On 13.10.2013 22:04, Lodewijk wrote:
Hi Yaroslav,
there are many things not ready yet :) So yes, there are multiple
issues. The issue I'm most worried about, assuming all data could be
inserted into wikidata already (big assumption as far as I understand,
but OK), that the data could still not be displayed on the Wikipedias.
As in, replace the current lists on Wikipedia. As long as that is the
case, and we do transfer the data (or rather copy), it would become
necessary to edit two places as soon as you make an improvement to
(for example) the address. You would have to correct both Wikipedia
(the list of monuments in XYZ) and Wikidata (Q1234567). If we wait
until this display option is available on all wiki's, this is no
longer the case.
So this is mostly a timing argument - I do agree that eventually
moving to Wikidata makes sense. But as it looks right now to me,
that'll take a bit more time.
Lodewijk
Hi Lodewijk,
I am not a lua guru, but my understanding is that everything which is
now on Wikidata can be displayed on Wikipedia via lua templates, and to
write such a template takes about an hour or less. (Not by me,
unfortunately). So I thought about preparing one Wikidata item ready
with all necessary properties (which of course need to be discussed and
in some cases created), then writing the template on Wikipedia - or may
be different templates on different Wikipedias, - and then starting
import. This is certainly not a one day event, but it is in my estimate
more like a week (before import) than a year. If we want to wait for the
list property type on Wikidata, which is a different avenue to proceed,
it would be more like several months.
Cheers
Yaroslav