On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Antoine Isaac <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lydia (and congrats!!)
Thanks! > I don't remember the specifics of the Commons issue, I was not really in it > (I cc my colleague David Haskiya to correct me if I'm writing too much > crap). But basically I think it was because the templates were not much open > for additions of data fields. > > Which might be related to the issue Daniel mentioned also in [1]: that data > about artworks, creators etc fit well on Wikidata but data about digital > files fit better on Commons. In the GLAMWiki project now, somehow everything > has to be packed together in the existing Commons template. Ok I fear this needs someone to help you then who has more knowledge about Commons. There are a few people on this list who can probably chime in. > Now, if there are alternatives that allow us (or more precisely, whoever > decides to upload an object mediated by Europeana into Commons) to send more > complete descriptive data in Wikidata that somehow ends up being connected > to the media data in Commons, that would be good. > > I'm not really into this--I assume that you guys are much closer to the > thing ;-) > > Meanwhile, David and I have seen that you have work in progress in task > forces on art works [2,3]. > If we find the time Europeana could try to contribute to this. It can ensure > we can feed more data into Commons, when the time has come. I would indeed start on the discussion page there. The people there are interested in the topic and knowledgeable about Wikidata. Go for it! > But: we are really tight on resources this day, and it's quite unclear, what > the timing is, for the discussion in this task force! Activity really varies between the task forces. I don't know how it is with this one unfortunately. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. 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
