Would it be possible to have a tag somewhere on the placeholder page that says it's just a placeholder and that includes a prompt to create the article or translate it from another language-pedia if it already exists in another language? I think this could be used in lists where otherwise redlinks are not allowed.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Lucie Kaffee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Jane, > > First of all: Thanks :) > Yes, it works for any item, so for paintings, too. We would have to look > into limiting it to certain items though if we want to enable it purely to > paintings or we just don't add it to the search and make it only > discoverable on the special page and in links? So there are certainly > possibilities! > > Cheers, > > Lucie > > 2016-01-20 16:46 GMT+01:00 Jane Darnell <[email protected]>: > >> Lucie, that looks great! Will it work for paintings? If so I would be >> interested in using it for both the English Wikipedia and on Commons for >> use with catalogs of paintings. On English Wikipedia I provide a link to >> the Wikidata item for the painting, but I think directing the user to the >> article placeholder would be more user friendly. >> See for example here (with item numbers): >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Rembrandt >> and here (without item numbers) >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paintings_by_Adriaen_Coorte >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Lucie Kaffee <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> As part of my Bachelor’s thesis I worked on an extension called >>> “ArticlePlaceholder” >>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder over the >>> last months. >>> >>> One of the biggest barriers for accessing the knowledge Wikipedia >>> provides is language. >>> >>> There are many topics that are only covered in few, big Wikipedias. >>> People who don’t speak any of these languages don’t have access to all the >>> information available potentially vital to them. >>> >>> The Article Placeholder extensions aims at smaller Wikipedias to support >>> them in increasing access to data available on Wikidata. Article >>> Placeholders are automatically generated content pages in Wikipedia or >>> other mediawiki projects displaying data from Wikidata. They are clearly >>> not actual articles but an overview of data on a topic which does not have >>> an article yet. The design of the page and its content is under the control >>> of the local community via Lua and templates but we will provide defaults >>> so smaller Wikipedias can work with them without having to worry about the >>> technical side of it. >>> >>> I have a test setup on Labs with an example for Ada Lovelace >>> http://articleplaceholder.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/index.php/Special:AboutTopic/Q3 >>> >>> The reader can find these pages by searching for a topic and gets >>> results if there is an Item on Wikidata with the respective label and/or >>> alias. >>> >>> The reader would benefit a lot since even if there is no article on a >>> topic yet, they will still have basic information provided in their >>> language. But it also might increase the numbers of editors due to >>> increased usefulness of that Wikipedia. >>> >>> We are now looking for the first Wikipedias to support the extension by >>> deploying it and giving their input. I am still developing the extension >>> and the first Wikipedias to try it will naturally have a larger say in how >>> it evolves. >>> >>> If your Wikipedia would like to give it a try please let me know. We >>> would start it as a beta feature. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Lucie (Frimelle) >>> >>> -- >>> Lucie-Aimée Kaffee >>> Working Student Software Development >>> >>> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin >>> Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0http://wikimedia.de >>> >>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the >>> sum of all knowledge. >>> That‘s our commitment. >>> >>> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. 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