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URL redirector for P12393

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For IFOPT stop ID (P12393), I thought it’d be good to point users to an authoritative database with current and complete data for these external identifiers. However, there’s no such global database, and the existing country-specific databases seem very incomplete outside their respective countries. To work around this, I’ve implemented an URL redirector in a few lines of Python, running on Toolforge. Is anyone here interested in becoming a co-maintainer for this tool? I don't expect much work, but it would be good to have some co-maintainers in case I get hit by a bus :-) --Sascha (talk) 16:46, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sascha: You can add me, though I'm not sure I'll be able to help much. I run the generic redirector that some properties use here so it's definitely related. Specific ones like this are probably better though. My Toolforge username is 'apsmith'. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:03, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, added you as a co-maintainer. —Sascha (talk) 13:16, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to mark topics on my talk page as resolved?

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One user recently reverted my edit where I tried to put a [RESOLVED] to my original title. Should I instead put it at the top? What am I allowed to change on my own talk page? Is there a guide? SuperUltraHardCoreGamer (talk) 13:04, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I got help. The suggestion to use Template:Section resolved but how do I actually use that? If you check I asked about this earlier on the talk page of that page. Anyone here knows? SuperUltraHardCoreGamer (talk) 14:07, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like you worked it out. If so, you can also mark this topic as resolved.  :)
BTW, We generally allow users great latitude in how they organize their own user and talk pages, but you should be aware that changing a section heading will break any links to it, but it should not (as I understand it) disrupt subscriptions made via DiscussionTools (Q94698747). Bovlb (talk) 16:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do have an unorthodox idea: Instead of having a normal title I'd have a link title ie. This is the title. The title would always link to my userpage. If I want to close it I simply change the title even though the link is the same: [RESOLVED] This is the title. I just came up with it. Can I do that on my talk page? This link will be the title basically or will the links still break after the change? I find that the Template:Section resolved is not visible in the Table of Contents and I think it would be cool if someone can immediately see in the toc if some topics have been resolved or not. Is that possible or is Template Section Resolved the best we can do? SuperUltraHardCoreGamer (talk) 17:14, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to represent fractions e.g. to say which proportion of the Nobel Prize each person won without resorting to floating point numbers?

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The Nobel Prize can be given to multiple people with different weights to each, e.g. 1/2 to one and 1/4 to two others.

But currently this is not modeled as far as I can see.

I tried to add a qualifier proportion (P1107) e.g. to the award received (P166) of John Vane (Q309971) but my issue with it is that fractions that 1/3 are not allowed, I'd have to use floating points numbers like 0.333333 which is ugly.

Is there any better way? Cirosantilli2 (talk) 07:45, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A prize amount may be divided, but all recipients are laureates. The other recipients are recorded by qualifier together with (P1706). Trying to record the ratio of prize amounts would be rather confusing. Jklamo (talk) 09:15, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Q49481656

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For Dahl Playfield (Q49481656), everything is referenced to a nonexistent GNIS record. No idea what we are supposed to do with that. - Jmabel (talk) 16:55, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the problem is more general than I thought: same issue for GNIS record for Woodland Park (Q49582806). - Jmabel (talk) 22:20, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Need to merge to items

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Hello,

I am working on the English Wikipedia. I wanted to get the article ru:Калюка to link to all the other articles about that subject, by linking to en:Willow flute. I unlinked the Russian article from kalyuka (Q4229054) and linked it to willow flute (Q1685320). On the English-language Wikipedia, I merged en:Kalyuka into en:Willow flute; however I don't know how to finish the process. Right now kalyuka (Q4229054) is linked to a redirect page. Jacqke (talk) 22:14, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, moved the ruwiki sitelink back to kalyuka (Q4229054) and added a badge intentional sitelink to redirect (Q70894304) to the enwiki sitelink which enables interwiki linking. For the future you can find instructions at Wikidata:Sitelinks to redirects. Samoasambia 11:03, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AGB, Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen (Q34582) wouldn't allow adding T&Cs for English language

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The item seems to be blocked by a rarely populated term (merely three languages in wikidata Q5165703) the T&Cs redirects to in English Wikipedia. This causes no language link for English language showing up in German Wikipedia lemma Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen at all, and also Allgemeine_Geschäftsbedingungen not showing up as Language link in English Wikipedia entry T&Cs. Seem I can't fix that, Wikidata wouldn't let me add the English Wikipedia lemma T&Cs to Q34582. Not sure whether the English Wikipedia redirection from T&Cs to the more general Contractual term is proper at all, causing the trouble in the first place here. Please could somebody more experienced fix this issue, so the T&Cs English Language link shows up in German Wikipedia Lemma Allgemeine_Geschäftsbedingungen? --92.117.131.30 00:31, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish entries overwriting english entries

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Hi everyone,

twice now I've stumbled upon english labels with spanish entries:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q682496&diff=prev&oldid=2279578863

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q80689&diff=prev&oldid=2279508631

I can't quite find the reason as to why this happened

(see https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q80689&diff=prev&oldid=1018414241)

,but found that both changes that undid it were reverted:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q682496&diff=prev&oldid=1337956303

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q80689&diff=prev&oldid=1765167231


There might be a systemic issue/reason behind this. Any help appreciated TimBorgNetzWerk (talk) 12:08, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just looks like vandalism that was discovered way too late. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 13:17, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To merge?

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Can you merge Q20009218 and Q99984255, please? The museum and the maze are the same attraction, compare itwiki and enwiki. Elena Tartaglione (talk) 14:16, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Elena Tartaglione: thanks for the report, you can merge them directly using the Merge gadget as explained in Help:Merge#Automatic merge. You can write me if you have doubts of course. Epìdosis 16:26, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Moana 2

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Moana 2 is a big budget film being released this week, see Q124457266. Except it's actually two films being released on the same day, one in English and one in te Reo Māori Q36451.

Since they're being released on the same day by the same company, this is technically not a dub since there is no 'original' (which is the terminology that ever definition of 'dub' I've seen uses), although I admit there's a 'main'. imdb only has the main one. How do I represent this as a second item? I have assembled some links and done created some items for cast, see User:Stuartyeates/Moana 2. Stuartyeates (talk) 20:52, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are these actually two separate films that have different visuals or is this one Film with two different audio tracks? i.e. do they actually animate the characters' faces differently when they are speaking Maori than English? If the video is the same and the score is the same, etc. but the only difference is the audio, then it's not two different films any more than a film being released in color and black-and-white is two different movies or an album being released in mono and stereo is two different albums. —Justin (koavf)TCM 21:05, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The differentiation between these is unclear, as they haven't been released yet. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:10, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Teaser at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHRxReah68 suggests different animation. Stuartyeates (talk) 22:58, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting merge assistance

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The wikidate page Operazione Riva Ridge (Q3883998) had been created back in 2013 about a WWII battle involving American & Brazilian troops against Germans, likely in support of the it.wikipedia article on that war. (Until now no English version of that article exists, to my surprise, & I have been collecting material to fix that oversight.) However, not knowing about this earlier article, I created a wikidata page about the same battle -- Battle of Mount Belvedere (Q124217523). I tried using the merge tool to merge the two pages, but that failed. Can someone with more experience than I have merge the two?

COI note: My father was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in this battle. -- Llywrch (talk) Llywrch (talk) 23:44, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done The problem is that they each had their own itwiki sitelink, one a redirect to the other. The trick was to delete the redirect one before merging. Bovlb (talk) 01:25, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Property proposals

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Audio tour

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There is a element page for an audio tour see Q758877 but not yet a property.Thats why I would like to suggest of the creation of a property tag for a audio tour. Audio tours are used in for example a museum. Brechtd (talk) 05:13, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Augmented reality tour

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There is a element page for augmented reality tour see Q254183 but not yet a property.Thats why I would like to suggest of the creation of a property tag for augmented reality. Augmented reality is used for interactive experience of a real-world environment enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information spatially registered to the user's environment. Brechtd (talk) 05:18, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Virtual reality tour

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There is a element page for virtual reality tour reality see Q170519 but not yet a property.Thats why I would like to suggest of the creation of a property tag for virtual reality. Virtual reality is a computer-simulated environment simulating physical presence in real or imagined worlds. Brechtd (talk) 05:39, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Modify P5282 360 degree view

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Now you can only use a URL for P5282 "ground level 360 degree view URL" , I would like to suggest that in addition to using a URL for this property, I would suggest allowing the use of a link to an app (App store, Google play, ...). Brechtd (talk) 08:11, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic on how to propose new properties. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:06, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
So if you want to modify an property you also need to start a new proposal, right? Brechtd (talk) 21:48, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I had a look @ the following, it said "Before a new property is created, it has to be discussed here."
Property proposalBefore proposing a property, search the Wikidata:List of properties to see if it already exists. Before a new property is created, it has to be discussed here. When after some time there are some supporters, but no or very few opponents, the property is created by a property creator or an administrator.

See Wikidata:Property proposal. Brechtd (talk) 09:31, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #655

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ISBN --> QuicksStatements

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I'm sure we have a SourceMD-like took for generating QS statements from an ISBN, but can't find it. Please can someone remind me where it is? Searching for "isbn" at WD:Tools got no results. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:28, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe there's any open database of ISBN metadata, and I don't remember any such tool existing. I could certainly be wrong on this though. ArthurPSmith (talk) 21:16, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
citoid (Q21679984) populates reference templates from a given ISBN. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:16, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I guess you're looking for Zotero. You and Mike are the only reason I even know about that tool. Infrastruktur (talk) 15:57, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, but no, I was looking specifically for a Wikimedia-movement tool. Zotero will be my fall-back. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:42, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cronjobs at PAWS

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I'm possibly going to be running a pywikibot bot weekly on PAWS soon (BRFA, input is appreciated), and I wondered whether it can be automated, i.e. if there is no alternative to manually starting it up every week? The normal way to do this would be with cron, but it appears to not be installed, and users don't have the permissions to install it. I figured I'm probably not the first person to try to run code at fixed intervals on PAWS, so there's probably a solution. Is there one? — Alien  3
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19:30, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PAWS is not ideal for scheduled jobs. Typically, such jobs run on Toolforge. —MisterSynergy (talk) 20:33, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the information! — Alien  3
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20:46, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Automatic addition of signatures and ratifications of UN treaties

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I posted about this at WikiProject International relations. Since the last post there is from 2021 and the advice I’m seeking could mostly be provided by anyone with a good grasp of Wikidata policies and ontologies, without specific expertise about treaties, I’m posting here to reach a wider audience. Any advice would be much appreciated. Joriki (talk) 16:22, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Modeling assumption" being a subclass of "lemma" is nonsensical and give rise to surreal inclusion chains

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In the last edition of The Open Wikipedia Ranking we noticed some very weird results. We rank Wikipedia pages using standard centralities measures, and then let the user select subsets corresponding to Wikidata. As we explain in the FAQ, since 2024 the best theorem on Wikipedia is "Conspiracy Theory", which makes no sense. The problem lies in the subclass relationship between "modeling assumption" and "lemma", which causes absurd chains such as foreign policy ⊆ public policy ⊆ policy ⊆ principle ⊆ axiom ⊆ lemma ⊆ theorem, or conspiracy theory ⊆ reductionism ⊆ simplism ⊆ modeling assumption ⊆ lemma ⊆ theorem.

We tried to deprecate the faulty subclass relationship, to no avail. It should be removed, as it is simply not true. Lemma and theorem in mathematics are interchangeable, but a modeling assumption is certainly not a lemma. And subclass causes a semantic collapse of a very large number of concepts into being transitive subclasses of “theorem”. Sebastiano Vigna 18:16, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was actually able to remove the subclass. Let's see if it comes back... Vigna (talk) 12:09, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Vigna: If you have any further issues of this sort I'd suggest raising it with Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology which deals with anomalies in the subclass tree. ArthurPSmith (talk) 12:57, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Three is a crowd ... so how to fix?

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I would like to link the page Foo and the category Foo on some project to the the category Foo on Commons. That is ofcourse not possible. When I can't have both I need to chose. But who to pick? Is there a good practice for match making?

The relevant pages are Category:Printedition (Q33697781) and Wikinews:Print edition (Q33124259). I could chose to link the category to c:Category:Wikinews Print Edition - English because the files are in English and do the same for the Persian category.

I had this problem many times before and I always gave up and thought someone else would probably fix it but it would be nice to know how to solve such matching problems. MGA73 (talk) 11:50, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know which data type to take with proposal there are several possibilities that fit

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I am preparing a proposal for Audio tour

But have the problem that multiple data types can be used for this property proposal, so don't know how I should handle this.

Sometimes the audio tour can only be listened to on site, e.g. the MSKGent where there are several audio tours included in the museum ticket.
Another time one uses a site with multiple podcasts describing a city and where you can download them as mp3 or listen to them live via URL see e.g. vienna
In addition, you have museums that use an app for an audio tour

So then you need something that can indicate whether you can only listen to the audio tour physically on site, whether you can download it e.g. as an audio file,
further whether there is a URL to a podcast or the like and lastly whether you need to use an app to listen to the audio tour.

Can anyone tell me how best to approach this? Thanks in advance. Brechtd (talk) 17:31, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think you needed to have created one proposal, not three, properly fleshed it out, and invite discussion there, rather than come back here. Once your proposal is ready we'd be notified of it by the weekly message system. Vicarage (talk) 22:55, 28 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merging or deletion needed

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I created Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (Q131343177) without realising it already existed under Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (Q124536127). I ported over all the data, so Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (Q131343177) should be kept and Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (Q124536127) should be removed. Can anyone help? Edo999 (talk) 10:05, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

→ ← Merged RVA2869 (talk) 10:25, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That was quick. Thank you! Edo999 (talk) 10:26, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

how to describe new objects 'studio equipment', 'lighting equipment', 'camera accessory'

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For an archive system we need objects that describe what technical equipment was used to produce a film. Camera, lens, tripod, etc. already exist and can be used perfectly. But then there are a lot of smaller pieces of equipment that need to be grouped together. We are thinking of generic items such as 'studio equipment', 'lighting equipment', 'camera accessory', etc.

I assume I need to create these objects. What properties should I use? As a subclass of 'equipment' Q10273457 ? Any other ideas? Thanks! Graefestrasse (talk) 11:14, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My first thought would be uses (P2283). Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 21:57, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There's also captured with (P4082) for describing which equipment was used to create a work, although that's best used for cameras, microphones and the like.
But I think @Graefestrasse's question is more about how to create/model new objects for generic groups of things that are used in the same context (but not necessarily for the same immediate purpose)? woodworking tool (Q11789812) kind of goes into a similar direction, maybe that could help a bit? El Grafo (talk) 15:15, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ethical Considerations: home addresses

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When describing a historic home that is still in use today what are the Wikidata guidelines for including a home address? H.Crummey (talk) 16:27, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure we have a policy, but for listed buildings in the UK at least their address is part of the public listing information, and so could be considered to be acceptable inside WD. For houses that are not architecturally notable, but historically so, as once the residences of famous people, again the public Blue Plaques (famous person lived in this London house) have addresses, suggests that addresses are not private information. I'd not include celebrity trivia, but if a building its considered notable enough to feature on WD, its address can be recorded. Vicarage (talk) 20:09, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Okay that is a helpful clarification. Thank you. H.Crummey (talk) 23:56, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for DOB

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I'm a Wikipedia editor and done very little directly in Wikidata, but I have noticed this a couple of times, when trying to check on things or find a source, and wonder if it has been discussed before. Over on WP, the rules about stating and citing dates of birth for living people (see en:WP:DOB) are very stringent, and specifically exclude IMDb as a reliable source. I have noticed over here that the references for DOB often don't live up to the same standards, for example see Antoinette Byron Q5697422. Refs are Spanish Wikipedia (which does not cite the DOB at all) and IMDb. (I have been trying to untangle Antoinette from Annie Byron, which had become partly confused over there.) This seems to be a problem if editors are picking up info from Wikidata that is not reliable. Thoughts, anyone? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:31, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata is still basically the Wild West. There are scant policies and guidelines, lax enforcement/oversight of these, and most people seem to operate on the wild west model of "anything goes until someone shoots you and steals your horse, and then things get done differently for a while." Consensus, if found anywhere, tends to arise in the bowels of talk pages, merely to be quickly archived and rarely seen again. Also, much like like Wikipedia, Wikidata cares not one iota about truthfulness, but verifiable data for the sake of data, right or wrong. You might find some items have a half dozen different birth dates, each sourced to references of various levels of credibility and reliability. Nobody in their right mind should ever assume that the info on Wikidata is necessarily true, accurate, complete, or up to date. -Animalparty (talk) 03:28, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that's partly the result of the scale of the task, and the paucity of volunteers. Personally I avoid working on people, but when I'm sorting out naval history, I want to get every ship with a smattering of information in 2-3 years, not spending a lifetime crafting one ship a day. I expect others, especially bots, will come along and add references to the facts I copy from wikipedias, based on the 3rd party links I also add.
12 years into the project, and still with gaping holes in coverage, I think comprehensiveness trumps accuracy, especially as machines can check and document the latter given the former. Vicarage (talk) 06:04, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New property proposal - Bing Maps ID

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I'm proposing a new Wikidata property for Bing Maps ID. This property would allow linking Wikidata items to specific Points of Interest (POIs) on Bing Maps. Please review the proposal and share your feedback. Your input is valuable! David Osipov (talk) 09:57, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Info thank you, Lewis Hulbert , for stressing out that the ORSIDs are temporary IDs of Bing maps POIs. Please, ignore this proposal for now - I'll try to find a permanent ID of Bing maps. --David Osipov (talk) 10:53, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semantic Scholar Id

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How can I get Semantic Scholar Id Seemadarade (talk) 13:57, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Seemadarade: If you mean to obtain one for yourself, you'd need to go to their website and ask them. If you mean something else, please clarify your question. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:04, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Allowed-entity-types constraint

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Hi everyone, I am new-ish to wikidata and describing commons uploads on wikidata. What is the allowed-entity-types constraint? For example on File:2022 Australian federal election Wright alluvial diagram.svg and commons:File:World War II Allies to Axis GDP Ratio.svg.

On the alluvial diagram pages (one for every seat) I have office contested (P541): member of the Australian House of Representatives (Q18912794), with qualifier electoral district (P768): Wright (Q2594455) (or whatever seat it is)

On the allies to axis chart, I have category combines topics (P971): World War II (Q362) & economics (Q8134)

Both of these say allowed-entity-types constraint, saying "The property should not be used on this type of entity, the only valid entity type is Wikibase item.". Can someone explain? I have tried reading the help pages, although I don't really understand still. Is it because they are images not items? How would I otherwise describe these in a structured data way, or should I just be not going that deep with it? MarkiPoli (talk) 15:02, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge of Q74524855 and Q71538638

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Recently, User:Daask merged most frequent value (Q74524855) (before: "most frequent value") and most frequent value (Q71538638) (before: "generally used form"). I wonder if that was right since Q7452455 was defined as being a facet of (P1269) point estimation (Q1192065), while Q71538638 was a facet of (P1269) name (Q82799). What do you think? Dorades (talk) 16:48, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if point estimation (Q1192065) should have been there, but Q71538638 was originally only about forms of a name, not for other values, although it was being used in other ways, in some cases where Q74524855 would have been better. Peter James (talk) 20:48, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have this Wikidata:Property proposal/role named as but for movies?

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I was recently notified about Wikidata:Property proposal/role named as which is about video game credits. Do we already do something like this for movie cast in how their roles appear in the movie credits? SuperUltraHardCoreGamer (talk) 10:21, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Date of Women and Men vote suffrage

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We can probably use Wikidata to store the date when women+man suffrage was introduced by each country.

How to do that? Where to discuss this?

At the moment I'm proposing something like this.

To say Australia=1902 and Switzerland=1990 we could do:

Thanks for your opinion dear Wikidata hackers --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 13:28, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. thanks to "Nikki" for the above tip from Wikidata Telegram chat https://t.me/c/1224298920/137467 Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 13:30, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]