station » and « irrigation system ». « river » seems too large for the complex formed by a dam and its reservoir, for example. {{Q'|132017}} is not specific enough to capture that, and in the other hand too specific because it’s defined by and for the European Union for administrative purpose. 
We also learn that lakes was part of some Olympic games, which may be a little an overuse of « part of » :) 
{{Ping|Thierry Caro}} Pulling that string, are aware of a wikipedia article about the complex formed by a dam and its lake ? This would be of interest to have a class for its item, maybe a « dam/reservoir complex ». An instance of that class would have two parts linked with {{P|4661}}. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 10:31, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:Yes, I do agree that we need an item for this. For the moment we can only cover Bonnie and Clyde separately when it comes to dams and reservoirs. [[User:Thierry Caro|Thierry Caro]] ([[User talk:Thierry Caro|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:34, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
::Perhaps <s>“reservoir complex”</s> as a label for this combined entity?  I did some work on dams and reservoirs a while back, before the new property was defined.  I’ll try to find time to help with these. - [[User:PKM|PKM]]([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:31, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:::On further thought, the "complex" name should handle both dams/reservoirs and dams/flood control basins (common here in California). - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:30, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
::And I think “significant event” ought to handle the Olympics? :-) - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:36, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:I'm probably missing the obvious, but what property should be used on a lake/resevoir item to point to the dam which created it? I'm thinking {{Q|1047206}} should point to {{Q|1367609}}. I see {{claim|Q7330744|P912|Q7071958}}, but find that unconvincing. A dam is not a toilet block nor a car park. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:56, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{Ping|Tagishsimon}} We have [[Wikidata:Property proposal/dam]] currently going on. [[User:Thierry Caro|Thierry Caro]] ([[User talk:Thierry Caro|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:11, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
::: {{Ping|Thierry Caro}} Is there somewhere we can discuss a few usecase and the result with the properties you propose ? I don’t like inverse properties as it duplicates information, but maybe « dam » is intended to use in the « complex » item. On the other hand « part of » fits very well to link the complex to its part, so I’m not sure this is any useful. In the end, I don’t like discussing properties one by one as the problem is more something like « which items and properties do we need to model the complex » ? <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 09:55, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
::::To be honest, {{P|912}} could be the inverse property. It would have to be renamed to 'equipment'. And I'd use it on all Wikipedia articles about reservoirs and watercourses that are impounded by a dam through {{Q|46849415}} and {{Q|46849340}}. [[User:Thierry Caro|Thierry Caro]] ([[User talk:Thierry Caro|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:25, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::Mmmm. I guess the trade-off is between inflation in the number of distinct properties, versus the extent to which we shoe-horn disparate meanings into fewer broader properties. Impounded lakes don't really have a facility of a dam; or really have a dam as equipment. I can see clear risks of ambiguity and failure to convey meaning from the shoe-horn method. I'm not sure what the problem is with the addition of new properties - presumably that the same concept can be expressed using different properties, which frustrates queries, etc. Meanwhile, fwiw, I deplore the little-endian camp which deplores inverses. Inverses are useful in that they allow different and sometimes easier queries; and they allow QA by reconciling across the inverse. (They also, of course, give us more work to do, but that seems fine.) --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:08, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::By the way, the California Department of Water Resoources {{Q|Q47499723}} has 3-digit identifiers for "stations", which encompass a dam and its reservoir.  If we add item for "dam complex" (or whatever we call it), we could add a property for this identifiers. [http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/profile?s=BQC Example here.] - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:24, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

== Q529207 ==

{{Q|529207}} needs semi=protection, please, due to ongoing vandalism. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 12:05, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{ping|Pigsonthewing}} {{done}} for one week. Sounds like the sort of request that goes in WD:AN. [[User:Mahir256|Mahir256]] ([[User talk:Mahir256|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:56, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
::Yes - loss of situational awareness on my part (aka wrong tab), sorry. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 00:09, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
== Format of references referring to an external database and distinct values constraint ==

Hi!

I would like to request feedback about references to external databases in Wikidata statements. I have been using identifiers in them, like this on {{Q|151510}}:
{{Statement+
|P={{P-|355}}
|V={{Q-|43896953}}
|rp={{P-|2427}}
|rv=[https://www.grid.ac/institutes/grid.488831.e grid.488831.e]
}}

I prefer this format (rather than {{statement||143|27768150}}) because it is more informative: anybody can directly click on the identifier and see the record that was imported. When Wikipedia pulls these references from Wikidata, it is also easier for them to translate them to usable references on their side. Do you agree? If so:
* How should we promote this reference format? Are there any guides that should mention this?
* The {{Q|21502410}} that is present on most identifier properties applies by default not just to main values but also to references. This means that references following this format will be flagged as violating the constraint if the same id is used in references on different items. This can be solved by adding the {{statement||4680|46466787}} qualifier on the constraint (which I have done for {{P|2427}}). If it is fine to include identifiers in references, then we should either add this qualifier on most identifier properties, or ask the developers to adjust the interpretation of the constraint, so that by default it only applies to main values.
− [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:26, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
*I think that's what [[Help:Sources]] suggests (in combination with "stated in"). <s>The sample there doesn't give a distinct value constraint violation.</s>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 19:42, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
**The constraint reports don't check this on qualifiers, but it seems that the gadget does indeed need the scope limitation. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 20:02, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:(ec) See [[Help:Sources#Databases]] for a proper format of database references. Regarding the latter: there is typically, but not necessarily a 1:1 correspondence between Wikidata items and external database entries. How often does it happen that database IDs are used in references of other items? —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 19:43, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
::From time to time I use other items’ IDs in references, probably most often for statements with {{P|40}} etc. --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:06, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::I agree it is not a very common use case (that's probably why the problem has not arisen before), but I find it quite useful when stating relationships. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:13, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

*The distinct value constraint should be set in a way that it doesn't trigger when it's used in references. In case that isn't true, we have to investigate what we need to do to make it true. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 22:37, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
:* {{strong support}} --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:42, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:* {{strong support}} -- [[User:Salgo60|Salgo60]] ([[User talk:Salgo60|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:56, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:* {{strong support}} for implementing via changing the scope of the constraint to main subjects only as described below. - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:24, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
{{Ping project|property constraints}}
*{{comment}} I wonder if the distinct value constraint ever makes sense across different use scopes. Shouldn't we change the defaults? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 08:41, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
** I have found distinct value very useful finding duplicates or other errors... - [[User:Salgo60|Salgo60]] ([[User talk:Salgo60|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 09:56, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
***Did it ever happen that this was between the use as a qualifier and property value or between the use as a property value and as a reference? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 10:03, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

: {{Comment}} The constraint currently only checks for duplicate values within the same “scope”: no violation is reported if two different entities use the same value in a qualifier and a reference. Additionally, the default scope of the constraint is to check it everywhere, though as {{U'|Pintoch}} mentions this can be adjusted with the {{P|P4680}} parameter. Both of these things could be changed, if desired – I could change the implementation of the constraint to check within different scopes as well, and/or I could change the default scope. But note that the scope only affects where the constraint is checked at all, not how it looks for violations: if the implementation is changed to check distinct values between different scopes, and a constraint has a scope of “statement”, then a statement with the same value as a qualifier on another entity will still be a violation. --[[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:35, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::I think that the current separation of scopes is sensible. I would just change the default scope to {{Q|46466787}}. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:05, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::It seems that use as qualifier isn't compared to use as main value, so indeed. Default scope {{Q|46466787}} would be good. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 12:36, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
: {{comment}} seems like data duplication as the identifier is probably also in the subject item. On the other hand, the main purpose seem actually to link to a webpage, and use the identifier property as a kind of subproperty of « url ». As it’s a qualifier, it’s not the same as the property used as a main property in a statement (maybe a good thing could be, for the devteam, to actually have two wikipages per property to reflect that). Seems a little weird overall but no formal opposition. One possibility could be to just point to the page with a « url » snak, this would spares the need to extract the idenifier and that would probably be that I would actually do. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 17:46, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::In the cases where the constraint is reported as violated by the gadget, there is often no duplication at all as the identifier is generally used as main value on a different item. I don't think {{P|854}} should be used instead: by doing that we would lose the benefit of being able to adapt the formatter URL if the third party service changes its URLs later on. There are a lot of other benefits of using identifiers in references. For instance, if we realize that some identifier was added by mistake to an item, it is easy to check all the claims on the item where the same id is used as a reference and see if they should be deleted as well. Or if an external database contains duplicate records which were matched to different items, we can merge the items and easily see which claims come from which record. By tracking the use of the identifier property in references we can get useful statistics about the use of a particular database as a source across the entire Wikidata (which is harder if we need to rely on {{P|248}} or {{P|143}} used in conjunction with {{Q|27768150}} or its editions such as {{Q|30141628}}, or {{P|854}} matching a particular regular expression…)
::Overall I have to admit that I am quite surprised to find myself advocating for ''identifiers in Wikidata references'' - I thought the idea was much more widely accepted, and even encouraged actually. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:53, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::I use identifiers in Wikidata references all the time, notably AAT IDs for items in the arts and GIS/Getty TGN IDs for geographic items. - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:06, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
*{{ping|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)}} could you change the default scope to {{Q|46466787}} for distinct value constraints? <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:10, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
:: {{Reply to|Jura1}} tracked in [[phabricator:T185696]] --[[User:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:53, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

== Historical visual diffs (beta feature) ==

Hi all!

Historical visual diffs were recently demoed to me and I propose that we enable them as a beta feature on wikidata.

You can find an example diff here: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?diff=29023190&oldid=24804938&title=User:Addshore&visualdiff&diffmode=visual

They only work on wikitext pages (so not on items and properties) but I still really like the feature idea and would like to get it enabled here.

Thoughts? '''[[User:Addshore|<span style="color:black">·addshore·</span>]]''' <sup>[[User_talk:Addshore|<span style="color:black;">talk to me!</span>]]</sup> 03:27, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

:Well, it's really interesting and shows the diff more clearly (on the visual pov) - nice :) --[[User:Hsarrazin|Hsarrazin]] ([[User talk:Hsarrazin|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:27, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

*A Wikidata specific diff feature would be good to have. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 12:09, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
**Yup, although, I'm not really sure a visual diff makes much sense for structured data '''[[User:Addshore|<span style="color:black">·addshore·</span>]]''' <sup>[[User_talk:Addshore|<span style="color:black;">talk to me!</span>]]</sup> 12:34, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

***yeah, visual or not. Still, maybe statements/labels/sitelinks could appear visually different. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:30, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

== Organizing consolidated city/counties ==

Large cities tend to be both a county and a city, e.g. {{Q|62}} and {{Q|13188841}} (same issues for New York boroughs). They share the same border {{P|3403}}, and usually have multiple {{P|31}} (e.g. {{Q|515}} and {{Q|13212489}}). This gets very confusing with the {{P|150}} - {{Q|13212489}} lists {{Q|13188841}}, but in reality it should list {{Q|62}}... or not.  I propose, for the sake of clarity, the following system:
* {{P|31}}: city entity - always use {{Q|3301053}}, but never use {{Q|13212489}}.  The county entity should be the opposite.
* {{P|150}}: state entity - always point to the county entity.  County entity always points to the city entity.  {{P|131}} should be the same in the opposite direction.
PROs: establishes a clear administrative chain of what is equivalent-to-or-a-subdivision-of what, makes data processing much more streamlined<br>
CONs: makes automatic usage slightly more difficult in some cases, e.g. if a wiki article about California uses {{P|150}} to list all counties, clicking on San Francisco county would result in a missing page (except for a few botopedias), whereas the user expects to see San Francisco. The proper solution to this would be adding redirects to Wikidata - there should be a "San Francisco county" redirecting to "San Francisco". The redirect page should be listed in the county entity. --[[User:Yurik|Yurik]] ([[User talk:Yurik|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 06:38, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
*You might want to use preferred rank for one or the other value. Using P31={{Q|3301053}} instead of {{Q|13212489}} might work if you look at it from the US level, but seems incorrect from the California level.<br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 19:13, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
** {{ping|Jura1}} Why would it be incorrect from the California level?  Administration level chain (P150, P31):  {{Q|30}} (country) &rarr; {{Q|99}} (state) &rarr; {{Q|13188841}} (county) &rarr; {{Q|62}} (city).  If we add P31={{Q|13212489}} to both county and city, it creates confusion and breaks hierarchy. --[[User:Yurik|Yurik]] ([[User talk:Yurik|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:14, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
***If you just query for wdt:P31/wdt:P279*={{Q|13212489}}, you should get all counties, but somehow you wont. {{P|150}} shouldn't matter that much. Hopefully we can eventually drop it. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 16:32, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
** {{ping|Jura1}}, I'm a bit confused by what you are saying.  San Francisco (Q62) is not a county if we also have {{Q|13188841}}.  If it is, than Q13188841 should be a redirect to Q62. If we keep Q13188841, than Q62 should be a sub-admin level of it.  We shouldn't have both have P31=county at the same time, as that creates far greater confusion. --[[User:Yurik|Yurik]] ([[User talk:Yurik|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 02:57, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
*** Good point .. as we probably can't avoid that {{Q|13188841}} exists, I think it should have a statement that the indicates that this layer is consolidated in some other. I don't think "coextensive" is sufficient. Other than that, I think you proposal could work. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:03, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

== Instance completeness ==

I did not realised it until know but its know possible with the query service and the {{P'|number}} statement to find all the classes whom wikidata seem to know it knows all the instances. This is an interesting query so I put it here :
{{sparql|query= select (count(?instances) as ?count) ?class ?number_of_instances {
  # this query computes all the classes Wikidata seems to know all the instances 
  ?instances wdt:P31/wdt:P279* ?class .
  ?class wdt:P1114 ?number_of_instances .
} group by ?class ?number_of_instances having (?number_of_instances = ?count)
}} 
A derived query is interesting. It’s intended to find the instance incomplete classes we short miss of knowing all the instances :
{{sparql|query= 
select (count(distinct ?instances) as ?count) ?class ?number_of_instances (?number_of_instances - ?count as ?missingnumber) {
  ?instances wdt:P31/wdt:P279* ?class .
  ?class wdt:P1114 ?number_of_instances .
} group by ?class ?number_of_instances having (?number_of_instances != ?count) order by ?missingnumber
}}
The result are quite unexpected : it seem the number of {{Q'|1054813}}_in wikidata is far bigger than it should be, for example, and that there is cases where the number is splitted wrt. a criteria, for example see {{Q|248035}} by owner. Maybe the best way would be to put that in the owner item, I don’t know. Roughly filtering out the negative results and excluding qualified numbers (thanks to {{tl|query no qualifier}}) gives :
{{sparql|query= 
select (count(distinct ?instances) as ?count) ?class ?number_of_instances (?number_of_instances - ?count as ?missingnumber) {
  ?instances wdt:P31/wdt:P279* ?class .
  ?class wdt:P1114 ?number_of_instances .
  {{query no qualifier|item=?class|property=number|value=?number_of_instances}}
} group by ?class ?number_of_instances having (?number_of_instances > ?count) order by ?missingnumber
}}
And it gives interesting results like {{Q|610625}} who lacks when I write these lines only one municipis it seems :) A nod to [[Wikidata:Property_proposal/fully_divised_into]] as this example is the same kind of example that lead to this query :) <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 12:46, 30 January 2018 (UTC) EDIT : like below, added a « distinct » makes some cases looks way less problematic as it seemed. There may be several paths connecting instances to the class in « ?instances wdt:P31/wdt:P279* ?class .» for some items which made them being counted several times. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 18:22, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

=== And part completeness ===
A similar query, but for parts instead of instances if we know type of its parts with {{P'|has part of the type}} and the statement is qualified by the number :
{{sparql|query=
select ?item ?itemLabel ?type ?typeLabel ?number (count(distinct ?part) as ?numpart){
  ?item p:P2670 [ps:P2670 ?type ; pq:P1114 ?number ] .
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
  ?item (wdt:P527|^wdt:P361) ?part .
  ?part wdt:P31/wdt:P279* ?type .
} group by ?item ?type ?number ?itemLabel ?typeLabel 
}}
<s>Maybe also highlight some problems with the model for « catholic church » :) </s> no problem actually if we remove duplicates in the query<span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 13:52, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

== Lack of admin attention ==

I posted [[Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard#Artist of Black Lunch Table|on the administrators' noticeboard]] on 16 January, asking for  deletion discussion to be closed. I posted a reminder on 20 January, and again on 27 January.

Not only has the discussion not been closed, but in the two weeks since my initial request, no one has posted a response on the noticeboard to say that they have looked at it, or that they will look at it.

Do we need more admins? Is there some other reason why admins (as a body; no individual is compelled to take any action, of course) are not attending to matters where their attention is requested? What can we as a community do, to ensure that matters needing admin attention are addressed in a timely manner? <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 15:30, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

:* Several (of the more active) admins have participated in the discussion, so they might not feel to be in a position to close it now.
:* This is not an emergency situation where sysop tool use is required to prevent damage, so this might not seem to be very urgent. Maybe it is indeed a good idea to wait for the decision about the related property proposal (which also lacks admin attention) before this “ended” discussion at WD:RfD can be sent to the archive. The number of questionable items is <10 meanwhile anyway.
:* We do indeed need more (active) admins. IMO we do even need substantially more admins. There would easily be enough to do for 10 or 20 active extra admins, with specialization in different fields.
:—[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:05, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
== Towards aligning Wikidata and Wikipedia infoboxes ==

We are currently proposing a project ([https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSync GlobalFactSync]) for a Project Grant that intends to synchronize Wikidata statements with the contents of infoboxes of respective Wikipedia articles. The idea is to use [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBpedia DBpedia] as a middleware here. Since DBpedia has profound knowledge about the templates used for Wikipedia infoboxes, this allows us to compare the statements contained therein among multiple language versions and with Wikidata. One goal is to transfer missing statements to Wikidata, the second goal is to support Wikipedia editors when creating infoboxes. By doing so, the project targets improving the quality of information in both Wikidata and the Wikipedia universe.  An [http://downloads.dbpedia.org/temporary/globalfactsync/ early prototype] already demonstrates the differences between language versions. For supplement the data of Wikidata we will enrich the statements with references from the articles and use the Primary Sources Tool to add the statements and primary sources.
As Wikidata is heavily involved in the project, we are looking for your feedback. Feel free to discuss here or at the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/DBpedia/GlobalFactSync project talk page]. You may also endorse the proposal or join the project as a volunteer. --[[User:Mgns|Mgns]] ([[User talk:Mgns|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:One of the big problems at Wikidata is that users keep importing stuff from Wikipedias: often enough this is seriously harmful. - [[User:Brya|Brya]] ([[User talk:Brya|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
::In the proposal we outlined the problem of using Wikipedia as a primary source. Often Wikipedia is the only or the most obvious available source for facts when an item gets redacted by a user. Hence, in Wikidata it is quite common that simply a Wikipedia is given as the reference for a claim. For these statements and those without any reference given, we also seek to find valid primary sources. The risk remains that inappropriate data exists in Wikipedias and gets imported to Wikidata, but as the tool makes the data and its variations visible it can be fixed at multiple points and editors can make better informed decisions. --[[User:Mgns|Mgns]] ([[User talk:Mgns|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:57, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
::: I'm not very aquainted with {{Q|465}}. But as far as I know infoboxes at enwiki were the main source of DBpedia. So how does the proposal helps to increase trustability of WD statements? --[[User:Succu|Succu]] ([[User talk:Succu|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:33, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: Since 5 years, we are extracting infoboxes of 120 languages and also have mappings, so all the data is extracted using one schema (which can be switched from DBpedia properties to Wikidata properties easily). This figure from [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XX-yzT98fglAfFkHoixOI1XC1uwrS6f0u1xjdZT9TYI/edit#slide=id.g21d2403a1a_0_50 Wikicite 2017] starting on slide 15 shows that 2/3 of WD is not well referenced. I see the greatest potential in transferring existing infobox references, which have been added by Wikipedians to WD. This would also build more trust. --[[User:SebastianHellmann|SebastianHellmann]] ([[User talk:SebastianHellmann|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:40, 31 January 2018 (UTC)   
:Unfortunately this proposal seems to ignore what Wikimedians usually mean with "quality". It's about data being sourced. Any data that passes through DBpedia loses those sources and thus it's "quality". [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 23:44, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
::Fortunately thanks to this proposal we can address true quality issues. Quality means that there is agreement that a fact is likely to be good. This proposal allows us to focus our attention where we *know* the problem is problematic. This kind of quality beats sources hands down. I do not need a source to know that a difference is problematic. I do need reports that point to these differences. By concentrating on differences we improve true quality and not what is erroneously understood to be quality. Thanks, [[User:GerardM|GerardM]] ([[User talk:GerardM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:26, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
:::{{Ping|ChristianKl}} A large part of the proposal is about extracting all references from infoboxes in 120 language version (plus find a few more with other tools). So it fixes exactly the problem you are mentioning. --[[User:SebastianHellmann|SebastianHellmann]] ([[User talk:SebastianHellmann|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:45, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
::: I think, we moved that part into the project plan. I will try to mention that more prominently, so there is no confusion.  --[[User:SebastianHellmann|SebastianHellmann]] ([[User talk:SebastianHellmann|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:48, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

== Ontology of general elections and local results ==

Hello! I am currently working on {{Q|Q19311231}} and the adjacant objects (currently parties and personalties of the XXVI Austrian general elections). I am using {{Q|Q215622}} and {{Q|Q15062956}} as references in order to edit this object correctly and it works quite well for the electorial event itself and the results on a national level. Unfortunately I am experiencing difficulties finding the right way to add voting data on a constituency level. The Austrian governmental open data initiative supplies us with [https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/3179c5b2-9bb5-4a7f-a573-5491ccb0110b/resource/612f3ac8-0c97-47de-8c75-65a917a53e40/download/wahl20171031154920.csv information] about the electoral districts and how many ballots were cast for each participating party but I don't find a proper way to relate this data to the election event itself. There is an example of an electoral district of the German Bundestagswahl - {{Q|Q264130}} - which connects the successful contestant to the current term. It does not include an example how to express how many votes were cast for each party during the election. I searched for election ontologies and found a promising example [https://ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/election/election-ontology.html by the UK parliament] but unfortunately as far as I can make out it also doesn't allow results in this granularity. Could you point my into the right direction in order to solve this problem by any chance? Thank you very much in advance --[[User:WalternativE|WalternativE]] ([[User talk:WalternativE|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:42, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

:I can't point to any prior art on wikidata; don't know if such exists, one way or another. I suspect not. The UK Parliament ontology does, to my eye, provide for the granularity you're interested in - in its relations Candidacy Result & voteCount. That still leaves us with the problem of deciding how we're going to represent such information within wikidata. I'm afraid the right direction to be taken is probably to put up a suggested data model for discussion, which will identify properties we lack. By way of example, here's the [[Wikidata:WikiProject every politician/Political data model]] which seems to have done good things w.r.t. the representation of elected representatives and officeholders. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:38, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

::The the example you provided is indeed a very good guide for modelling the political landscape of a country within a term. If there is a way to get to a consensus regarding a similar data model regarding the electoral process I'm sure the richness of political information storable within Wikidata would be greatly improved. Unfortunately I'm quite a Wikidata (and for this regard: a linked data) novice. I could ask my professors for assistance in this matter and I'm naturally willing to contribute myself but I'm quite positive that it would be beneficial to have an experienced Wikidata user to organise the efforts. Would you like to take the lead in this endeavour? --[[User:WalternativE|WalternativE]] ([[User talk:WalternativE|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:04, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

:::Here's some of the prior art I suspected didn't exist, {{ping|WalternativE}} [[Wikidata:WikiProject Finnish Elections]] & [[Wikidata:WikiProject Politics infoboxes]]. The former strikes me as the makings of a model, and the latter more biased to what information might be included in election infoboxes on wikipedias, than setting out a clear model. I'm not sure how moribund either project is. We should note also [[Wikidata:WikiProject Politicians]], such as for the links to other projects at the foot of that page. I'm going to duck your 'like to take the lead' question entirely; but suggest if you're determined to proceed with this, we might put up an ad hoc [[Wikidata:WikiProject Austrian Elections]] playpen, steal nice things from the Finnish & Infobox projects, and use the [[Wikidata:WikiProject every politician/Political data model|EveryPolitician model]] format. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:43, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

::::Thank you for the info! Looks really promising. I'll try to coordinate efforts with the local experts of the Austrian Wikidata chapter. Having this playpen would be nice - can we just start it and see where it leads us? We had an election related Wikidata workshop last year and this project would be a wonderful basis for additional ones I imagine (apart from beeing very useful) --[[User:WalternativE|WalternativE]] ([[User talk:WalternativE|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:52, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

::::Yes, start it, see what happens. That's the way. --[[User:Tagishsimon|Tagishsimon]] ([[User talk:Tagishsimon|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:01, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
:Poking some political experts: {{ping|Stefankasberger}} and {{ping|Andrew Gray}}. [[User:Jean-Frédéric|Jean-Fred]] ([[User talk:Jean-Frédéric|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:20, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

== Better property for frequency of first names ==

A few years ago, {{Q|21644845}} and {{Q|21142040}} were added to {{P|793}} on given names, including the list position, number of uses and something that should be moved to {{P|1810}} nowadays. I don't think they belong on that property though. The qualifier suggestions aren't that ideal due to this use. What is a better property for them? [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  13:41, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
:Hmm.  {{P|1352}} has fairly narrow constraints, to limit the situations it can be used in.  Widening its scope might or might not be desirable.  {{P|1545}} says it is different from a rank, but offers only P1352 as an alternative.  Also P1545 is only licensed to be used as a qualifier, not a main property.  This is something we should address, because it is useful to be able to record rankings of things, without having to create a new property like {{P|1661}} -- eg to record rankings of sub-territories by area or population. [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:58, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
::(ec) {{P|1107}} also is only intended to be used as a qualifier.  {{P|2844}} is for number of medical cases per year.  So neither of these would work as a lead property.  And besides, it's possible our source might only give rankings.
::For reference, the item {{Q|4642}} gives an example of the existing mechanism, using {{P|793}} as a lead property to hang qualifiers like {{P|1545}}, {{P|1114}} and {{P|1683}} from.  (As Sjoerd notes, the latter might better be handled by {{P|1810}}).  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:29, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
*We could do a new property with item datatype for the ranking system. The actual rank could be in a qualifier. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 14:22, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
::Perhaps "ranked by" with an item for either a study or an organisation as value ?  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:33, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
:::So something like {{P|2291}}? (not sure if we should broad the scope of that one) [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  16:22, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
:::*Didn't recall that one. Yes. [[Q115468#P2291]] has several values. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 16:29, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::For the "ranked by" property we habe {{P|447}} --[[User:Pasleim|Pasleim]] ([[User talk:Pasleim|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:38, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::Not really.  Firstly that's a qualifier on {{P|444}}, not a top-level property.  Secondly relates to a score (ie a number of stars) for a work, not for where an item appears in an ordering from most to least.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:45, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
:So, should we request some new propery or rename one? [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  09:02, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

== Changing the property of a statement ==

{{Tracked|T149905}}
Noobish question: Right after adding credits for {{Q|Q3126038}} using {{P|161}}, I discovered the more appropriate property {{P|725}}. Is there any way to just change the property without having to reenter the data, or at least quickly export the data and reinput it with QuickStatements or something similar? Thanks! [[User:Trivialist|Trivialist]] ([[User talk:Trivialist|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]])
*I think {{ping|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)}} looked into this. Maybe she can give us an update on what has been done so and what will happen. --<br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:28, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
:Hello, I'm afraid it's not possible to do this with the interface, and I'm not aware of any tool of gadget that could do this. Did you have a look at [[Wikidata:Tools]]? [[User:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:35, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

::There are no ready-to-use tools available for this task, one needs bot code to do such a move (e.g. with pywikibot via [//paws.wmflabs.org/ PAWS]). For one item only with a couple of affected claims, it is likely much easier to move the claims manually to the other property. —[[User:MisterSynergy|MisterSynergy]] ([[User talk:MisterSynergy|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:43, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Figured as much, so went ahead and just moved them manually. But thanks to all for the assistance. [[User:Trivialist|Trivialist]] ([[User talk:Trivialist|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 02:30, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
*I thought there had been a phab ticket about it. Looks like it didn't lead anywhere. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 14:46, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

QuickStatements version 2 can remove (with -Q... at the beginning of each line) and add (with Q...) claims. You need to make a SPARQL query for your data, somehow get the data into a spreadsheet, and then it's easy to build the two lines necessary for the change. Since all this takes some time, it's only useful if you want to change more than a few items. --[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:50, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
:That doesn't respect qualifiers or sources, though. [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  11:24, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
::That's right. I guess it could be done, but it's obviously very complicated. We do need a tool for that, but it's probably best to not have it available to everyone. --[[User:Anvilaquarius|Anvilaquarius]] ([[User talk:Anvilaquarius|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 11:50, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

== Edit request at [[Property_talk:P356#EIDR]] ==

We have long waiting edit request at [[Property_talk:P356#EIDR]] related to {{P|356}} property. I was trying to make sense of it and it seems to be valid. Unfortunately I am not familiar with {{P|356}} property and can not evaluate it. Does anybody else understands it enough to evaluate it? --[[User:Jarekt|Jarekt]] ([[User talk:Jarekt|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:01, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

:{{Re|Jarekt}} this can be safely removed, as the official DOI resolver will redirect to this specialized resolver for these DOIs. See for instance https://doi.org/10.5240/FDBD-5E62-33F8-1876-7966-G which redirects to https://ui.eidr.org/view/content?id=10.5240/FDBD-5E62-33F8-1876-7966-G. In general there is no point introducing custom resolver (or properties such as {{P|2704}}) for particular DOI issuers: the whole point of the DOI system is to provide a uniform identifier on top of publisher-specific ids. − [[User:Pintoch|Pintoch]] ([[User talk:Pintoch|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 10:11, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

== Query Helper on WDQS ==

Does anybody here ever use the "Query Helper" on WDQS?  Am I right in thinking that it is positively unhelpful on anything but the very simplest of queries?

And yet, am I also right in thinking that the default is always to show it to someone, if they follow a link to a WDQS query that we may have posted, unless they have previously visited WDQS and dismissed it?

Would it be a good idea to make the default to be ''not'' to show the query helper, unless the query is so simple that QH is certain it can understand ''all'' of it?

Pinging {{ping|Smalyshev (WMF)}} for thoughts.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:07, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
:Hello,
:The purpose of the Query Helper is to help people who are not familiar with SPARQL yet. It is not meant for people who are used to directly write queries, but it's an initiation tool for newcomers. It is possible to hide it, and this information is stored in the cookies, so next time one open a Query Service page, the helper won't show up again.
:Also note that it is possible to share a direct link to the result of the query, if we want people to focus on the result and not the code (link icon, on the right side of the page) - one can anytime go back to the query by using the link "edit this query" at the bottom left. 
:The development team is continuing working on the Query Helper so it becomes even more helpful for newcomers, and handle better the complex queries. [[User:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:33, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{ping|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)}} The problem is this.  If I'm wanting to present WDQS on social media, it's not necessarily just the result I want people to see -- I may also want them to see how it was achieved with only a very few lines of SPARQL.
::But this objective -- showing SPARQL can be simple and relatively straightforward -- is spoiled, if when the newcomer follows my link they see half the screen taken up with the query helper -- the query helper which ''didn't'' build the query, probably ''couldn't'' build the query, can't fully understand the query, and which will almost certainly ''break'' the query is somebody thinks they can try to use it to modify the query -- as well as taking the focus away from the text of the query itself, which if I am deliberately posting a link to it is what I want the readers to see.
::The query helper needs to have much more of a sense of its own limitations.  If it can't understand the query, it can't help, so it should not appear.  Even if it does think it can understand the query, it should only ''offer'' to help, rather than pre-emptively take up half the query screen.  At most, it should pop up an ''invitation'' to assist like [[:en:Clippy]].  But it should understand its limitations -- it was not without reason that Clippy was generally despised and derided.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:51, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Thank you for the detailed feedback. I understand what you mean. I'm going to discuss about this with the developers. [[User:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|Lea Lacroix (WMDE)]] ([[User talk:Lea Lacroix (WMDE)|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:46, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
== Country of citizenship is Wales ==

Can {{Statement||P27|Q25}} be true for current day people? {{U'|Sian EJ}} has been adding this claim to a lot of items using QuickStatements. As far as I know Wales isn't an independent country, but part of the United Kingdom. Example item: {{Q|Q3376765}}. [[User:Mbch331|Mbch331]] ([[User talk:Mbch331|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:27, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
: The Wikipedia article on Wales says that it's a country in the first sentence "Wales (/ˈweɪlz/) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.". As long as the UK is still under the jurisdiction of the Lisbon treaty it's also arguable whether it's currently an independent country. 
: The subclass tree currently sees {{Q|3336843}} as being states and thus there's no constraint violation. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 12:36, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
: Asking on [https://www.quora.com/Do-people-born-in-Wales-do-automatically-become-citizens-of-Wales/answer/Rhys-Griffiths-16?__filter__&__nsrc__=2&__snid3__=1856091515 Quora] gave me the answer that there's no legal category of Welsh citizenship, so I'm now more doubtful. Especially the idea that place of birth automatically translates into a Wales citizenship is problematic and that seems how the QuickStatements are sourced. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 13:12, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:: Thanks both. To quote from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wales WP Talk page:] ''The result of all these debates is that Wales is indeed a country. This has been confirmed in formal mediation.'' As it's a nation, a country, then the nationality of the people born there are 99% of the time Welsh. In the 1% I would include people who have moved in, and moved out again within a few years. But the defacto should be: if you're born in Wales, your Welsh - certainly up until the early 20c. Now, Wikidata does not have an item for 'Country of passport'; and I think it should. The UK did not exist until recently, therefore many 4 - 7c saints and Welsh princes and royalty will only have Wales as Nationality. Since the 1707 Acts of Union, when the UK came into existence, however, there is dual nationality - birth place gives Welsh, being part of that UK gives a second. [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:04, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:::I think this is the same type of discussion as {{Q|55}} versus {{Q|29999}}. It is agreed that The Netherlands is a country, however the country of citizenship is The Kingdom of the Netherlands. I wasn't talking about historic situations from before the UK existed, but only about the period the UK exists. (If you died before the UK existed you can never be a citizen of the UK) [[User:Mbch331|Mbch331]] ([[User talk:Mbch331|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:51, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
::::Now I follow your original thoughts, and thanks! And after 1707, you can be both, and WD can be flexible enough to accept that there are two very strong beliefs (as with many conquered nations). For example, Cerys Matthews is a "Welsh singer": and nobody would say that she is a "British" or an "UK singer"! However she does technically hold a 'British / UK passport', so that also needs to be addressed. Wikidata can respect both points of view, using nationality and citizenship, or dual nationality (in a loose sense). I'll start ploughing through the last century, and revert those born in Wales who would not be called Welsh (the 1%). Can we also start a new statement: 'nationality by passport'? [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:37, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
:::You seem to be conflating "nationality" and "country of citizenship" - it is the former which Wikidata currently does not have; the latter is "country of passport". How many of these people hold Welsh passports? Also, beware using place of birth as a determiner for either nationality or (United States excepted) citizenship - consider temporary visitors such as holidaymakers, seasonal workers and diplomats. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 17:42, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
::::Yes, I combigned both, as I did not know {{Q|231002}} existed! Thank you Andy Mabbett! It would be better to use "nationality" = Welsh; {{P|27}} = UK? People giving birth while on holiday + diplomats etc are part of my 1%. Welsh passport = no, that's why I suggested a second / new Statement; but country of citizenship = UK seems fine. [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:12, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
::::: {{Q|231002}} is no property, so you can't use it in that way. In the last property discussion about a property for nationality, we decided against having one. {{P|172}} might be used to label Cerys Matthews as Welsh but it's nothing that you should add simply because someone was born in a certain area. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 18:47, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
* {{comment}} same is true of those alive in the Commonwealth countries (NZ, Canada, Australia, ...) in the first half 20th century, who were {{Q|4971466}}s though of the country of their birth, but that still makes them citizens of the {{Q|145}} or {{Q|174193}}, and later citizens of these other countries accordingly.  It is just very messy, and hardly straightforward. Then we have to look at the territorial, and previously colonial citizenry; and still look at the labels that were applied. We have people born in the 16th, and 18th centuries labelled as being citizens of Q145 (lots of imports from WPs), where these would be something like {{Q|179876}}/{{Q|230791}}/{{Q|215530}} and {{Q|161885}}. Then look at the 17th and 18th states of Europe. It is just something that is gotten wrong regularly, and we will have to resolve and clean up at some point. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 03:06, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

{{Ping|ChristianKl}} NB - If nationality is not a property then we have only one ("country of citizenship") and this clouds the issue, unless more than one property can be added (in this case "UK" and "Wales"); this  is second best. It is very odd that "nationality" isn't a property (link please)! Note also that "place of birth = nationality" was very true in Wales until the 20c and people are often described as "Welsh by birth" etc on Wikipedia as in the real world. {{P|172}} is NOT relevant to Welsh people, as has been reiterated by a number of national bodies including the language Ombudsman, Welsh Government etc! We are a nation, and our nationality is Welsh {{Ping|AlwynapHuw|Llywelyn2000|Dafyddt}}.   [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:35, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
* There's noting cloudy about the issue. Wikidata has a property for country of citizenship (and one for ethnic group) but no property for nationality. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Nationality was the last property proposal to create one for nationality and that proposal wasn't successful (of course you can also open a new proposal). The people who reside in Wales are British citizens and there's no category of Welsh citizenship. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 13:14, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

::Wales is a Nation. My nationality is Welsh. These are facts that are not a matter of debate. I accept, that despite not liking it, I am a subject of the Crown (not a citizen) of the United Kingdom. Because of my health I am not able to travel afar, so I don't have or need a passport. ''Passport holding thingy'' won't cover my multiple identities. In the case of Wales and Scotland we have "national" entities approved and acknowledged by the Crown. Scotland and Wales (England too) are nations acknowledged as nations by the unwritten rules of the United Kingdom. Loads of images are available on this site because the NATIONAL Library of Wales uploaded them having been given permission to do so by the NATIONAL Assembly of Wales. The fact that England, Scotland & Wales are Nations under one crown is not the problem; the problem is that France, Spain etc can't be as relaxed as the UK and accept that they are nation states made up of many other nations. Wikidata's problem is that Wikipedia is available in lots of non-Nation-State languages. Spain France etc might not like it but Breton, Catalan etc have an independent Wiki site based on the fact that they are old nations with languages that separate them from their modern nation states. Wikidata has to recognise that or give up nation state language wikis. {{unsigned|AlwynapHuw}}
:::AlwynapHuw, you can harangue the community on this matter, however, the clarity works better if you can come forward with clear definitions as prescribed by the UK laws for what is Welsh nationality; and how is that separated from Welsh people, and again separate from Welsh nationals who were born elsewhere, or those who are born in Wales but are not Welsh nationals. At this point of time, we track citizenship; we don't track this somewhat vague feeling of identification of nationality. If there is no exact definition or means to clarify beyond what a person believes themselves to be, then it is probably not data for Wikidata. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:25, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
:::(e/c) Citizenship in modern times is a legal/juristic concept, while nationality can have wider meaning. Regardless of whether there is a "Welsh citizenship"-act that I have not been able to find, you are most definitely a citizen of britain (and likely, but not necessarily of the EU). [[:en:History of British nationality law]] Before 1948, everyone in the commonwealth was a [[:en:british subject]], after 1948 it became possible for countries/nations of the crown to create their own citizenship and nationality laws, see also [[:en:Canadian Citizenship Act 1946]], while the rest went on governed by the [[:en:British nationality law]] and it's amendments and evolutions, overseas acts etc. While you could possibly have 3 citizenships (eu, british, welsh), again I see no proof that there is a recognised set of laws that govern what citizenship of Wales would be, and thus you do not have such a citizenship. This is indeed not unique. Puerto Ricans are USA nationals, but not USA citizens for instance (see [[Q3543841]]). I do think that this is something that needs fixing at some point in wikidata.. we're speaking of a national identity here, which for most people is a rather specific, but well recognised form of our very wide 'ethnic group'. But 'ethnic group' is just a bad shorthand for saying "a group of people which share soil, ancestry, culture, society or language". It's not wrong, but it's not really recognisable for people either. Imagine replacing all usages of race, nationality, 'descent' etc with 'ethnic group' in Wikipedia. That wouldn't be very helpful. Then again, you could say: "Wikidata has country of citizenship, because it's clear what that is. We don't have nationality, as there is no consistent definition for what nationality constitutes".. Hmm. qualifiers ? [[User:TheDJ|TheDJ]] ([[User talk:TheDJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:13, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

::::Both billinghurst and TheDJ have missed the point: WD does not have to use a criteria based on laws to define groups of people. The laws in Wales, since 1535 have been created by the oppressor, not by the people of Wales, who have NEVER accepted English dominance in Wales. Wikimedia believes in diversity - and that is about respecting all groups and minorities, not just the few. To say that we need to side with one group over another, just because they had sharper swords, and better killing machines, is rubbish, we are not the UN or state police, we are not bullies and oppressors but free thinking, inclusive Wikimedians. And as such, we need to find a way to accommodate all groups, and include a criteria whereby we can safely say that a person's nationality is Welsh. It is done on Wikipedia (nationality = Welsh); it is done in real life. If we can not do that on Wikidata then we are in conflict with other Wikimedia projects and we might as well give up Wikidata, and start our own projects which would respect diversity. What Sian says is quite correct, and manageable. Of course there is a clear "consistent definition for what nationality constitutes" (TheDJ), it is defined every day for many bodies such as sports teams. We would be 100% correct, in Wales, to say that a person is Welsh if they are born in Wales and have Welsh parents. If other countries can not say this, then they don't need to add 'nationality' on their biogs. We can. The second definition and criteria, which should be equally as clear is academic sources: if the National Dictionary of Welsh Biography lists and accepts that there is such a group as "Welsh people" then we must accept that. To say say that our nationality is "somewhat vague feeling of identification" (billinghurst) is ignorant and unhelpful. It is defined in Wales, we are Welsh, now move on. [[User:Llywelyn2000|Llywelyn2000]] ([[User talk:Llywelyn2000|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:41, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::At this point the UK government defines what is their citizenship and we capture that data in that field ... in that English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish people are UK citizens. Ethnic group exists where you wish to define "Welsh people", and many Welsh people are already so stated.  There is no nationality property. The discussion is, and was, about citizenship fieluniod, and as such commentary should be taken in that context. The legal status of Wales or Welsh people within the United Kingdom, or the path to that paradigm, is not something that seems within the scope to resolve in this forum. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 12:34, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::Wikidata doesn't store nationality but citizenship and citizenship is defined by laws. In addition we also have ethnic group that can be used to store that someone is a Welsh person. If you want to draw this information from Wikidata for your infoboxes you are free to show "Nationality = Welsh" for every person that has "ethnic group : Welsh" in Wikidata.
:::::{{ping|Llywelyn2000}} You are saying here that the definition of Wales nationality that Sian EJ used is wrong when you say "We would be 100% correct, in Wales, to say that a person is Welsh if they are born in Wales and have Welsh parents". This vagueness where the two of you use different ideas of what Wales nationality happens to be, is a problem that makes natioanlity a concept that's more vague than citizenship which is more clearly defined. For the sake of Wikidata that vagueness can lead to edit conflicts about thousands of items. Given that we want a property that's less vague we chose citizenship. We have also ethnic group for groups of people that aren't citizens and we require sources for that to have a way to resolve disputes. 
::::::You could even set some {{P|3831}}{{Q|231002}} qualifier on ethnic group, to say that in this case you are talking about nationality but that still means that you have to follow the sourcing standards we expect for ethnic group. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 17:11, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

:::::::{{Ping|ChristianKl}} The difference between Llywelyn2000 and I does not exist; read what was said! To base nationality in Wales from 1707 onwards on place of birth  gives us a criteria which is 99% correct - the remaining 1% being movement of people; until 1900 there was very little coming and going in Wales. Llywelyn2000, adds a second criteria - the birthplace of the parents, which gives us a watertight criteria without any "vagueness". He also adds two lists which could be added: names of Welsh people from the DWB and sports where nationality is defined. You may not think it important to create a property, just because one small country asks for it, but others do, as "citizenship" does not give the whole picture. If citizenship = uk, then Wikidata is in conflict with reality.
::::::: Secondly, as was said above, ''"WD does not have to use a criteria based on laws to define groups of people"''. Laws are created by one group; Wikimedia respects all groups (or should!) Both last two comments disregard our view on this point.
::::::: Ethnicity does not come into it, as I've already said. 
::::::: Third, my suggestion of having two citizenship (''"dual nationality - birth place gives Welsh, being part of that UK gives a second"'') has not been addressed by anyone. My suggestion is that the status quo (uk citizenship by law) is one, and that a second be created: "Local Citizenship" by birthplace of the person and recognised, sourced lists such as the academic, world standard of DWB.
::::::: A new property needs to be created - either "Nationality" or "Local Citizenship". Not to do so is not an option, otherwise Wikidata becomes unbalanced, does not recognise the real world and ignores academic work. And that means that an alternative project be formed - Llywelyn2000 might elaborate on this later, and measures taken to block Wikidata. 
::::::: To quote [http://www.responsiblecitizen.co.uk/english-irish-scottish-or-welsh.html responsiblecitizen.co.uk]: ''"...many people will be offended if called British, but they consider themselves Scottish or one of the other nationalities. And the mistake of calling a Scot, a Welsh person or Irish person "English" is one which is even harder to forgive."'' If Wikidata continues to offend so many people, then that needs to change and needs changing now. [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:18, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::The same is for Catalans, Corse, Kurds, Bavarians, Basque etc. These are not citizens, a legal property, but ethnicities, a more subjective property without clear definitions outside the core. Is it of any legal difference if you are in, say Germany, whether you are Welch, Scotch or English? That's what citizenship is about. [[User:Sänger|Sänger]] ([[User talk:Sänger|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:36, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
::::::::: Please note the heading of this thread includes the word '''Wales'''. If you want to discuss whether or not the Bavarians have a similar problem, please start a new thread. My request is regarding Wales alone. User:Sänger - you also use legality as your criteria (''"These are not citizens, a legal property"''), so I take it that you haven't read or you haven't understood my arguments that legality is not the sole definition of citizenship / nationality! I have defined clearly my alternative citizenship ("Local Citizenship") using academic and secondary sourced examples; what part of this is "unclear"? Your last question I take it, is an attempt to defend the existing {{P|27}} property, which no one is attacking or querying in any way! [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 14:46, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

::::::::::But why make some distinction for the Welsh, and not for the Catalan? Citizenship as a legal property regarding passports etc., is something quite good defined. Nationality, ethnicity, regionality etc. are not. OK, Cerys Matthews is quite explicit about her thanking the god she's welsh, but does it make any difference for her at the swiss border? The property {{P|27}} is about just that, nothing else. The other stuff should be held completely separated from that. Dual {{P|27}} is of course possible as well, as can be seen in the (for me quite unfathomable) disaster in the Australian parliament now, where unknown, involuntary and never used second citizenships now lead to baseless destructions of political careers. But Welsh, Catalan, Basque, Quebecoise, Frisian or Tyrolean are not {{P|27}}, but something distinct. [[User:Sänger|Sänger]] ([[User talk:Sänger|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 15:55, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::::Some examples: Is {{Q|76139}} Irish, Northern-Irish or British? Is {{Q|191530}} Turkish or Kurdish? Is {{Q|4740163}} Spanish or Catalan? And who is it to determine this? Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup>
:::::::::::Another fundamental issue to consider here, both for {{P|27}} and more generally for {{P|17}} and other sub-properties of P17 is searchability, and the expectations of people constructing searches.
:::::::::::If somebody is constructing a search for all British people with a particular set of properties, eg all British painters with works in galleries within 100 miles of a particular place -- they don't expect Welsh painters not to be included; especially if they many not even realise if Welsh painters are not being returned.
:::::::::::That is why we are quite fierce about using quite a limited controlled vocabulary for P17 and similar -- and why suggestions to use what e.g. may be technically more correct values like {{Q|174193}} for UK citizens before 1927 can actually create considerable difficulties, even for the quite wary. [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:18, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

::::::::::::{{Ping|Sänger}} You say ''"The same is for Catalans, Corse, Kurds... "'' - Sian has asked for you to keep this thread focused on Wales; don't cloud the issue. You use ''"legality"'' once again as your sole criteria; yet, please read my comments (above). Citizenship is taught in the new Welsh Curriculum (introduced by the National Government of Wales) in every school in Wales whereby they are recognised as having '''Welsh citizenship''' as well as British and European. Alwyn (above) mentions that he has no passport, so please don't confuse the issue with points which have already been addressed in this thread. If you want to bring legality and passports, then create another property (Nationality by passport), as was suggested above. 
::::::::::::Nationality / citizenship of people living in Wales from 5th century to the death of the Welsh kings were '''Welsh'''; no one disputes this. They continued being Welsh until the present day (discounting a few immigrants, who very quickly call themselves Welsh) in everyone's eyes - even the UK Governemnt; but their citizenship - on paper - was defined as being UK/British. Lloyd George was always called 'Welsh' and so is Ryan Giggs. There is no mechanism on wikidata to achnowledge this. The fact that another country forces their citizenship on us (on paper) does not change the fact that we are Welsh. If Wikidata sides with one large group rather than minority groups then it is in conflict with its own aims and objectives in its support of diversity. That is not how data works. If a group exists, then we can give several titles / names to that group. I'm Welsh, British and proudly European. Several titles; no problem. 
::::::::::::Your paragraph ''"If somebody is constructing a search for all British people"'' - is not a ''"fundamental"'' problem; there are several ways over this (and I'm sure you could find other solutions). For example, Wales is part of the UK as well as being a nation in its own right (different to some other stateless nations and minorities) and by connecting both properties / and making Wales a subgroup of the UK, a search for British painters would also give you Welsh painters! When we search for churches in the UK, it brings up Welsh churches as well as Scottish, English etc. There's no difference, from data perspective. 
::::::::::::So far, there have been no reasons given for not going ahead with Sian's suggestions; either create a new property 'nationality=Welsh' or allow a looser definition of 'citizenship' which allows dual citizenship. We are here talking about Wales, and the new properties could be limited to Wales. Otherwise Wikidata is going against the National Library of Wales' ''National Dictionary of Welsh Biography'' etc etc which state categorically that there is a data group called '''Welsh'''. [[User:Llywelyn2000|Llywelyn2000]] ([[User talk:Llywelyn2000|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:59, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::::::This can't be ''"focused on Wales"'', this is a fundamental question about the property. Is this property about citizenship only, or should it be widened to autonomous regions? Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 09:20, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::::::::::: Let's look at them one by one, starting at our feet, with Wales. If 'Nationality' is acceptable in the real world then it needs to be defined  and used on Wikidata. If the real world says that so and so is Welsh, then Wikidata needs to be able to do that, otherwise it becomes political, biased and falls flat on its face. The percentage of live feeds coming in from WD into the Welsh language Wicipedia (cywiki) is higher than any other WP language. For example, we have [https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/botstatus.php 17,000 Wikidata Lists], Lysteria updated (twice as many as all other WP languages put together) - and live infoboxes, which at present use "| suppressfields=citizenship" as a lock to keep out incorrect Wikidata information eg [https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_John Gwen John]. 
:::::::::::::: I know very little about some of the other nationalities mentioned above, and will not be drawn into specific cases. Wikidata has a number of properties which only accept good solid references from sources such as National Libraries, Academia, National Governments etc. And if they state that person X is of Y nationality, then we must accept that; and if there are two different solid references with two different nationalities, so be it! One could be defined by the stateless state, the other by the recognised state, and each Wikipedia could decide whether to opt for one or the other or both. If we don't recognise both groups, if we don't change the existing void on Wikidata, then we're on a very, very nasty slippery slope towards political censorship. [[User:Llywelyn2000|Llywelyn2000]] ([[User talk:Llywelyn2000|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:53, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

'''Exactly!''' And as we already have Q188353 / {{Q|188353}} with the description 'Welsh people' = 'nation and ethnic group native to Wales' then a similar property should be created. As Q188353 exists, then so should Property = Welsh people be created. All arguments above that nationality can not be defined for Wales fall down, as we already have that definition. [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 07:48, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

:: We generally don't create properties on Wikidata because there's a specific items. We have millions of items and allow any user to create new items but we keep properties more limited. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 00:42, 16 January 2018 (UTC) 
:::Wikidata properties don't get created because you want a solution to model a single case. If you want to have a solution for a single case, then you have to use the available properites and that's the ethnic group property to store information about who's Welsh. Saying that you don't want to speak about any cases besides the Welsh one, is basically saying that you don't want to contribute any effort for the creation of a property for nationality. That's okay, but it won't help you with getting such a property. [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 00:42, 16 January 2018 (UTC) 
I've been thinking about this a lot in recent months. I think the suggestion for a new property is really the only workable solution here. Running through it all in order -

# This is a hard problem, but it's undeniably important for representing UK people, both now and historically; even without a legally defined concept, we know what it means to say that Gordon Brown was Scottish and David Lloyd George was Welsh, and we know why that's more significant than saying they were both British. We need to work out a good model for it.
# The situation for Wales and Scotland is directly analogous, so whatever solution we come up with will hopefully work for both. It will also hopefully work for pre-1922 Irish people, a similar situation that we don't represent well.
# Identities can be complementary - eg saying you are Scottish does not automatically mean that you reject being British, and different people may prioritise them differently, or use them in different ways at different times. In some cases, stating one and not the other is an explicitly political act which may not be appropriate for us to do. This means we need to be able to record both the formal citizenship ''and'' the national identity..
# The options discussed here are to use {{P|27}}, {{P|172}}, or a potential new property.
# {{P|27}} does not work well because of the complementary nature of the labels - if we do Wales ''or'' UK then we would be making an explicit decision to prioritise one over the other, which is inappropriate for some contexts. If it is Wales ''and'' UK then we get into all sorts of problems with double-reporting and preferred values.
# {{P|172}} is a minefield. These national identities are ''not'' the same as ethnic groups, although historically they did line up a lot, and things will get confused quite fast if we start treating them as such. The property does have "nationality" as an alternative label, but I'm really not comfortable with forcing this concept into a box labelled "ethnic group". 
# So... perhaps the best approach is to restart something like [[Wikidata:Property proposal/Nationality]] - but with an explicit constraint limiting it to only certain specified values, so that we keep it for contexts where that makes sense, ie distinct and widely understood national identities like Welsh, rather than trying to force historic states into the model as well.

Thoughts? I think that the suggested constraint might be the key to making a new property work - it means that we can use it for situations where we know it's appropriate and push back on using it in others, which gets around one of the key problems with the earlier failed "nationality" proposal. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:59, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

:That certainly makes sense! {{Ping|Pigsonthewing|Jura1|Richard Nevell (WMUK)|Mike Peel|RexxS}} [[User:Llywelyn2000|Llywelyn2000]] ([[User talk:Llywelyn2000|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 08:33, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
:: First of all, thank you, [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew]]. I agree with all of the points you make.
:: Can I then recommend that further commentators take the time to read the [[:en:Nationality]] article, especially the ''Nationality versus citizenship'' and subsequent sections, which carefully examines the differences between nationality, citizenship and ethnicity - based on reliable sources and with instructive examples? Please note this distinction: "Conceptually, citizenship is focused on the internal political life of the state and nationality is a matter of international dealings."
:: If you want to consider criteria for constraints, then I suggest that nationality is an appropriate property where international relations indicate that nationality. To be useful, this cannot be simply confined to matters such as passports (mine says "European Union United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"), but should take into account broader concepts such as representation. An obvious example would be international sports teams, which have a variety of categorisations. When I played {{Q|Q5849}}, I would have been eligible to represent my country by playing for the {{Q|Q378628}} and the {{Q|Q733600}}, but I was ''not'' eligible to play for the {{Q|Q599903}}, the {{Q|Q945016}}, or the {{Q|Q822877}}. That eligibility to represent a country in an international sports competition depends on my ''nationality'', not my citizenship, nor my ethnicity. --[[User:RexxS|RexxS]] ([[User talk:RexxS|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:46, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
:::{{ping|RexxS}} Hmm, I think the "international relations" thing here is potentially a bit of a red herring. [[:w:Nationality]] is focused very much on nationality-in-a-state, and in that context the answer would be "British" for us both. The concept of "nationality" we're considering here is briefly touched on in the fourth paragraph of the lead ("In English and some other languages, the word nationality is sometimes used...") but it conflates it with ethnicity, which is a bit confusing. I'm not sure if enwiki has a solid discussion of this or not. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:31, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:: {{ping|Andrew Gray}} The idea that Kant having German nationality is not a widely understood nationality is interesting (there was no historic German state when Kant lived). Could you expand your view of what you think a widely understood nationality happens to be? 
:: What about Italy? Which historic people have Italian nationality and which have Padanian nationality? How do you go about figuring that out? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 19:26, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::: {{ping|ChristianKl}} Apologies, I wasn't clear. I meant to say cases where "multiple nationalities within a single country" is a widely understood concept. I explicitly ''don't'' think we should try and deal with the historic concept of German or Italian 'nationality' in the same way as the contemporary concept of Scottish/Welsh 'nationality'. These are different things and I don't think the same model will work well for both - which is one of the reasons the last property proposal had trouble. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:21, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::::Well, I hope somebody will come up with ''some'' proposal for such cases.  I'm continually frustrated that when I have a major painter described as "Flemish", or even English/Scottish/British from the 17th or 18th or 19th century, I really have no idea how I ought to be represented, and tend to just walk away.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:42, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
::::No, I think you are clear. You want a concept of nationality after which Kant doesn't have German nationality. I'm not sure there's an existing notion of nationality out there that's defined in that way. There's a good chance that it will be misunderstood. 
::::When it comes to the UK nationalities might be more clear but when it comes to Padanian nationality there's a lot more room for debate. The same goes for many modern conflicts. Is South Korea a nation? What about Taiwan? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 23:51, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::The thread opening is, like often in the wikiverse, a bit too anglocentric, thanks Christian for straightening this. There can't be a solution just for the UK, this ain't an english project, this is international, and solutions for such questions have to fit the whole world. And don't give sport as an example, as the UK is in some disciplines the (for me not really fathomable) exemption, as it has special status for it's second-level country entities. <small>(Strangely enough there are all-irish {{Q|762483}} and {{Q|1672803}}, including Northern Ireland.)</small> A solution has to fit Cyprus (north and south, greek and turkish), Russia (lots of nationalities in different kind of autonomy status), Africa (many colonial borders without consideration of ethnicities (aka nations in Europe)) and so forth. No, this is not just about Wales. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 00:14, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

:::::I agree we need an answer for all of these things - I just don't think that the answers will all automatically need to use the same approach! The Wales/Scotland situation is pretty unusual and easily distinguished from most of the other cases, and I had hoped we could deal with that bit seperately and get at least one thing sorted out. Apologies if I've overstepped - I certainly never intended to suggest it was a universal answer for all cases!
:::::So, hmm, let's think about the overall problem as a whole. What sort of ways can people have "nationality" that we might need to describe? I spent a bit of time going over this and I can think of a dozen different things we might want to describe - list below. Some of these we have an easy way to describe, some we don't, but all of them are things we'll probably want to decide how to model. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:10, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

; People from modern states
* '''Case 1''': person from a modern state, with nothing unusual.
* '''Case 2''': person from a modern state, with an unusual type of legal nationality (eg Indian overseas citizenship)
* '''Case 3''': person from a modern state, who also has a distinct national identity within that state (eg Wales in the UK)
* '''Case 4''': person from a dependency/territory of a modern state (eg Faroe Islands, Isle of Man)
* '''Case 5''': person from a region disputed or claimed by two modern states (eg Crimea)
* '''Case 6''': person from a modern state which has declared independence but not been widely recognised (eg Northern Cyprus, Somaliland)
* '''Case 7''': person from a modern state who was previously from a historic state (eg East Germany > Germany)
* '''Case 8''': person from a modern state which has become independent, and was previously from another modern state (eg South Sudan)
* '''Case 9''': person who is stateless

; People from historic states
* '''Case 10''': person from a historic state or territory that formed a modern state (eg Kingdom of France > France)
* '''Case 11''': person from a historic state or territory that is part of a larger cultural group which is associated with a modern state (eg Prussia > Germany)
* '''Case 12''': person from a historic state or territory that has many modern successors (eg Austro-Hungary, Joseon Korea)
* '''Case 13''': person from a historic colonial state or territory (eg British India > India)
* '''Case 14''': person from a period or context without a clearly defined concept of statehood or nationality

What other cases have I missed? Do we need to break any of these down further - particularly #11? [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:10, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
:What's #3 in regard of recognized national minorities, like the {{Q|146521}} or {{Q|106416}} in Germany? What about Scotland as long as there was no national assembly? What was the difference to an autonomous region like Catalan (besides the for me just ridiculous British exceptionalism, they always pretend to be something else from the rest of mankind) and Wales? And there was no Germany before 1871, it was founded then and not before, so nobody from before 1871 could be German. Before were other entities, but not Germany, the thought of one Germany was revolutionary in [[Q3699|1848]]. The same could be said about a lot of regions/nations/ethnicities, there are no clear boundaries between the different case. The only valid case for p27 is #1, and the same for every year in history, ''a state or a territory that formed a modern state'' is completely subjective and sentimental, not encyclopaedic. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 20:50, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

::My (limited) understanding of the Catalan situation is that yes, this fits case #3 - a group with a defined identity as a nation, which is not necessarily ethnicity-based, who are part of a larger state. "Distinct" here is subjective and not legal; it doesn't imply political autonomy.
::We don't have to use P27 for each of these these, but they are all things we should try and understand how to model in some way. "Subjective and sentimental" doesn't mean they're not important to people! To be clear, am I right in thinking that you're saying #1 and #10-13 should all be "use P27:country at the time", so eg {{P|27}}:{{Q|Q27306}} for Kant? [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:08, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
:::The concept of {{Q|42138}} has to be of relevance to the person at the time of their life in the region of their life. Otherwise such stuff makes no sense. So that may be a problem for most colonies: They are artificial countries, usually with borders with no connection to those who lived there and their identities. And I don't care about the legalese of colonist nations, that tried to justify their land robberies;) Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 21:35, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
::::I think I broadly agree with "facts on the ground at the time" for P27 and historic people - it's what I've been doing for the past few years - but it doesn't help us with "why won't Kant show up in a search for German philosophers?", one of the other key issues raised here. Maybe the solution is to make sure these predecessor states are linked in such a way that a query can pick them up? I'm not sure the best way to do that without being very complex, though. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 21:48, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
:::::Kant wasn't German in relation to {{P|27}}, he has written in the German language and was Prussian, with Latvian ancestry. If you put him in a "modern state" (whatever that may be) he could be quite a lot: German, Latvian, Russian at least. Grüße vom [[User:Sänger|Sänger ♫]] <sup> ([[User Talk:Sänger|talk]])</sup> 16:49, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
:The list of cases doesn't say what "from a modern state" means. As far as case 3 goes, does Padanian nationality count? Is there something like an Arabian nationality? Are Han Chinese a nationality? What sort of nationalities does China have? What's the relationship to Taiwanese nationalities?
:If you say that "distinct" is subjective, how do we solve cases where the subjective opinion of different people differs? [[User:ChristianKl|<font color="#0000EE">'''ChristianKl'''</font>]] ❪[[User talk:ChristianKl|✉]]❫ 00:32, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

::Also, to go with "facts on the ground at the time" for P27 and historic people, what about say {{Q|Q83476}} ?   We're currently going with {{P|27}} {{Q|179876}}, but that's anachronistic by at least a couple of generations.  For his father we say {{Q|Q105313}}, but is that still right for Alfred, whose dominion ran somewhat wider?  In some ways one might like to call him an Anglo-Saxon king, but is that something we should code in?
::And how does one manage search discoverability, if one wants to find him in a list of British people?  Is {{P|17}} any part of the answer? My understanding is that, for places etc, P17 should generally point to a ''modern'' country.  Does it make sense to write {{statement|Q105313|P17|Q145}}? (Though that wouldn't help us find kings in England).  I see that at the moment {{Q|105313}} has no value for P17, while for Q83476 we currently have {{statement|Q179876|P17|Q179876}}.  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:08, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Actually, looking at it further, P17 ''doesn't'' necessarily generally point to a modern country.  But (I think) it should be acceptable for it to do so, even in cases where the relationship is an anachronism, if eg qualified with something like {{P|459}} "present-day boundaries".  [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 17:12, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

* {{comment}} Okay, I am looking forward now to the guidance that needs to come out for British subjects of Commonwealth countries prior to 1949—Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.—for the nations when they are nations, and for when they were colonies. Similarly how we will be handling territories, are they of the (mother) nation? or of the territory or both? For these colonies or territories, how will we define whether they are of the colony, or the mother nation? Is it a place of birth? Or a place of belonging, and how will that be determined? This has to be done if this is to be implemented successfully at Wikidata, otherwise we are going to be half pregnant. &nbsp;— [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:90%;">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 03:55, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

::Yes, that's one of the challenges. People from pre-independence US colonies are another thing I'm wondering about (presumably the pre-unification Canadian and Australian territories will have similar issues). [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:21, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

===Source based approach===
We could just try to look at specific sources that state that some is (e.g.) Welsh (and possibly why) and then try to determine the appropriate way to add a statement reflecting that to Wikidata. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 08:07, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

:I'm not sure if the following is what you had in mind, but below is the full set of nationalities retrieved by running the following query on the British Museum's SPARQL endpoint at https://collection.britishmuseum.org/sparql (Note it's not on the federated list, so despite "Try it" below '''this will not run from our own endpoint''').  This is the kind of list of values from sources that (IMO) we ought to be able to benchmark ourselves against, and match.
:{{sparql|query=PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
SELECT (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT(?nat)) AS ?list) WHERE {
# SELECT DISTINCT ?nat WHERE {
   ?subj <http://www.researchspace.org/ontology/PX_nationality> ?nat
} 
ORDER BY ?nat
}}

:I am not sure that either {{P|27}} or {{P|172}} really work consistently for this lot.  Even when modern states exist, it seems to me that identities like "Afghan" or "Trinidadian-and-Tobagonian" do not cleanly match to times when those states might or might not have been in existence as independent entities.  But I don't think this is what people talk about when they talk about "ethnic groups" either -- in the context of the USA for example, "ethnic group" I think would tend to indicate something quite different, at the very least something a list of hyphenated-Americans, rather than a single nationality "American-USA".
:In my view, especially for people, we should cleave quite closely to sources.  If a source claims to be giving a value for "ethnic group" we should use {{P|172}}.  If it claims to be giving a value for nationality, IMO the best way forward would be to use a new property "nationality".  And if there is no source then neither should be used.  That does seem to me to be the best way forward, and I don't think we can jam it into the existing properties.

:Anyway, here's the list:

{{collapse top|title=List of nationalities used by the British Museum}}
:<blockquote>Afghan; American-USA; Anglo-Saxon; Arabian; Argentinian; Asian; Australian; Austrian; Belgian; British; Buddhist; Burmese; Canadian; Caribbean; Catalan; Chinese; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Egyptian; English; Finnish; Flemish; French; Georgian; German; Hindu; Hungarian; Indian; Indigenous-Australian; Iranian; Irish; Israeli; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Kushano-Sasanian; Malaysian; Maltese; Mesopotamian; Mexican; Mongolian; Moroccan; New-Zealander; Ottoman; Persian; Portuguese; Roman; Russian; South-Korean; Spanish; Sri-Lankan; Swedish; Swiss; Syrian; Taiwanese; Thai; Turkish; Turkmen; African; Albanian; Algerian; Angolan; Armenian; Austro-Hungarian; Bahraini; Baluchi; Bangladeshi; Barbadian; Bavarian; Bengali; Bhutani; Bohemian; Bosnian; Botswanan; Brazilian; Bulgarian; Byzantine; Celtic; Chilean; Colombian; Congolese; Coptic; Costa-Rican; Croatian; Cuban; Cypriot; Czechoslovakian; Dominican; Elamite; Emirati; Estonian; Ethiopian; Etruscan; Fijian; french; Ghanaian; Greek; Guatemalan; Haitian; Hawaiian; Hun; Icelandic; Indo-Parthian; Indo-Scythian; Indonesian; Iraqi; Israelite; Italic; Jain; Jamaican; Javanese; Jewish; Jordanian; Kazakhstani; Kenyan; Kurdish; Kushan; Kuwaiti; Latvian; Lebanese; Libyan; Liechtensteiner; Lithuanian; Luxembourgeois; Lycian; Macedonian; Maori; Maya; Meroitic; Meso-American-Pre-Columbian; Mongol; Mozambican; Namibian; Native-North-American; Nepalese; Ni-Vanuatu; Nicaraguan; Nigerian; Norman; North-Korean; Northern-Irish; Norwegian; Nubian; Omani; Pakistani; Palauan; Palestinian; Papua-New-Guinean; Paraguayan; Parthian; Polish; Puerto-Rican; Romanian; Salvadoran; Samoan; Saudi; Scandinavian; Scottish; Serbian; Sierra-Leonean; Singaporean; Slovakian; Slovenian; Solomon-Islander; Somali; South-African; Sudanese; Tajik; Tibetan; Tunisian; Ugandan; Ukrainian; Uruguayan; Uzbek; Venezuelan; Vietnamese; Welsh; Yugoslav; Zambian; Zimbabwean; Zoroastrian; Anatolian; Bactrian; Bahamian; Belarusian; Bruneian; Burkina-Fasoese; Cameroonian; Filipino; Gaulish; german; Guinean; Guyanese; Hebrew; Hittite; Indo-Greek; Kashmiri; Kidarite; Laotian; Madagascan; Malian; Manx; Mauritian; Native-Hawaiian; Numidian; Palmyrene; Panamanian; Peruvian; Phoenician; Phrygian; Qatari; Rwandan; Shan; South-Arabian; Trinidadian-and-Tobagonian; Urartian; Yemeni; Aramaic; Azerbaijani; Belizian; Beninoise; Bermudan; Bolivian; Cambodian; Cayman-Islander; Commagenian; Dalmatian; Djibouti; Ecuadorian; Eritrean; Gambian; Gibraltarian; Honduran; Ivorian; Kiribatian; Malawian; Maldivian; Melanau; Norse; San-Marinian; Saxon; Seychellian; Swahili; Swazilandian; swiss; Tahitian; Tanganyikan; Tanzanian; Tongan; Burundian; Cape-Verdean; Meso-American; Senegalese; Yuezhi </blockquote>
{{collapse bottom}}
:[[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 00:47, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

:{{ping|Yair rand|Pigsonthewing|Máté|Vladimir Alexiev|Pharos}} You all !voted against the previous [[Wikidata:Property proposal/Nationality]].  IMO being recently called out by User:Fram on en-wiki ([https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AManual_of_Style&type=revision&diff=820902371&oldid=820901556 diff]) for the statement {{statement|Q18511480|P27|Q31}} (when the original source said "Flemish") is a wake-up call that it is way past time that we sorted out a way forward to deal with this.  I also don't think it's sustainable, when a source says eg "English painter", to have to look up which one of a seemingly endless number of legal entities may have constituted the UK at that particular moment -- none of which actually code accurately what the source was saying.  Do any of you have a better suggestion, or should we just bite the bullet and open a new [[Wikidata:Property proposal/Nationality (2nd proposal)]], as at least a workable, least-worse, closest-to-the-external-sources option?
:Also pinging {{ping|Jarekt|ArthurPSmith|Blackcat|Marsupium}} {{ping|PKM|Thierry Caro|ChristianKl|Pasleim}} who all also participated in the previous property discussion; and {{Ping project|sum of all paintings}}, since we have particularly strong resources for painters, which may make a useful case-study group to consider what may or may not work. [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 01:15, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
::I have some rough notes on how P27 is currently being used in practice that I'd like to put together first - could we hold off for a little bit on the new proposal? I think it might help us focus better on some of the issues here and while we do have to fix this, we can afford to take a little bit of time over it to avoid getting stuck in a confused discussion about two or three different things. [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]] ([[User talk:Andrew Gray|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:19, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Thanks, Andrew.  Rather than jump straight to a proposal, what I was thinking was perhaps i) canvass for options here, then ii) put those options to an RfA, then iii) propose new properties (or not) based on what comes out of that RfA.
:::I was hoping people might come up with some alternative suggestions, hence the call above. [[User:Jheald|Jheald]] ([[User talk:Jheald|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 13:43, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
::For the record what I said in the discussion of that proposal was {{Tq|"Oppose: I don't think there is sufficient clarity about how this would be used"}}. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">[[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); [[User talk:Pigsonthewing|Talk to Andy]]; [[Special:Contributions/Pigsonthewing|Andy's edits]]</span> 14:41, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{s}} --[[User:Marsupium|Marsupium]] ([[User talk:Marsupium|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 12:23, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{s}} -- Thanks User:Andrew Gray for showing that something very complex can become clear (it took a better mind than mine to define it so logically!) And to User:Jheald for showing that Wales is also recognised by the British Museum as a nation (see list)! I have faith that a better situation than the status quo can be gained, by respecting all parties concerned, and working it out mathematically / logically and not politically! Thanks to all. [[User:Sian EJ|Sian EJ]] ([[User talk:Sian EJ|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:00, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{s}} 100%. It is standard practice in art history and literature at least, to describe artists or writers as “Flemish” or “Italian” when there was no state called Flanders or Italy at that time, but we have what our sources say and that has meaning in context.  Also consider  “Irish” pre-1921. We simply need to define “nationality” the way it is used in these disciplines.  It has nothing to do with citizenship. - [[User:PKM|PKM]] ([[User talk:PKM|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 20:26, 31 January 2018 (UTC) 
:: I am not opposed to a new property; if we have sources that clearly use this term in a way distinct from citizenship or ethnicity, then a new property does seem appropriate. [[User:ArthurPSmith|ArthurPSmith]] ([[User talk:ArthurPSmith|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 16:48, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
*{{ping|Jheald}} I couldn't quite figure why the data you mention assigns the values. I'm a bit reluctant to use a tertiary source that doesn't provide any references as a basis for this. <br/>--- [[User talk:Jura1|Jura]] 13:07, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

== Q7307505 ==

Am I doing this correctly, I have {{Q|Q7307505}}  "part of" {{Q|Q47520018}}? --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 18:28, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
:I would use {{St|P140||Q2136834}}, this seems way too specific. [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  19:24, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
::{{reply to|Sjoerddebruin}} what means « religion » ? is {{Q|2136834}} a set of beliefs {{Q|2136834}} is comited to ? I mean, a member of {{Q|2136834}} is supposed to believe in the texts written by {{Q|2136834}} ? Or is {{Q|2136834}} an organisation that is a member of {{Q|2136834}}, a bigger organisation ? This is definitely not a question of specificity :) <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 19:51, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
:::Is there a better property to link this then? [[User:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">'''Sjoerd de Bruin'''</font>]] [[User talk:Sjoerddebruin|<font color="#325186">(talk)</font>]]  19:53, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
:::: {{reply to|Sjoerddebruin}} Without any answer to my question, hard to know how to best represent the relationship between those two entities. « {{P'|religion}} » seems like a catch all property used like this, but what is it supposed to mean ? 
:::: But actually, looking at it closely, it seems that {{Q|Q47520018}} is created by our good friend richard innocently as a class of church organisation belonging to a territory, so it’s not a whole/part relationship but a class membership one. I don’t think « religion » is any useful here. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 20:50, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
:{{reply to|Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )}} That fits if the smaller church is an organisation that is a part of the bigger one. If there is a formal membership link maybe the organisation property should be used. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 19:51, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
: {{reply to|Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )}} But actually no, it seems that you created this item as a subclass of churches, as you built it. {{Q|Q7307505}} is then just an example of such churches. The relevant relationship is then {{instance of}}, and we get {{Type|Q7307505|Q47520018}}. {{part of}}_links stuffs of the same kind, physical objects to physical objects for example (my arm is part of my body) or kinds of physical object to kind of physical objects (« human arm » to « human body » for example), but never « my arm » to « human body » because « my arm » is a physical object and « human body » is a class of physical object. In the terminology of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%E2%80%93token_distinction type token distinction], tokens are parts of token, tokens are instances of types, maybe parts are parts of type (meaning if type A is a part of type B, an instance (token) of A is a part of a token of B, or A occurs in B maybe). But tokens are never parts of types. <span style="border: 1px #C9C9C9;"><span style="background-color:#E8E8E8;padding:3px;">author&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">&nbsp;[[User:TomT0m|TomT0m]] / </span>talk [[User talk:TomT0m|page]]</span> 20:50, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
::OK, let me see if that works. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 22:25, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

== What tool is available to automate ... ==

Taking the people listed in [[:w:Category:Mayors of Schenectady, New York]] and populating their Wikidata entry with "position=Mayor of Schenectady, New York". I do not want to do it by hand.

* {{comment}} See {{Q|23665536}}. This tool can obtain a list of items from that category, then allow you to add statements against each item in the resulting list. If you want to add references or have a bit more control over what statements are added, take the list of items generated by {{Q|23665536}} and use {{Q|29032512}} to create the statements. [[User:Dhx1|Dhx1]] ([[User talk:Dhx1|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:13, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
::Thanks! I will give it a try later tonight. --[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]] ([[User talk:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|<span class="signature-talk">{{int:Talkpagelinktext}}</span>]]) 23:15, 31 January 2018 (UTC)