Actually that feature was introduced during the Wikidata meetup by User:Vlsergey :) See: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Edit_directly_from_infocard_.2F_infobox
AFAIK, at the moment it is only deployed on ruwiki, but it works! Check also his other wikidata editors: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2014/07#WEF_gadgets_update However, this poses some problems for sourced statements... Cheers, Micru On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > There are plenty of ways in which Wikidata and VisualEditor could be > integrated. Let me ask about the following one: > > Given: Let's imagine that the venerable {{Infobox settlement}} template is > fully adapted for pulling the data from Wikidata. All the relevant data > about the city of Bratislava is entered into its item page on wikidata.org, > and in the source of the article [[Bratislava]] you only need to say > {{Infobox settlement}} without any parameters. > > The people of Bratislava elect a new mayor, and I want to write it in the > article. I come to the article [[Bratislava]] and press edit. I click the > infobox. > > What happens? > > As far as I know, no work has been done in this area; PLEASE CORRECT ME if > I'm wrong. > > My Super-Dream scenario is to be able to edit the Mayor's name write there > in the infobox, but I realize that it might be complicated. > > My Dream scenario is that the VE understands that the data is pulled from > Wikidata and shows a dialog that is similar to the current template > parameters. I see the old mayor's name in that dialog, I write the new > mayor's name, and the new value is stored in Wikidata. Of course, it must > be taken into account that the name is likely not just a string, but a > label of the Wikidata item. > > My acceptable-but-suboptimal scenario is taking the user to > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6850543 . This is probably a useful > workflow for the tech-savvy editors, but it's suboptimal for a casual > editor. I'll go as far as saying that for a casual editor it may be > (relatively) more comfortable to edit parameters in a MediaWiki template > ("|mayor =[[Milan Ftáčnik]]") than to go to > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6850543 and find the value. > > Does anybody have any more ideas about it? Am I late to the party and this > has already been discussed and designed and I missed it? Please enlighten > me :) > > Thanks! > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non
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