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Discuss and agree on an SDC data modeling convention for the case where a Commons file is a digitized old photograph
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We haven't yet fully figured out yet, nor agreed, on data modeling for those cases where a Commons file is a digitized old photograph. Basically, an SDC variant of the Template:Photograph Wikitext template but with a focus on digitized historical photographs.

In most cases, the digitized photograph doesn't have - and probably isn't notable enough to justify creating - a Wikidata item.

Let's talk about proposals and agree upon a solution for this, which can then also be used as a template / best practice in upload tools, and can be used for the creation of simplified/minimal Lua-driven SDC-powered infobox templates (in particular Lua-fication of Template:Photograph).

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I'm removing myself as assignee. I automatically assigned myself when creating this task but it's really one for community contribution! It's a valuable thing to work on, as it will make images and data on Wikimedia Commons so much more usable to the world at large.

The task may also become easier with the help of Generative AI. The latter should not take over the decisionmaking process but it will help with the thinking and breaking down in subtasks.

Does anyone know about the current status for this?

While this is SDC, it may also be of interest to Wikidata-WikiProject-Ontology as Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons data models should be well aligned.

I have the impression we have enough elements and groundwork to be able to decide on basic SDC data modeling to enable this, and at the hackathon there may be a critical mass of people to sit together and discuss this.

@Spinster I have interest in that data model for independent Wikibase Suite instances too. See you in Arnhem :-)