Hi,
just thinking loud: ;-)
Hm, categories as own items, sounds very interesting also for the
monuments lists.
Each monument is one item which could have an article on various
Wikipedia and even an own category with its bundle of images.
Of couse very image should also have its own item, e.g. for very
complex, but possible queries.
Marco
On 01/21/13 17:30, Jan Kučera wrote:
Hi all,
thanks for the feedback. Basically, I think we have 2 problems to solve
in multiple languages:
- categories
- image/file description (= name + description)
I think these both could be independent entries in WikiData database.
I started a discussion on Commons Village pump -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Wikidata_-_translati…
and also created a place for possible proposal -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch/Wikidata
all input is welcome
Kozuch
2013/1/21 Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com <mailto:jane023@gmail.com>>
I would really like to see each Commons image have its own wikidata
item, where not only categories can be represented, but also such
things such as global usage, origin, licensing, provenance etc. can be
stored and shared.
Jane
2013/1/21, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.rs
<mailto:smolensk@eunet.rs>>:
I have worked on Commons a bit and was already
thinking how could
Wikidata be integrated into it.
On 21/01/13 12:55, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
> I'd think it would be appropriate to spec out how these features
should
> work and get a consensus on such a plan.
Think about questions like:
> * how is it represented in the wikitext? I.e. do I categorize a
picture
with
[[Category:Dog]] or can I also write [[Kategorie:Hund]]?
* how should this be displayed on a page?
I don't think category links would any longer be represented in
wikitext, but each image description page would be a wikidata item.
Wikidata already has various de facto "statement groups" (I'm
sorry I'm
not up to the newest terminology so I'm not
sure how are they
called).
The data in the groups are edited independently
of each other,
and also
displayed in various ways. Right now, there are
two groups:
labels and
wikilinks. Labels are displayed as article titles
and only one
label is
displayed at the time, while wikilinks are
displayed in a table and
multiple wikilinks are displayed at once.
But there is no need to stick to this organization, and various
wikis in
various namespaces could have different statement
groups that
could be
displayed in various ways. For example, it would
be possible that, on
Commons, in Image namespace, have three groups: image
description, image
properties, and image categories. Image
description would be
displayed
and edited similar to Wikidata label: only in the
current interface
language. Image properties would be displayed and edited as wikidata
properties will be. Image categories would be displayed and edited as
categories.
Image metadata might tie into all of this as well: these would be
special properties that are not directly editable but filled in
on image
upload.
* what about subcategorizing? How does this work?
Similarly, every category would be an item. Category titles in
various
languages would be handled exactly the same as
Wikidata labels. A
category would have its supercategories as properties.
About the only potential problem that I see is that in some cases
categorization is made logically, and in some cases
linguistically. For
example, on Commons, [[:Category:Tree rings]] is
a subcategory of
[[:Category:Rings]] which makes sense in English language, but in
Serbian language tree rings aren't called tree rings and no one would
ever got the idea to categorize them as such or to search for them in
that category.
* is it only about categories? What about image
descriptions?
Multilingual image descriptions are a common occurence.
> * what about the plenty of data that is already in Commons? Can
this be
reused or
replaced?
A lot of data in Commons is already very structured, so I believe it
shouldn't be a problem to transfer it to another format. About
the only
problem that I see is the potential need for
coexistence of raw
wikitext
and wikidata in the same namespace while the
transition is
occuring, but
even that is solvable.
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