On 7 September 2017 at 19:51, Marco Fossati fossati@spaziodati.eu wrote:
external identifiers linked to Wikidata items about people.
I'll take this as an invitation to remind everyone about ORCID iDs ;-)
See:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORCID
and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ORCID
Not only is this an identifier for people who often have no other ID for us to use, but it is one that they can register for, and manage, themselves.
So we can help ourselves, by encouraging the people we write about to register for, and use, one. This is especially true (but not limited to) all the authors of scientific papers which we are currently adding to Wikidata.
However, although an ORCID iD is free to register and use, and ORCID is an open source project, run by a non-profit foundation, there has been some resistance, from a few noisy individuals, to us doing this. The German Wikipedia community has so far, refused to include ORCID iDs in its "Normdaten" ("Authority control") template.