I agree with Andy's comment on the blog post that it doesn't really make sense for VIAF to store all the Wikipedia links to a given topic - that's what Wikidata is already really good at.
So I assume that it would be best for VIAF to only link to the corresponding Wikidata item, from where all relevant pages across Wikimedia projects and languages can be reached. d. On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Luiz Augusto <[email protected]> wrote: > There isn't reason to celebrate, unfortunately. > > The blog post mentions only Wikipedia links. And, in fact, doing a search on > test.viaf.org, you will get only records containing links to Wikipedia. > > See for example the JSON formated record for Jane Austen: > > http://rdap02pxdu.dev.oclc.org:8080/viaf/102333412/justlinks.json > > Wikidata entry for Jane Austen points also to 1 Wikibooks page, 22 Wikiquote > pages, & Wikisource pages and 1 Wikimedia Commons page. > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36322 > > I'm not particularly surprised on this, since the Wikimedia Foundation never > does nothing to help "sister" projects (in fact, only puts dozens of > barriers to allow/approve changes in MediaWiki for those and, recently, > started to put barriers to approve local chapters actions on non-Wikipedias > wikis, as we can see on some past messages on this list). > > [[User:555]] > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:18 PM, billinghurst <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> From the Wikidata weekly newsletter, I was led to the VIAF blog >> post[1] which talks about how VIAF is going to re-orientate their >> linking from English Wikipedia to Wikidata. This should have a >> positive effect for the Wikisources in general, and non-English WSes >> especially, in making more overt the authors that you have in your >> wikis. >> >> We should also be aware of the issue that (more?) people will arrive >> at our pages directly via WD. >> >> [http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html] >> >> Regards, Andrew >> PS. Some of the more WD-aligned personnel will presumably already know >> this. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
