Lester, first and foremost, Wikidata is a system to connect the same Wikipedia articles in different languages. The "read this article in another language" links on the left side comes from Wikidata. Wikidata has developed beyond this initial goal, but it remains the only way to identify Wikipedia articles in a language-neutral way, even if a specific Wikipedia article is renamed or deleted.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 27/09/17 17:40, Andy Mabbett wrote: > >> Not on a number of articles I've recently been looking at while checking > >> out the CURRENT wikidata offering. I've not found wikidata id's on the > >> wikipedia articles I looked at ... but wikidata does seem something I > >> should perhaps reassess. > > You not having found them does not mean that they are not there. > > > > teh only Wikipedia articles with no Wikidata ID are those that are > > newly created. > > > > Otherwise, you will find the "Wikidata item" link in the left-hand > > navigation pane (using the default desktop view) > > AH - so it's stripped when you grab a printed copy of the article :( > There may be a link to Wikimedia Commons material, but not to wikidata > material in external links ... that is where I expected to find it ;) > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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