Hi Wikidatans,
After going past my 500th edit on Wikidata #Whee! I was hoping to dip my
toe into doing something that would involve a larger scale project, like
adding database information to Wikidata.
There's a database I use all the time that is excellent, rich, deep, and
well-deployed -- at
JewishGen.org
main search page:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp
example page:
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~community~-524980
I started a Property proposal here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Place#JewishGen_Lo…
I have also contacted the folks over at JewishGen to ask if they might
provide me with raw data, initially even just with the locality page IDs,
then hopefully more rich / fuller data that's in the database.
I was wondering if this is
(a) the typical approach people use when importing data
(b) if you have any advice / best practices to share
(c) also, if I should try and do a wget to scrub for this data (if that's
even possible)? do people do this to grab data?
This information, I envision being used as part of a unique identifier that
could be built into infoboxes, and might also be a sort of templatized box
even (although I don't hugely love the issue of restricted / redirected
editing away from Wikipedia). But I would really like to see this
information in a pathway to Wikipedia. I think it would improve a lot of
these town pages, a lot of which are stubs.
Best -- and thanks in advance for any advice,
Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*