Hi Roger!
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Roger Hyam <R.Hyam(a)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_b…
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
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