Creating topics

Creating topics in Wikibase

Page = item in Wikidata and/or Wikidocumentaries. Each topic in Wikidocumentaries has a page.

• The initial set of topics in Wikidocumentaries are created by selecting a set of Wikidata items and creating them in Wikidocumentaries.
• When the user navigates to a page that does not exist in Wikidocumentaries, but for which there is an item in Wikidata (through a link in Wikipedia text for example), the page is automatically created.
• The user may create additional topics in Wikidocumentaries with a set of minimum required properties.

Creating items one-by-one

This would be the normal way of a user.

Through search

Possible workflow and mockups

• The user clicks on a link in a Wikipedia article in Wikidocumentaries
• If the topic has been created in Wikidocumentaries, the user simply follows the link
• If the topic has not yet been created in Wikidocumentaries, the topic and the page will automatically be created
• If the user follows a red link or wishes to create a topic that does not exist yet, she enters a disambiguation page. The page presents
  • A search
  • Topics that the user might have meant and links to navigate to these existing or new pages
  • A link to create a new topic
• The first page to create a new topic asks for the type of the new topic (P31)
• Based on the type, the form asks for other key properties, see the Sqid tool.

Basic info by type of topic

The key info for each type can perhaps be automatically read from Wikidata. The recommended values are either encoded in the type or it's superclass Wikidata, or most used values for this type in Wikidata excluding authority IDs.

Some intelligent features to build:

Location can use a minimum input from the user. It may be one of these

• Coordinates -> Can yield street address, city, country
• Street address -> Can yield coordinates, city, country
• Known location (in Wikidata) -> Can yield coordinates, city, country
• Known geographic location -> Can yield city, country
• City yields country
• Only country if no other info is present

Sources can be automatically retrieved from ISBN / DOI / url / Wikidata ID

• Date retrieved will automatically be added
• Additional data can be manually added here or later
• The data will be saved (locally/in Wikidata?)

Generating a small batches of required items from Wikidata

• If a user would like to generate the relatives of a person to create a family tree, there could be an action to retrieve all relatives to a certain degree from Wikidata.
• If a user is interested in an area, she could retrieve all items within a distance from the current topic location.

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