Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Wikidata/Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article

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Autosuggest linking Wikidata item after creating an article

Problem: Someone creates an article in Language A Wikipedia, but he does not know there is already the same article in Language B Wikipedia (often a smaller language version), so no Wikidata linkage is made. I have seen many cases between Chinese Wikipedia (zh) and Cantonese Wikipedia (yue).
Proposed solution: After creating an article in Wikipedia, there would be a popup which guides the user to link the Wikidata item. The system will search if there is the same name or similar name of sitelinks already existing in any Wikidata item, if so, the results are listed and the user has to judge whether it is suitable to link. If no existing Wikidata is suitable to link, user can also choose to create a new Wikidata item immediately.
Who would benefit: Wikipedia article creators in all languages
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Kwgulden (talk) 11:06, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This wish has a project page. Please consult it for development updates. –– STei (WMF) (talk) 10:54, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Comment Just to add here from the perspective of the Wikimedia Enterprise team: That variations of this suggestion have been made to us during our conversations with some large-scale commercial organisations who re-use Wikipedia content. They would also like to see greater connectivity between WD and WP and feel this would improve the quality of their products (which, ultimately, improves quality of Wikimedia knowledge which is reaching the general public via those services). This should not be seen as a factor in community-driven technical prioritisation, but is to point out that this wishlist item would be desired by third-parties, too. LWyatt (WMF) (talk) 14:39, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Jklamo (talk) 18:46, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Adding sitelinks to new articles is a huge problem that this would significantly help with. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:51, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Simeon (talk) 19:12, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bluerasberry (talk) 19:52, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Arnd (talk) 20:19, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support CLalgo (talk) 22:02, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 22:23, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Kusurija (talk) 22:30, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jheald (talk) 23:27, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Betseg (talk) 02:25, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ottawajin (talk) 04:46, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Higa4 (talk) 06:25, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JopkeB (talk) 07:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dhx1 (talk) 07:10, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 𝑇𝑚𝑣 (𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘) 07:28, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Afernand74 (talk) 09:01, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Siddhant (talk) 11:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — মো সোহানুর রহমান (talk) 11:50, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Spiros71 (talk) 13:16, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 13:22, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Smasongarrison (talk) 13:48, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support HLFan (talk) 15:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aca (talk) 15:46, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mbrickn (talk) 16:23, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support daSupremo 17:02, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Saliousoft (talk) 17:39, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Epìdosis 21:00, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Douglasfugazi (talk) 21:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support josecurioso ❯❯❯ Tell me! 00:47, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 07:27, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ameisenigel (talk) 09:24, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support The search should consider other similarities besides names of sitelinks, such as which existing articles, images, external references or categories (excluding catch-all categories with hundreds of unrelated pages) the new article links to. If the new article has no links yet and no suitable matching name, I would recommend postponing creation of the new Wikidata item. SM5POR (talk) 10:20, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Amadalvarez (talk) 14:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Titore (talk) 18:51, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Qwerfjkl (talk) 19:53, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 23:58, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JPxG (talk) 01:04, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 09:18, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ariadacapo (talk) 10:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support FenyMufyd (talk) 11:39, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 12:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hb2007 (talk) 15:25, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Simple and logical proposal to fix a continuing problem. ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:50, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bencemac (talk) 18:07, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daud Iffa (talk) 22:38, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Labdajiwa (talk) 03:15, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support H78c67c (talk) 04:14, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Z423x5c6 (talk) 05:20, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alaa :)..! 08:29, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support KAMEDA, Akihiro (talk) 12:14, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bietels (talk) 14:38, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 15:45, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Silver hr (talk) 20:04, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Krol111 (talk) 20:59, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --MarieVirtuElle (talk) 01:51, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Example for the pop up; also see Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Wikidata/Creation_of_new_objects_resp._connecting_to_existing_objects_while_avoiding_duplicates; --M2k~dewiki (talk) 06:37, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rotavdrag (talk) 11:09, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Giacomo Alessandroni ^{let's talk!} 14:54, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Paucabot (talk) 16:06, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 14:24, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 20:42, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dave Braunschweig (talk) 23:45, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kpjas (talk) 13:31, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great idea! Pdreijnders (talk) 16:46, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lutzto (talk) 17:26, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ealdgyth (talk) 17:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Rita2008 (talk) 17:53, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Exilexi (talk) 18:06, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support So long as the autosuggest did not encourage Wikipedia creators to select inaccurate matches (such as confusing an address entry with a building entry which has the same name). Inaccurate linking would surely reduce quality/value for everyone, and lead to more cleanup work being required. Bobulous (talk) 19:24, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 23:06, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vulp❯❯❯here! 09:22, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 10:47, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Kowlooner (talk) 13:55, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I am a man (talk) 14:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Redalert2fan (talk) 14:51, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I agree with the idea, but if Wikimedia Enterprise team is in it already then it's probably for the best to let them handle it.C933103 (talk) 16:23, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 16:43, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 04:01, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rzuwig^► 12:18, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ChimMAG (talk) 12:36, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vincent Vega ^msg? 12:37, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tom Ja (talk) 18:19, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support CrystalBlacksmith (talk) 03:32, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support paul2520 (talk) 16:49, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Suonii180 (talk) 17:30, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support BugWarp (talk) 00:27, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bodhisattwa (talk) 09:38, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 23:47, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Marcok (talk) 07:27, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support katpatuka (talk) 08:46, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — DaxServer (t · c) 14:51, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hroptatyr (talk) 05:57, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 12:58, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]