Erika, would building a better wikidata UI help alleviate your concern? For example, it used to be that to add a link to the same article in another language, one had to edit raw wiki markup and add a weird language link. Now with wikidata it is by far more intuitive, with an edit button right next to the list, with an auto-complete and language selector. Could we try to build something similar for the infoboxes?
On Aug 3, 2016 2:31 PM, "Brill Lyle" <[email protected]> wrote: > Saw this posted on Twitter. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Putnik/Wikidata_module > > This proposal is my greatest fear with Wikidata. Depreciate Infoboxes to > Wikidata so casual Wikipedia editors can't edit on Wiki, are forced to use > Wikidata (comparable to existing Authority Control depreciation). Huge > barrier for Wikipedia end-users. > > Before I voice my concerns on this Grant page, I wondered if the end-user > issue has been discussed here -- and if this could be explained why it is > such a good idea? And what user issues have been and could be addressed > before the project is implemented. > > I understand something like this is part of Russian Wikipedia. How did > that community respond to this what I see as significant change? > > - Erika > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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