Hey James :)
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:56 PM, James Heald j.heald@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
Out of interest, are there any thoughts as to how templates are likely to access Commons Wikibase ?
I could image Commons Wikibase sharing the same Properties (Pxxx) but having its own items -- perhaps starting C (Cnnnn).
Such a structure would make it easy to prototype templates using items on Wikidata while Commons Wikibase was being developed, just changing the relevant Q-numbers to C-numbers to port from accessing an item defined on Wikidata to one defined on Commons Wikibase.
Properties on C-numbers could point to Q-numbers; but (with very rare exceptions) properties on Q-numbers would not point to C-numbers.
Is that likely to be how things will be set up?
I'm not sure we're talking about the exact same thing so let me write down how I envision it:
* For a file on Commons there will be a second page on Commons that holds the structured data about that file. So if the file is HamsterBerta.jpg then we have something like Info:HamsterBerta.jpg. (Info isn't decided yet!) This is what we currently call MediaInfo and is comparable to an item on Wikidata. * On Info:HamsterBerta.jpg we have statements like "topic:hamster" and "license:CC-BY-SA". topic, hamster, license and CC-BY-SA would be linked to Wikidata properties and items respectively. * This data can then be accessed on File:HamsterBerta to make it look roughly like today if people want that. One option would be to take the Information template and rewrite it so that it takes data from the MediaInfo page where avaiable.
Does that make it a bit more clear? I should make a graphic from this...
Cheers Lydia