I just endorsed this proposal (and CC World University and School did too) - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Putnik/Wikidata_module.
Thank you, Scott CC https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Info WorldUniversity < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Markus and All, > > Looking forward to when further parts of this Wikidata-Wikipedia bridging > puzzle come together - and re Wikipedia Info Boxes and Wikidata Items ( > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Infoboxes & > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Infoboxes). I wonder in what > ways a templates' approach could FURTHER play a complementary role here > (which might be something for a new different thread than this "info box > proposal" Wikidata thread) and in terms of making easy using Wikidata ITEMS > (SQL) in new ways in conjunction with ongoing ease of end-user editing > (e..g. in wiki or Wikipedia). > > While this templates' approach may find best form in MediaWiki (so visual > editor et al), I have in mind this central World University and School > SUBJECT TEMPLATE - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE (and > its related templates: Languages (all), Nation States (all, each a major > university), Museums, etc., at bottom ) - which inform almost all 720 pages > of WUaS currently (which is mostly in English currently, except for the CC > MIT OCW in 7 languages) but plans to be in all 358 Wikipedia languages (and > eventually in all 8k languages) - for thinking further about this. WUaS > donated itself to Wikidata last autumn. > > Wikipedia info boxes may be the answer to this Templates' approach - by > building in differentially developing Wikipedia info boxes for their > relative ease of use with structured data/Items into Templates for use in > new ways. I'm thinking here about what's ahead with voice for Wikidata, and > how I might be able to say (in Android currently) to my phone "please add > this link to "regional languages in Germany" to the Germany Wikipedia > information box with its links to Wikidata items here - > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany (e.g. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Germany) - like one sees in > India Wikipedia information box here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India > (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India). Would using > voice with info boxes into Wikidata facilitate new kinds of ease of use in > Wikidata? Could we dedicate a specific kind of Wikipedia info box to voice > developments (... and later use brain wave headsets for adding information > in a kind of drag and drop a link ... and then even later develop this > voice approach - voice is so easy! - (and beyond that brainwave headsets) > with SQL ad SQID, for example. > > I'm wondering further, thinking ahead, re info boxes and the WUaS SUBJECT > TEMPLATE +, whether it might be possible to turn each "subsection" in WUaS > into a kind of dedicated Wikipedia info box <> Wikidata items ... and > anticipate both voice, head sets and SQL. Are these some logical next steps > in this puzzle coming together, Markus and All? > > As the pieces of the puzzle come further together, the beauty of a > "templates approach" offering specialization of info boxes (re accessing > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access) - is their ease of > editing - like in Wikipedia - and their potential for exploring interfacing > with structured data in possibly new unfolding ways. > > Thank you for these great Wikidata and Wikipedia projects - now in all 358 > languages. > > Cheers, Scott > > > > On Aug 3, 2016 9:16 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Brill Lyle, 03/08/2016 13:30: >> >>> Huge barrier for Wikipedia end-users. >>> >> >> What makes you think so? Did you interview or observe users editing? In >> my experience, Wikidata is much easier for newbies to grasp than wikitext >> or even VisualEditor: like VisualEditor's template editor, Wikidata >> resembles a standard form, which people are used to. >> >> We only need to make sure there are direct deep links from each piece of >> displayed (or missing) information to the statement on Wikidata where they >> are (or should be); and later add dialogs for direct editing from the >> client wikis, as was done long ago with the interlanguage links. >> >> Nemo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > -- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - 415 480 4577 - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you.
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