On 19.01.2013 15:33, Lukas Benedix wrote: >> The Special:ItemByTitle is not useful because of several reasons:
It is indeed not intended to be very useful to humans (use Special:ItemDisambiguation instead). Its purpose is to back a URL scheme that lets you address a Wikidata item using the title of the corresponding Wikipedia article. So, if you don't know the item ID of Helium on Wikidata, you can still link to it using http://wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ItemByTitle/enwiki/Helium >> 1. it is not obvious that by clicking "Item by title" you get a search It is, indeed, not a search. It's an adressing scheme. >> 2. the search box is calles 'Page', the headline is 'Item by title' and >> it > searches for something called 'Label' It does not search for labels. Labels are completely ignored by ItemByTitle. It serches for a link to a Wikipedia page. I agree that it is confusing to mix "Page" and "Title" here. Use Special:ItemDisambiguation if you want to search by label. >> 3. the box for Language is called site It *is* the site. If you pick "German" it means "search for links to the German language Wikipedia". It does not mean "search labels in German" - that would be what Special:ItemDisambiguation does. Maybe the selection should not say "German", "English", etc, but rather "en.wikipedia.org", "de.wikipedia.org", etc. >> 4. you haveto enter a language before searching for a title Yes. Because this special page is only for finding the item that corresponds to one specific wikipedia page (say, the page "Moon" on en.wikipedia.org). There either is one, or none. >> 5. you only get one result or nothing (I expected a list of all Items >> with > the given label in the given language) Again, that's what Special:ItemDIsambiguation does. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
