Good plan! Does that mean I should refrain from adding new examples until the move materialized?
Also, as an avid user of the example page, can I help? Cheers On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:44 PM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Right now we have SPARQL query examples page in > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/SPARQL_Query_Examples, > and it gathered a large amount of excellent contributions (for which I'd > like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who helped!) > > However, MediaWiki site is really not the best wiki for this page - it > should properly be on Wikidata IMO. And we have a copy of it on > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_examples - except that is > is not up-to-date, is still not used by WDQS GUI and many people don't > actually know it exists. > > So, I'd like to propose a migration plan: > > 0. Put a message on MediaWiki page warning of migration and directing > people to use Wikidata one. Maybe even protect the page for a short > time? This of course will be done only after we decide to perform the > migration. > > 1. Sync Wikidata page to MediaWiki one (that'll require some work due to > template differences, etc. but I can do it in a couple of hours). > > 2. Switch WDQS GUI to use the Wikidata page. > > 3. Replace MediaWiki page with redirect to wikidata one with appropriate > message. > > I can do all of it (except maybe for protecting part, I'd need to ask > some admins I guess), but I wanted to make a public announcement / > request for feedback before doing anything big. So please comment if you > see any problem with the proposed plan or any objections. If no > objections are raised, I currently plan to do it sometime about Wed-Thu > this week. > > Thanks, > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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