Welsh Wikipedia links

[sjorford]

e.g. https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/person/116500 links to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanishka_Narayan
but there is also a article on the Welsh Wikipedia
https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanishka_Narayan

The Wikipedia titles wouldn't always be the same so they would have to be stored separately

[symroe]

WikiData has these two links:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q126852903

But oddly as the title, not URL.

[sjorford]

Right, that's the way WIkidata stores cross-wiki links, by site code ("cywiki") and label ("Kanishka Narayan"). You can also get things like Wikiquote ("enwikiquote") and Commons ("commonswiki"):

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q391437

I guess building the URL from the code and label is simple enough. In theory do we only need to store the Wikidata and build the desired URLs ourselves?

[symroe]

I imagine we'd need to figure out how they slugify the titles and implement that.

The other thing is: will we have WikiData IDs for everyone with >1 Wikipedia install? I don't have a good sense of how Wikipedia and WikiData interact in that way

[sjorford]

It is possible to have a Wikipedia page without a Wikidata item - this is an incomplete list from enwiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_without_Wikidata_item

Ultimately there's no reason why any missing Wikidata items couldn't be created - basically any person notable enough to have a Wikipedia should have a matching Wikidata. The linking is done from the Wikidata side: