On 13/09/15 17:14, Charles Matthews wrote: > Now if all of the information in the right hand box on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Sub_Edge was populated from the > wikidata entry, and the evolution of things like 'population' and other > local variable data was also stored in wikidata then I think things > would be a lot easier to manage over time? CAN we select data from > wikidata as we can now add [[Category:xxx]] tags? > > Two points here. "Population" from Wikidata is under active development > in more than one fashion (infoboxes, and now lists). Time series on > Wikidata are not as advanced, though I have discussions with Magnus > Manske about a way ahead.
I asked on freenode on the wikidata channel and was told that the Russians are using wikidata for location information boxes. My background is databases and data management so I'm more used to creating the raw data and then displaying it rather than manual creating each end page :) I'd not really appreciated that I was adding the pages I was working on into other lists, but that seems the right way, since those lists now include the amendments. However those tags should really be from wikidata so I think what I'm looking for is a boilerplate for a 'town/village/hamlet' in wikidata that contains the items used in the info box. I HAVE all that data already in a relational database and including population data but I've hit another one of those brick walls that stopped me doing this in the past :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
