It may be appealing for nap.wikipedia - I've been recently nominated admin there to do some *necessary* clean-up, and I've found there is a terrible necessity for an extensive use of Wikidata there (the community is almost non-existent, but there are some interesting contents that I'm currently "explaining" in the respective items).
The community is not so big, there are only a few users, so the discussion will be relatively quick. I'll let you know asap. L. 2016-01-20 14:58 GMT+01:00 Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaf...@wikimedia.de>: > As part of my Bachelor’s thesis I worked on an extension called > “ArticlePlaceholder” > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder over the last > months. > > One of the biggest barriers for accessing the knowledge Wikipedia provides > is language. > > There are many topics that are only covered in few, big Wikipedias. People > who don’t speak any of these languages don’t have access to all the > information available potentially vital to them. > > The Article Placeholder extensions aims at smaller Wikipedias to support > them in increasing access to data available on Wikidata. Article > Placeholders are automatically generated content pages in Wikipedia or other > mediawiki projects displaying data from Wikidata. They are clearly not > actual articles but an overview of data on a topic which does not have an > article yet. The design of the page and its content is under the control of > the local community via Lua and templates but we will provide defaults so > smaller Wikipedias can work with them without having to worry about the > technical side of it. > > I have a test setup on Labs with an example for Ada Lovelace > http://articleplaceholder.wmflabs.org/mediawiki/index.php/Special:AboutTopic/Q3 > > The reader can find these pages by searching for a topic and gets results if > there is an Item on Wikidata with the respective label and/or alias. > > The reader would benefit a lot since even if there is no article on a topic > yet, they will still have basic information provided in their language. But > it also might increase the numbers of editors due to increased usefulness of > that Wikipedia. > > We are now looking for the first Wikipedias to support the extension by > deploying it and giving their input. I am still developing the extension and > the first Wikipedias to try it will naturally have a larger say in how it > evolves. > > > If your Wikipedia would like to give it a try please let me know. We would > start it as a beta feature. > > > Thank you, > > > Lucie (Frimelle) > > -- > Lucie-Aimée Kaffee > Working Student Software Development > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 > http://wikimedia.de > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. > That‘s our commitment. > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. > Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, > Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
