Help:Geographic area

From CanonBase
Revision as of 14:39, 17 June 2026 by EmmaR (talk | contribs)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Help index

Introduction

To facilitate finding information based on the geographical boundaries, we organised the geographical descriptions in the following order: 

Continent – Country – Region – Province – City – City section.

In reality, each country is organised differently and has different names for its geographical entities.

  • For each country we decide if and what two levels between country and city are appropriate to use.
  • For each city, we decide if it is useful to divide it in city section.
  • If a level is not used, we show the information on the level above.

Header

Label*

  • The name of the geographical entity, as used today.
  • We the name of a geographical entity, if the entity itself uses names in different languages. (if not just copy in your language)
  • If there could be confusion between city sections, cities, regions and provinces with the same name add between brackets the level. For example Antwerp (district) Put the name without brackets as alias for consistency reasons.
  • If there could be confusion between cities with the same name in different countries, add the country or region between square brackets. For example Lisbon [USA].

Description

  • You can give a short (max 30 words) description of the geographic entity.
  • The standard phrasing is “city in [country]”.
  • In the case of a geographic entity with specific, important properties, these can be added.

Also known as

  • This field is used to facilitate searching.(You could add for example "Netherlands" as alternative for "The Netherlands"
  • When a geographical entity was called differently in earlier time periods, you can add an alias

Properties for all geographic entities

There is no [type of information] or [field], but the entities are described by

Instance of (P1)*

This property defines on what level of the geographical structure, the geographical entity is placed. 

Possible values are:
* continent (Q23873)
* Country (Q440)
* Region (Q19460)
* province (Q19407)
* City (Q44)
* city section (Q22935)

Properties for Countries

Continent (P253)*

  • The continent where the country is situated
  • Property needed for good functioning

Properties for Regions

Country (P29)*

  • The country continent where the region is situated
  • Property needed for good functioning

Properties for Provinces

Country (P29)*

  • The country where the province is situated
  • Property needed for good functioning

Region (P175)*

  • The region where the province is situated
  • Property needed for good functioning

Properties for Cities

Country (P29)*

  • The country where the city is situated
  • Property needed for good functioning

Province (P174)*

  • The province where the city is situated
  • Property needed for good functioning

Properties for City sections

Province (P247)*

  • The city where the city part is situated
  • Property needed for good functioning

Dates

Significant date (P237)

  • A date that is significant for the geographical entity, and is not captured in the standard set of date properties available.
  • Needs a qualifier timeline label (this is shown on the timeline and in lists to make the date visible.)
  • Describe the event in a context qualifier

Media

Images

Pictures representing the geographical entity, for example a logo.

Wikicommons image (P2)

A picture of this item stored in the Wiki respository (commons.wikimedia.org)

  • You can link by copying the name of the file the Wiki repository or from Wikipedia.
Example: The file name of the picture is File:Arles Amphitheatre gallo romain pano.jpg. 
[Wikicommons image] = Arles Amphitheatre gallo romain pano.jpg.
  • If you add a qualifier Instance of (P1) with value “featured image" (Q105), the picture will show automatically on top of the page.
Wikicommons gallery (P181)

A collection of pictures of this item stored in the Wiki respository (commons.wikimedia.org)

  • You can link by copying the name of the gallery in the Wiki repository. It is the last part of the URL after /wiki/.
Example: The gallery name is Maxim-Gorki-Theater. The URL to this gallery is: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maxim-Gorki-Theater
[Wikicommons gallery] = Maxim-Gorki-Theater
Canon image (P74)

An image of the item, stored in the Canon repository.

  • Upload the video picture to the repository (you have to be sure that the picture is open source). For more information about uploading media to the repository, visit the help page about uploading media.
  • Copy the Media ID and paste it in the value for the [Canon image] property.
  • If you add a qualifier Instance of (P1) with value “featured image" (Q105), the picture will show automatically on top of the page.

Video

Wikicommons video (P8)

A video about this item, stored in the Wiki repository (commons.wikimedia.org).

  • Copy the name of the file from Wikicommons and paste it in the value of the [Wikicommons video] property.
Youtube video (P116)

A video about this item on Youtube.

  • Copy the string after ?v= in the Youtube url and paste it in the [Youtube video] property.
Example: the url of the Youtube video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxW4EWi86TY
[Youtube video] = nxW4EWi86TY
Vimeo video (P351)

A video about this item on Vimeo.

  • Copy the string after .com/ from the Vimeo url and paste it in the [Vimeo video] property.
Example: the url of the Vimeo video is: https://vimeo.com/1141817451
[Vimeo video] = 1141817451
Canon video (P76)

A video about this item, stored in the Canon repository.

  • Upload the video first to the repository (you have to be sure that the video is open source). For more information about uploading media to the repository, visit the help page about uploading media.
  • Copy Media ID and paste it in the value for the [Canon video] property.
  • Large videos are preferably stored outside of the platform due the limitations of file size.

Sources

Archive is kept at (P221)

  • The place or organisation where (parts of) the geographical entitiy archive is kept
  • Can be multiple values, in this case describe with a context qualifier the exact situation.

Web (P182)

  • A web resource that is dedicated to this geographical entities only

Source URL (P64)

  • A web resource that is used as an information source for this item.
  • If specific information is retrieved from a source, add this property as qualifier

is mentioned in (inverse property label of mentions, P78)

  • Describes the source a geographical entitiy is mentioned in.
  • The input is done on the source side.

References

Wikidata source (P16)

  • Refers to an entry in Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org )
  • If the geographical entitiyexists in Wikidata, add Q-number from Wikidata
  • The information from wikidata will partly be displayed at the bottom of the page.

EUTA country id (P152)

Visualisations

The different geographical entities will present a series of visualisations relevant for the entity:

  • Timeline
  • Map
  • List theatres, devided in sub-entities
  • Persons, organised by entity and occupation
  • Persons alphabetically
  • Persons that have worked in
    • Only on country level
  • Organisations by type
  • Businesses by type
  • Collections
  • Equipment related to a specific place
  • Sources
  • Mentions
    • On city level
    • Shows sources that mention the theatres of the city
Retrieved from "http://172.105.79.219:8181/w/index.php?title=Help:Geographic_area&oldid=580159"

Wikidata