Vo Nguyen Giap, a general and politician from #Vietnam II

#Wikipedia is a collaborative project and, this was demonstrated really well on the article for General Vo Nguyen Giap. A template was added with information about him. The information was made available from #Wikidata. An Occitan Wikipedian added text to the article and, it is no longer a stub.

Included in the text is a red link to the Communist Party of Vietnam and this red link showed as an identifier in the infobox of Mr Giap. The red link in the text is effectively the translation in Occitan for Communist Party of Vietnam. When this is copy pasted as the Occitan label in Wikidata, it becomes available as a red link in the info box as well. 

What is really cool is that this red link now also shows on the article of Ho Chi Minh.
Thanks,
      GerardM

Vo Nguyen Giap, a general and politician from #Vietnam

Vo Nguyen Giap died on October 4th. He was probably one of the most successful generals of the twentieth century. He was instrumental in defeating the armies of both France and the United States.

When Mr Giap died, it became international news and as a consequence new articles were written in several Wikipedias. New statements were added for Mr Giap in Wikidata.

The proof of the pudding is also in finding what the Occitan Wikipedia makes of all this information. So I created a new article their as well and added the link in Wikidata to make it work.

I am pleased with the result. To make it look even better, I could add even more information about Mr Giap for instance him having been the minister of defence for Vietnam.
Thanks,
      GerardM

The #Vietnamese #Wikivoyage is joining #Wikidata

The Vietnamese Wikivoyage has been live for some time now and, many of its articles were linked in the classical way to articles in the English Wikivoyage. Thanks to Dexot, all the articles are getting the royal treatment. The old links are deleted and they are linked into Wikidata.
Thanks,
      GerardM