Wikidata:WikiProject Interwiki
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Let's connect all the wikis…
The goal of this project is linking Wikidata items with wiki articles outside of the Wikimedia ecosystem. Niche wikis frequently offer more in-depth content compared to general online dictionary articles, although their quality can vary significantly.
Let's assess the available wikis, their subjects, and how well they are kept up to date.
The following properties should ideally be present on every item describing a wiki:
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| instance of | P31 | Item | instance of: required to express that the item is about a MediaWiki wiki | <instance of> MediaWiki instance | - |
| inception | P571 | Point in time | date of establishment: when the wiki was founded. Can usually be found by checking the first revision of the main page. | <inception> 12 February 2020 | - |
| language of work or name | P407 | Item | language: usually each MediaWiki instance has a single language but some wikis have multiple | <language of work or name> French | - |
| main subject | P921 | Item | topic, matter and subject: what is the wiki about. Multiple values are possible | <main subject> hitchhiking | statement is subject of |
| copyright license | P275 | Item | license: usually, articles in a wiki are published under a specific licence. | <copyright license> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International | - |
| copyright status | P6216 | Item | copyright status: required with copyright license property. | <copyright status> copyrighted | - |
| operator | P137 | Item | operator: organisation or person hosting the wiki. Often a company that operates a wikifarm like Miraheze (Q42671570), wiki.gg (Q114405360), Fandom (Q17459) | <operator> Miraheze | item operated |
| member of | P463 | Item | member and group member: can be used to express that the wiki is part of a network | <member of> Gaming Wiki Network | - |
| software engine | P408 | Item | software engine: will be MediaWiki for most wikis. Use software version identifier (P348) as a qualifier to indicate which software version is being used. | <software engine> MediaWiki | - |
| programmed in | P277 | Item | programming language: will be PHP and/or Lua for MediaWiki-based wikis. Use software version identifier (P348) as a qualifier to indicate which version is being used. | <programmed in> PHP | - |
| official website | P856 | URL | official website and home page: URL where the wiki can be found | <official website> https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/ | - |
| API endpoint URL | P6269 | URL | web API: URL of the API endpoint. Usually but not always under examplewiki.com/w/api.php | <API endpoint URL> https://stowiki.net/w/api.php | - |
| number of registered users/contributors | P1833 | Quantity | The number of (active) users of a wiki. This information can be found on /Special:Statistics in a standard MediaWiki instance, but should ideally be kept up-to-date by a bot. | <number of registered users/contributors> 123772 | - |
| number of parts of this work | P2635 | Quantity | part of a work: Can be used to express how many articles are in a particular wiki, when used with the unit wiki page (Q111279923). Can be found on /Special:Statistics in a standard MediaWiki instance, but should ideally be kept up-to-date by a bot. | <number of parts of this work> 71807 wiki page (Q111279923) | - |
| registration page URL | P11904 | URL | registration page: Found at /Special:CreateAccount on MediaWiki-based wikis. | <registration page URL> https://www.mariowiki.com/Special:CreateAccount | - |
| login URL | P11903 | URL | login page: Found at /Special:UserLogin on MediaWiki-based wikis. | <login URL> https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin | - |
| privacy policy URL | P7101 | URL | privacy policy: Usually found at /Project:Privacy_policy on most MediaWiki-based wikis, if not hosted on an external website. | <privacy policy URL> https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Project:Privacy_policy | - |
| search formatter URL | P4354 | String | URL format string and search URL: web page search URL; URI template from which "$1" can be automatically replaced with the string to be searched for. $1 can be whatever you want. | <search formatter URL> https://examplewiki.org/w/index.php?search=$1 | - |
→ Further properties on WikiProject Websites
Deprecation reasons[edit]
When a community moves, some statements might be 
deprecated. Here are possible values for the reason for deprecated rank (P2241) qualifier:
| Title | ID | Data type | Description | Examples | Inverse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| reason for deprecated rank | P2241 | Item | Wikibase reason for deprecated rank: if a community has moved to a different instance and the hoster decides to leave the original wiki online | <reason for deprecated rank> wiki instance is abandoned | - |
| reason for deprecated rank | P2241 | Item | Wikibase reason for deprecated rank: if a wiki has been closed | <reason for deprecated rank> this wiki has been closed | - |
| reason for deprecated rank | P2241 | Item | Wikibase reason for deprecated rank: if a wiki has been disabled | <reason for deprecated rank> this wiki has been disabled | - |
| reason for deprecated rank | P2241 | Item | Wikibase reason for deprecated rank: used for urls that only redirect to a different url | <reason for deprecated rank> URL redirection | - |
Properties for linking articles[edit]
Participants[edit]
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