Am 28.06.2013 19:16, schrieb Maarten Dammers: > Commons should be the interface to maintain the data. The actual data can be > stored in a different location.
yes, but it makes things easier to keep the meta data local to the primary data. think of dumps, etc. i see no good reason to *not* have that info on commons. just because it's structured data? support for that is now part of mediawiki, it's not exclusive to wikidata. >>> I want to link the images with the items on Wikidata. So instead of having >>> [[Category:Grote Kerk, Haarlem]] I just want to do "depicts" <Q item for the >>> Church> >>> I guess that's not possible when we have two Wikibase databases? >> Sure it's possible, no problem. The example properties are meant to be read >> that >> way. > So I can link images of the church to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1545193 > (item on Wikidata)? I don't feel like having duplicate systems...... yes, that is the idea! >> You won't be able to run queries that span both system though, like "give me >> the >> birthdays of all people shown on pictures in category x". But that's the only >> big limitation i see. > In the long run we should probably get rid of the categories. yes :) -- daniel _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
