The issue here seems to be "political/community" rather than technology. I could probably set up a MediaWiki installation with WikiBase plugin on Tool Labs within a day or so, then have a bot create/synchronize an item for each file on Commons. Community could start to create properties, and bots could fill in basic statements.
That said, I'm not doing that. First, no time. Second, ire of the WMF for making them scramble to re-create my stuff yet again ;-) Cheers, Magnus On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:32 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > At the current time, I have yet to see how the Wikidata theoretical > > use improves finding images on Commons today. After regularly getting > > emails over the past two years raising expectations of how these > > problems will be solved through Wikidata, I have yet to be involved or > > invited to join any Commons based Wikidata project, despite being > > currently the most active unpaid volunteer uploader for Commons. > > > > There is; > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikidata_for_media_info > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikimedia_Commons > > I formally invite you to take a look and join the discussions if you feel > like :-) > > > > > > One of my particular interests was sorting out the Geograph project > > where I added meaningful place categories to images (around a million > > images). Last year I deliberately deferred continuing improvements and > > new uploads based on suggestions of how Wikidata was going to > > revolutionise the way this worked. As far as I am aware, there is > > still no published plan to help with identifying Commons categories > > with places using Wikidata; indeed for projects like our Avionics > > batch uploads (which rely on Airport categories and their locations) I > > have been told the opposite, to no longer expect, nor wait, for this > > to be sorted out and I am likely to revise my Geograph work without > > any plans to incorporate Wikidata, or work with Wikidata. > > > > > You would need a lua template to do a bit of triangulation: > 1. From the linked Commons category to the Wikidata item you fetch the > statements > 2. One of those statements should be "category's main topic (P301)" > 3. From the linked item, you can extract the location data > > This should be possible once this bug is implemented > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47930 > > I don't much about the Geograph project, but perhaps your work might be > compatible with a future deployment of "wikidata for media info"? > > Micru > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- undefined _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
