Hoi,
Can you provide an example what it would look like in a template for Ada
Lovelace. Currently the data is a jumble.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 January 2016 at 14:58, Lucie Kaffee <lucie.kaf...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> 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)
>
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