Most datas in it.wp are contained in templates fields. We have, for example, a template {{Bio}} that outputs standard incipits like "Galileo Galilei (Pisa, 15 feb 1564 – Arcetri, 8 jan 1642) was an italian physicist, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician..." and many infoboxes for many kinds of articles (some of them have parameters for sources also). Extract them in a database seems not so complicated: there is already a tool, mainly working on de.wp, that puts template parameters into a database: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Vorlagenauswertung/en . For other reasons, I asked to update it for it.wp, but it seems there are some problems. I hope those of you working in de.wp could help in this issue: if it works, we could use template-tiger to work around new datas.
Another reason to test on it.wp deals with interwiki language links: running bots we found that it.wp has many interwiki conflicts, i.e. There are pages in it.wp where an interlanguage link points to a page in a language and a page in another language, but those last pages arent linked each other. Surely, while working on en.wp you will come up to this issue, and it.wp could be a proj onto testing these issues, in order to be fully prepared.
Another strong reason to test on it.wp is the following: in the discussion at our village pump, this proposal had no oppose and many strong support. It is very rare on it.wp. It seems to me that testing on it.wp could be a way to involve crowds of people into wikidata.
Best wishes,
Nickanc
Il giorno lunedì 6 agosto 2012, Luca Martinelli ha scritto:
2012/8/6 Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de>:
[...]
> We are having some discussions about maybe going for he.wp as a second
> language, but as far as I know the discussion has not happened there
> yet. I would prefer he.wp over it.wp as a second test Wikipedia at the
> current moment as it is an RTL wiki and allows us to test for a wider
> spectrum of possible errors.
[...]
We were speaking about it with Lydia yesterday, and actually I'd give
you some reasons to prefer he.wiki to our version, exactly because of
the RTL issue.
Anyway, our goal is to help you all in developing Wikidata. Of course,
we'd love to be the second project and it would be a honour for us
all, but the final decision is still up to you. :)
More, even if we will not help you with the interlink testing, we're
plenty of datas (especially in the biographies field) to "donate", so
we'll find a way, don't worry. ;)
> And I forgot to add: many, many thanks for organizing and holding the
> discussion on the it.wp! This is extremely appreciated.
[...]
You're welcome!
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Luca "Sannita" Martinelli
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita
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