Hello Denny,
I think we in Europeana had the same problem in the GLAMwiki toolset project [1]. We wanted to submit the metadata we had for Europeana objects to be uploaded in Commons, but that was not fully possible... So we'd have to think of an alternative. Do you think it could happen via Wikidata?
Best,
Antoine
[1]
It is a bit early for that question right now.
In the long run we plan to have metadata about Commons media file (current state of the discussion is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info ) - but this is planned for 2014.
For now, the Creator template in Commons can not be replaced with Wikidata. There is no way to integrate data from Wikidata in an arbitrary Commons page (which is what you would need in order to replace the Creator template). We have a Bug for ( this https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47930 ) and aim for this in this fall / early winter to be completed.
My assumption would be to, for the long term, create the Creators as items in Wikidata (if they do not exist) and add data to them. But this will not yield any short-term visible results, which is frustrating. So you might want to have a double strategy: add them to Wikidata and add them in the creator namespace, just as you have done so far.
Does anyone have another opinion on this?
Sorry for not having better news right now, Denny
2013/9/21 rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner@gmail.com mailto:rupert.thurner@gmail.com>
hi, we are currently experimenting to have, after zb zürich earlier the year[1], a second museum from switzerland uploading full quality images (i.e. tif format)[2]. i was wondering what is the most "wikidata compatible" way of adding a creator information to an image like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soleure_Aa_0012.tif the painter winterlin is in the category, has a template including personal information, just like the wikipedia article, and the wikidata entry. rupert. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Zentralbibliothek_Z%C3%BCrich [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l-- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de
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