Hurrah!  Thank you for doing this, and for tracking and publicizing these
changes.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:32 AM, 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.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
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