2013/4/7 Jianyong Zhang <[email protected]> > On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Denny Vrandečić < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 2013/4/1 Jianyong Zhang <[email protected]> >> >>> 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). >> >> > > > Thanks for the detailed reply. I still have some question on redirect. > See, if the article A redirects to the article B, will we have 2 items or > only one for the final targets and all its redirects? > > From my point of view, if a redirect talks about same topic as its final > target, then it makes sense to only have 1 item. Such as, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obamaand > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama. > > But in many cases, a redirect talks about a related but different topic > with its final target. Such as, > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_activist and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism. > how will wikidata handle such redirects? > > And back to the original question, if an article becomes a redirect, for > the above 2 different scenarios,what will we do? > >
In general, you can't point to a redirect from Wikidata. When entering, Wikidata tries to resolve it to the redirected article, tries to save it - and if there is already an item linked to an article, the save will fail. If someone turns an article into a redirect, we don't notice that automatically. I hope that bots will clean that up over time, but I would consider that an issue with the data. Any data on that item cannot be used on the Wikipedia article, since it is a redirect. I hope that helps, Cheers, Denny -- 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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