On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
Lydia mentioned in her summary a major discussion about Wikidata in the Hebrew Wikipedia. The discussion was in Hebrew of course, so I'll bring a little summary of it.
Thanks! Google Translate isn't exactly amazing for Hebrew -> English (but of course still a lot better than nothing) ;-)
Eleven people supported the installation of Wikidata. Nobody objected \o/
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Despite the wide support, some issues and questions were raised:
- How is the coordination with interwiki links bot operators progressing?
Will the bots be smart enough not to do anything to articles that are already listed in the repository and have the correct links displayed? Will the bots be smart enough to update the repo in the transition period, when some Wikipedias have Wikidata and some don't? Will the bots be smart enough not to do anything with articles that have interwiki conflicts (multiple links, non-1-to-1 linking etc.)?
We'll have to put more work into that over the next weeks. The current status is that some bots are running nicely on the demo system. Some stuff is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots
- What are the numbers after the Q in the titles in the repo site? -
I replied that they are just sequential identifiers without any additional meaning. Maybe it can be added to the FAQ.
Ok will add it to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions as soon as I can. Anyone want to link that page from the FAQ?
- Several people complained about instability in the links editing
pages in the repo: They saw messages about network problems when they tried to edit links. I experienced this a couple of times, too. I also saw a complete crash with a "memory full" error once.
Yes that should be better now. There is a bug that's being worked on to fix it: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40823
- Somebody noticed that the testing sites don't support unified
accounts (CentralAuth). The production system will, right?
Yes. We didn't set this up for the demo system. Will be set up for the real deal.
- Somebody complained that it's too easy to remove a link from a repo
- clicking the "remove" link is enough. I mentioned it in a bug
report: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40200
Thanks for filing. Not sure what the plan there is.
- And this is probably the biggest issue: The workflow for adding an
interlanguage link is cumbersome and in some cases the interface elements are undiscoverable.
Do you have specifics about which elements are hard to discover?
Cheers Lydia