Hey folks :) Just an update on badges support on Wikidata. We will be rolling out support for badges on Wikidata on August 19th. At this point you will be able to store the information that a given article is a good or featured article on English Wikipedia for example. More badges can be added on request. One week later we will enable showing those badges on Wikipedia/Wikisource/Wikiquote in the language links in the sidebar. If your Wikipedia wants them to be removed from the wikitext please get in touch with Amir. He has a bot to do it for you. You can try out the Wikidata-side of it on our test system: https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296 Cheers Lydia --

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote: We started with featured and good article because we were very sure those would be ok with the community. We can easily add more like the ones you suggested. Question is how do we want to get a yay or nay on adding more? I think it would be easiest if we have a place on Wikidata where people can suggest new badges and if there is consensus we add them. What do you think? Cheers Lydia

Btw. is there any way for consumers (or API users) to find out which items are legal as badges?

Seems to me like "Guide" is equivalent to "good", and "Star" is equivalent to "featured". "Outline" would be equivalent to "stub", but it's not clear to me whether marking stubs is a good use case for badges. This raises the question - can client wikis customize the labels shown for the badges? I assume we are currently using the respective item's label in the respective wiki's language (yes, badges are q-items). But we might want to accommodate the respective community's vernacular... Perhaps a system message could be used to override the label used for the badge?

Am 15.08.2014 20:54, schrieb Lydia Pintscher: Seems to me like "Guide" is equivalent to "good", and "Star" is equivalent to "featured". "Outline" would be equivalent to "stub", but it's not clear to me whether marking stubs is a good use case for badges.

Hey folks :) Just an update on badges support on Wikidata. We will be rolling out support for badges on Wikidata on August 19th. At this point you will be able to store the information that a given article is a good or featured article on English Wikipedia for example. More badges can be added on request. One week later we will enable showing those badges on Wikipedia/Wikisource/Wikiquote in the language links in the sidebar. If your Wikipedia wants them to be removed from the wikitext please get in touch with Amir. He has a bot to do it for you. You can try out the Wikidata-side of it on our test system: https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296 Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list Wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors