On 23.07.2015 01:06, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Benjamin Good, 22/07/2015 23:15:
I'm particularly concerned about the edit button. When a Wikipedia user
hits edit on an article built using wikidata content, how are they
supposed to edit the wikidata content?
On the "consuming" templates, you can add an edit button as the Russian
and Spanish Wikipedias do in various ways. See for instance:
*
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Buscar/%22editar_datos_en_Wikidata%22
* https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-useWD.js
* other approaches to study at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11985372
One point to consider is that editing existing statement values is very
often not what you want. For example, if the mayor of a town changes,
one should create a new statement for the new mayor with a correct start
date (and reference), update the old mayorship to have an end date,
modify the ranks so that the new current mayor is preferred now, and
possibly even update the references for the old mayor (because
references that confirmed the old claim may only talk about the start of
the mayorship, not about the end). On the other hand, if new results
change the expected age of the universe, this does not mean that the old
value should get an "end date" and be kept as a "normal rank" value; in
this case the value should really be changed, but the references will
also need to be changed.
I could imagine a kind of Javascript "statement update wizard" that
makes such typical update workflows very easy for users. But the first
step to making this feasible will be to understand which properties in
Wikidata should be updated in which ways.
Markus
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