On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At the current time, I have yet to see how the Wikidata theoretical
use improves finding images on Commons today. After regularly getting
emails over the past two years raising expectations of how these
problems will be solved through Wikidata, I have yet to be involved or
invited to join any Commons based Wikidata project, despite being
currently the most active unpaid volunteer uploader for Commons.
There is;
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons
I formally invite you to take a look and join the discussions if you feel
like :-)
One of my particular interests was sorting out the Geograph project
where I added meaningful place categories to images (around a million
images). Last year I deliberately deferred continuing improvements and
new uploads based on suggestions of how Wikidata was going to
revolutionise the way this worked. As far as I am aware, there is
still no published plan to help with identifying Commons categories
with places using Wikidata; indeed for projects like our Avionics
batch uploads (which rely on Airport categories and their locations) I
have been told the opposite, to no longer expect, nor wait, for this
to be sorted out and I am likely to revise my Geograph work without
any plans to incorporate Wikidata, or work with Wikidata.
You would need a lua template to do a bit of triangulation:
1. From the linked Commons category to the Wikidata item you fetch the
statements
2. One of those statements should be "category's main topic (P301)"
3. From the linked item, you can extract the location data
This should be possible once this bug is implemented
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47930
I don't much about the Geograph project, but perhaps your work might be
compatible with a future deployment of "wikidata for media info"?
Micru