At the moment, Sam,

librarybase is a project that can be anything we want :-)

James Hare set it up because he wanted a place where to store bibliographic informations,

but it's up to the community what to do with it.

I personally think that we should use Wikidata as much as possible,

and when we can't we could turn to librarybase for help.

So, I'm currently sticking with WD for the time being :-)

Andrea

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Sam Wilson <sam@samwilson.id.au> wrote:

On Thu, 4 Aug 2016, at 03:44 AM, Thomas Tanon wrote:
> > I wonder how the French Wikisource community solved it, for example.
>
> The easy way to solve it is probably before importing data related to a
> Wikisource page check if an item already exists for this page (it's an
> easy API call). Even if this raw import would have not been done, we
> would have had to do it anyway, because of hand created items. Most bots
> are used to do that before doing any item creation.
>

Yeah, this is very true. And not even just checking for the existence of
an Item, a bot will have to check each statement it adds too. There is
the matter of a reverse-check also, of making sure that everything that
*does* have an Item at WD is supposed to.

On a related note, does anyone know if this new Librarybase thing is
going to be help to Wikisources?
http://librarybase.wmflabs.org/wiki/Librarybase:Home
Certainly, where possible, items there should point to Wikisources! :-)
Which will be cool.

—Sam

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