On 19.01.2013 15:33, Lukas Benedix wrote:
> The Special:ItemByTitle is not useful because of
several reasons:
It is indeed not intended to be very useful to humans (use
Special:ItemDisambiguation instead). Its purpose is to back a URL scheme that
lets you address a Wikidata item using the title of the corresponding Wikipedia
article. So, if you don't know the item ID of Helium on Wikidata, you can still
link to it using
http://wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ItemByTitle/enwiki/Helium
> 1. it is not obvious that by clicking
"Item by title" you get a search
It is, indeed, not a search. It's an adressing scheme.
2. the
search box is calles 'Page', the headline is 'Item by title' and it
searches for something called 'Label'
It does not search for labels. Labels are completely ignored by ItemByTitle. It
serches for a link to a Wikipedia page. I agree that it is confusing to mix
"Page" and "Title" here. Use Special:ItemDisambiguation if you want to
search by
label.
> 3. the box for Language is called site
It *is* the site. If you pick "German" it means "search for links to the
German
language Wikipedia". It does not mean "search labels in German" - that
would be
what Special:ItemDisambiguation does. Maybe the selection should not say
"German", "English", etc, but rather "en.wikipedia.org",
"de.wikipedia.org", etc.
> 4. you haveto enter a language before
searching for a title
Yes. Because this special page is only for finding the item that corresponds to
one specific wikipedia page (say, the page "Moon" on
en.wikipedia.org). There
either is one, or none.
5. you
only get one result or nothing (I expected a list of all Items with
the given label
in the given language)
Again, that's what Special:ItemDIsambiguation does.
-- daniel
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Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.