On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:56 PM Marco Fossati <fossati(a)spaziodati.eu> wrote:
Hi Magnus,
>I was
aware of the Sourcerer tool: I'm concerned with those references
>coming from Wikipedia articles though, since they stem from inside a
>Wikimedia project, and I want to make sure that everything comes from
>the outside.
>
The Sourcerer references do NOT come from Wikipedia! I am using
third-party
sites for which we already have IDs (e.g. GND) to
auto-validate values,
and
add the appropriate reference if identical.
Basically, what you want to
do,
on the cheap;-)
Whoops, sorry, I was
probably confused by:
1. the Sourcerer **user script** [1], which claims to "get a list of all
external links from all language editions of Wikipedia for an item";
2. the **Sourcery** tool [2], which claims to load "all URLs in all
associated Wikipedia pages".
So, third-party references indeed, but still curated by Wikipedians, right?
That's what I meant, I should have been more specific in my concern.
Is it correct that the Sourcerer **bot** is a different thing, or am I
getting this completely wrong?
uses the GND etc. IDs
of the item to verify other statements. It is more similar to your project,
and has likely caused more edits than script and tool together.