This is a wishlist item for me -- to have an editable form to input Wikidata-friendly data while on Wikipedia -- so I am very happy to see this analysis, especially as it seems to focus on usability and end-user perspectives.
I hope equal weight is given to both the Visual Editor and the Wiki Markup one. I also hope that the interface form is similar in behavior and style to the current forms (i.e., RefToolbar's Cite forms) -- as it would be a shame to reinvent the wheel, and would encourage onboarding of the interface if it looked like something editors have seen.
While I have an ongoing obsession with citations and machine-readable pipe-heavy templates like the Infobox, I would suspect that Wikipedia editors are very amenable to and recognize the importance of citations and supporting references for data on Wikipedia. That could and ideally should translate to similar approaches on Wikidata. So when I put a birth date on a biographical entry on Wikipedia, I need to provide a supporting citation. The same should be true for Wikidata. Unless I am missing something here.
So although the scale might be overwhelming, I would like to see every element on Wikidata supported by a citation.
Very exciting work. Any ideas on the timeframe for potential implementation, Lydia?
Best,
- Erika
*Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle Secretary, Wikimedia NYC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Lydia Pintscher < Lydia.Pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hey folks :)
Charlie has been working on concepts for making it possible to edit Wikidata from Wikipedia and other wikis. This was her bachelor thesis. She has now published it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Facilitating_the_use_of_Wikidata_in_... I am very happy she put a lot of thought and work into figuring out all the complexities of the topic and how to make this understandable for editors. We still have more work to do on the concepts and then actually have to implement it. Comments welcome.
Cheers Lydia