Hi Lydia,
Maybe useful to add: badges are represented by Wikidata items in the
exports. The badge items are defined locally on the wikibase site that
provides the site links. This is different from time and globe
coordinate values, which also use items to denote globes (planets) and
calendar models -- but in their case we use full URIs such as
"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2" (Earth) instead of local ids like
"Q2". Indeed, such values should use the same Wikidata URIs on any
Wikibase installation (for example, if commons would use Wikibase, it
would also denote Earth coordinates of images using
"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2" and not create an own local item for
that). In contrast, badges like "Good article" are represented like
"Q608" (on
test.wikidata.org; on
wikidata.org it denotes an entirely
different process). So badges are not global identifiers but local ids
on the current wiki. No problem with this, but might need to be kept in
mind when interacting with this data.
Btw. is there any way for consumers (or API users) to find out which
items are legal as badges?
Cheers,
Markus
On 15.08.2014 20:04, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
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