Hi All,
I was thinking of creating a tool to help people write, edit and validate taxoboxes on en.wikipedia.org but then wikidata was pointed out to me. It looks like an exciting project.
Reading the technical proposal, phase 2, not to be done in project:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Not_to_be_done_by...
I'm not clear whether existing data in infoboxes will be used to populate wikidata as it doesn't appear to come into any of the categories of data listed. Will this be automated or semi-automated task? Am I just not reading it correctly?
*If* I were to a work on an editor tool would it be feasible to think in terms of editing existing syntax for now and in version two adding a "migrate to wikidata" button? Would all the exiting infoboxes move over to wikidata in a 'big bang' approach?
My second (impossible) question: What time scale are we looking at for live infoboxes actually being populated by wikidata data?
Many thanks for your thoughts,
Roger
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Hi Roger!
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Roger Hyam R.Hyam@rbge.ac.uk wrote:
Hi All,
I was thinking of creating a tool to help people write, edit and validate taxoboxes on en.wikipedia.org but then wikidata was pointed out to me. It looks like an exciting project.
Reading the technical proposal, phase 2, not to be done in project:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Not_to_be_done_by...
I'm not clear whether existing data in infoboxes will be used to populate wikidata as it doesn't appear to come into any of the categories of data listed. Will this be automated or semi-automated task? Am I just not reading it correctly?
The development team will not populate Wikidata with data for this. If the community wants to do that is up to them. A decision hasn't been made. Technically it is possible to write bots to fill Wikidata via an API.
*If* I were to a work on an editor tool would it be feasible to think in terms of editing existing syntax for now and in version two adding a "migrate to wikidata" button? Would all the exiting infoboxes move over to wikidata in a 'big bang' approach?
Potentially but I'd need to see the specific case you'd like to write a tool for. I don't think it'll be technically feasible to migrate everything with the click of a button. Infoboxes will move at the pace the editors migrate them (automatically or by hand).
My second (impossible) question: What time scale are we looking at for live infoboxes actually being populated by wikidata data?
Next year. (Yeah I know - super useful ;-))
Cheers Lydia
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Roger Hyam R.Hyam@rbge.ac.uk wrote:
*If* I were to a work on an editor tool would it be feasible to think in
terms of editing existing syntax for now and in version two adding a "migrate to wikidata" button? Would all the exiting infoboxes move over to wikidata in a 'big bang' approach?
Potentially but I'd need to see the specific case you'd like to write a tool for. I don't think it'll be technically feasible to migrate everything with the click of a button. Infoboxes will move at the pace the editors migrate them (automatically or by hand).
I believe he's talking about these infoboxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Taxobox They are quite regular in their contents so are good candidates for automated editing/migration support.
Tom