I agree with Andy's comment on the blog post that it doesn't really make sense for VIAF to store all the Wikipedia links to a given topic - that's what Wikidata is already really good at.
So I assume that it would be best for VIAF to only link to the corresponding Wikidata item, from where all relevant pages across Wikimedia projects and languages can be reached.
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Luiz Augusto lugusto@gmail.com wrote:
There isn't reason to celebrate, unfortunately.
The blog post mentions only Wikipedia links. And, in fact, doing a search on test.viaf.org, you will get only records containing links to Wikipedia.
See for example the JSON formated record for Jane Austen:
http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:8080/viaf/102333412/justlinks.json
Wikidata entry for Jane Austen points also to 1 Wikibooks page, 22 Wikiquote pages, & Wikisource pages and 1 Wikimedia Commons page.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36322
I'm not particularly surprised on this, since the Wikimedia Foundation never does nothing to help "sister" projects (in fact, only puts dozens of barriers to allow/approve changes in MediaWiki for those and, recently, started to put barriers to approve local chapters actions on non-Wikipedias wikis, as we can see on some past messages on this list).
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On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:18 PM, billinghurst billinghurstwiki@gmail.com wrote:
From the Wikidata weekly newsletter, I was led to the VIAF blog post[1] which talks about how VIAF is going to re-orientate their linking from English Wikipedia to Wikidata. This should have a positive effect for the Wikisources in general, and non-English WSes especially, in making more overt the authors that you have in your wikis.
We should also be aware of the issue that (more?) people will arrive at our pages directly via WD.
[http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html]
Regards, Andrew PS. Some of the more WD-aligned personnel will presumably already know this.
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