Editing Module:PopulationFromWikidata/doc (section)

== What it doesn't do - next steps ==

There are some issues that we are aware of, have considered but haven't dealt with yet. These will be tackled in time in collaboration with other place article contributors. (No doubt there are many more to add to the list - please do).

* Some tidying up the output within the infobox:
** {{strikethrough|removing unnecessary bullet points when there's only one item}}
** {{strikethrough|add links to information about the relevant Census}}
** {{strikethrough|adding tooltip description}}
** {{strikethrough|change geography to abbreviation}}
** adding links to explanations of ABS geographic boundaries (add this info to the Census articles and link to sections there)
* Make a table of historic population values (from those available in Wikidata and that meet other module criteria) and test this as a new addition to place articles. As part of possible methods of preserving historic population figures in articles. Possibly a better solution than having multiple old values listed in Infoboxes (eg. [[w:Basket_Range,_South_Australia|Basket_Range,_South_Australia]]) or having to maintain individually in-text? Not the same idea, but there is a table of historic population values listed in [[w:Shire_of_Woodanilling|this article]]).
* Figure out the case of two Infoboxes: [[Jimbour East, Queensland]]
* Suppress the population figures for protected areas. (eg, no output for type = protected). Yes?
* Population density figures need to be computed and added to the Infobox using the same population (and area from corresponding geography) as this module outputs now. With area data uploaded to Wikidata?
* Test that city ''rank'' can still be displayed in the Infobox if population coming from the module.
* How to integrate (merge correctly) named references from the module with those used in-text. And how to retain historic population values (and references) as the Infobox population automatically updates with the most current figures. The module produces named references that are unique to the population value, but there are currently reference merging bugs associated with references from templates (and modules).
* Should we change it so that ''pop2'' still displays even if ''pop'' is replaced by the module population? So you can have both the automated population and a specific other population that's relevant to the article for some reason.
* Add some more documentation to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian places/Population data]].
* Figure out interactions with the [[Template:Coord|Coord template]] that's used in the majority of Australian place articles. The Coord template takes a [[Template:Coord#Coordinate_parameters|population argument]] and uses that to determine the display scale of the Coordinates interactive map. Should we make an equivalent module (similar to this one) to bring place coordinates (with appropriate map zoom scales) from Wikidata to the Infobox Australian place template? Then the coordinates (and map scale) can be kept up-to-date with Wikidata. This would require parallel work to determine most appropriate place coordinate definition (eg centroid? of which geographic area?) so coordinates can be bulk imported to Wikidata? Or just rely on people adding the coordinates values to Wikidata manually but cut out the need to use the Coord template to set map zoom scale? Or keep using the Coord template but give it the appropriate population value as selected by (a modified version) of this PopulationFromWikidata module.
* Connect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community Wikidata items with ABS ILOC IDs so ILOC population counts can be uploaded in bulk. Will then need to revisit the ILOC vs SAL preferencing because for some towns ILOC will be more appropriate than SAL (due to geographic area covered).
* Need to revisit mapping of regions to ABS geographies. Maybe they should be mapped to SA3s? Eg: [[Kimberley_(Western_Australia)| Kimberley region article]] Also, need to update [[Regions_of_Western_Australia#Census_and_Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics| this article]] and other equivalents. 
* Discrepancy with places with zero population, such as [[w:Essendon Fields, Victoria|Essendon Fields]] ([[d:Q5399482|Q5399482]]):
** In QuickStats it says: "No information can be provided because the area selected had no people or a very low population in the 2021 Census."
** But it [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5399482#Q5399482$4BF29B4C-562D-4DE8-9B60-B859F0EC6EB5 does have data in Wikidata] (population 13, for SAL20886, which is [https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/datapacks/download/2021_GCP_SAL_for_VIC_short-header.zip what is in the DataPack]).
** This means that the reference URL ends up not backing up the displayed population figure.
** There may be a difference in how this is handled between 2016 and 2021. For example, {{Q|55771929}} has zero population and doesn't show in either 2016 or 2021 QuickStats — but {{Q|7859816}} had 3 people in 2016 (shown in QuickStats) and 4 people in 2021 (''not'' shown in QuickStats). Both places have both figures in the DataPack.