Wikidata:WikiProject Commons/Template workshop

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Template workshop

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Commons Wikibase

General approach for adapting existing Commons templates

(see current work on eg {{Creator}} and {{Institution}} for examples of this process)

1. Port the existing template to Wikidata
   1. Create test page, by copying an instance of template page use to Wikidata
   2. Copy template (and sub-template) pages to Wikidata
      • Keep copying until test page works (need not copy all languages)
2. Begin to test drawing information from Wikidata
   1. Identify mapping between template fields and Wikidata; store on template talk page
   2. On the test page, create a version that starts drawing some fields from Wikidata
      • Also consider making a wikitext-generating version, that can be used to cut & paste back to Commons
   3. Create a wrapper that can fill fields for an arbitrary Q-number
      • Test more instances
   4. In detail, compare existing templated data values with Wikidata values across the whole corpus
3. Create a new, adapted version that uses Wikidata more natively
   1. Remove translation code, instead rely on Wikidata for translations of data
   2. Start migrating template code to Lua

Resources

• Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons/Template workshop/Resources

Phase 2 templates

(Templates which need only access properties of a directly sitelinked item, that can be implemented on Commons as soon as the community asks for Phase 2 to be turned on)

Header templates for Galleries

eg: {{SimpleCommonsGalleryHeader}}

• see Template:SimpleCommonsGalleryHeader/test

Header templates for Categories

Needed: Header template, giving link to corresponding article in wiki of current lang, perhaps with a dropdown to offer links in other languages

eg: {{SimpleCommonsCategoryHeader}}

• see Template:SimpleCommonsCategoryHeader/test

Need to identify existing header templates

• cf c:Barack Obama for model

• • c:Template:Translation table -- 19871 transclusions (not all article headers)
  • c:Template:Multilingual description -- 159808 transclusions (not all article headers -- some categories, some files)
  • c:Template:On Wikipedia -- 5655 transclusions -- eg: c:Category:Archaeology
  • c:Template:Sisterheader -- 2164 transclusions
  • c:Template:See also

• cf c:Erik_den_helige, c:Category:Eric_IX_of_Sweden

Phase 3 templates

(Templates which need to access properties of a different item)

Creator

• {{Creator}} -- existing Commons template, copied across (translations not implemented; some functionality not implemented)
  • See Template talk:Creator for mapping between Commons Creator template and wikidata, for development
  • Template:Creator/statictest -- testbed for feeding data from wikidata to existing Commons template.
  • Template:Creator/wrapper/test -- test of wrapper of template, for multiple testcases.
  • Lua scratchpad: Module:Creator, interface template(s): {{CreatorProperties}}
  • Analysis needed for the whole cohort, to compare values of properties on current templates vs Wikidata

Institution

• {{Institution}} -- existing template, copied over from Commons
  • Template:Institution/statictest -- testbed for feeding data from wikidata to existing Commons template.
  • Template:Institution/wrapper/test -- see talk page there for comments and progress
  • Analysis needed for the whole cohort, to compare values of properties on current templates vs Wikidata

Artwork

• Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts/Item_structure#Mapping_of_commons:Template:Artwork
• Template:Artwork -- mockup by User:Zolo

-- see Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts#Template:Artwork

New templates

• Wikidata:WikiProject Structured Data for Commons/test/Topics

  -- a prototype template to let us test how to display a set of "topics", each topic being a Q-number, with options eg just to display a count of them; or to display a list of their names; or a list of the topic names with mini-descriptions.