Hoi,

If anything Wikidata has replaced the interwiki links for both Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. Wikidata DOES allow links to images on Commons and Commons categories already. In Commons it is known where images are used.

There is no way in which it is wise to abandon all that.

Once Wikidata replaced the interwiki links, many things had to be re-arranged to accomodate the changed situation. When Wikidata is to be used in an optimal way it makes sense to have a plan on what functionality can be created with the new technology. With Wikidata it is for instance possible to have multilingual tags.

This is not to say that what has been done is wrong or what has been done was not worthwhile, it is to say let us move in a direction that will provide a much improved functionality.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 13 August 2013 14:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Jane Darnell, 13/08/2013 13:19:

Now that I think about it, if you want to create a relationship where
Wiki Commons is a client of WikiData, then I think this should be done
for galleries only, not categories. Galleries can be easily split
and/or merged, reside in more than one category, and offer a "best"
selection of images of the subject, as well as offering a link to more
images on Commons by clicking through to categories

Wikidata is not a tool to force what you/we think the Right Thing. Interproject links between categories are in the (tens of) millions, hence we need better ways to manage them, not lectures to Wikimedia projects on why it's wrong to do all this. Thank you for the patience.

Nemo

_______________________________________________
Wikidata-l mailing list
Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l