Although you can create a new item that doesn't correspond to an article here:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:NewItem
I'm going to practice some with the Wikidata API later today by trying to import all
of the Infobox film data. Then when we update the template after the inclusion syntax is
enabled on the English Wikipedia we won't be blocked by lack of data in Wikidata for
the template. Maybe a good way to guide people to Wikidata during the transition would be
to run a script to collapse the template inclusion for appropriate articles to {{Infobox
film}} with a comment beside it like <!-- Please update infobox data on the
corresponding Wikidata item:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217189 -->
From: hale.michael.jr(a)live.com
To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 12:46:24 -0400
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] How does wikidata handle topic redirect/merge/split
As far as I know, changing an article never automatically changes an item in Wikidata. I
think many of the items in Wikidata are created by scanning the new pages feed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages I could be wrong though.
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 18:29:57 +0800
From: zhjyong(a)gmail.com
To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikidata-l] How does wikidata handle topic redirect/merge/split
Hi,
Wikidata is a very useful effort. It seems associating an item with a wikipedia article.
Then I'm thinking the following scenarios to understand it further:
Say, an article is associated with an item Qx.
1) It becomes redirect to another article, will Qx be changed in this scenario?
2) It is deleted. Will Qx be also deleted?
3) That article is split as 2 new articles, how will we generate items for them?
4) Or multiple articles are merged as one, how will their items be changed?
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