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Problems in writing

Hello.

1. In some languages, when adding aliases to "Also known as" whe writing be "left to right", reverse correct
2. Why can not we include special pages except "LanguageStats"?
3. What is the reason of the slow opening of Special:Tags

Please resolve.Thank you --ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 09:02, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2: Hello, thanks for your questions. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that I really understand what you mean.

1. Do you have more specific examples? Which items, which statements, which languages?
2. I don't understand your questions. Which special pages you want to add, and where?
3. Indeed, it is a bit slow to load, because there are a lot of tags and a lot of changes.

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 15:16, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Interestingly, the task about slow Special:Tags has been closed very recently. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:34, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

1. Arabic, Persian and others
2. I want to include "Special:Statistics" in my page

Thank you --ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 10:21, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

References: online sources

As I understand it I should use the title of a whole website (and not the title of a specific page or an article on that website) as title of my online source. When I use an article in a book as source, I'd use the title of the article as title and I would add a published in reference for the book. Since online sources in general are much more voluminous than books I'm not sure I really got it… Why shouldn't I create an item for the website? Thanks, --Stefan Nagy (talk) 18:33, 29 April 2017 (UTC)

I think you should ask at WD:Project chat or Help talk:Sources. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 11:44, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

OK, I'll try that. Thanks! --Stefan Nagy (talk) 12:58, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Add more language codes

I'm working on history of religions and I (will) often need to tag assertions with an obscur (i.e. extinct or liturgic) language. For example, I want to add "Mani (Q203922) <nickname (P1449)> Mar Mani hayya <language (P2439)> syc", but the Syriac (Q33538) language (an extinct dialect of aramaic) is not available. Can someone please add it to the list of available languages? And/or explain how to ask efficiently (I foresee several such queries in a near future)? — nojhan (✐) 22:09, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Someone on the IRC channel indicated the right page to me: Help:Monolingual_text_languages (which has all the necessary information).

This request is now on Phabricator: Add monolingual language code syc — nojhan (✐) 11:41, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Infobox and Wikidata

Several infoboxes like en:Template:Infobox World Heritage Site are now directly linked to Wikidata. Is there any tutorial explaining how such linking can be achieved? Projects like Wikidata:WikiProject Informatics/Programming Language, Wikidata:WikiProject Informatics/Data Structure etc. have already achieved the mapping of various properties to infobox items. But currently direct linking has not been tested (as far as I know). Thanks Jsamwrites (talk) 09:44, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

@Jsamwrites: Is Template:Infobox World Heritage Site a lua infobox ? This is the first question to answer.

There is 2 ways to creates infoboxes using WD data:

• you use current templates in wikitext and you insert special code to extract and display data from WD. In that case look at en:Template:Wikidata to know how to use the special code.
• you create a new indobox using lua and you can program in the code the data extract from WD. For that case you have to find the instructions in your WP. Snipre (talk) 12:01, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Mike Peel has done a lot of good work in this area; he may be able to point to documentation, or examples. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:36, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

@Jsamwrites: It's still somewhat experimental, and I'm afraid there isn't a tutorial explaining how to do so yet, but Wikidata-driven infoboxes are now possible. :-) My canonical example is en:South Pole Telescope, where the entire infobox (en:Template:Infobox telescope) is filled out from Wikidata (as are a number of the articles on the telescope in different language Wikipedias). The code to do so varies quite a bit between the different Wikipedias, though. On the English Wikipedia, en:Module:WikidataIB does most of the heavy-lifting, but en:Module:Wikidata, en:Module:Wd, and templates like en:Template:Coord also are useful depending on the datatype. Calls to these modules are made in-situ within the normal infobox code; other projects use Lua code to create each infobox, which is rather more complex.

Most of the work isn't actually in enabling Wikidata in the infobox, thought: it's identifying the correct Wikidata properties to link against, making sure there's community consensus to implement Wikidata, and then working through each article that uses the infobox to migrate the data to Wikidata. So if you're interested in migrating an English Wikipedia infobox, then I would be happy to help migrate the infobox code, if you can identify the Wikidata properties to be linked to, and can work on the migration of the infobox information in the articles to Wikidata. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 23:34, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Mike Peel for your reply. It's a very good approach and has the potential to help Wikipedia (infobox) in other languages. Jsamwrites (talk) 13:20, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Tooltips

If I hover the mouse over an item on my watchlist a tooltip appears with the item/property description. However, if I do the same on an item page, then only the q-number is displayed. Is that expected behavior?--Micru (talk) 14:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Hey Micru, thanks for noticing. It doesn't look like a bug, more like something we could improve :) Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk) 07:42, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

It would definitely be useful to be able to reveal the description, given that we are encouraged not to put disambiguation in the labels, only the descriptions. Jheald (talk) 22:15, 10 May 2017 (UTC)