On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
I have been helping with the backlog of "Article for Creation" requests on en.Wikipedia.
It occurs to me that in doing so I often supply enough data to start a Wikidata entry (or, at least, to pre-populate one for further editing before saving).
Please see :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creati...
for more on this; help from a coder would be useful.
Something for the hackathon, perhaps?
I agree with what Gerard wrote. We should be moving away from a world where information is entered on Wikipedia and then in addition on Wikidata. We need to move to a world where information is added in Wikidata and then used on Wikipedia. Otherwise the whole idea of Wikidata is kinda moot. It will not happen tomorrow and need more work but this is where we should be going and I'd rather we didn't take steps that drag this process out even longer.
Cheers Lydia