ugh google mobile inbox doesn't seem to thread well, but let us see how it manages.

-- billinghurst

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:34 Sam Wilson <sam@samwilson.id.au> wrote:

This is great.

I'm not yet really up on Wikidata, but why's it a URL? How does the "scan
file (Commons)(P996)" property work? This one is doing a similar thing to
that. I guess we can't have a Wikisource Index data type though. :(

I agree that it seems a little weird, it knows it is a WS, language dropdown would have been nice.  That said it is a URL as it needs to point to a language, the sister and a filename and at this time with the current technology that means is a URL. The body there cannot do wiki select then file look up.

Scan points to the file, and index the index. There are elements of duplication (and more more more) which I don't understand,  so others will need to address that aspect.

Anyway, what I wanted to ask was whether anyone could tell me how one can
get from an Index page, to the mainspace work's page (to get the Wikidata
item for the work)? Because at the moment it's a matter of following the
link found in the #ws-title table cell — and sometimes there's more than
one link there, so it gets confusing. Also, many editions span more than
one Index.

Now that we have the arbitrary linking we can include a field in the Index ns template to do linking BUT I would much prefer a means to auto link, otherwise a bot to do. For those I am going to need to speak to someone clueful.

Ah... or is that what's going to be solved with this property? Because at
the moment, there's no hard and fast way to do this, but if every index
was referenced in Wikidata from an edition's page, then it'd be simple. Is
that the idea?

<shrug> I missed the rationale beyond "here is an idea ..."  We have to have edition pages for all first, and who knows where that is currently situated.

Of course, a script would perhaps just update the unambiguous cases, and
leave the odd ones to us humans.

<umm err > in my experience  the odd ones are the humans 😉

(Sorry, I'm not being very coherent... I'll start learning more about
wikidata I think!)

-sam.

On Fri, June 26, 2015 4:56 am, David Cuenca Tudela wrote:
> Just recently a new Wikidata property for linking with the Index page has
> been created
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957
>
> An example of its use can be seen here:
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15839163
>
> In theory it should be possible to import it automatically. Is anyone
> capable of writing a bot for importing it?
>
> Cheers,
> Micru
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