@Bene*: The WE-Framework already has an interface for dealing with
statement ranks, have you tried the latest version?
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:WE-Framework

As for mapping Wikipedia templates to wikidata properties I think James F.
mentioned something about including that into templatedata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/TemplateData

Cheers,
Micru


On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Bene* <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The problem I see here is that we mostly do not want to replace a value
> but rather add another preferred one and state that the old one is now
> deprecated. This means, we also want to have the old major on the Wikidata
> item but the new major should be marked as preferred. I think we have to
> think a lot how this can be implemented best in Visual Editor. Maybe we
> should just add the value entered there just as another preferred value but
> this is rather a guess because the data might also be simply wrong and
> should be replaced. We thus have to investigate how often the value should
> be replaced and how often the old value should be kept as well. Then we can
> decide a way how the visual editor should use this data without being to
> complicated but also offering all options to create the data as intended.
>
>
>  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.
>>
>
> We might take the user to the item's page on Wikidata if he wants to make
> more enhanced edits like replacing an old edit.
>
>
>  Does anybody have any more ideas about it?
>>
>
> For the technical implementation, we have to find a way which data comes
> from which item and which property. Maybe we can add some data-item and
> data-property attributes to the HTML tag in which the data is stored so
> that the visual editor can easy find these transclusions. However, this
> might also be a security issue if the attributes are added to elements not
> containing Wikidata data.
>
> All in all, you are surely not late and this discussion has just started
> at Wikimania (although it is planned much longer to have something like
> that). Therefore, I think this feature hasn't hightes priority at the
> moment and needs lots of cooperation with the Visual Editor team. Perhaps
> we will start developing not before 2016. (Only my personal guess. :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Bene
>
>
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