Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Multimedia and Commons/Allow access to SDC from other wikis/Proposal/en

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  • Problem: It is not possible to access Structured Data on Commons data via Lua modules and parser functions from other wikis
  • Proposed solution: Enable cross-wiki arbitrary access to MediaInfo entity data from wikis other than Commons, in the same way that Wikidata data can be accessed.
  • Who would benefit: Editors and readers of all Wikimedia projects, since use of Commons media is universal
  • More comments: Enabling this access is necessary to fully realize the value of Structured Data on Commons. We need to allow the growing body of data on Structured Data Commons (SDC) to be accessed and used outside of Commons — just like the images themselves are — to make this growing body of data completely useful. This would allow templates to be coded using data derived from SDC statements in the same way infoboxes and many other templates rely on Wikidata. There are millions of SDC file captions, and hundreds of millions of SDC statements currently. Arbitrary access to SDC has long been assumed, such as in "What are the benefits of captions?"in the Commons help page, but never implemented.

    Example uses:

    1. Populate an image's caption with the SDC caption that is stored in the MediaInfo entity. File captions on Wikimedia Commons are encouraged prominently in the UI, including in the Upload Wizard, but not currently used for much across the wikis. This is what file captions do, but only within Wikimedia Commons. This could allow for displaying captions in the user's own language in multilingual projects, as long as the captions are added centrally on Wikimedia Commons for each language.
    2. Populate alt text for an image using the alt text property's value, if one is present, or even by listing all of the things depicted in the image with P180 (depicts).
    3. Use descriptive metadata fields like title, creator, data, and collection to make formatted citation for images that are historical artifacts from online catalogs, such as suggested in the "Image credits in Wikipedia: Can we do better?" Wikimania talk in 2022.
  • Phabricator tickets: task T238798
  • Proposer: Dominic (talk) 21:37, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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