The problem is that we don't really know what topic the user is looking for, we
just know a term (the search string or page title). The easiest thin to do would
be to show an automatic disambiguation page, listing items that have a matching
label or alias. That page would show the description for each such item, and a
link to the corresponding page on the local wiki, if there is one.

This sidesteps the question of how we might show a "summary" of some sort of a
specific data item. If we want that, picking the appropriate infobox template
would be nice, but I'm not sure how that could be done.

-- daniel

Am 29.12.2014 18:11, schrieb Lydia Pintscher:
> Hey folks :)
> 
> People have been bugging me for a while now about this so I started a
> page to gather input.
> 
> If you are searching for a topic on a Wikipedia for example but it
> doesn't have an article about it then we can look at Wikidata and see
> if there is a matching item for that topic. If we have data about it
> on Wikidata then we can show some kind of placeholder. But how should
> this look like and work? I'd love your input at
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Article_placeholder_input
> Please keep in mind the important points at the beginning of that
> page.
> 
> Also: If someone comes up with a better name for this that'd be awesome.
> 
> <3
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Lydia
> 


-- 
Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

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