User:Bluerasberry/Wikidata box

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Summary[change | change source]

Proposal[change | change source]

Simple English Wikipedia incorporates Wikidata infoboxes. This would happen in two phases: an experiment and evaluation, then possibly adoption and hosting the project. The initial objective is designing limited experiments to assess and report how much volunteer labor Wikidata infoboxes require to manage and how much value they provide to readers. If the community at Simple English Wikipedia views these infoboxes favorably, then the community will consider making Simple English Wikipedia a home for organizing Wikidata infoboxes across Wikimedia projects.

Pros and cons[change | change source]

Why Simple English Wikipedia?[change | change source]

Wikidata infoboxes require simple language


The ideal home project is a universally accessible Wikipedia


The volunteer community at Simple English Wikipedia has capacity for growth

What challenges will Simple English Wikipedia face?[change | change source]

The Wikidata infobox project could have chaotic growth


Wikidata infoboxes are technical features which not everyone has the skill to edit


The community base of volunteers at Simple English Wikipedia is small


The amount of engagement that Wikidata infoboxes will draw to Simple English Wikipedia's core mission is uncertain

Wikidata infoboxes till 2019[change | change source]

The Wikimedia community established Wikidata in 2012. Its original description in February 2012 said, "We aim to have the data available for infoboxes by December 2012 / January 2013." By the end of 2019 this data was still not generally available under circumstances which the general Wikimedia community found acceptable to use. While In that time though, the Wikimedia community had done experiments and discussed which features would make the technical functionality more useful.

  1. languages which already use this
    1. Basque and Catalan are most prominent - 90% of articles covered by one infobox
    2. infobox changes content based on instance of statement in Wikidata
  2. French has its own system experimenting with the simpler one
    1. more complex but less developed
    2. they have more than one infobox
  3. Russian has its own system
  4. Welsh uses the Basque / Catalan system?
  • mw:Wikidata Bridge is a proposed tool to edit Wikidata’s data directly from an infobox. In December 2019 it was not functional but in development.

Wikimania infobox documentation[change | change source]

Date Subsection Forum Notes
2016 Wikidata in Wikipedia Wikimania 2016 Mike Peel, video, slides
2017-08 New Frontier: Using Wikidata on Commons Wikimania 2017 introduces Wikidata infoboxes on Wikimedia Commons
2017-08 Integrating Wikidata to Infoboxes Wikimania 2017 ערן (Eran), slides
2017-08 Wikidata and infoboxes Wikimania 2017 panel of many speakers
2017-08 Put data on it: Using Wikidata data in Wikimedia projects Wikimania 2017
2017-08 invoke:Wikidata Wikimania 2017 Deryck Chan, slides
2018 How wikidata infoboxes can help bridge content and language gaps Wikimania 2018 Gamaliel, fuzheado
2018 A multilingual infobox for Wikimedia Commons categories Wikimania 2018 Mike Peel, poster
2018 Wikidata-enabled Infobox Workshop Wikimania 2018 Mike Peel, slides
2019-08 Bootstrapping the Worldwide Inventory of Heritage Institutions Wikimania 2019 Beat Estermann, John Andersson, GiFontenelle
2019-08 Mbabel tool: automatic articles on Wikipedia with Wikidata Wikimania 2019 EricaAzzellini, Pharos, Ederporto
2019-08 Wikidata Infoboxes Wikimania 2019 Mike Peel, Deryck Chan, RexxS

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simple as hub for translation[change | change source]

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