Very nice.
I haven't followed the discussion on ArticlePlaceholder, so I might have
missed something, but why are the values not linked? When values are
items they could be linked with
Hi everyone :)
Last year Lucie started working on the ArticlePlaceholder
(
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder) in order
to fullfill Wikidata's promise of supporting especially the smaller
Wikipedias. Today we have rolled it out on the first 4 Wikipedias:
Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan and Odia. When someone searches
for a topic where no local article exists but Wikidata has data we will
show an ArticlePlaceholder with this information and encourage the
reader to create an article. I hope this will help these Wikipedias by
offering their readers more content and by turning more of them into
active editors.
In order for the feature to work well we need labels for items and
properties in these languages on Wikidata. A lot exist already but if
you want to help out you can find items and properties that need labels
in these languages at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator and
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties.
What we rolled out today as usual is a first version. Based on the
feedback from those 4 Wikipedias we will expand and improve it. One of
the next things we will do is add the option to translate an article
from another language if it exists using the Content Translation tool
and fix known bugs. Things we know are still broken or need work:
* language fallbacks in the properties are not working so you will see a
lot of P1234 and so on until a label is added on Wikidata in that language
* long identifiers break out of the identifier box on the right side and
don't look good
* right now you only get an ArticlePlaceholder in the search results
when Wikidata has at least 3 links to other Wikimedia projects and 3
statements. We might need to tweak this number still based on feedback
from the first Wikipedias. We limit this in order to not encourage
readers to create an article that will be deleted right after they
created it because it isn't notable.
Here are some example pages:
* Odia:
https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7…
* Napolitan:
https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A0le:AboutTopic?entityid=Q2613697
* Esperanto:
https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345
* Haitian Creole:
https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espesyal:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345
I'm really excited about making true on one of Wikidata's biggest promises.
Cheers
Lydia
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