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Manual effort required to reconnect templates to Wikidata during translation
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Kalli_navya
Aug 16 2025, 7:30 AM
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Description

When translating an English article from the translation tool, the same Wikidata link is automatically added, but the templates are imported from the English Wikipedia. The imported templates have to be linked back to Wikidata manually. It would be nice to have a facility to connect it automatically.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Navigate to the references section of any Wikipedia article that is translated, in this case, English to telugu.
  2. Templates that are not present in the Telugu language will appear in red as shown
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 122405.png (495×956 px, 398 KB)
  3. Users have to import the template from English wikipedia to make it blue.
  4. Only editors with certain rights will be able to import the templates
  5. There is a page for import requests where editors can request for the template as shown in the image
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 122740.png (520×978 px, 366 KB)
  6. Now, the editors with rights navigate to the imports link and import the template from the imports page as shown
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 122907.png (525×964 px, 217 KB)
  7. Firstly, they get the template page link from English wikipedia
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 123027.png (517×969 px, 279 KB)
  8. The necessary details needs to be filled in the import page as shown
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 123134.png (506×966 px, 164 KB)
  9. Hit import
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 123246.png (521×967 px, 167 KB)
    . Only users with rights can do this
  10. The imported template doesnt have any languages linked to it in the langauge section as shown
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 123616.png (462×961 px, 228 KB)
  11. There won't be any wikidata links as well linked to this template in the tools section.

Expected Result:

  1. The users expect to see language linked to it when the template is imported from English
  2. They also expect to see the wikidata item linked to this template

Current process:

  1. The user should go to the template page in English
  2. Go the wikidata item in tools section as shown
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 124252.png (515×963 px, 319 KB)
  3. Make edit in the telugu wikidata item as shown
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 124416.png (517×966 px, 210 KB)
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 124456.png (474×959 px, 124 KB)
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 124547.png (490×965 px, 195 KB)
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 124643.png (463×973 px, 178 KB)
  4. Only after this, the languages and wikidata items will be added to the template
    Screenshot 2025-08-17 124957.png (530×967 px, 386 KB)
  5. This is being done manually now which the user expects it to be done automatically

For the articles that are not present in telugu, editors are creating the articles using the translation tool. When published in the English wikipedia article, the wikidata item gets linked automatically which is not happening in the telugu article. The users need it to be linked automatically here also.