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


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