Hoi,
Importing data from Wikidata (where do you want it??) is just one
application. There are so many potential applications for structured data
and Wikidata implicitly covers the sum of all knowledge as we know it (in
the Wikimedia projects) so there are opportunities galore.
For people "not to know how to" is a given. I do not care to know about
Wikipedia templates because they are freaking impossibly hard.
For me the data in Wikidata has other applications. One important one is
providing information when there is no Wikipedia article another will be
helping children find pictures of a *YOUR FAVOURITE ANIMAL HERE* in their
own language.That is my vision, motivation. Abstract language does not help
motivate others.. Saying things like "I want every eight year old find
pictures of a horse in their own language" may. It also jives better with
what the WMF aims to achieve.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 17 August 2014 16:45, Luca Martinelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually, this is important - it is just that may be extended also to all
> projects and not just limited to Commons. One of the main limitations,
> sometimes, is that people do not know how to actually import data from
> Wikidata into their templates. A bit of help or, G*d forgive me, some
> documentation would be interesting.
>
> L.
> Il 17/ago/2014 15:06 "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> ha
> scritto:
>
> Hoi,
>> I may be stupid, but for me there is no reason in there that will help us
>> in what we do.
>>
>> For me reasons to wikidatify multi media files are:
>>
>> - bring labels to Commons that are inherently multi lingual
>> - this will enable search in multiple languages
>> - it will make it easy to associate photos with the subject matter
>> - bringing structured data to licenses
>> - this will make them intelligible in many languages
>> - it will allow for easy categorisation of images that are
>> considered problematic
>> - it will allow for an easy "world wide" inclusion once a free
>> license becomes available
>>
>> Sorry but what you write is only technical, hard to understand and does
>> not motivate at all because it lacks any reason why we should do this.
>> Thanks,
>> GerardM
>>
>>
>> On 17 August 2014 10:54, James Heald <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_
>>> Structured_Data_for_Commons
>>>
>>> The aim of of the WikiProject Structured Data for Commons is:
>>>
>>> * To develop templates that draw directly on Wikidata (and in future
>>> also on Commons Wikibase), that will act as drop-in replacements for
>>> templates currently in use on Commons.
>>>
>>> * To develop new templates that can bring new functionality to
>>> Commons filepages (eg "topics" listings)
>>>
>>> * To support the cataloguing of particularly idiosyncratic templates
>>> currently in use on Commons (eg institutional credit/backlink templates,
>>> and other source templates), and try to produce more generalised,
>>> standardised forms that can draw on Wikidata.
>>>
>>> * To work with other WikiProjects on Wikidata to understand, document
>>> and develop the data models on Wikidata, and make sure that they are
>>> sufficient to accommodate the needs of GLAM organisations and others
>>> currently or in future uploading or maintaining metadata on Commons.
>>>
>>> * To start to port existing such data that can be represented in
>>> structured form, and is appropriate to do so, from Commons to Wikidata
>>>
>>> * To examine the divide between what should be stored on Wikidata and
>>> what should be stored on the proposed Commons Wikibase.
>>>
>>> * To support, as a user-space community, the work of the staffers
>>> developing Commons Wikibase and other aspects of the Foundation initiative
>>> for Structured Data for Commons in any way we can.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sign up now!
>>>
>>>
>>> Talk-page comments, or wholescale re-editing, of this essay at
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata/How_
>>> GLAMs_can_help_the_Structured_Data_for_Commons_initiative
>>> also very welcome.
>>>
>>> -- J.
>>>
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