On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
Lydia mentioned in her summary a major discussion about Wikidata in
the Hebrew Wikipedia. The discussion was in Hebrew of course, so I'll
bring a little summary of it.
Thanks!
Google Translate isn't exactly amazing for Hebrew -> English (but of
course still a lot better than nothing) ;-)
Eleven people supported the installation of Wikidata.
Nobody objected \o/
\o/
Despite the wide support, some issues and questions
were raised:
1. How is the coordination with interwiki links bot operators progressing?
Will the bots be smart enough not to do anything to articles that are
already listed in the repository and have the correct links displayed?
Will the bots be smart enough to update the repo in the transition
period, when some Wikipedias have Wikidata and some don't?
Will the bots be smart enough not to do anything with articles that
have interwiki conflicts (multiple links, non-1-to-1 linking etc.)?
We'll have to put more work into that over the next weeks. The current
status is that some bots are running nicely on the demo system. Some
stuff is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots
2. What are the numbers after the Q in the titles in
the repo site? -
I replied that they are just sequential identifiers without any
additional meaning. Maybe it can be added to the FAQ.
Ok will add it to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions as soon
as I can. Anyone want to link that page from the FAQ?
3. Several people complained about instability in the
links editing
pages in the repo: They saw messages about network problems when they
tried to edit links. I experienced this a couple of times, too. I also
saw a complete crash with a "memory full" error once.
Yes that should be better now. There is a bug that's being worked on
to fix it:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40823
4. Somebody noticed that the testing sites don't
support unified
accounts (CentralAuth). The production system will, right?
Yes. We didn't set this up for the demo system. Will be set up for the
real deal.
5. Somebody complained that it's too easy to
remove a link from a repo
- clicking the "remove" link is enough. I mentioned it in a bug
report:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40200
Thanks for filing. Not sure what the plan there is.
6. And this is probably the biggest issue: The
workflow for adding an
interlanguage link is cumbersome and in some cases the interface
elements are undiscoverable.
Do you have specifics about which elements are hard to discover?
Cheers
Lydia
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