Hey everyone :)
I've been asked to enable access to the data on Wikidata for Commons.
I'm happy to make that happen. We'll enable access on December 2nd.
What does this mean? You will be able to access data from an item on
Wikidata like the date of birth of an artist or the name of a city in
different languages. Where and how much you make use of that is up for
you to decide. You will be able to access the data in two ways. The
first one is the #property parser function
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax). The
second one is via Lua
(
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua). There
are two big caveats at this point. 1) You will only be able to access
data for items that are connected via a sitelink to the page you want
to show the data on. We're currently working on allowing accessing
data from any item. This should be available around January/February.
2) You can not use this to store meta data (like the date a picture
was taken or who took it) about individual files. This will in the
future be stored on Commons itself as part of the structured data
project (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data).
Please let me know if you have any questions. I am looking forward to
more integration between Commons and Wikidata and all the things this
will make possible. It'd be great if you could help with updating and
expanding
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata. The
relevant page on Wikidata is
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons.
Cheers
Lydia
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