Hey folks :) On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone :) > > I've been asked to enable access to the data on Wikidata for Commons. > I'm happy to make that happen. We'll enable access on December 2nd. > What does this mean? You will be able to access data from an item on > Wikidata like the date of birth of an artist or the name of a city in > different languages. Where and how much you make use of that is up for > you to decide. You will be able to access the data in two ways. The > first one is the #property parser function > (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion_syntax). The > second one is via Lua > (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_Client/Lua). There > are two big caveats at this point. 1) You will only be able to access > data for items that are connected via a sitelink to the page you want > to show the data on. We're currently working on allowing accessing > data from any item. This should be available around January/February. > 2) You can not use this to store meta data (like the date a picture > was taken or who took it) about individual files. This will in the > future be stored on Commons itself as part of the structured data > project (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data). > > Please let me know if you have any questions. I am looking forward to > more integration between Commons and Wikidata and all the things this > will make possible. It'd be great if you could help with updating and > expanding https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata. The > relevant page on Wikidata is > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons.
This has happened now. Commons has access to the data on Wikidata \o/ 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. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
