On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Andy Mabbett <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm not sugegsting that we "make people enter even more information in
> Wikipedia"; I'm suggesting that wikidata would benefit from capturing
> the data that is /already/ being entered into Wikipedia, not least via
> AfC, by the people I describe above; and that I and others who review
> and publish those articles would benefit from tool to save us the
> manual task of having to retype (into Wikidata) what we're already
> asked to type once (into the AfC tool) as part of that process.


We cannot get there yet, since we depend on many features still in
development:
1.- Simple data editing from VisualEditor
2.- Easy way to map wikipedia template fields to wikidata properties
3.- Migration of main infobox templates to make use of Wikidata

There are many needed features still not done, plus some more, which take a
long time to discuss, implement, and test. Of course when all that is
available then you should be able to have an infobox selection wizard
(possibly based on this structure [1]), and then by editing the fields on
VisualEditor the data would be automatically filled on Wikidata.

As said, it sounds easy, but this has many prerequisites that are still not
met.

My only advice: patience :-)

And if you want meanwhile you can help with the infobox mappings:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Infobox_mappings

Cheers,
Micru

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes
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