On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > > The Italian Wikipedia is the first project where people who use search will > find results added from Wikidata. As you may know, Wikidata knows has more > items with a label in a language than a Wikipedia has articles. With the > Wikidata based functionality people will gain several functionalities that > are new to them > > - a link to Commons categories for a subject > - a link to Wikipedia articles in other languages > - a link to the Wikidata item > - visualisation care of the "Reasonator" > > When there are multiple items found in the search request, disambiguation > will be provided based on the statements available on the items. Obviously > as more labels are available in a language for statements, the experience > will improve. > > This is a really exciting new development and I want to thank Magnus and > Nemo for making it possible. I hope and expect that many Wikipedias will > follow the example of the Italian Wikipedia. Particularly the smaller > Wikipedias have much to gain from this new functionality. > Thanks, > GerardM
Yay for more cross-project integration. <3 itwp for giving this a try. Thanks to Magnus, Gerard and anyone else involved. I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions for improvements from itwp. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
