On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> 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
This has now happened. Arbitrary access is live on Dutch Wikipedia and French Wikisource. Wohoooooooooo! 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
