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.



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