Improving the use of Wikidata links

MarkusBautsch

Hello everybody !

Are you aware that the giant knowledge database Wikidata already has implemented FamilySearch-ID ?

Please visit the database's website of Johann Sebastian Bach for example (see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339). You will find the following entry there:

If you click on the web link LK3R-ST4, you will be directed to the appropriate FamilySearch web site https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LK3R-ST4.

That is fine, but unfortunately, this works only well if you have a FamilySearch account and if you have signed on to FamilySearch before.

I would propose to display at least the person's name as well as the birth and death year before you have signed on (maybe even a little bit more information). I think this could animate and convince a lot of altruistic people from the Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia to collaborate with FamilySearch. Furthermore, this would make it much easier to place reference web links from Wikipedia to FamilySearch, since then all users can check these web links immediately and without an account at FamilySearch.

What do you think ?

Best regards from Germany

Markus Bautsch

MarkusBautsch

Yet another important point: I would also recommend to add the unique Wikidata links to the FamilySearch items (maybe even in the "Search Record" section"). Then interested genealogists can easily research all existing language versions of Wikipedia articles as well as the appropriate images on Wikimedia Commons.

Example Nicolaus Copernicus: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q619

There you can easily find https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nicolaus_Copernicus

HolgerKraft2

Hallo

ich habe mal nachgesehen bei dem Eintrag zu J S Bach.

Als Erstes fällt auf, dass er ein paar Tage nach seiner Taufe (23.März 1685) geboren wurde (31. März 1685). Nanu?

Eine Erklärung kann man im Wikipedia Eintrag finden.

Als Zweites hat ein spanischer Kollege Kritik an den multiplen Ortsbezeichnungen geübt. (Leipzig, Leipzig, Leipzig...)

Als Drittes moniert er die Jugendsünden des J S Bach.

Was soll das?