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Tracking Per Parameter of Templates integrated with Wikidata

Has anyone explored integration metrics or tools to look at Wikidata coverage of associated template parameters? The category Category:Templates using data from Wikidata helps to track if a Template relies on Wikidata and there is a per parameter template for tracking value intersections with Wikdata values with Template:WikidataCheck, but what about measure of coverage per template?

I'm interested in a presentation of existing Templates integrating Wikidata ie Category:Templates using data from Wikidata (to start) to get an overview of opportunities of where improvements in templates and Wikidata integration could be pursued. Tracking progress periodically could give metrics of adoption of Wikidata and for cross Wikipedia and Wikidata integration adoption. After tackling tracking of existing Templates currently relying on Wikidata it may be worth creating a category for with parameters with potential Wikidata integration.

Example table headers to begin monitoring (if something similar does not exist currently).

Template name	Number of parameters	# of parameters using Wikidata	# of parameters not in scope of Wikidata	# of Wikidata parameters with Template:WikidataCheck	# of in scope parameters missing Template:WikidataCheck	Net change in supported parameters	Last update

The value in this is to identify cases where Templates adopt Wikidata, but lack tracking categories exposed on EN Wikipedia for maintenance. Such as Template:C-SPAN adopting Wikidata in 2019, but not tracking the corresponding value in Wikidata and over 6,000 entries were not in Wikidata for P2190.

This parameter tracking could be an extension of Category:Templates tracking Wikidata with finer resolution counting the parameters of the template and if that parameter implements Template:WikidataCheck.

Discussion Prompts

How would a template editor exempt a parameter from Wikidata's scope vs being treated as missing?

Should there be an parameter to exclude parameters from tracking as potential integrations with Wikidata or should another approach be used?

Does tracking per parameter sound like something this project would find valuable?

What modifications or other considerations might be warranted? Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 17:00, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Also tracking like this could include or extend Template:EditAtWikidata. Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 17:14, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Centralize this talk page?

Can we make this talk page redirect to Wikipedia talk:Wikidata? They seem to have duplicate scopes. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 05:48, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

I'd agree that merging thre two is probably sensible given the high sccope overlap and relatively low discussion volume here. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 04:22, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Tring to find info and don't know where better to ask

I know that strictly this page is for discussion of this project, but I have spent a lot of time trying to find what should be a simple to find piece of info and can't find it anywhere; please help if you can. I already asked this question of a busy person at Wikidata because that seemed like a good idea, but got no answer yet. I need to know what the Pn for the description of entities on Wikidata is. For example; the description of Buke and Gase is "American musical duo"; what is the Pn for that property please? Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 07:17, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Maybe you will eventually get the (same) answer from them. There is nothing like Pn (or "Pid") for descriptions. They are stored as descriptions, not claims/statements, and therefore have no Pn. So {{Uses Wikidata}} is not applicable here (unless you can indicate the usage another way). --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 14:25, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Ah, well, thank you. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 16:37, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

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Technical help needed

If you know how to deal with infoboxes, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#break d. Thanks. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:50, 4 November 2023 (UTC)