http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Mathieu Stumpf
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 2013-04-09 20:44, Michael Hale a écrit :
>
>> Venezuela is electing a new president in about a week. I went ahead
>> and switched the Italian article to use the Wikidata property so we
>> might be able to capture a good example there.
>
>
> Could you please provide the relevant URL?
>
> thank you :)
>
>
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:24:49 +0200
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Page history and properties
>>>
>>> Le 2013-04-08 15:54, Luca Martinelli a écrit :
>>> > 2013/4/8 Mathieu Stumpf <[email protected]>:
>>> >> Le 2013-04-08 15:02, Luca Martinelli a écrit :
>>> >>
>>> >>> What I tried to say is: we don't mind if we go back in a page
>>> >>> history
>>> >>> and find a red link to a template, nobody cares, because we all
>>> >>> know
>>> >>> that a template has been deleted/substituted *for a reason* - that
>>> >>> we
>>> >>> even discussed for a VERY long time. What we DO care is that the
>>> >>> article has *right now* the correct data - and this will be easier
>>> >>> with Wikidata. I wouldn't have been its main sponsor in it.wp, if
>>> >>> it
>>> >>> wasn't for this.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> When I look in the history, I want to see the data which where used
>>> >> then :
>>> >> there are the correct data of this history context. The "current"
>>> >> page may
>>> >> be automaticaly edited to match the current wikidata entries it
>>> >> refers to,
>>> >> but this changes should appears in the history, just like it's done
>>> >> with
>>> >> bots.
>>> >>
>>> >> So, no, I don't care that the last revision of an article uses the
>>> >> "correct
>>> >> data", because "correct data" is an ambiguous term. What I hope to
>>> >> see, is
>>> >> that the last revision article uses the last revision of the
>>> >> wikidata
>>> >> entries it needs; or at least the value it had the last time that a
>>> >> commit
>>> >> was made to update this value. And when I look in the history, I
>>> >> want to see
>>> >> the value that the article used to use then. Otherwise it would be
>>> >> history
>>> >> counterfeiting.
>>> >
>>> > Ok, I give up. Ask the devs to solve this problem, open a bug about
>>> > it, whatever.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, I didn't want to upset anyone.
>>>
>>> > For the records I *do not* see as a problem as of now, since IMVHO
>>> > we've got other priorities to deal with - first of all: filling the
>>> > items with statements, and possibly completing the statements with
>>> > sources, in order to make the data on Wikidata usable on Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> Ok, do you mean making a bug report on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
>>> ?
>>> If so I would welcome any advise to make a bug report as relevant as
>>> possible.
>>> To my mind it would be realy like put the cart before the horse if we
>>> began to feed articles with wikidata before we have a proper history
>>> management. I understand the willing to be able to use this bright new
>>> tool. I **do** share your exitement here. But if you take a step
>>> backward, there's no urge to go into a situation possibly harmful for
>>> the credibility of our "will to be reliable through transparency".
>>>
>>> So, before I make a bug report, can anyone confirm me that as it is
>>> today, wikidata invokation in previous revision of a page will fail to
>>> provide the relevant data, that is, the data which was returned at the
>>> time the revision was in use. More generaly, could developers/admins
>>> confirm me that data update would not appear in the article history.
>>> Because it seems to me that I saw such entries with the interlang
>>> migration, so until now I supposed that any change in wikidata would
>>> rise a new revision with a commit message in each article using this
>>> data.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> mathieu
>>>
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