Tom,

On the Occitan Wikipedia they indicate the VIAF (and other) identifiers are shown from Wikidata. When a new identifier is added, this new identifier will be shown as well. When it is changed it is changed as well.

When information in both Wikidata and Wikipedia is the same, it would be good when the information is removed from Wikipedia (and shown from Wikidata). When there is a difference, the information needs to be verified and the resolution needs to go to Wikidata and sourced. In this way information will gradually become be improved and be available in more Wikipedias.

Yes you can concentrate your efforts on Wikipedia but it will only benefit one Wikipedia. It could do so much more good.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 16 October 2013 18:34, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:

If I want the most current/accurate VIAF ids, should I be looking at Wikidata or Wikipedia?

When I look at the EN Wikipedia pages for these two topics:

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9094

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9095

both of which have property P214, the VIAF identifer, the second displays the VIAF identifier, but the first doesn't and the one that does display the identifier appears to be using information from the embedded AuthorityControl template, not Wikidata.

My concern is that if the Wikidata VIAF data isn't being viewed/edit on Wikipedia, it can easily be invisibly wrong like the infamous Persondata template.

Tom

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