Wikidata:WikiProject Lists/historical
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The aim of this task force is to plan the activities, content, templates, inclusion syntax and tools for the third phase (lists) of Wikidata.
The third phase should enable automatic translation and updating of list articles, and perhaps tables, based on multilingual data in Wikidata. The third phase should also enable more complex queries that can provide aggregate views on the infobox data and can further reduce maintenance in Wikipedia drastically. The third phase is harvesting and incorporating all the data from the wikilinks, infoboxes and lists, and superseding the earlier API interface, allowing development of even more powerful templates, gadgets, bots and external clients for data inclusion, editing and analysis. For the curators inputing labels, data transfer should be a near seamless transition done by bots and the extension should be designed around the workflow discoveries made during earlier phases.
Phase 3 also allows finishing the funded Wikidata development project properly, in order to ensure a high maintainability of both the software and the data and its surrounding processes. Phase 3 will closely monitor the arbitrary creation of properties and its impact on performance of the system, as well as the usage of the new possibilities to query the data. This provides a scalable way to use inline queries, one of Semantic MediaWiki’s most appealing and useful features.
Conceivable use cases edit
Translation of existing list articles edit
The following are examples of existing list articles that may be suitable for auto-translation, since they only consist of structured data, they have several iw language links, they are extensive, and/or they often change:
- Template with one paragraph of listed items: en:Template:Cities and towns in Nordfriesland
- Bulleted list of items: List of male kickboxers
- Two-level bulleted list of items: List of districts of Vietnam
- Table of items: List of national rulers
- Table of items and numbers: List of United States cities by population
- Table of items, numbers, dates and sources: List of countries by population
New tables and charts to be generated edit
- Wikidata data about United nations member nations may be compiled into a Wikipedia chart, one row per member nation:
- sv:User:Innocent_bot/FN Done using a bot, and this piece of .Net code
- All data from all articles using a specific infobox may be compiled into a sortable table or chart, one row per article, one column per infobox parameter, for example from Template:Infobox mineral
See also edit
- meta:Wikidata/Technical proposal#Phase 3: Lists
- meta:Wikidata/Notes/Future
- meta:Wikidata/Notes/Inclusion syntax
- meta:Wikidata/Development/Phase 3 API
- Wikidata:tools
- meta:Wikidata/Queries
- List of pages in the Query name space
- List of pages in the Query name space at the test server
- meta:Semantic MediaWiki
- w:Wikipedia:Semantic Wikipedia