Thanks to David's comment earlier today about editing , I found this page
in the Russian Wikipedia:
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Universal_infocard
It's a Lua module that shows a person infobox, pulling the data from
Wikidata and without giving any parameters in the wiki source code.
This is essentially the fulfillment of Wikidata's promise to make editing
articles with infoboxes easier, and it's wonderful. There are more things
to do, but I already want to thank everyone involved.
But now the question of cross-wiki synchronization arises. Wikidata.org is
cross-wiki by definition. Templates such as {{Universal infocard}} should
be cross-wiki as well.
Why? To make translation easier. The article about the Slovak poet Bohuslav
Tablic is available in Russian, but not in English. I'd love to translate
it to English, but I'll have to use {{Infobox writer}} and fill it manually
with data. This is doable, but it would be far more efficient to pull the
data from Wikidata. This will become even more acute when the
ContentTranslation, and that should happen Some Time Soon. Millions of such
articles could be translated, and using Wikidata well will save the
translators millions of minutes.
I am not saying that all projects should have the same templates. For
example, I am not concerned with the visual design of the templates - this
is up to the communities and the designers. But the way in which the data
is used should be sync'ed.
What does it entail?
Synchronizing the code of the Lua modules? Can these, maybe, be made into a
Lua library that is maintained in MediaWiki source, rather than as on-wiki
modules?
Major cross-wiki collaboration in functional specification of data to be
used in infoboxes?
What else?
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Here at the Wikimania conference, there is a lot of talk
about Wikidata and Wikibase coming to Commons, but it is
not clear how or when. Since it's very abstract still, it
is not clear whether one should be happy or scared.
I see that interwiki links for Commons categories can in
some cases be covered by Wikidata. I just removed all the
interwiki links and "Sister Wikipedia" links from the
Category:Sweden. The result was not obvious at first, as
all interwiki links seem to still be there, now pulled
from Wikidata. But now they go to Category:Sweden on
Wikipedia and not to the article Sweden.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category%3ASweden&diff=1311…
Is this something we should start to do on a large scale?
Or something we should avoid at all cost, because we
prefer to link Commons categories to Wikipedia articles?
It is confusing that even though Wikidata claims to represent
concepts, the country Sweden has two different nodes for
the Wikipedia article, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34
and the category, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4368475
both representing the same country.
Can I find out how many pages on Commons pull interwiki
links from Wikidata? Did this count increase by one,
when I made that edit?
The category page also contains short descriptions in a
handfull of languages (en, de, fr, it, ja, nb, sv, fi, uk),
but these could also be better served from Wikidata.
What do I write in the Category:Sweden page to pull the
short text descriptions from Wikidata?
Wikidata currently has short text descriptions of Sweden
in only 4 languages (da, de, nb, sv) and they differ
from the short text descriptions on Commons. For example,
in nb (Norwegian bokmål), Wikidata says "Kategori:Sverige"
whereas Commons only says "Sverige". Shouldn't all
categories that pull their interwiki links from Wikidata
also pull the short text descriptions from Wikidata?
Since this category represents a geographic entity, its
center coordinate should also be given as an "Object
location", which is currently missing.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Object_location
But perhaps that information should rather be inserted
into Wikidata? Even better than the center coordinate would
be the border outline from OpenStreetMap? In OSM this is
relation 52822, which also provides the name in many
different languages,
www.openstreetmap.org/relation/52822
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Hi everyone,
I'm starting a new project. Let's get all paintings on Wikidata! I could
use some help. I already imported 4 museums in the Netherlands, but
that's of course just a start. More information at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings .
Maarten
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--
Sebastian Hellmann
AKSW/NLP2RDF research group
Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) and DBpedia Association
Events:
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<http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt>
Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
Research Group: http://aksw.org
Thesis:
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