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Wikidata weekly summary #509

22:58, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).

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Hello, can you create this article in English?: Evangelical Council of the Canary Islands or Consejo Evangélico de Canarias. You can build on this: Consejo Evangélico de Canarias (spanish). It is an item equivalent to Islamic Federation of the Canary Islands. I can't do it myself because I'm an anonymous user. All the best.--87.223.151.56 (talk) 18:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't really do religious articles. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:21, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #510

21:15, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #511

22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Happy first edit day!

{{u|Sdkb}}talk 05:03, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

  Happy First Edit Day, Mike Peel, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Isro! (talk) 16:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #512

15:59, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello! Often, when I'm editing an article and notice a {{Commons category|catname}} template, I attempt to add catname as the Commons category (P373) to the corresponding Wikidata item, then remove it from the template. I believe this is desirable wherever possible and usually works as intended. However, in the case where a specific Commons category is associated with both a list related to category (P1753) and a corresponding category related to list (P1754), the Commons category only seems to be retrieved for the list article. For instance, both List of International League stadiums and Category:International League ballparks have the same associated Commons category (P373), International League stadiums, but a {{Commons category}} template without a catname only retrieves it for this article's page -- not this category's. Is there something else I need to do in order to retrieve the proper category for both? Waz8:T-C-E 00:08, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

@Waz8: Hi, thanks for the message, and thanks for working on this! In general it's best to avoid P373 (the template here doesn't use it, the sidebar only uses it as a fallback, and I'm trying to get it deleted), and better to set the sitelink to Commons under 'Multilingual sites' - which normally goes with a 'Category' item on Wikidata, or the 'Topic' or 'List' item where the 'Category' one doesn't exist. Where there is 'Category related to list', the code here follows the link to the category item. So it looks like it was working fine in List of International League stadiums. The issue was with Category:International League ballparks - which wasn't linked to from Wikidata, I've fixed that with this edit and it looks OK to me now - does it look right to you? For more background, you might find wikidata:User:Mike Peel/Commons linking useful, and I'm always happy to help with issues here. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 07:29, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Yes, it looks fine. I made the same change to the Wikidata item for Category:Pacific Coast League ballparks that you had made to the one for Category:International League ballparks and, after I added {{Commons category}} to that English Wikipedia category, the proper Commons category was shown and linked. Thanks for the explanation -- I'll use this method now. Ironically, I was using the entries under Multilingual sites when I started making Wikidata edits. One day, someone who had made thousands of Wikidata edits (but not a bot) changed the Commons sitelinks that I had added among several pages to P373 entries. So, I figured that was the proper way to enter them and started doing this instead. Thanks for putting me back on the proverbial correct track. I will bookmark your tips on Commons linking for future reference.
As for the deletion discussion, that is way beyond my minimal understanding of how Wikidata works, so I won't comment there. However, feel free to use this as a case to illustrate the confusion that having both a P373 property and a Commons sitelink can create for beginner Wikidata users. Waz8:T-C-E 20:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #513

19:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)