Yes you definitely need this flow of useful&visible interproject links both
ways: as a trigger for Wikidatans to do more with Wikisource pages, and as
a trigger to Wikisourcerers to do more with Wikidata items

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yup, still true. We do at least have a common goal of structured HTML, as
> defined by http://schema.org/CreativeWork
>
> It sounds like Tpt's scraper will do wonders, if a Wikisource just
> complies to that. I think that's one of the next steps we need to take.
>
> I sort of figure from the English Wikisource point of view that we should
> do more on bringing data *in* from Wikidata, in our {{header}}, rather than
> working on making it easier to extract data *out* with
> microformats/structured-HTML. Well, we should do both, of course! :-) But
> my feeling from the process of getting Author data in from Wikidata is that
> the whole Wikidata integration becomes so much more worthwhile and clearer
> (and we sort out the various edge cases) when we're actively using it for
> real.
>
> But of course, each Wikisource is in a similar position. :-( And are we to
> all be developing the Lua scripts and templates in isolation? Indeed no!
> :-) We shall put them all toegther in our brave new Wikisource extension! :)
>
> —sam
>
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, at 04:03 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
>
> @Sam, Tpt,
> my personal experience is too that HTML is the way to pull out the
> Wikisource important metadata,
> but it's also that every Wikisource has sort of a different way to show
> them,
> meaning that you need to tweak your scraper for each Wikisource.
> Is that still true? Last time I did it was more than one year ago, but I
> need to try it again soon.
> Aubrey
>
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:00 AM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yes I think you're definitely right! The easier way to send Wikisource
> data to Wikidata is going to be a clever gadget that reads the
> microformat or schema'd info in each page. My hack was just a quick and
> easy test at getting some things added. :)
>
> Ultimately, I'm actually not that excited about working on the tools
> that we need to transfer the data. No no I don't mean that! Well, just
> that the end point we're aiming at is that a bunch of info *won't be* at
> all in Wikisource, but will be pulled from Wikidata, and so I am much
> more interested in making better tools for working with the data in
> Wikidata. :-) If you see what I mean.
>
> My idea with ws-search is that it will progressively pull more and more
> data from Wikidata, and only resort to HTML scraping where the data is
> missing from Wikidata. I'm attempting to encapsulate this logic in the
> `wikisource/api` PHP library.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2017, at 11:14 PM, Thomas Pellissier Tanon wrote:
> > Hello Sam,
> >
> > Thank you for this nice feature!
> >
> > I have created a few months ago a prototype of Wikisource to Wikidata
> > importation tool for the French Wikisource based on the schema.org
> > annotation I have added to the main header template (I definitely think
> > we should move from our custom microformat to this schema.org markup
> that
> > could be much more structured). It's not yet ready but I plan to move it
> > forward in the coming weeks. A beginning of frontend to add to your
> > Wikidata common.js is here:
> > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Tpt/ws2wd.js
> > We should probably find a way to merge the two projects.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > > Le 31 oct. 2017 à 15:10, Nicolas VIGNERON <[email protected]>
> a écrit :
> > >
> > > 2017-10-31 13:16 GMT+01:00 Jane Darnell <[email protected]>:
> > > Sorry, I am much more of a Wikidatan than a Wikisourcerer! I was
> referring to items like this one
> > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21125368
> > >
> > > No need to be sorry, that is actually a good question and this example
> is even better (I totally forgot this kind of case).
> > >
> > > For now, this is probably better to deal with it by hands (and I'm not
> sure what this tools can even do for this).
> > >
> > > Cdlt, ~nicolas
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