Continue development of the Listeria bot that creates dynamic tables using Wikidata (Community Wishlist/W364)

Description

In theory, the listeria tool could be used for all sorts of interesting applications that would make Wikidata truly useful and that would be of interest to many potential users or Wikimedia contributors who can thereby more easily improve items such as by adding or uploading missing photos by easily seeing which items are missing these.

Some examples:

A gallery of music genres – sorted chronologically, each with some info and links and free media examples.
List of nootropics, mushrooms, religions, public educational institutions on Bluesky, free software accounts on Mastodon, Wikimedia tools with WD item, Linux distributions, or lists about books about a certain subject etc.

For example it can't create or update larger tables (#140), can't output the Wikipedia article as a wikilink (#138), sometimes shows a false item label (#143), etc.

Edit: per phab:T67626 it looks like a replacement for the listeria tool is under development – so these may rather be things to consider in that tool's development if that new tool will be able to substitute the use-cases of listeria. Maybe the listeria code could be used in its development. However, it seems unclear if and when such a new tool will be developed – that issue is from 2014 so volunteers fixing some of the main issues of listeria could be very valuable.

Note that listeria table are of interest to readers where data in Wikidata becomes useful, to editors who can use these tables to improve and expand the data on a topic (such as representative images or closing gaps), and to editors who can check the table changes to monitor changes to items about a topic (or whatever the sparql-query is) in a Watchlist-kind of way.

Assigned focus area

Unassigned

Type of wish

Feature request