On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

I'm not sugegsting that we "make people enter even more information in
Wikipedia"; I'm suggesting that wikidata would benefit from capturing
the data that is /already/ being entered into Wikipedia, not least via
AfC, by the people I describe above; and that I and others who review
and publish those articles would benefit from tool to save us the
manual task of having to retype (into Wikidata) what we're already
asked to type once (into the AfC tool) as part of that process.

We cannot get there yet, since we depend on many features still in development:

1.- Simple data editing from VisualEditor

2.- Easy way to map wikipedia template fields to wikidata properties

3.- Migration of main infobox templates to make use of Wikidata

There are many needed features still not done, plus some more, which take a long time to discuss, implement, and test. Of course when all that is available then you should be able to have an infobox selection wizard (possibly based on this structure [1]), and then by editing the fields on VisualEditor the data would be automatically filled on Wikidata.

As said, it sounds easy, but this has many prerequisites that are still not met.

My only advice: patience :-)

And if you want meanwhile you can help with the infobox mappings:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Infobox_mappings

Cheers,

Micru

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes