Someone suggested to use for those cases what we call on french wikipedia "short article"* (articles courts), *articles with a short description and a (soft) redirect to the section in the main article. This may be an interesting solution.* *
2013/4/22 Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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