Welsh Wikipedia links about yournextrepresentative HOT 4 OPEN

WikiData has these two links:

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q126852903

But oddly as the title, not URL.

from yournextrepresentative.

Right, that's the way WIkidata stores cross-wiki links, by site code ("cywiki") and label ("Kanishka Narayan"). You can also get things like Wikiquote ("enwikiquote") and Commons ("commonswiki"):

https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=Q391437

I guess building the URL from the code and label is simple enough. In theory do we only need to store the Wikidata and build the desired URLs ourselves?

from yournextrepresentative.

I imagine we'd need to figure out how they slugify the titles and implement that.

The other thing is: will we have WikiData IDs for everyone with >1 Wikipedia install? I don't have a good sense of how Wikipedia and WikiData interact in that way

from yournextrepresentative.

It is possible to have a Wikipedia page without a Wikidata item - this is an incomplete list from enwiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_without_Wikidata_item

Ultimately there's no reason why any missing Wikidata items couldn't be created - basically any person notable enough to have a Wikipedia should have a matching Wikidata. The linking is done from the Wikidata side:

from yournextrepresentative.