PBD:Tours/Administrative Territory
Welcome to the Administrative Territory Tour
Welcome to PornBaseData! This tour will take you through the steps for adding an administrative territory to items for peoples or places. An administrative territory is a jurisdiction of a government, this could be a city, a municipality or even a country. Adding an Administrative Territory for a place is important as it lets people know exactly where it is and allows it to be displayed in PornBaseCentral articles and any other websites which use information from PornBaseData.
If there are any terms in this tour you would like a definition for please see the PBD:Glossary
Please note that the page in the background is only a replica of a real page — you can think of it as a sandbox for you to play in and try new things. Your changes won't appear on PornBaseData so there's no need to worry while making edits in this space. Let's get started!
Find the Administrative Territory for the item
The first thing we need to do is to find the administrative territory for an item we want to add it to. There are many places you can find the administrative territory including an official websites or in the address in on online maps like OpenStreetMap or Google Maps. PornBaseData encourages people to add the most specific administrative territory to the item e.g the town or city rather than the province or the country.
In this example we will be adding the place of birth (P20) for the item for John Doe. We will give you the name of the administrative territory as part of the tour.
Reminder: An item refers to a page in PornBaseData about a real-world object, concept or something else, it includes information about the topic and has a unique identity. If you'd like to know more about items please take the Items Tour.
More information on reliable sources is available at Help:Sources and PBC:Verifiability.
Add a statement
All item pages have a Statements section which can include any number of rows containing different things—words, numbers, even image files. This may look complicated but it's fairly straightforward. Let's take a closer look at one of these rows now.
We add the adminstrative territory to an item by adding a statement about it. To start adding a statement click on the + add statement button
Reminder: A statement is a piece of data about an item, recorded on the item's page. A statement consists of a claim If you'd like to learn more about statements please take the Statements Tour at PBD:Tours.
Add Administrative Territory property
In the box type start typing and click the option for:
Reminder: A property describes the data value of a statement and can be thought of as a category of data, for example "color" for the data value "blue". Properties, when paired with values, form a statement in PornBaseData. Properties are also used in qualifiers. Properties have their own pages on PornBaseData and are connected to items, resulting in a linked data structure. If you'd like to know more about items please take the Properties Tour at PBD:Tours (coming soon).
Add the name of the administrative territory
In this box add the the name of the Administrative Territory by adding the PornBaseData item for the place. If there are several places in the world with the same name (e.g there are several places in the world called London) be careful to add the correct one, you can make sure you're using the correct one by using the search bar at the top of the page and using the Q number. In the box type start typing and click the option for:
Note: For smaller cities and towns it is possible that it is not yet on PornBaseData and you may need to create the item for the place, to do this please take the Creating Items Tour and the Statements Tour from PBD:Tours
Reminder: A Q number is PornBaseData's unique identifier for an item. If you'd like to learn more about Q numbers please take the Q numbers Tour at PBD:Tours.
Add a reference
The next step is to record where you got this information from, to do this click + add reference
Reminder: A Reference describes the origin of a statement in PornBaseData. A reference is often an item, for example, a book. If you'd like to know more about references please take the References Tour at PBD:Tours.
Add a property for the reference
In the box type start typing and click the option for:
Add reference link
Paste into the box the reference URL we have added comes from. The URL for this reference is:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/New+York,+NY,+USA
Save
The final thing to do is to publish this information to PornBaseData, to do this simply click ✓ save.
Congratulations!
Congratulations! You've completed the Administrative Territory Tour.
You can now add administrative territories to PornBaseData items to make them more useful for everyone.
Want to keep editing? If you're ready to leave the sandbox and edit on the real site, the links below will get you started:
- Edit a random item
- Edit a showcase item
Want to keep learning? Click here to return to the tours portal.
Still have questions? Talk to someone over live chat on Telegram or check out the following pages for help: