Hello Stas,
Sounds like a good idea :)
Don't hesitate to ask if you need any help, for the migration as for the communication / announcement.
Bests,
On 19 September 2016 at 22:44, Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi!
Right now we have SPARQL query examples page in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples, and it gathered a large amount of excellent contributions (for which I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who helped!)
However, MediaWiki site is really not the best wiki for this page - it should properly be on Wikidata IMO. And we have a copy of it on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_examples - except that is is not up-to-date, is still not used by WDQS GUI and many people don't actually know it exists.
So, I'd like to propose a migration plan:
- Put a message on MediaWiki page warning of migration and directing
people to use Wikidata one. Maybe even protect the page for a short time? This of course will be done only after we decide to perform the migration.
- Sync Wikidata page to MediaWiki one (that'll require some work due to
template differences, etc. but I can do it in a couple of hours).
Switch WDQS GUI to use the Wikidata page.
Replace MediaWiki page with redirect to wikidata one with appropriate
message.
I can do all of it (except maybe for protecting part, I'd need to ask some admins I guess), but I wanted to make a public announcement / request for feedback before doing anything big. So please comment if you see any problem with the proposed plan or any objections. If no objections are raised, I currently plan to do it sometime about Wed-Thu this week.
Thanks,
Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org
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