(First conversation copied from my talk page. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 21:34, November 18, 2015 (UTC) )
Hi Robin,
Thanks for your help the bdm page is cool. Is there any way to create something like that for other categories, like "Members of Irish Parliament pre-1801"? Thanks, Alberto
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Dustyfingers (talk • contribs)
- That could well be a simple category - and if the person is on Wikipedia it will probably be in place: Category:Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801). More generally, though, the creation of pages like the bdm or the front page listings needs the creation of a Property using Semantic MediaWiki. I'm a mere beginner with that stuff, so I'll copy this discussion to the Forum:Help desk and we can try to get an expert involved. There are sure to be other contributors interested in the answers. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 21:34, November 18, 2015 (UTC)
- We have 14 pages in Category:Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801), while Wikipedia has 550. It would seem to me that we have a lot more person pages to create, rather than farnarkling around with more pointless infrastructure (are people querying for these topics?). Thurstan (talk) 20:11, November 19, 2015 (UTC)
Here is my current list of outstanding problems, for our contributors who are bored with creating new pages:
Category | Number of pages | Comments |
---|---|---|
Category:Married same sex | 694 | Usually one member of a couple has the wrong sex set, however for some User:Bergsmit pages, both members are broken, due to a bug in the /info conversion |
Category:Person articles requiring maintenance | 1,653 | pages requiring ifmarried-gN to be set to true |
Category:Upgraded from info page | 2,724 | this category should have disappeared years ago! Pages need to be checked and errors introduced in the conversion process, especially place links, need to be fixed |
Category:Error in death info | 6 | a subset of the above, which typically have a stray comma in a date field |
Category:Globals missing- person | 30,559 | another category which should be empty |
Category:Not father's child Category:Not mother's child |
8,375 6,102 |
"reflexivity" problems: User:Thurstan is currently working through these |
Thurstan (talk) 20:29, November 19, 2015 (UTC)
- I'm impressed that we have 14 of those MPs. Plenty of work for anyone who wants to improve the quality of the wiki, as Thurstan has noted above, along with a question-mark-removal procedure that I mentioned on a Watercooler forum recently. However, when keen contributors such as Dustyfingers want tables for a minority interest we can happily point to pages such as Query and Help:SMW and invite them to create tables and even new properties. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 23:28, November 19, 2015 (UTC)