Hi,
There are plenty of ways in which Wikidata and VisualEditor could be
integrated. Let me ask about the following one:
Given: Let's imagine that the venerable {{Infobox settlement}} template is
fully adapted for pulling the data from Wikidata. All the relevant data
about the city of Bratislava is entered into its item page on
wikidata.org,
and in the source of the article [[Bratislava]] you only need to say
{{Infobox settlement}} without any parameters.
The people of Bratislava elect a new mayor, and I want to write it in the
article. I come to the article [[Bratislava]] and press edit. I click the
infobox.
What happens?
As far as I know, no work has been done in this area; PLEASE CORRECT ME if
I'm wrong.
My Super-Dream scenario is to be able to edit the Mayor's name write there
in the infobox, but I realize that it might be complicated.
My Dream scenario is that the VE understands that the data is pulled from
Wikidata and shows a dialog that is similar to the current template
parameters. I see the old mayor's name in that dialog, I write the new
mayor's name, and the new value is stored in Wikidata. Of course, it must
be taken into account that the name is likely not just a string, but a
label of the Wikidata item.
My acceptable-but-suboptimal scenario is taking the user to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6850543 . This is probably a useful workflow
for the tech-savvy editors, but it's suboptimal for a casual editor. I'll
go as far as saying that for a casual editor it may be (relatively) more
comfortable to edit parameters in a MediaWiki template ("|mayor =[[Milan
Ftáčnik]]") than to go to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6850543 and find
the value.
Does anybody have any more ideas about it? Am I late to the party and this
has already been discussed and designed and I missed it? Please enlighten
me :)
Thanks!
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