Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now I got the current implementation.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Michael Hale <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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