On Friday, April 5, 2013, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > On 5 April 2013 19:07, Lydia Pintscher > > <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de<javascript:;> > > > > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:00 AM, MZMcBride > > > <z...@mzmcbride.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > > Sorry, I don't know what this means. I thought Wikidata was already > > > > deployed to the English Wikipedia (and possibly other projects as > > well). > > > > > > I've posted an announcement with more details on the technical village > > > pump at > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Wikidata_phase_2_is_coming_soon > > > Let me know if anything is still unclear so I can clarify. > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > Lydia > > > > > > > > > > Lydia, could you please point me to the discussion on *English Wikipedia* > > where the community indicated an interest in deploying this software? > > Infoboxes and sourcing to another website completely outside the control > of > > English Wikipedia is a rather big issue, and I would expect to see a > > Request for Comment with at least 200-300 participants. > > > > Risker/Anne > > > > In my opinion, as a casual Wikidata editor and not-so-casual Wikipedia > editor, I think the Commons analogy continues to hold up pretty well. > Commons exists. We can use it, as a project. We don't *have* to (and indeed > don't always, on en:wp, where fair use images are accepted). As I > understand it, the same is true with Wikidata -- it will be around, if and > when it seems appropriate to use.
Yes, it works exactly the same. The deployment means that a wiki has the option to use Wikidata. Not that it has to. The RFC, if any, should be about a policy on how to use Wikidata features provided by this deployment. Do we want to mass transition info boxes? Trial on a certain number? Should we disallow use of properties outside templates? > Of course Commons and Wikidata will both > be more useful and more awesome the more projects do use them. But my very > non-technical understanding of this deployment is that basically we made > the projects able to see that Wikidata exists (correct me if I'm wrong!) > > Now as far as I can tell there's a whole lot of work yet to do in order to > figure out how exactly one might link to data or produce an infobox and > what that might look like -- deployment does not seem to mean ready for > prime-time, yet -- and of course the data-building itself is just barely > getting started. Best practices for infoboxes does seem like a project-wide > RFC to me. But hopefully, when we get to that point, wikidata will be a > useful option. > > -- phoebe > > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> > gmail.com * > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
