Hey folks :)
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hey everyone :)
I've been asked to enable access to the data on Wikidata for Commons. I'm happy to make that happen. We'll enable access on December 2nd. What does this mean? You will be able to access data from an item on Wikidata like the date of birth of an artist or the name of a city in different languages. Where and how much you make use of that is up for you to decide. You will be able to access the data in two ways. The first one is the #property parser function (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax). The second one is via Lua (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua). There are two big caveats at this point. 1) You will only be able to access data for items that are connected via a sitelink to the page you want to show the data on. We're currently working on allowing accessing data from any item. This should be available around January/February. 2) You can not use this to store meta data (like the date a picture was taken or who took it) about individual files. This will in the future be stored on Commons itself as part of the structured data project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data).
Please let me know if you have any questions. I am looking forward to more integration between Commons and Wikidata and all the things this will make possible. It'd be great if you could help with updating and expanding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata. The relevant page on Wikidata is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons.
This has happened now. Commons has access to the data on Wikidata \o/
Cheers Lydia