Wikidata Expedition

The Wikidata Expedition is a Wikivoyage Expedition to foster data sharing between the English Wikivoyage and the other Wikimedia projects, via Wikidata.

How to help

Associate Wikivoyage articles to Wikidata entries

A link from a Wikipedia article to the same-topic article in other projects (such as Wikivoyage) is normally provided by Wikidata. Click "Wikidata item" from the sidebar "Tools" menu on a Wikipedia page to open the corresponding data record (for instance, Montreal is on Q340). Scroll down to the "Wikivoyage" section to add the language code (English is "en") and article name (Montreal) for Wikivoyage's article. (Oui, celà va sans dire that Wikivoyage en français has an article on Montréal, so that will be listed too - with "fr" as the language code for the French language.)

Open issues

Category:Articles without Wikipedia links (via Wikidata), (on 2018.01.26 was 2450). Currently - 2728
- Check again for Wikipedia link there could be one new, maybe merge of different Wikidata objects due to wording or language variations.
- Consider creating a Wikivoyage page and adding content information or adding w:Template:Wikivoyage redirect to create w:Category:Redirects to Wikivoyage. (but limit)
Wikivoyage articles without Wikidata entry (on 2018.04.28 was 158)
- Either:
  - Find Wikipedia page that matches and add the Wikivoyage article to its Wikidata page
  - Search on Wikidata too, there may not be an English Wikipedia page but could existing in other languages (particularly language of destination) or other WikiProjects
- Or:
  - Create new Wikidata item.
City articles with wikidata coordinated more than 10 km away from the article's geo coordinates
- Based on Category:Articles Geo different to Wikidata. A good number of cities were either Wikidata coordinate is wrong or the Geo entry on Wikivoyage is wrong, or a little bit off at least.

Associate Wikipedia articles with Wikivoyage listings via Wikidata

See Wikivoyage:Links from Wikipedia#Links to listings

Category:Banner missing from Wikidata
- Add the image to the page banner entry on Wikidata
Category:Listing with Wikipedia link but not Wikidata link
- Add |wikidata= code to {{Listing}}.

Fix the Wikidata data

Wikidata contains some errors, let's do our part and help fix them.

Fortunately, Wikidata detects probable errors and list them in "violations" pages:

Also page names change and not always updated automatically

Category:Redirects connected to a Wikidata item, (on 2018.04.29 was 360), (on 2018.05.01 was 377), (on 2018.05.01 was 591). Currently - 2593
- Can Wikidata point to another Wikivoyage article, if not delete Wikidata entry referencing Wikivoyage.

Coordinates for Wikivoyage article page but none in Wikidata

Category:Articles with no Wikidata coords, mainly regions or locations with no Wikipedia page.

Policy for articles for which no direct equivalent exists in Wikidata

Some articles don't have an equivalent on Wikidata.

Case 0: Wikivoyage page does not have a Wikidata object

Wikivoyage articles without Wikidata entry (on 2018.04.28 was 158)

either
- Find Wikipedia page that matches and the add Wikivoyage article to its Wikidata page
- Search on Wikidata too, there may not be an English Wikipedia page but could existing in other languages (particularly language of destination) or other WikiProjects
or
- create new Wikidata item.

Case 1a: Wikipedia does not have an article for this, but should

Category:Articles without Wikipedia links (via Wikidata), (on 2018.01.26 was 2450). Currently - 2728

Check again for Wikipedia link, maybe merge of different Wikidata objects due to wording or language variations.
if not
- Consider creating a Wikivoyage page and adding content information or adding w:Template:Wikivoyage redirect to create w:Category:Redirects to Wikivoyage. (but limit)
- And then add Wikipedia page to Wikidata object of Wikivoyage page

Case 1b: Wikipedia does not have an article for this, but are similar related topics

Use {{RelatedWikipedia}} (with rel=y option) on Wikivoyage page to create link(s) to the Wikipedia pages.

Case 2: Wikivoyage is more granular than Wikipedia

It is not possible on Wikidata to link to the same article multiple times

Consider Extraregion or Disambiguation page on Wikivoyage if a region level article on Wikivoyage does not make sense. Link this to the Wikidata object of the Wikipedia page.
Create a Wikidata entries for the Wikivoyage pages
Use {{RelatedWikipedia}} on Wikivoyage pages to create link to the Wikipedia page.
Add Wikivoyage template on the Wikipedia page multiple times or if created Extraregion page add Wikipedia page to Wikidata object.

Case 3: Wikipedia is more granular than Wikivoyage

either
- Create listing in Wikivoyage article for the Wikipedia articles with Wikidata information
- Consider placing Wikivoyage template on the Wikipedia pages
  - See Wikivoyage:Links from Wikipedia#Links to listings
or
- Use {{RelatedWikipedia}} multiple times on Wikivoyage page to create links to the Wikipedia pages.

Case 4: Meta-information

These articles can probably not benefit from Wikidata, they should be left as-is:

e.g.Discover, Star articles, Travel news/2004

Case 5: GPX tracks

They will be moved to a separate namespace or Commons as soon as possible:

e.g. Soltau/Gpx