What about having the Reasonator sit in the Draft namespace, with a link from the search results or the text preloaded for non-existing pages in the main namespace?
Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I thought about that as well. Besides the intro text, the info box would be > the main "attraction"; but if infoboxes were to fall back on wikidata > information, which they could technically already do, all we'd have to do > is add a blank infobox, and it should automatically fill up with the > wikidata information. In light of that, writing code to fill an infobox > with values form wikidata to paste into the article seems ... low-tech ;-) > > Cheers, > Magnus > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Andy Mabbett > <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>wrote: > >> On 22 January 2014 08:35, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > There are many ways to skin a cat. The most obvious >> > one is to add a {{Reasonator}} template as a place >> > holder in a Wikipedia. Another is to capture a not >> > found or a red link and insert Reasonator info. What >> > I am trying to do is to give a sense of direction. I am >> > not indicating how it will be done for sure. >> >> [I'm not on the devs list, so trimmed from the CC] >> >> I would like people to be able to "subst" that template (or have a big >> button that does the same thing), and have some code draft a stub >> article based on the statements in Wikidata, say: >> >> "X was a German painter born in [[Munich]] on >> 27 May 1801. He died in [[Berlin]] on 3 >> March 1899" >> >> with formatted references, a reflist template, and a pre-populated >> infobox. It would be delivered in preview state, allowing further >> editing before publication. >> >> A suitably prominent warning would alert editors that they still bear >> responsibility for ensuring that the subject is notable, and the >> article fit for publication, according to local standards. A hidden >> category and/or an edit tag would allow tracking. >> >> Because of the complexity of this task, we could pilot it for one type >> of subject (say, buildings, or people, or even a subset of one of >> those) in one or two languages. >> >> -- >> Andy Mabbett >> @pigsonthewing >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > > -- > undefined > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>