Understood. Is there an existing Phab ticket for this somewhere? If not I can create one.
Thanks, Pine On Aug 2, 2016 01:25, "Lydia Pintscher" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Wikidatans, > > > > On Commons, I have been seeing some puzzling Wikidata edits appearing in > the > > properties for Commons files on my watchlist. > > > > For example: for File:Ada Lovelace portrait.jpg (Q736316) I see the edit > > (Created claim: Property:P18: Chalon Portrait of Queen Victoria - > 1837.jpg; > > Added reference to claim: Property:P18: Chalon Portrait of Queen > Victoria - > > 1837.jpg) > > > > This portrait of Ada Lovelace is decidedly not a portrait of Queen > Victoria. > > Upon further investigation, I see that the artist for both paintings is > the > > same. Still, why is this edit appearing for File:Ada Lovelace > portrait.jpg? > > I don't know why I should be seeing this edit on my watchlist for the > > Lovelace portrait. > > > > Similarly, for File:John Jay (Gilbert Stuart portrait).jpg (Q100), I see > on > > my Commons watchlist (Language link added: eml:Boston). Further > > investigation reveals that Boston was the place of death of artist > Gilbert > > Stuart. > > > > Can someone clarify why these Wikidata edits would be appearing in my > > watchlist on Commons? These edits appear to be related to the artists > rather > > than to the image files. > > > > I do have "Show Wikidata edits in your watchlist" checked, but I would > think > > that this would refer to Wikidata edits about the files themselves or the > > original artwork from which the photos were derived, rather than the > artist > > who created the artworks from which the files on Commons were derived. > > Noting that the artist who created a particular image also created > another > > image that we have on Commons seems to be particularly far-removed from > > information that I need to know as someone who would be interested in > > knowing about Wikidata changes about the particular file that I'm > watching > > (as opposed to the Wikidata information about the artist.) > > Data from the item for the artist and Boston are included in the file > pages. So changes to those pages can have an influence on the file > page and are therefore shown to you. (The granularity of the change > tracking is not good enough to tell those cases apart from the ones > where it isn't useful meaningfully.) We need to improve this but I > don't have the plan yet for how to do it properly. > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Product Manager for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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