Strong +1 to use Wikidata to retrieve back metadata. It's already done for 
authority control identifiers, at least on en, fr and ru Wikisources (and fr 
has migrated all its ids to Wikidata). I'll try to convert the Author: template 
of French Wikisource in order to make it use Wikidata in the next few weeks as 
a sample for other Wikisources.

Yes, it would be nice to be able to add microdata to wikitext, it may improve 
our Google rank. It may require a bit of development work in MediaWiki in order 
to make sure that that microdata are safe on the security level but I believe 
it should be feasible. I'm ready to help the person that will make this thing 
move forward.

The only strong issue I see is the (silly imho) microdata v.s. RDFa fight that 
isn't solved yet. I think we should advocate "these two things are coexisting, 
we should pick one and use it instead of waiting a few years more".

Thomas


> Le 7 déc. 2014 à 10:37, Nicolas VIGNERON <[email protected]> a écrit 
> :
> 
> 2014-12-07 10:17 GMT+01:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>:
> There's always been a lot of discussion about page metadata and microdata but 
> never any conclusion.
> 
> At some point I was tricked into believing that it.source used microdata 
> (https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:Qualità/Semantizzazione ?), but 
> clearly it doesn't.
> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=https%3A%2F%2Fit.wikisource.org%2Fwiki%2FLe_avventure_d%2527Alice_nel_paese_delle_meraviglie
> Compare: 
> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AOenothera_rubricaulis_2014_G1.jpg
> 
> Just make all those damned templates output something useful in the HTML!
> 
> Nemo
> 
> The Author template has some microdata :
> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikisource.org%2Fwiki%2FAuteur%3AVictor_Hugo
> 
> But it could be so much better (we should and could easily use Wikidata for a 
> start).
> 
> Cdlt, ~nicolas
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