Hey James :)
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 9:56 PM, James Heald <j.heald(a)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
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