Supplying this information as a use case -- from my personal Wikipedia editing.
For editathons held in NYC via our local Wikipedia chapter, I do a scrub for edits that includes Commons and Wikidata edits. I use the *Global contributions (GUC)* interface (https://tools.wmflabs.org/ guc/?user=BrillLyle) Which can be found on Wikipedia: - Wikipedia's User page - Left side selection: User contributions -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BrillLyle - or on-Wiki link Special:Contributions/BrillLyle. The GUC collocates usage data. Regarding your item #2 (first section): The thing I do a lot is update Authority control data that shows up on Wikipedia as "only" the template {{Authority control}} but displays information that is updated on Wikipedia. Twitter links are also done this way {{Twitter}} is input on Wikidata, as are quite a few others that were automatically migrated by bots. Best, - Erika *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>* On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Andrew Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I’m a PhD student/researcher at the University of Minnesota who (along > with Max Klein and another grad student/researcher) has been interested in > understanding the extent to which Wikidata is used in (English, for now) > Wikipedia. > > There seems to be no easy way to determine Wikidata usage in Wikipedia > pages so I’ll describe two approaches we’ve considered as our best attempts > at solving this problem. I’ll also describe shortcomings of each approach. > > The first approach involves analyzing Wikipedia templates to look for > explicit references (i.e. “#property:P<some number>”) across all templates. > For a given template containing a certain property reference, we then > assume that the statement corresponding to the Wikidata property is used in > all Wikipedia pages that transclude that template. However, there are two > clear limitations to this approach: > > 1. If we assume that the statement corresponding to the Wikidata > property is used in all Wikipedia pages that transclude that template, this > results in a sort of upper bound on the number of actual property usages in > Wikipedia. However, we have no sense of what the actual usage looks like > since each template has its own set of logic and, whether or not a given > property would get rendered in Wikipedia is dependent on that (sometimes > quite complicated) logic. A possible way to get a sense of usage would be > to sample a small set of random pages (that use templates using Wikidata) > and manually look up whether or not the Wikidata statement for the given > Wikidata item <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Items> is exactly > the same as that rendered in the corresponding Wikipedia page. If it was, > then we might assume the property is being used. Of course, this is not a > perfect approach since it's possible that a Wikidata statement is used in > Wikipedia but it is formatted differently in Wikidata versus in Wikipedia > (e.g. a date is rendered using a different format). > 2. This approach does not account for Lua modules, which can be > referenced from within templates. The modules can (and sometimes do) > contain code that supplies Wikidata to Wikipedia pages that are transcluded > by the given templates containing the module references. Without > understanding and accounting for the logic in all Lua modules that use > Wikidata, it does not seem possible to actually know which Wikidata > properties are being introduced to Wikipedia pages through this method. > > > The second approach involves expanding (using the MediaWiki API, see > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Expandtemplates) already transcluded > templates into HTML tables in two ways: 1) in the context of the > appropriate Wikipedia page and 2) out of context of the appropriate > Wikipedia page (e.g. in my own sandbox). It’s my understanding that if the > Wikipedia page uses Wikidata, then that Wikidata should show up in the > expansion if the template is expanded in the context of its page, and not > when expanded elsewhere (e.g. in my sandbox). We would then check to see if > there is a difference between the two expansions by html diff-ing. The > difference between the two expanded templates would presumably be due to > Wikidata. Of course, there are limitations to this approach as well: > > 1. It's possible that a Wikipedia contributor manually entered in data > (into a transcluded template) that exactly matches data in Wikidata and > thus, the expansions would be the same across the diff-ing — Wikidata would > not be recognizable in this case. > 2. Once we identify (through diff-ing) where Wikidata is being used in > expanded templates, it's not obvious what specific Wikidata > properties/statements were used. In other words, "linking" Wikidata to > corresponding html (table) rows in an expanded template seems challenging. > > > Any insight about how we can approach this problem would be greatly > appreciated! > > Thanks, > Andrew Hall > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
_______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
