On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:02 AM Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3 June 2015 at 06:16, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > list of people who died in Brazil in 2015 [1]. > > > page for people who died in the Netherlands in 2015 [2]. It is trivially > easy to do this and, the result is > > great. The result looks great, it can be used for any country in any > > Wikipedia > > > [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil > > [2] > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_the_Netherlands > > Those are great - but why are the dates written into the page source, > rather than called from Wikidata? > nl.wp already has "remote" property access, and there I use Wikidata calls; everywhere else should be switched over end of this months, so I'll switch to Wikidata calls once that's done. Not sure if Wikidata itself has it? > > Before they are used in Wikipedia (at least, en.WP, though the same > could apply elsewhere), I'd like to see two changes: > > * Add a column for "Wikidata ID" > Can do. * Use a template for each row. > > > You can see an example of the latter (albeit not drawn from Wikidata) > on, for example, > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_the_City_of_Westminster > > That said, it would be even better if we could just place a temaplte > like {{Wikidata list}} on a page, and have each row added by that. > Soon, no doubt... > {{public art row}} is ... very topic-specific. Listeria allows for all kinds of lists. Species? Award winners? Artwork in a museum? Philosophical concepts? One-row-template-fits-all would have to be very generic, to the point where the difference between table row and template parameters would be negligible IMO. That {{sort}} thing looks interesting though. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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