Hiya,

The issue is that other items might be using that property (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3937) in a different context altogether, and we have a specific format (specific fields) in which we export Reactome data and then put that data on wikidata. It doesn’t suit other content creators that their description, for example was suddenly updated to our specific description format – this is why it would be helpful to have a unique way to identify items created by out bot.

I hope I’ve been able to explain?

Thanks for your help!

Warm regards,

Yusra Haider

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Date: Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 17:46
To: Wikidata technical discussion <wikidata-tech@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-tech] Uniquely Identifying Items Created by Bot

Hi there!

Not in a "nice way"

I'm intrigued, what don't you want to change items that have not been created by the bot?

Surely if they have the correct ID then that's all okay?

Mind going into a bit more detail? :)

If not I can point you in the direction of an API that would let you know who created an item.

On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 17:58, Yusra Haider <yhaider@ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi,

I hope this is an appropriate question for this mailing list.

I am a software developer at Reactome and am working on our bot that writes Reactome data to Wikidata.

Our bot currently uses the property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3937 (the Reactome ID property) to identify and update Reactome items.

We are running into the issue that this property is being used by other people and our bot inadvertently ends up changing items that have not been created by the Reactome bot.

Is there any way to uniquely identify the items created by our bot?

Thanks and warm regards,

Yusra Hader

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