The basic idea is to update templates like Infobox film to prefer to pull data
from Wikidata. So for a film article whose corresponding item on Wikidata is
fairly complete you can just put {{Infobox film}} at the top of the article and
everything will work as expected. They can click the link at the bottom of the
article to go to the item on Wikidata and update the values. Then anywhere in
the article, including the template and other language versions of the article,
the information will be automatically updated. To do this means changing in the
template where it says:| label1 = Directed by| data1 =
{{{director|}}}to say:| label1 = Directed by| data1 =
{{{director|{{#property:p57}}}}}In the next update you will just be able to
write {{#property:film director}} instead of {{#property:p57}}.
As far as statements to include on templates, it could be interesting once the
transition has more momentum to see what types of items use a template. You can
already see what pages embed a template with the Wikimedia API. I'm not sure
what the best workflow would be for this. I can imagine that eventually it
would be awesome if I have some information about a new movie coming out, so I
go to create a new article. Then when I am writing the article it has a textbox
on the side to specify a type for the article. So then if I type in film for
the type, it automatically adds the typical templates used in a film article to
the article text and then shows part of the Wikidata UI to specify the
properties that most films have. Then when I click save it could automatically
add the appropriate statements to Wikidata at the same time I create the
article.
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 10:28:23 +0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Wikidata-l] A question about wikidata for templates
Hi,
I have a question about how wikidata will behave for template pages. For
example, for http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171351, currently it has
interlanguage links as a regular wikipedia page. I'm wondering if wikidata
project will also add statements for it. If so, how will it look like and how
will people use it in wikipedia articles with that template?
Thanks.
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