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MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties - move external-ids to MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedPropertiesIDs

As of today MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties contains 12880 lines. The section "== IDs with datatype "external-id" ==" starts at line 3304.

Separating the external-IDs to a new page MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedPropertiesIDs provides for:

• diffs, each focused on only one of the sets
• talk pages, each concerning only one of the sets
• shorter pages
• optional special treatments of the sort mechanisms,
  • e.g. external IDs could be sorted by English label by default, or any other language specified somewhere. Tthe language does matter less here, since the ID labels sort mostly the same, independent of language, Romance languages have the order "identificator XYZ", Germanic languages often "XYZ identifier", so sorting by English would sort by XYZ, by a Romance language it would first group by "identificator" - but the English sort logic would be understandable.
  • if external IDs fall into the group "=== Other IDs with type "external-id" - alphabetical order ===" (9281 lines) - they could potentially be removed from that page completely
  • the list of external IDs on item pages could optionally show the titles of the section's used to group the IDs and make reading the list easier.

Maybe also other output apart from HTML can benefit. OSMan2025 (talk) 16:19, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi OSMan2025, thanks for the detailed suggestion. The property order system doesn't parse wikitext transclusions, so splitting the content while maintaining functionality isn't straightforward. This would also be a significant technical change for what appears to be minimal improvement. Are there specific parts in there that are particularly difficult to work with? We'd be happy to explore more targeted solutions for those. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 09:59, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

changing label/description on same item (in another tab) gives duplication error

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T76703

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T106456

This is practically a non-issue but I'll raise it anyway.

If one opens the same item twice, as to have it open in two tabs, and you change the label or description in one, then again in the other, you recieve the error:

"Could not save due to an error. Item Q12345 already has label "xyz" associated with language code en, using the same description text"

This is technically incorrect as it is the exact same Q item that has the same label or description. Whether this is worth anyones time to fix, or even how to fix it, can be up to anyone who works on the code for this project. :) Tæppa (talk) 23:22, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Tæppa. Thanks for writing here. This is actually on our radar. See the linked tickets above. -Mohammed Abdulai (WMDE) (talk) 15:09, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Error in Wikidata:Pywikibot - Python 3 Tutorial/Big Data?

The example "Selecting Items by Template Usage" fails when a page in the category is not connected to a Wikidata item. The message is "NoPageError: Page wikidata:-1 doesn't exist". It's in the documentation that NoPageError exists, but not what to do about it. Is there something that can be added to make it continue past it, or to list the page with no Wikidata ID, or to skip any page not connected to Wikidata? Peter James (talk) 18:17, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

For example using WikibaseItemFilterPageGenerator. I put it there for demonstration. --Matěj Suchánek (talk) 15:06, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Latest Wikidata dump file in bz2 seems incomplete

Hi,

The latest-all.json.bz2 dump file hosted at https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/ seems to be incomplete.

Could someone please confirm whether this is a known issue or if the dump is still being generated?

Thank you for your help. ~2025-42701-27 (talk) 16:36, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

On a related note. Based on this note from the Arch distro Could you switch from using Bzip2 to using ZStd? Should both compress better and utilize multiple CPU cores better. The Bzip2 format predates multi-core processors by about a decade. Edit: The choice of compression format had an existing ticket at phab:T222985. Infrastruktur (talk) 18:57, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

There is an issue with the "latest" links. It is being tracked in phab:T412726. Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) (talk) 10:59, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata statement input box keeps asking for password details

I'm not sure how to explain this. When I am entering statements using the usual Wikidata user interface sometimes my browser decides this is a box for my password or login details and offers to enter my password for Wikidata, or my email login details. I'm using Safari 18.6 on MacOS Ventura. I've tried it on two different machines. It started doing this a couple of weeks ago and it's irritating. Secretlondon (talk) 13:59, 31 December 2025 (UTC)