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?

Cheers,

Marco

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Tools/User_scripts#Sourcerer
[2] https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/sourcery.html

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