Abstract Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Core articles

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There should be articles for Q-numbers linked to project space pages on this wiki, so that guidance documents have an abstract content equivalent. Arlo Barnes (talk) 21:23, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

I support the idea morally, but I don't think AW is currently capable of handling meta-content yet. Feeglgeef (talk) 23:37, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Which is why I think it can be a goal to work toward, and a progressive test of capability. See list at my userpage. — Arlo Barnes (talk) 07:26, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

I'm not certain that's how we want to use d:Q14204246 instances. Feeglgeef (talk) 21:23, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

To what use should they be put then, if any? — Arlo Barnes (talk) 21:25, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

To describe the topics encyclopedically? Feeglgeef (talk) 11:49, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

But if we are going by Wikidata sitelinks, the topics are various project and help namespace pages on separate wikis, including this one — as a sort of Q1549285. Or maybe the line between stating what said pages are used for, and what their basic use is doesn't distinguish as much as I might initially think. — Arlo Barnes (talk) 12:02, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Adding Item labels

I think it is helpful to see directly at the page the item labels of the proposed core articles and a link to the item. At my user page I tried it with Aristotle (Q868) and it did not show a label. In Wikifunctions I got the english Label. What do you think about adding the Template Q to the items to show a label. Hogü-456 (talk) 19:51, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Seems like the Q template import at Abstract Wikipedia needs something else to actually retrieve the labels, then. Arlo Barnes (talk) 21:50, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

It is possible to add a language explicit in the template as an argument. This requires translating the Wikiproject page to enable people to view item labels in different languages. As Abstract Wikipedia has the goal of making content available in more languages I think this is an important point to be not too much english centered. Hogü-456 (talk) 19:35, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Q505335 (Q505335) (Q505335) for example has a 'mul' label, it should display that by default. Arlo Barnes (talk) 19:59, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Being bold here: I added the template Q for the labels. It also links to wikidata and shows the (same) wikidate Q-id with a link). The links to wikidata and the Q-id are not needed, so maybe an alternitve template to only show the text of tha labes could fix that. HenkvD (talk) 16:59, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

There is Template:Label for showing only the label of an item. So for example {{label|Q97|link=wikidata}}. So far the link is not leading to Wikidata as expected. So the templates needs improvement or same changes in Abstract Wikipedia. I link it is useful if the link leads to the Wikidata item. As it can help learning about what an item is about and to see what content is available in Wikidata so far. Hogü-456 (talk) 19:17, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

{{label|Q97|link=-}} shows the label text only. So fro example

1. Q97 Atlantic Ocean

HenkvD (talk) 11:16, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Or [[Q97]] {{label|Q97|link=-}} ([https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97 Wikidata link]) gives

1. Q97 Atlantic Ocean (Wikidata link)

HenkvD (talk) 11:27, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Missing Templates in Abstract Wikipedia

I currently do not know if there are created templates on this platform to aid in article creation because I currently find creating or editing abstract Wikipedia more tedious instead of it making life simpler for both humans and machines since we were using Wikifunctions and Wikidata as our backbone. I contacted @Hogü-456 to see if he had answers but he said I could post it here for a wider discussion.

Thinking out loud, I think if we could create standard templates for articles on various subjects, category and topics of interest, that will get us much closer to the overall dream of abstract Wikipedia and automatically pull in people with non-technical background.

For example, the way the article for Australia could be used as yardstick for creating articles for a country and once a template is created for country level article creation, we could even have bots create these articles under the approval of human. There are some other beautiful articles already we could use it's structure to create a master template for any of the following:

• Plants
• Animals
• Disease
• Biographies
• Countries
• Wikimedia affiliates
• ETC...

Again, Wikidata powered infobox dubbed Databox makes articles beautiful and would make our articles great. Dnshitobu (talk) 08:25, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Of course. I think year intros are also somewhat inspiring, they don't create great content, but it's somewhat useful. Each "template article" (which we might require to obtain featured status) might have some of its own functions created for it that will need to be made multilingual. Feeglgeef (talk) 12:05, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Question: Would it be possible to add infoboxes to Abstract Wikipedia articles? Infoboxes generated fully from Wikidata will provide a wealth of data, like template:Wikidata Infobox on Commons. HenkvD (talk) 15:46, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

I don't see why not. Feeglgeef (talk) 15:51, 11 May 2026 (UTC)