Hi, Lydia,

Thanks for the response.  I read the bug, and the referenced Project chat discussion (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2013/10#Property_Metadata), but they don't seem related to what I am specifically proposing.

Since it seems that both John and you haven't gotten the gist of it, I amended it with a more detailed description and examples:  https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Property_documentation_redux#Specific_proposal.

What I am suggesting is very simply that human-written, and human-readable prose documentation, as written on a property subpage (e.g. Doc:P1060 or Property_doc:P1060) be transcluded onto the Property main page, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1060.  To make it unobtrusive, perhaps it could be in an expand/collapse block.

Thanks,
Chris




On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Chris Maloney <voldrani@gmail.com> wrote:
> I started
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Property_documentation_redux
> to suggest that /doc subpages of properties be transcluded onto the property
> pages themselves.
>
> John Lewis suggested I was wasting everybody's time, and that it was already
> on the development team's list.  Could I get a reference or a pointer to
> this "list", and to any specification about what exactly is being worked on,
> and what the time frame might be?

You can follow it and find details at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49554. I can't give you
a time-frame though. I realize it is important to get done to make
Wikidata less opaque.


Cheers
Lydia

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