Wikivoyage:Wikidata Expedition Voyage Tips and guide

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The Wikidata Expedition is a Wikivoyage Expedition to foster data sharing between the English Wikivoyage and the other Wikimedia projects, via Wikidata.

A link from a Wikipedia article to the same-topic article in other projects (such as Wikivoyage) is normally provided by Wikidata. Click "Wikidata item" from the sidebar "Tools" menu on a Wikipedia page to open the corresponding data record (for instance, Montreal is on Q340). Scroll down to the "Wikivoyage" section to add the language code (English is "en") and article name (Montreal) for Wikivoyage's article. (Oui, celà va sans dire that Wikivoyage en français has an article on Montréal, so that will be listed too - with "fr" as the language code for the French language.)

• Category:Articles without Wikipedia links (via Wikidata), (on 2018.01.26 was 2450). Currently - 2730
  • Check again for Wikipedia link there could be one new, maybe merge of different Wikidata objects due to wording or language variations.
  • Consider creating a Wikivoyage page and adding content information or adding w:Template:Wikivoyage redirect to create w:Category:Redirects to Wikivoyage. (but limit)
• Wikivoyage articles without Wikidata entry (on 2018.04.28 was 158)
  • Either:
    • Find Wikipedia page that matches and add the Wikivoyage article to its Wikidata page
    • Search on Wikidata too, there may not be an English Wikipedia page but could existing in other languages (particularly language of destination) or other WikiProjects
  • Or:
    • Create new Wikidata item.
• City articles with wikidata coordinated more than 10 km away from the article's geo coordinates
  • Based on Category:Articles Geo different to Wikidata. A good number of cities were either Wikidata coordinate is wrong or the Geo entry on Wikivoyage is wrong, or a little bit off at least.

See Wikivoyage:Links from Wikipedia#Links to listings

• Category:Banner missing from Wikidata
  • Add the image to the page banner entry on Wikidata
• Category:Listing with Wikipedia link but not Wikidata link
  • Add |wikidata= code to {{Listing}}.

Wikidata contains some errors, let's do our part and help fix them.

Fortunately, Wikidata detects probable errors and list them in "violations" pages:

• Constraint violations report for coordinate location
• Constraint violations report for capital

Also page names change and not always updated automatically

• Category:Redirects connected to a Wikidata item, (on 2018.04.29 was 360), (on 2018.05.01 was 377), (on 2018.05.01 was 591). Currently - 2593
  • Can Wikidata point to another Wikivoyage article, if not delete Wikidata entry referencing Wikivoyage.

Coordinates for Wikivoyage article page but none in Wikidata

• Category:Articles with no Wikidata coords, mainly regions or locations with no Wikipedia page.

Some articles don't have an equivalent on Wikidata.

Wikivoyage articles without Wikidata entry (on 2018.04.28 was 158)

• either
  • Find Wikipedia page that matches and the add Wikivoyage article to its Wikidata page
  • Search on Wikidata too, there may not be an English Wikipedia page but could existing in other languages (particularly language of destination) or other WikiProjects
• or
  • create new Wikidata item.

Category:Articles without Wikipedia links (via Wikidata), (on 2018.01.26 was 2450). Currently - 2730

• Check again for Wikipedia link, maybe merge of different Wikidata objects due to wording or language variations.
• if not
  • Consider creating a Wikivoyage page and adding content information or adding w:Template:Wikivoyage redirect to create w:Category:Redirects to Wikivoyage. (but limit)
  • And then add Wikipedia page to Wikidata object of Wikivoyage page

• Use {{RelatedWikipedia}} (with rel=y option) on Wikivoyage page to create link(s) to the Wikipedia pages.

It is not possible on Wikidata to link to the same article multiple times

• Consider Extraregion or Disambiguation page on Wikivoyage if a region level article on Wikivoyage does not make sense. Link this to the Wikidata object of the Wikipedia page.
• Create a Wikidata entries for the Wikivoyage pages
• Use {{RelatedWikipedia}} on Wikivoyage pages to create link to the Wikipedia page.
• Add Wikivoyage template on the Wikipedia page multiple times or if created Extraregion page add Wikipedia page to Wikidata object.

• either
  • Create listing in Wikivoyage article for the Wikipedia articles with Wikidata information
  • Consider placing Wikivoyage template on the Wikipedia pages
    • See Wikivoyage:Links from Wikipedia#Links to listings
• or
  • Use {{RelatedWikipedia}} multiple times on Wikivoyage page to create links to the Wikipedia pages.

These articles can probably not benefit from Wikidata, they should be left as-is:

e.g.Discover, Star articles, Travel news/2004

They will be moved to a separate namespace or Commons as soon as possible:

e.g. Soltau/Gpx

• Nicolas1981 (talk) 01:58, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Traveler100 --Traveler100 (talk) 09:12, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• SHB2000

• Wikivoyage:Cooperating with Wikidata