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Allow to provide outlines with a name to overwrite the Wikidata label one
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As part of the Article Guidance work (T414409), communities can define outlines that capture guidance for the creation of specific types of articles. Currently, outlines get their name from the Wikidata item that they are associated with. For example, for biographies, an outline connected with "Q5" will be represented in the list of outlines as "Human". Communities may have established terms and style practices that encourage the use of a different name, but there is no way to support it currently.

This task proposes a creation of a mechanism (e.g., an optional "name" parameter) that allows to set a name for the outline. When it is set, the outline will be listed using such name. When it is missing, the Wikidata-based name can be used.

This task was created based on input from this talk page message.

NOTE: this was implemented using a label attribute.

Example: <article-guidance article-type="Q99" label="Golden state">

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Allow custom label to override wikidata labelSbissonmediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidancemaster+13 -4
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Pginer-WMF created this task.May 26 2026, 2:53 PM
Pginer-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.
Albertoleoncio subscribed.Jun 1 2026, 12:00 PM
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gerritbot added a comment.Jun 8 2026, 1:51 PM

Change #1298792 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sbisson; author: Sbisson):

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Allow custom label to override wikidata label

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1298792

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jun 8 2026, 1:51 PM
SBisson updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 8 2026, 1:53 PM
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eamedina updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 8 2026, 2:13 PM
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gerritbot added a comment.Jun 8 2026, 2:53 PM

Change #1298792 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/ArticleGuidance@master] Allow custom label to override wikidata label

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1298792

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GGalofre-WMF moved this task from Backlog to Pre-Visual Editor on the Article-Guidance board.Jun 10 2026, 11:47 AM
Escargot_rouge added a comment.Jun 15 2026, 5:19 AM

It would be useful to be able to overwrite the description as well. When selecting the metaclass entity to match everything, we can now overwrite the label to indicate that this is a general outline, but the unrelated description "class which has instances that are all themselves classes" makes it really confusing for the user.

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SGautam_WMF moved this task from Pending deployment to Design Signoff on the LPL Hypothesis board.Jun 15 2026, 1:23 PM
Pginer-WMF added a comment.EditedJun 16 2026, 11:22 AM

A pending aspect is to update the markup documentation in this page.
It would be good to inform of this capability as we communicate with communities. For example, outlines associated with Q5 are currently labelled as "human" and communities can provide a more common name such as "People" or "Biography" on their wiki.

CC: @UOzurumba, @GGalofre-WMF

Pginer-WMF added a subscriber: GGalofre-WMF.Jun 16 2026, 11:26 AM
UOzurumba added a comment.Fri, Jun 19, 4:29 PM
In T427290#12023158, @Pginer-WMF wrote:

A pending aspect is to update the markup documentation in this page.
It would be good to inform of this capability as we communicate with communities. For example, outlines associated with Q5 are currently labelled as "human" and communities can provide a more common name such as "People" or "Biography" on their wiki.

CC: @UOzurumba, @GGalofre-WMF

@Pginer-WMF, I have updated the markup documentation page.

Pginer-WMF added a comment.Mon, Jun 22, 7:44 AM
In T427290#12037573, @UOzurumba wrote:
In T427290#12023158, @Pginer-WMF wrote:

A pending aspect is to update the markup documentation in this page.
It would be good to inform of this capability as we communicate with communities. For example, outlines associated with Q5 are currently labelled as "human" and communities can provide a more common name such as "People" or "Biography" on their wiki.

CC: @UOzurumba, @GGalofre-WMF

@Pginer-WMF, I have updated the markup documentation page.

Thanks @UOzurumba. Reading the updated documentation I see the follwoing:

Indicates a set name of an outline when there is a specific name given to an outline from the Wikipedia community. When this name is missing, the Wikidata-based name of the Article type is used. An example of this situation is: English Wikipedia has the Broad-concept article type. To create a specific outline with this name, they will use the label markup: label="Broad-concept article" instead of the article type markup: article-type="Qxx".

The description seems a bit long for a simple attribute to name the outline, and the last part seems to present the label as an alternative to the article-type property where it is not the case. Would it make sense to simplify the contents to something along these lines:

Indicates the name to be used when displaying the outline. By default, outlines are named like the Wikidata item they are associated with. The "label" property allows communities to define a different name that is more aligned with their practicces. For example, an outline for the Wikidata item Q5 ("Human") can use the "label" property to be displayed as "Biography" instead.

UOzurumba added a comment.Mon, Jun 22, 1:01 PM
In T427290#12039318, @Pginer-WMF wrote:
In T427290#12037573, @UOzurumba wrote:
In T427290#12023158, @Pginer-WMF wrote:

A pending aspect is to update the markup documentation in this page.
It would be good to inform of this capability as we communicate with communities. For example, outlines associated with Q5 are currently labelled as "human" and communities can provide a more common name such as "People" or "Biography" on their wiki.

CC: @UOzurumba, @GGalofre-WMF

@Pginer-WMF, I have updated the markup documentation page.

Thanks @UOzurumba. Reading the updated documentation I see the follwoing:

Indicates a set name of an outline when there is a specific name given to an outline from the Wikipedia community. When this name is missing, the Wikidata-based name of the Article type is used. An example of this situation is: English Wikipedia has the Broad-concept article type. To create a specific outline with this name, they will use the label markup: label="Broad-concept article" instead of the article type markup: article-type="Qxx".

The description seems a bit long for a simple attribute to name the outline, and the last part seems to present the label as an alternative to the article-type property where it is not the case. Would it make sense to simplify the contents to something along these lines:

Indicates the name to be used when displaying the outline. By default, outlines are named like the Wikidata item they are associated with. The "label" property allows communities to define a different name that is more aligned with their practicces. For example, an outline for the Wikidata item Q5 ("Human") can use the "label" property to be displayed as "Biography" instead.

@Pginer-WMF, Thanks for simplifying it. I have updated the page.

GGalofre-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Wed, Jul 1, 9:46 AM
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