[You can safely skip this message if you have already seen it in the Wikidata mailing list, and pardon for the spam] Dear all, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TL;DR: soweego version 1 will be released soon. In the meanwhile, why don't you consider endorsing the next steps? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Hjfocs/soweego_1.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a pre-release notification for early feedback. Does the name *soweego* ring you a bell? It is a machine learning-based pipeline that links Wikidata to large catalogs [1]. It is a close friend of Mix'n'match [2], which mainly caters for small catalogs. The first version is almost done, and will start uploading results soon. Confident links are going to feed Wikidata via a bot [3], while others will get into Mix'n'match for curation. The next short-term steps are detailed in a rapid grant proposal [4], and I would be really grateful if you could consider an endorsement there. The soweego team has also tried its best to address the following community requests: 1. plan a sync mechanism between Wikidata and large catalogs / implement checks against external catalogs to find mismatches in Wikidata; 2. enable users to add links to new catalogs in a reasonable time. So, here is the most valuable contribution you can give to the project right now: understand how to *import a new catalog* [5]. Can't wait for your reactions. Cheers, Marco [1] https://soweego.readthedocs.io/ [2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/ [3] see past contributions: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Soweego_bo… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Hjfocs/soweego_1.1 [5] https://soweego.readthedocs.io/en/latest/new_catalog.html