Wikidata:WikiProject Disambiguation pages

This page in a nutshell:

Only link together pages marked as {{disambiguation}}
Only link together the same strings (sequences of characters) – there are some exceptions to this rule
Never mix together disambiguations with pages about a given name and surname – they are used with family name (P734) and given name (P735).

Disambiguation in Wikipedia is the process of resolving the conflicts that arise when a single term is ambiguous, as it refers to more than one topic covered by Wikipedia articles. For example, the word "Mercury" can refer to an element, a planet, a Roman god, and many other things. There are several methods to disambiguate in Wikipedia, the only one requiring a Wikidata item is the disambiguation page which represents 10% of all Wikipedia pages. Every Wikipedia should have templates for disambiguation pages in the specific language which add __DISAMBIG__ magic word to them. The features of disambiguation pages differ from usual article pages in major attributes, what makes it necessary to have separate rules to handle them in Wikidata.

Guidelines

Wikidata:WikiProject Disambiguation pages/guidelines

Examples

Paname

To do stuff

Items to cleanup: https://wikidata-todo.toolforge.org/related_properties.php?q=claim[31%3A4167410]

Old

Project chat discussions: Disambiguation page items (2013)
Wikidata:Requests for comment/Disambiguation pages guidelines (2013)
disambiguation page conflicts — list of items with links to disambiguation pages and articles (last update 2014)
Wikisomething disambiguation page conflict: list of disambiguation items which contain links to some Wikiproject pages which are NOT disambiguation pages, Wikipedias excluded (last update 2017)

Tool

It was created a tool to check if all sitelinks in a item are disambiguations page or not. Is based on magic word __DISAMBIG__.

To use it copy and paste the following line into your common.js.

mw.loader.load( \'https//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Matěj_Suchánek/checkSitelinks.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' );

Statistics and queries

On 29th July 2018 there were 1,283,250 items with instance of (P31)Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410).

On 28th October 2022 there were 1,414,334 items with instance of (P31)Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410), 1,499,455 considering also items being instance of (P31) of a subclass of (P279) of Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410).

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