The problem is that we don't really know what topic the user is looking for, we
just know a term (the search string or page title). The easiest thin to do would
be to show an automatic disambiguation page, listing items that have a matching
label or alias. That page would show the description for each such item, and a
link to the corresponding page on the local wiki, if there is one.
This sidesteps the question of how we might show a "summary" of some sort of a
specific data item. If we want that, picking the appropriate infobox template
would be nice, but I'm not sure how that could be done.
-- daniel
Am 29.12.2014 18:11, schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
Hey folks :)
People have been bugging me for a while now about this so I started a
page to gather input.
If you are searching for a topic on a Wikipedia for example but it
doesn't have an article about it then we can look at Wikidata and see
if there is a matching item for that topic. If we have data about it
on Wikidata then we can show some kind of placeholder. But how should
this look like and work? I'd love your input at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Article_placeholder_input
Please keep in mind the important points at the beginning of that
page.
Also: If someone comes up with a better name for this that'd be awesome.
<3
Cheers
Lydia
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.