On 17/02/13 00:44, Luca Martinelli wrote:
> As of now, we write templates and we put data into them, article by
> article - but this is going to change during 2013, with the
> implementation of Wikidata, since we'll put data in the common repo
> and then just call them on local projects.
> 
> Is this new prog language going to affect this? I mean, will it help
> us to write new templates which will call those data more easily?

I believe that some members of the Wikidata team are interested in
allowing Lua modules to fetch data directly from Wikidata. We have
added a couple of hooks to Scribunto to support this, but the library
hasn't been designed or implemented yet, as far as I can tell.

-- Tim Starling


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