We have a hackathon starting tomorrow morning (California time). It would be fantastic if we could hack on adding our gene wikidata content to a Wikipedia instance using this new ability. We too have been anxiously awaiting this development.
Is there a sandbox environment somewhere that we could use to test (tonight, tomorrow) before the roll out on Monday? thanks -Ben On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > On 2015-05-06 21:34, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > >> Hey folks :) >> >> When using data from Wikidata on Wikipedia and other sister projects >> there is currently a limitation in place which hinders some use cases. >> Data can only be accessed from the corresponding item. So for example >> the article about Berlin can only get data from the item about Berlin >> but not from the item about Germany. This had technical reasons. On >> Monday we will remove this limitation on the first wikis. This will be >> Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource. (More will follow over the next >> weeks. We hope to have it rolled out nearly everywhere by the end of >> June.) We invite you to play around with this new feature if you are >> one of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time. If >> you have technical issues/questions with this you can come to >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team >> >> A note of caution: Please be careful with how many items you use for a >> single page. If it is too many page loading might get slow. We will >> have to see how the feature behaves in production to see where we need >> to tweak and how. >> >> How to use it once it is enabled: >> * Parser function: {{#property:capital|from=Q183}} to get the capital >> from the item about Germany >> * Lua: see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua >> >> >> Cheers >> Lydia, who is very happy this is finally getting out >> >> > Great, on Wikivoyage we were waiting for this feature for ages. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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