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On 12 May 2016 at 06:45, Biyanto Rebin <biyanto.re...@wikimedia.or.id>
wrote:

> Yeay,
>
> Goodluck for Wikidata Team. Looking forward for Indonesian regional
> language version :)
>
> Regards,
>
> 2016-05-12 2:48 GMT+07:00 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de>:
>
> > Hi everyone :)
> >
> > Last year Lucie started working on the ArticlePlaceholder (
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder) in order to
> > fullfill Wikidata's promise of supporting especially the smaller
> > Wikipedias. Today we have rolled it out on the first 4 Wikipedias:
> > Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan and Odia. When someone searches
> for a
> > topic where no local article exists but Wikidata has data we will show an
> > ArticlePlaceholder with this information and encourage the reader to
> create
> > an article. I hope this will help these Wikipedias by offering their
> > readers more content and by turning more of them into active editors.
> >
> > In order for the feature to work well we need labels for items and
> > properties in these languages on Wikidata. A lot exist already but if you
> > want to help out you can find items and properties that need labels in
> > these languages at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator and
> > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties.
> >
> > What we rolled out today as usual is a first version. Based on the
> feedback
> > from those 4 Wikipedias we will expand and improve it. One of the next
> > things we will do is add the option to translate an article from another
> > language if it exists using the Content Translation tool and fix known
> > bugs. Things we know are still broken or need work:
> > * language fallbacks in the properties are not working so you will see a
> > lot of P1234 and so on until a label is added on Wikidata in that
> language
> > * long identifiers break out of the identifier box on the right side and
> > don't look good
> > * right now you only get an ArticlePlaceholder in the search results when
> > Wikidata has at least 3 links to other Wikimedia projects and 3
> statements.
> > We might need to tweak this number still based on feedback from the first
> > Wikipedias. We limit this in order to not encourage readers to create an
> > article that will be deleted right after they created it because it isn't
> > notable.
> >
> > Here are some example pages:
> > * Odia:
> >
> >
> https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:AboutTopic?entityid=Q131074
> > * Napolitan:
> >
> https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A0le:AboutTopic?entityid=Q2613697
> > * Esperanto:
> > https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345
> > * Haitian Creole:
> > https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espesyal:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345
> >
> > I'm really excited about making true on one of Wikidata's biggest
> promises.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Lydia
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