It would just have to be ported to Commons once there's a native WIkiBase
installation. If it will be ported at all.

Is it really worth the fuss, so we can tinker for a few months? (I would
genuinely like to know!)




On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Pierre-Selim <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 2014-06-18 16:58 GMT+02:00 Magnus Manske <[email protected]>:
>
> > 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 ;-)
> >
>
> And if we say "please" ?
>
>
>
> > 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
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