[Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

[Daniel Mietchen]

What about having the Reasonator sit in the Draft namespace, with a
link from the search results or the text preloaded for non-existing
pages in the main namespace?

Daniel
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I thought about that as well. Besides the intro text, the info box would be
> the main "attraction"; but if infoboxes were to fall back on wikidata
> information, which they could technically already do, all we'd have to do
> is add a blank infobox, and it should automatically fill up with the
> wikidata information. In light of that, writing code to fill an infobox
> with values form wikidata to paste into the article seems ... low-tech ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>wrote:
>
>> On 22 January 2014 08:35, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > There are many ways to skin a cat. The most obvious
>> > one is to add a {{Reasonator}} template as a place
>> > holder in a Wikipedia. Another is to capture a not
>> > found or a red link and insert Reasonator info. What
>> > I am trying to do is to give a sense of direction. I am
>> > not indicating how it will be done for sure.
>>
>> [I'm not on the devs list, so trimmed from the CC]
>>
>> I would like people to be able to "subst" that template (or have a big
>> button that does the same thing), and have some code draft a stub
>> article based on the statements in Wikidata, say:
>>
>>      "X was a German painter born in [[Munich]] on
>>      27 May 1801. He died in [[Berlin]] on 3
>>      March 1899"
>>
>> with formatted references, a reflist template, and a pre-populated
>> infobox. It would be delivered in preview state, allowing further
>> editing before publication.
>>
>> A suitably prominent warning would alert editors that they still bear
>> responsibility for ensuring that the subject is notable, and the
>> article fit for publication, according to local standards. A hidden
>> category and/or an edit tag would allow tracking.
>>
>> Because of the complexity of this task, we could pilot it for one type
>> of subject (say, buildings, or people, or even a subset of one of
>> those) in one or two languages.
>>
>> --
>> Andy Mabbett
>> @pigsonthewing
>> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>>
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