On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:00 PM, David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Andy Mabbett > <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>wrote: > >> I'm not sugegsting that we "make people enter even more information in >> Wikipedia"; I'm suggesting that wikidata would benefit from capturing >> the data that is /already/ being entered into Wikipedia, not least via >> AfC, by the people I describe above; and that I and others who review >> and publish those articles would benefit from tool to save us the >> manual task of having to retype (into Wikidata) what we're already >> asked to type once (into the AfC tool) as part of that process. > > > We cannot get there yet, since we depend on many features still in > development: > 1.- Simple data editing from VisualEditor > 2.- Easy way to map wikipedia template fields to wikidata properties > Actually there is a lot of work done in this regard. We map Wikipedia templates to the DBpedia ontology [1] and already started marking equivalent properties to Wikidata (see [2] [3]) Best, Dimitris [1] http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/Main_Page [2] http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/OntologyProperty:Family [3] https://github.com/dbpedia/extraction-framework/wiki/GSOC2013_Progress_Hady-Elsahar > 3.- Migration of main infobox templates to make use of Wikidata > > There are many needed features still not done, plus some more, which take > a long time to discuss, implement, and test. Of course when all that is > available then you should be able to have an infobox selection wizard > (possibly based on this structure [1]), and then by editing the fields on > VisualEditor the data would be automatically filled on Wikidata. > > As said, it sounds easy, but this has many prerequisites that are still > not met. > > My only advice: patience :-) > > And if you want meanwhile you can help with the infobox mappings: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Infobox_mappings > > Cheers, > Micru > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_infoboxes > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Kontokostas Dimitris
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