| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T212144 Allow access to MediaInfo from wikitext on Commons | |||
| Resolved | matthiasmullie | T223792 Extend mw.wikibase.getEntity lua function to allow accessing Structured Data on Commons items | |||
| Resolved | Spike | matthiasmullie | T227056 [Spike 2 days] Plan to access SDC data from Lua |
There are two things here to untangle, which really have very little to do with
each other, though they may sound similar.
allow the wikitext part of the page to make use of information maintained in the
MediaInfo slot. This should be easy to do, since Wikibase already has support
for accessing entities via Lua. In fact I thought this was already possible. If
it is not, there is probably only a bit of glue missing. This has little to do
with MCR (*).
Note that this is a requirement for use of MediaInfo data in wikitext outside
the image page anyway. And if that is not possible, I agree with Marsupium: a
good part of SDC seems to be in vain. What good is structured data if you don't
have access to it from some kind of scripting language? Search only? Just use tags.
Estimate (for someone who knows Wikibase internals): two to four weeks (unless
I'm missing some major complication). And then the same again to work out kinks
once it's deployed ;)
As mentioned in T223792: Current Wikibase Lua support seems able to deal with MediaInfo entities already - it just can't find them.
If we start writing MediaInfo entities to wb_terms, it all starts to work.
However:
I've create new tickets for those things, and am considering this one done.