Wikidata:Property proposal/content partnership category

content partnership category

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Commons

Done: no label (P8252) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Wikimedia Commons category for media files contributed by this institution
Data type	String
Domain	items of cultural institutions or other organizations (possibly people)
Allowed values	must be valid Commons category
Example 1	Digital Public Library of America (Q2944483) → Category:Media contributed by the Digital Public Library of America
Example 2	National Archives and Records Administration (Q518155) → Category:Media contributed by the National Archives and Records Administration
Example 3	Montevideo Center of Photography (Q5761789) → Category:Files provided by Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo
Formatter URL	https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:$1

Motivation

This property would be distinct from Commons category (P373), because it is for files not about the subject, but contributed by the subject as part of a Wikimedia Commons content partnership. Generally, when an organization uploads media to Wikimedia Commons, they are placed in a tracking category. This is important for metrics purposes. There are many of these identified at commons:Category:Files from content partnerships. A property would allow us to connect an institution to the files that come from it. This can also be useful for, for example, adding categories to a Wikimedia Commons template based only on a Wikidata ID in a template parameter. Dominic (talk) 13:48, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Tepid Support -- I am not sure this current trend of an ever increasing number of properties linking to different sorts of commons categories is the best way to do things. In my view, it would probably be more sustainable to just have category combines topics (P971) on the category with appropriate values, rather than all these properties. So, in the present case, have P971 plus the item for the institution and an item for "category for files contributed by an institution". I think that would be a much more systematic and parsimonious approach. But until that approach is adopted to replace all these properties linking to particular sorts of commons categories, I suppose this one is no worse than any of the others. Jheald (talk) 19:36, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, I don't have any issue with your suggestion, as long as, as you say, it all happens at once. Dominic (talk) 14:51, 9 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Arbnos (talk) 18:41, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Data type should be items, rather than text string. – Kwj2772 (talk) 18:16, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- It is a string with a formatter URL to link to Commons categories without Wikidata items, just like Property:P373 works. Dominic (talk) 13:57, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Seems useful. Ahmad^talk 05:31, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Dispe (talk) 12:55, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dominic, Jheald, Arbnos, Kwj2772, Ahmad252, Dispe: P8252 (P8252) has been created. Pamputt (talk) 10:01, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]