Article

There are two types of articles in Wikidocumentaries.

Collaborative created topic's main articles are discussed on this page.
Articles created as memoirs by one person are discussed on the testimonials page.

Displaying an article in the topic page

As a user I can read a main article about the current topic
- If the topic exists in Wikidata, the article to be displayed or added should be in Wikipedia.
- If the topic exists in Wikidocumentaries only, the article is stored in Wikidocumentaries.

Toolbar

Edit-button / Plus-button

Wikipedia article
- View/edit in Wikipedia
- The icon can also be the Wikipedia logo
Item in Wikidocumentaries – article in Wikidocumentaries
- Enable the use Visual Editor locally to edit the article and links. It will need to be modified to meet the local needs.
Missing article
- Plus-button
- Currently a missing article action is directed to the language Wikipedia. It produces an error in cases where there is no language Wikipedia. An intermediate step would be useful where the article names could be decided according to the target Wikipedia's practices before directing to the article creation page.
- When displaying items that exist in Wikidocumentaries only, the article would also be created in the local wiki. Later, when the local item gets imported to Wikidata, the resulting articles could be imported or merged with Wikipedias. This is a very difficult challenge, and a notification might be enough for volunteers to do the merge manually.

Languages menu

List of links to all articles language version regardless of user settings or site translations.
All languages are displayed in a scrollable list
Display a link to Content Translate, when displaying the article in another language, and the user's language article does not exist.

Actions menu

Tasks of picking the links in the text and adding to Wikidata

Expand article

Button is placed below the article. When clicked, it displays the full article and moves the Wikidata block to the end of the article.

Article content

Wikipedia / Wikidocumentaries

Wikipedia article about the topic when the item exists in Wikidata.
Wikidocumentaries article of the topic when the item exists in Wikidocumentaries.

Languages

The article is initially displayed in the user's language.
1. Message if the article does not exist in the user's language but exists in another
2. Message if the article does not exist in any language
3. Message if the user wishes to see an automatically created article. With Abstract Wikipedia, the article can be automatically created from facts.
4. Option the set a language fallback chain and use it for articles
When expanded, the article displays images and tables. Many templates remain unreadable. Images could open full-screen like this https://fat.github.io/zoom.js/. Exists for Vue for example https://popmotion.io/pose/learn/vue-tutorial-medium-style-image-zoom/, https://codesandbox.io/s/github/francoischalifour/medium-zoom/tree/master/examples/vue?view=preview

Links

Links in Wikipedia articles are redirected to Wikidocumentaries pages based on Wikidata QIDs. See linking.
- Problem cases in Wikipedia: Page redirects, links to other namespaces than articles.
Red links are currently not displayed as links. They could trigger a label search function in Wikidata. The same method could be applied for arbitrarily selected text. The resulting link could be saved for adding to the Wikipedia article, but it would be useful also without saving. This would be some kind of annotation mechanism, see also W3C Web Annotation recommendations.

Article options

Item in Wikidata – article exists in Wikipedia in the users's language

Display article Wikipedia article.
Buttons
- Expand article to read it all. Displays the whole article in the page. Can apply a more enjoyable layout with images, tables, whitespace etc.
- Wikipedia/External/Edit-button Read/edit article in Wikipedia.
- Languages: Option to read in other available languages.
- Actions:
Links: Select text which does not have links. Display search and resulting result links. Red links can be treated similarly. The annotations can be saved for further use.

Item in Wikidata – article does not exist in Wikipedia in the user's language

Display article: Display placeholder text which prompts to read the article in another language or to create or translate the article in Wikipedia, or automatically created article.
Buttons:
- External/Edit-button: Edit article in Wikipedia.
- Languages: Access to articles in other languages.
- Plus: Offer a link to create or translate a page in Wikipedia.

Item in Wikidocumentaries – article exists in Wikidocumentaries in the user's language

Display article: Display the locally saved article. Option to read in another language (Languages-button).
Title: Article
Buttons:

Item in Wikidocumentaries – article does not exist in the user's language

Display article
- Display text and links to read in another language or create the article. OR
  - Alert: There is no article about [topic] in [your language]. You can choose to read the article in another language from the languages menu above or create the article in your language by clicking on the plus icon.
- Display an article automatically in a fallback language. Display alert message with a text and links. OR
  - Alert: There is no article about [topic] in [your language]. You can read another available language by choosing from the menu above and you can choose to [translate] this article to your language.
  - Extra menu item: Translate this article.
- Create a placeholder article from recorded facts. Display alert message with a text and links.
  - Alert: There is no article about [topic] in [your language]. This article has been automatically created from the recorded facts. You can read the article in another language or [save this draft and start editing the article]. Style: Alert.
Title: Article
Buttons
- Plus: Create a new article in Wikidocumentaries Visual editor, insert draft text, set in edit mode.
  - Tooltip: Create a new article.
- Languages Display first (5) languages in which the article exists from the list ordered by the user's language fallback chain. Display a link to show all available languages.
  - Tooltip: Other languages.
  - Action: Display the article in another language.

Local articles

Local articles for topics that only exist in Wikidocumentaries are created in Wikidocumentaries.

All language versions of a Wikidocumentaries article are stored as separate wiki pages in Wikidocumentaries.
Articles will have entries in the Wikibase to be able to connect them to different topics and language versions or they can be added using the modified sitelinks feature.
Navigating the articles in different languages in the Wikidocumentaries MediaWiki needs a solution to connect them together.
Visual editor needs to be installed and modified to support bespoke linking. This is a more general federation need.
The user should be able to use a modified Visual Editor to edit (local) articles.

Wikidocumentaries article data

What is the data to be saved about an article in Wikidocumentaries database.

Topic articles
- Topic id
- Language id
- Article location (If the articles are arranged in a hierarchical tree structure, then an additional title will be needed. Should be more flexible that way.
- Translatable title
Testimonial articles
- Depicted items --> Could also investigate existing Wikidata properties
- Depicted date
- Depicted location
- Author (these are not collaboratively editable). The link to a user is not a Wikibase entry for privacy reasons unless made public --> How to handle. Start with an easy solution.

Tooling, technology

The article should be translatable (local file to local file), preferably with Content Translate.
Visual editor should be extended with a gadget that can make links based on Wikidata entries rather than local wiki links.
Wikibase should be able to maintain an index of translations of an article. Can sitelinks be recycled?