Awesome news. I'll be sure to forward it to the Italian OSMers. :) L.
2017-03-29 13:34 GMT+02:00 Léa Lacroix <lea.lacr...@wikimedia.de>: > Hello all, > > We’ve been working on a new data type that allows you to link to the > geographical shapes that are now stored on Commons. This data type will be > deployed on Wikidata on April 17th. > > This data type refers to the geographical shapes that are enabled on > Wikimedia Commons since the beginning of this year. Here you can find more > information about this. > > The property creators will be able to create properties with this geoshape > data type by selecting “Geographical shape” in the data type list. > > When the property is created, you can use it in statements, and when filling > the value, if you start typing a string, you can choose the name of a > geoshape in the list of what exists on Commons. > > > One thing to note: We currently do not export statements that use this > datatype to RDF. They can therefore not be queried in the Wikidata Query > Service. The reason is that we are still waiting for geoshapes to get stable > URIs. This is handled in this ticket. > > Before the deployment, you can test it on http://test.wikidata.org (see for > example the property “geotest” on Q22). > > If you have any question, feel free to ask! > > Cheers, > > -- > Léa Lacroix > Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikidata-tech mailing list Wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech
