The Whelming › Wikidata lists – Full Circle

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-09-09

Summary:

"So my Wikidata list-generating bot Listeria has become popular in certain circles, creating and updating lists of artworks, species, or ORCID ID holders. With the introduction of the Wikidata SPARQL service, Wikidata queries are becoming more mainstream, and lists are a logical next step. At the same time, many Wikipedians lack an awareness of Wikidata, and hesitate to go there and edit. Micro-contributions are a way for people to improve Wikidata without much fuzz, but are 'hidden' in external tools. So I added a little bit of code to Listeria. The output now contains a few minor extras, like class names for table cells. These are then used by JavaScript code to allow adding and editing of information in Listeria table cells, right on Wikipedia. Label, description (where unavoidable), item links, dates, coordinates, strings, and images are supported. Simply add ..."

Link:

http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=348

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.tools oa.wikidata oa.wikipedia

Date tagged:

09/09/2015, 07:13

Date published:

09/09/2015, 03:13