Lydia: This must be because Commons is multilingual rather than monolingual? For this reason it would be premature to enable to Wikidata Lua module before next year?
But knowing this would help us take it into account while developing :)
Thanks for sharing the info!
Cheers Susanna
2015-11-20 16:05 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de:
Hey folks :)
Just one really important distinction that you all need to keep in mind and that isn't entirely obvious always: We have different kinds of structured data related to Commons.
- data about an actual painting of say Mona Lisa for example. This is
and will be on Wikidata. It can be used on Commons the same way Wikipedia uses data from Wikidata. One example would be where the painting is located and who painted it. 2) data about a particular files like the scan of the above painting. This is and will be stored on Commons itself. One example would be who took the photo, what it depicts or under which license the file is released.
For 1) we still need to finish some last pieces to make sure everyone gets data shown in their language. I hope we can solve that early next year depending on how hairy the problem still turns out to be. We've made progress on it already. For 2) we need to allow Commons itself to store structured data. We are doing groundwork for this and hope to make significant progress and a prototype for people to play with and give feedback early next year.
Hope that clarifies things a bit.
Cheers Lydia
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