I don't see the need to change deeply Index/ns0 relationship, while I appreciate the idea "promote coherence reducing redundance" (many years ago I painfully used dBase III - dBase IV and I learned that principle by "try and learn").
Here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Scribunto/Brainstorming a brief message about relationship among wikidata, commons, wikisource and any other project. Don't follow the link, it's so short that I copy it here (but if you like it, comment it there): Scribunto-Lua and Wikidata I'd like a library to get Wikidata content; it would be a good idea IMHO to access to Wikidata data in plain form, just as such data would be Lua tables/variables. --Alex brollo (talk) 13:06, 10 June 2013 (UTC) If such a Lua library could be built, to import data from wikidata would be as simple, as writing a template, and data will be self-aligned. Alex 2013/6/10 Aarti K. Dwivedi <[email protected]> > Hi, > > There was a thread some time ago where there were talks of having > books which were born digital. These pages wouldn't have scans. > What the 'Index' page would have in these cases is something I am not very > sure about. > > Cheers, > Rtdwivedi > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:47 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: > >> With the deployment of Wikidata it is a good moment to re-examine what >> "Index" pages are and what should be their function. >> The most direct transition to a Wikidata-supported Wikisource could be >> something like this: >> https://sites.google.com/site/dacuetu/BookData.pdf >> >> That would allow: >> - to share data book data between Commons, Wikisource and Wikipedia >> - to update it, when any of the sites has been updated >> - to facilitate better search functions (like searches by author, or >> topic, limiting the date range or the language) >> >> That would only apply to those texts which use a "Index:" page, so now >> the question is, what do we do with books that do not have supporting scans >> (and therefore no index page)? >> >> Some possible options: >> a) ignore pages without sources and focus only on works with supporting >> scans >> b) use ns0 pages also as data containers (instead of, or in addition to >> "Index" pages) >> c) create "Index:" pages for all works, with or without scans. Use that >> instead of "Template:Textinfo" >> >> Personally I prefer "option c", even if it would require to rename >> "Index:" to "Source:" to make more clear what are those pages, however I >> would like to hear the opinion of other wikisourcerors about this. >> >> Cheers, >> Micru >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > > -- > Aarti K. Dwivedi > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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