Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 09.09.2014 01:40, schrieb Denny Vrandečić: Create a third item in Wikidata, and use that for the language links. Any Wikipedia that has two separate articles can link to the separate items, any Wikipedia that has only one article can link to the single item. That's a nice solution for the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 09.09.2014 11:33, Daniel Kinzler wrote: Am 09.09.2014 01:40, schrieb Denny Vrandečić: Create a third item in Wikidata, and use that for the language links. Any Wikipedia that has two separate articles can link to the separate items, any Wikipedia that has only one article can link to the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 09.09.2014 11:47, Thomas Douillard wrote: The composite item seems to be a sort of composite geographical/human system, like an ecosystem (community of living organisms together with the nonliving components of their environment) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37813 a special kind of

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 09.09.2014 13:36, schrieb Markus Krötzsch: My proposal became more clear to me over lunch: For articles that are really about multiple different things that cannot be reconciled in a single natural concept: * State intance of:Wikipedia article with multiple topics (we already have

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread Innovimax SARL
Dear all, A notable side effect : At the moment, a page can contain multiple topic in few languages only At the moment, those page are adopted by one of the topic It means that from now on, some pages that contains multiple topics in some languages will be attached to new Q** and it will

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread Luca Martinelli
2014-09-09 13:36 GMT+02:00 Markus Krötzsch mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org: My proposal became more clear to me over lunch: *** cut *** Markus, yuo are of genius! (cit.) :) /me deletes straight away his own proposal L. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread Emw
For articles that are really about multiple different things that cannot be reconciled in a single natural concept: * State intance of:Wikipedia article with multiple topics (we already have several other classes of Wikipedia articles). * Use some property, say has topic, to link to items

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread James Heald
What are the implications of this for sidebar links ? IMO it's a good thing if the wikidata items become more fine-grained and more conceptually precise. But wouldn't this mean we would be losing (some) sidebar links, so people wouldn't necessarily know any more that some of the information

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-09 Thread P. Blissenbach
The language links should then go to either the composite item, or the specitic item, if only one exits for a language. What, if there are both? If the page itself is specific, choose specific one, else use the composite one. That may intrduce some foggyness because links are unequal and you

[Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-08 Thread Edward Betts
The Wikipedia article about Wangerooge describes an island and municipality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangerooge These two concepts, island and municipality, have discrete items. Municipality: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25135 Island: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17081143 I would

Re: [Wikidata-l] Making a Wikipedia article link to two wikidata items

2014-09-08 Thread Jo
Disambiguation? In Openstreetmap it makes total sense to have 2 items for these very different concepts. Jo 2014-09-08 23:04 GMT+02:00 Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com: The Wikipedia article about Wangerooge describes an island and municipality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangerooge