I know, I started a discussion about porting the bot to WIkidata in
scientific Journal Wikiproject. One answer I got : the bot owner had other
things to do in his life than running the bot and was not around very often
any more. Having everiyhing in Wikidata already will be a lot more reliable
and lazier, no tool that works one day but not the other one, no effort to
tell the newbies that they should go to another website, no significant
problem.
Maybe one opposition would be that the data would be vandalised easily, but
maybe we should find a way to deal with imported sourced datas which have
no real reason to be modified, just marked deprecated or updated by another
import from the same source.
2013/8/26 David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com>
If the problem is to automate bibliographic data
importing, a solution is
what you propose, to import everything. Another one is to have an import
tool to automatically import the data for the item that needs it. In WP
they do that, there is a tool to import book/journal info by ISBN/doi. The
same can be done in WD.
Micru
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Thomas Douillard <
thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If Wikidata has an ambition to be a really
reliable database, we should
do eveything we can to make it easy for users to use any source they want.
In this perspective, if we got datas with guaranted high quality, it make
it easy for Wikidatian to find and use these references for users. Entering
a reference in the database seems to me a highly fastidious, boring, and
easily automated task.
With that in mind, any reference that the user will not have to enter by
hand is something good, and import high quality sources datas should pass
every Wikidata community barriers easily. If there is no problem for the
software to handle that many information, I say we really have no reason
not to do the imports.
Tom
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