Plé:Ríocht Esuaitíní

Infobox

Hi @Kevin Scannell:, sorry, I can't speak the Irish language so I'm writing to you in English. Thank you for the revision. However, there is one more correction needed. The infobox still says "Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku" as prime minister. But he was only acting prime minister until 16 July 2021. Since then, "Cleopas Sipho Dlamini" has been the current and official prime minister. And the population figure is unfortunately still given as 1,124,753 (2017). But the latest known figure is 1,160,164 (2020). Both can also be read at WIKIDATA. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1050?uselang=ga> Because your infobox is generated by a template, I unfortunately cannot correct this. Kind regards, Bestoernesto (plé) 16:18, 25 Lúnasa 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Bestoernesto: - I see the problem. In this instance, the infobox data is populated from Wikidata, and will appear incorrect on all wikis that use that data. So in this case, the best option is to head over to wikidata:Q1050 and correct the details on the Prime Minister over there, and it will automatically populate to other wikis, including here - Alison ^plé 18:20, 25 Lúnasa 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Alison:, @Kevin Scannell:, oh, I must have expressed myself in a somewhat misleading way. WIKIDATA has already written the information correctly and up to date. <"Cleopas Sipho Dlamini" / 1,160,164 (2020)> But the template {{WD Bosca Geografaíocht Pholaitiúil}} is probably programmed incorrectly and cannot read the data correctly. This is not the first time I have seen this problem here. This is probably also the reason why the vast majority of Wikipedia language versions have an infobox template programmed where users can enter the data themselves by hand. This also has the additional advantage that much more important data and information can be entered in the infobox. See, for example, the English-language Wikipedia.--Bestoernesto (plé) 03:29, 26 Lúnasa 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Bestoernesto: - thanks for the reply. I found all sorts of stuff going wrong on Wikidata, and went ahead and fixed them. See my edits here and here. You can see the ranking was off, for starters, and the rankings set on both 'Príomh-Aire Esuaitíní' and 'Ríocht Esuaitíní' were incorrect and some of the data was missing. Sadly, we are a tiny Wiki and, unlike the English Wikipedia or some of the bigger ones, don't have the editor base in our minority language to support static infoboxes. In fact, the problem we have is that static infoboxes are what we had, and they had become terribly out of date - sometimes for over a decade. Hence the focus on Wikidata and my desire to fix it over there. Many of the minority language wikis depend on that work - Alison ^plé 04:17, 26 Lúnasa 2022 (UTC)[reply]