Debate about Wikipedia infoboxes being populated by Wikidata--how to explain how Wikidata and Wikipedia are related and the background
Infoboxes and trying to create structured data doesn’t always align with ways humans interact with world--how to describe cultural heritage organizations--city, county, state--Wikidata wants you to include most local, but some cities exist in multiple counties and don’t perfectly line up--stalemate in conversation
Consensus so far has been make it opt in to Wikidata
Convincing some Wikipedians of usefulness of Wikidata-aware infoboxes / reliability of automatically synced data is a major battle
Are the main infoboxes now visible in mobile and is there an easy way to tell which ones are?
Who initiates conversation between Wikidata and Wikipedia?
Wikidata has been more a central push from Wikimedia Deutschland--have initiated rollout on various language Wikipedias
Requests for comment--Village pump section of Wikipedia
A lot of yielding to local consensus--less far-reaching decisions
Wikidata opt-in---don’t want to overwrite local decisions
Language interdependence
Manually encoding language links in the past
Wikidata helps solve that problem
If you are on an article, just click Tools section to navigate to Wikidata item
Approximately what proportion of entities in Wikipedia also have Wikidata item
Usually all Wikipedia articles have a Wikidata item-- created semi-automatically by bot
May be a lag time between creation of WP article and WD item
Wikipedia has 6,071,868 articles and Wikidata has 84,836,377 items
By the time Wikidata came along English Wikipedia had already 4 million articles
Smaller language Wikipedias had fewer articles, so more readily adopted Wikidata
Catalan Wikipedia has Wikidata infobox usage rate of 70%
Categories
Take articles and group them under Categories
Sidebars
Group together different Wikipedia articles in similar subject areas
External links--Wikidata powered
Authority control--Wikidata powered using templates
Templates
How Wikipedia pulls information
Called Transclusion
Call a template: {{Infobox A|...}}
Usually visible by clicking Edit Source
Pipes (|) lay out the parameters that are being pulled in
Lua modules used to help perform more complex editing in templates
Powerful engine for helping to handle Wikidata
Template calls up the module to invoke the Wikidata
Template:Authority control used on 3% of pages
Has template protection--can tell from padlock icon in top right corner
Editors steward and maintain heavily used templates
Can request changes for protected templates on the talk page and can also find out more about how it works
Wikidata rollout
Phases for interlanguage links, lists, infoboxes
Challenges
Technical
Decentralised, volunteer powered platform
Built out a specific module for infoboxes
Consensus procedure
Requests for comment
Wikidata acceptable if Wikipedians can be assured data is accurate and meets Wikipedia’s rules of reliability
No other clear consensus for other issues raised
Take-aways
En-WP prioritises own reliability standards
En-WP no broad WD rollout, yields to local consensus
Wikidata powers important parts of Wikipedia
Interlanguage links and Authority control
The gap
Patchy infrastructure
Unevenly supported Lua modules that differ across Wikipedias
Community silos
Easier to contribute just to WP or WD
Questions
Are there any language Wikipedias that do use infoboxes systematically? And what percentage is powered by Wikidata?