Hey folks,
we are currently working on the final steps towards making it possible for
Wikimedia Commons to make use of all data in Wikidata in the user's
language.
As of last week we have enabled access to all data on beta Wikidata for beta
Wikimedia Commons (
http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/). This makes
it possible to test this new functionality in order to
evaluate it for enabling it on the actual Commons. If you are working
on templates
or Lua modules on Commons or are generally interested in playing around
with the new functionality, please do that on beta Commons.
The data access which Commons will get is the "arbitrary access" which already
is deployed to various sister projects, including all Wikipedias. Commons
is a special case because similar to Wikidata it is multi-lingual. Unlike
Wikipedia or any of the other Wikis that currently have arbitrary access
enabled, Commons will get data access in the user's language and not in a
defined content language. That means that all functionality that we
provide, in order to make use of the data on Wikidata, will be using the
users language for localization, so that each user can see the content in
their proffered language.
In detail that means that the {{#property:…|from=Q1234}} parser function will
output labels, dates, … formatted in the users language. The same applies
to the Lua functions we provide for advanced use cases. A detailed
reference of the Lua functionality we provide can be found at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua.
It'd be great if those of you familiar with both Commons and Wikidata could
test this on beta Commons and let me know if you encounter any major
issues. If there are none we'll go ahead and find a date to switch it on
when I am back from the Wikimedia hackathon on the 11th of April.
Cheers,
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher -
http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
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