Extension:ArticlePlaceholder

Article Placeholders are automatically generated content pages in Wikipedia or other mediawiki projects displaying data from Wikidata. They would clearly not be actual articles but collections of data on topics which do not have an article yet. This project is mostly aimed at smaller Wikipedias with a small contributor base in order to increase access to free and open knowledge by using Wikidata’s resources. One of the objectives will be to adjust the Article Placeholders so they suit the overall Wikipedia layout while at the same time making it clear that they are generated articles and not written by a human. In the long run Article Placeholders may lower the amount of unmaintained articles generated by bots.

Article Placeholder is going to be a mediawiki extension.

Special Page
The idea is to have a special page on the Wikibase clients, which uses facts from the connected Wikidata page to generate a simple content page (if none already exist) on the client. This page would be identified as not being written by a human and encourage the reader to write an article by themselves - maybe even using the data the article placeholder is displaying. If the page does exist it would probably be the best to redirect to the article.

Set up
You can clone the extension from gerrit to the extensions folder of your mediawiki installation.

Then add to the end of your LocalSettings.php

Please keep in mind the extension is work in progress, it may not have all the functionalities expected.

Links

 * Phabricator project
 * Input on the Article Placeholder on Wikidata
 * Pilot project to set up Article Placeholder for species (German)