I look forward for the day that something like this will be possible.
I have already promoted and worked on using wikidata in infoboxes etc, and
I have used and promoted (still not much) the use of "Template:Redwd" to
link to Reasonator for articles that don't exist yet (or will never do).
And I would be happy to promote this on my wikipedia (el.wikipedia - 115000
articles - 800 active users)
Of course, there are many things to consider and discuss. Not only
technical, but even policy.
But to achieve anything it has to be advertised correctly.
The Ada Lovelace example is a recipe to get a negative answer from the
communities.
Wikipedians do not understand and do not even care for the technical
aspects of this, even if you tell them that they can have control with Lua
and templates.
At least the examples should display something familiar and closer to the
final product.
Most small wikipedias do not have enough (or any) users that can use Lua
modules to create complex things.
What you will need to do is to provide not only the infrastructure but also
the Modules and Templates that will be used, preferably to display
something like Reasonator does.
If you can provide something like that, even something simple as a first
example, I would be happy to promote it to el.wikipedia.
Konstantinos Stampoulis
geraki(a)geraki.gr
http://www.geraki.gr
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2016-01-20 15:57 GMT+02:00 Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaffee(a)wikimedia.de>de>:
As part of my Bachelor’s thesis I worked on an
extension called
“ArticlePlaceholder”
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder over the last
months.
One of the biggest barriers for accessing the knowledge Wikipedia provides
is language.
There are many topics that are only covered in few, big Wikipedias. People
who don’t speak any of these languages don’t have access to all the
information available potentially vital to them.
The Article Placeholder extensions aims at smaller Wikipedias to support
them in increasing access to data available on Wikidata. Article
Placeholders are automatically generated content pages in Wikipedia or
other mediawiki projects displaying data from Wikidata. They are clearly
not actual articles but an overview of data on a topic which does not have
an article yet. The design of the page and its content is under the control
of the local community via Lua and templates but we will provide defaults
so smaller Wikipedias can work with them without having to worry about the
technical side of it.
I have a test setup on Labs with an example for Ada Lovelace
http://articleplaceholder.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/index.php/Special:AboutTopi…
The reader can find these pages by searching for a topic and gets results
if there is an Item on Wikidata with the respective label and/or alias.
The reader would benefit a lot since even if there is no article on a
topic yet, they will still have basic information provided in their
language. But it also might increase the numbers of editors due to
increased usefulness of that Wikipedia.
We are now looking for the first Wikipedias to support the extension by
deploying it and giving their input. I am still developing the extension
and the first Wikipedias to try it will naturally have a larger say in how
it evolves.
If your Wikipedia would like to give it a try please let me know. We would
start it as a beta feature.
Thank you,
Lucie (Frimelle)
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