User:Jan Dittrich (WMDE)/designNotability
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Wikidata in its first phases has two main goals: to centralize interlanguage links across Wikimedia projects and to serve as a general knowledge base for the world at large. An item is acceptable if and only if it fulfills at least one of these two goals, that is if it meets at least one of the criteria below:
- It contains at least one valid sitelink to a page on Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikispecies, Wikiversity, or Wikimedia Commons.
- To be valid, a link must not be a talk page, MediaWiki page, special page, file, translations page, pages in User or Draft namespace, pages used by LiquidThreads (i.e. pages in Thread and Summary namespace), pages used by Flow (i.e. pages in Topic namespace) or portal subpage.[1][2][3][4] Note that a single Wikimedia page cannot have more than one sitelink in Wikidata and that a sitelink cannot point to a redirect.[5]
- If a link is a template, the item must contain at least two such sitelinks, and any of them must not be one of /doc, /sandbox, /testcases or /TemplateData subpages. Items for non-subpages can be created with 1 sitelink, but shouldn't be created in great numbers.
- If a link is a subpage of a module, it must not be a /doc page.[6]
- In addition, an item with only a sitelink to a category page in Wikimedia Commons is not allowed on main article items. However, it is allowed to link Wikimedia Commons categories with categories in other Wikimedia sites in items.[7]
- On Wikisource, items for mainspace pages, Author pages, Translation pages, and Portal pages are valid, along with items for namespaces that exist on other Wikimedia sites (Category, Project...). Pages in the Index and Page namespaces are not considered valid. The status of subpages of mainspace pages (for example, individual chapters) is undetermined.[8]
- On Wikinews, pages in the Comments namespace are not considered valid.
- On Wikidata, items and properties are not allowed to link as sitelinks.
- It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references. If there is no item about you yet, you are probably not notable.
- It fulfills some structural need, for example: it is needed to make statements made in other items more useful.
See also
edit- Wikidata:Notability/Exclusion criteria, a list of Wikimedia pages that are not considered automatically acceptable in Wikidata.
- Wikidata:Notability/Inclusion criteria, a list of items that have been considered acceptable, in accordance to the general guidelines above.
- MediaWiki interface namespace (Q18889113)
References
edit- ↑ Request for comment: Inclusion of non-article pages
- ↑ Request for comment: Inclusion of non-article pages 2
- ↑ Request for comment: Exclusion of pages in the file namespace
- ↑ Drafts are excluded per Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2013/12#Draft name space and Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2014/05#What do do with Wikipedia:Draft articles.
- ↑ Currently, the community has chosen to have redirects allowed, although the necessary changes have yet to be deployed on Wikidata.
- ↑ Request for comment: Interwiki links for subpages
- ↑ Request for comment: Commons links - Addendum 2
- ↑ Discussion: Wikidata talk:Wikisource#Notability, and other preparations for Wikisource deployment