Create 2024/Creating Wikipedia List articles with help of Wikidata: Submissions:2021/News On Wiki, Phase 2 complete

This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2024.

Writing list articles on Wikipedia, like list of works by a given artist, can be a tedious process. Manual editing of large wiki-tables can be confusing and error-prone and editing with Visual Editor is also not easy.

Incorporating Wikidata into your workflow can have a lot of benefits: as many works might already have Wikidata pages for many of the artworks, Wikidata allows storing great variety of artwork metadata in machine readable form, and Wikidata queries and Listeria lists allow you to query Wikidata and create on the fly variety of tables and lists helpful at finding missing and incorrect data. With those tools one can work on curating much larger sets of artworks than previously possible.

I would like to share my experiences of writing two such articles: “List of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer” article on English Wikipedia and “Lista dzieł malarskich Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza” (“List of artworks by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz“) on Polish Wikipedia. The second one is cataloging over 2600 artworks and the table part of the article was automatically generated with help of custom Lua code based on Wikidata entries, and periodically regenerated to synch with updates.