Wikidata:Wikinews/Development
This is a draft about how Wikidata could support Wikinews.
Be bold when updating the page, but please use the discussion page at Wikidata_talk:Wikinews to propose significant changes to this proposal.
Note: Phase 1 (sitelinks) was scheduled for August 19, 2014.
Interwiki links[edit]
Summary: All Wikinews pages (news) have the property instance of (P31)Wikinews article (Q17633526).
See: Wikidata talk:Wikinews#instance of (P31); also: Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2014/08#n: interwiki link import bot; example: Iran to reduce nuclear enrichment in exchange for sanctions reduction (Q17587737).
Some news in main namespace are created in multiple languages (see: n:Nelson Mandela dies aged 95 — death of Nelson Mandela (Q17602302)).
It's necessary to link the items through Wikidata.
Interproject links[edit]
Summary: Wikinews categories (topics) correspond to Wikipedia articles and to similar items in other wikiprojects.
See: Wikidata:Project chat/Archive/2014/09#Wikinews linking.
Now we use templates such as {{Sister project links}} (from and to sister projects; see n:ru:Категория:Франция (n:Category:France) and w:ru:Франция#Литература (w:France#External links)). But Wikivoyage implemented this more carefully (see left sidebar: voy:ru:Франция (voy:France)).
Other namespaces exactly correspond with namespaces of other wikiprojects, like Project, Help.
It's necessary to link our projects through Wikidata.