Hi Roger! On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Roger Hyam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was thinking of creating a tool to help people write, edit and validate > taxoboxes on en.wikipedia.org but then wikidata was pointed out to me. It > looks like an exciting project. > > Reading the technical proposal, phase 2, not to be done in project: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal#Not_to_be_done_by_the_project_2 > > I'm not clear whether existing data in infoboxes will be used to populate > wikidata as it doesn't appear to come into any of the categories of data > listed. Will this be automated or semi-automated task? Am I just not reading > it correctly?
The development team will not populate Wikidata with data for this. If the community wants to do that is up to them. A decision hasn't been made. Technically it is possible to write bots to fill Wikidata via an API. > *If* I were to a work on an editor tool would it be feasible to think in > terms of editing existing syntax for now and in version two adding a "migrate > to wikidata" button? Would all the exiting infoboxes move over to wikidata in > a 'big bang' approach? Potentially but I'd need to see the specific case you'd like to write a tool for. I don't think it'll be technically feasible to migrate everything with the click of a button. Infoboxes will move at the pace the editors migrate them (automatically or by hand). > My second (impossible) question: What time scale are we looking at for live > infoboxes actually being populated by wikidata data? Next year. (Yeah I know - super useful ;-)) Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 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. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
