Hi Janyong, as Michael said, Wikidata does not automatically get updated in any case. We are planning to improve a bit the experience with moving a page in the Wikipedias, but it won't become automatic. Mostly because these issues are in general complicated.
2013/4/1 Jianyong Zhang <[email protected]> > Hi, > > Wikidata is a very useful effort. It seems associating an item with a > wikipedia article. Then I'm thinking the following scenarios to understand > it further: > > Say, an article is associated with an item Qx. > > 1) It becomes redirect to another article, will Qx be changed in this > scenario? > > I expect that if a Wikipedia article gets moved, this will be updated on the Wikidata item manually. Otherwise the language links that were displayed on the original article would not show up. If an article gets turned into a redirect to an already existing article, this would be a merge (see Question 4). > 2) It is deleted. Will Qx be also deleted? > > In some cases. If all articles in all languages of an item got deleted, than it might mean that the item itself should be deleted too, but this is not necessarily the case. > 3) That article is split as 2 new articles, how will we generate items for > them? > > It depends. Let us assume there was one article "Castor and Pollux". Now it gets split into two articles, "Castor" and "Pollux". In this case we would probably have three items in Wikidata: one for Castor, one for Pollux, and one for the pair of them. > 4) Or multiple articles are merged as one, how will their items be changed? > > The same. There *might* be items for the individuals as well as for the compound. Not all Wikipedias might slice the world equally. How a merge really is handled, depends on what the corresponding articles and items are about. The good news is that these cases actually got a lot simpler than they used to be: they happened previously as well, but in that case you had to struggle with an ecosystem of bots who might revert your edits that were trying to clean up the interwiki links. Now it is all in Wikidata, and the situations should be easier to resolve. Just my two cents on these questions, Cheers, Denny > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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