We may eventually add statements to the items for templates, but none of our 
current properties make sense for them. 
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties
However, the Infobox film template is included in 76000 articles. Each of those 
articles has an item on Wikidata that will have statements for the properties 
we support. After the property inclusion syntax is supported on the English 
Wikipedia, when {{Infobox film}} is rendered it will copy all of the text from 
the template. Then it will see that the template contains templates, so the 
appropriate text will be included for them. It will know which item to find the 
property on at this point because the context is established. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template#Nesting_templates

Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:28:31 +0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] A question about wikidata for templates

I'm little confused here: I mean that in a template wikidata page such as 
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171351, will we add statements in it?  It is 
like a meta-data (schema) in a template. Such as, in the above page, we may add 
a statement as:


label: Directed by
data: {{{director|{{#property:p57}}}

Then for every reference of that template in an article (such as, 
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217189), we don't need to specify director 
attribute again. It will first get that meta-data  from statements in the page 
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171351, and then automatically get property 
p57's value for Q217189.


I'm not sure if there is such mechanism existing or not. Or does it make sense 
to have such mechanism?


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Michael Hale <[email protected]> wrote:




The data will be in the Wikidata pages (called items). It will be in the items 
for the articles, not the template. http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217189 The 
mechanism has already launched on some Wikipedias. It will be on all of them 
soon. Details are here. 
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/03/27/you-can-have-all-the-data/


Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 15:04:53 +0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] A question about wikidata for templates

I think that I haven't got it completely:

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Michael Hale <[email protected]> wrote:





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}}}}}


Will such data be in that template's wikitext or we will put them as a 
statement in its wikidata page (such as, a statement in 
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171351)? If it is in that template's wikitext, 
then for {{Infobox film}} in an article, in order to render it correctly, we 
have to also read that template page 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_film), isn't it? 



And when will such mechanism be launched? 

Thanks.  
 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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