Thank you for your answer, Jane. I had not thought about the fact that some professions could be better represented than others. I imagined that the mapping between Wikipedia and Wikidata was ultra-automated. It's very interesting.
2017-09-01 19:34 GMT+02:00 Osma Suominen <osma.suomi...@helsinki.fi>: > Thank you Jane and everyone else for your speedy responses. Postponing the > creation of Wikidata entities for newly created Wikipedia articles that may > turn out to be short-lived makes total sense. So we will simply create the > corresponding Wikidata entities manually in cases like this. > > -Osma > > > Jane Darnell kirjoitti 01.09.2017 klo 16:36: > >> Checking the history of that page shows it was recently created. Not sure >> how the Finns do this but like the Dutch they probably have a bot that >> creates Wikidata items after a month or so has passed (this avoids creating >> items for things that get deleted through the "speedy delete" process). You >> can create the item yourself, or wait another month I guess. >> https://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Teuro&action=history >> >> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Osma Suominen <osma.suomi...@helsinki.fi >> <mailto:osma.suomi...@helsinki.fi>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> This may be a total newbie question, sorry about that! >> >> While linking YSO places to Wikidata we have stumbled on a few cases >> where there is a Wikipedia article about the place we want to link, >> but that page has no Wikidata link visible. And it seems that >> Wikidata itself does not contain that entity. >> >> An example is the village Teuro in Tammela, Finland. It has a page >> on the Finnish Wikipedia: >> https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuro >> <https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuro> >> >> But that page has no Wikidata link. A search for "Teuro" in Wikidata >> gives a few hits, but none of them represent the village. >> >> What's the correct way to correct this? I found this guide: >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Linking_Wikipedia_pages >> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Linking_Wikipedia_pages> >> >> But I'm not 100% it addresses this exact situation. How did this >> happen in the first place? My naïve understanding was that every >> normal article in Wikipedia would have a corresponding Wikidata >> entity, but apparently that's not entirely true! >> >> -Osma >> >> >> -- Osma Suominen >> D.Sc. (Tech), Information Systems Specialist >> National Library of Finland >> P.O. Box 26 (Kaikukatu 4) >> 00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO >> Tel. +358 50 3199529 <tel:%2B358%2050%203199529> >> osma.suomi...@helsinki.fi <mailto:osma.suomi...@helsinki.fi> >> http://www.nationallibrary.fi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > -- > Osma Suominen > D.Sc. (Tech), Information Systems Specialist > National Library of Finland > P.O. Box 26 (Kaikukatu 4) > 00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO > Tel. +358 50 3199529 > osma.suomi...@helsinki.fi > http://www.nationallibrary.fi > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
_______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
