[Wikidata-l] Wikivoyage will get phase 1 soon - Wikidata

3 Jul 2013

Heya folks :)

So we're finally starting to get real with this sister projects thing.
We'll be starting with Wikivoyage since this is comparatively similar
to Wikipedia. We'll take it easy at the beginning and just go for the
language links between the different language editions of Wikivoyage.

On July 18th we will change test.wikidata.org to be able to store
links to Wikivoyage in addition to Wikipedia. You can test it there
then and make sure there are no huge issues we have not noticed yet.
On July 22 we will enable this on wikidata.org and the Wikivoyages.

Some things to keep in mind:
* This is only for links between Wikivoyages for now. More will follow later.
* Access to the other data like timezones, airport codes and so on
will not be enabled yet. That will follow later as well.
* There will be no automatic links to/from Wikipedia for now.

Some specific things about the language links:
* It'll no longer be needed to keep them in the wikitext like it is currently.
* It'll still be possible to do so however but this will overwrite the
links coming from Wikidata.
* With the magicword noexternallanglinks links from Wikidata can be
turned off on an article either for all languages or only specific
ones.

A page on Wikidata has been created where you can find someone to help
you in case of issues
(http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikivoyage_migration) and as
usual I am available to answer any questions you might have.

Cheers
Lydia

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