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Dear all,
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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
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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