On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Thomas PT <thomaspt@hotmail.fr> wrote:

Sorry if my answer is off-topic but if metadata are stored in WIkidata, is it really needed to create index pages to store the same data as Wikidata?
As I see the things, we'll have bibliographical metadata on Wikidata (title, author, date of publication...) and data related to proofreading (proofreading level, table of content...) on the Index: pages. More, as the Proofread Page extension considers that an Index page is about a scan (ie one or more files) I'm not sure that Index pages about books without scan will be managed well by the extension.

I think that this is a matter of usability and user experience.

If we are going to use Index pages, we'll let users *stay on Wikisource* the whole time, while the complexity and data workflow would be hidden to them.

It's a *bad* thing to ask newbies to navigate through Wikisource (entry), then Commons (file upload), the Wikisource(create Index page), then Wikidata(fetch data), then Wikisource(start working on the book) again to work on just a book.

For me this is one of the main obstacles to beginners, and we should try to ease things for people, IMHO.

Aubrey