Automatically bot-populating image statements from Wikidata is a bad idea, you'll end up with lots of wrong or unsuitable images. The tools that Andre and Lydia mentioned are much better, as they involve the "human element", while reducing effort to a single click.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:12 PM Lydia Pintscher <Lydia.Pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:


On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 12:35 <james@j1w.xyz> wrote:
Having the image statements populated in the Wikidata items would help
the performance of the http://ConceptMap.io application.  I notice that
many of the Wikidata items have image statements, so I'm wondering if a
bot already exists that initializes these statements from the Wikipedia
article thumbnails.  If so, I wonder if it could be run again.  If one
doesn't exist, I'd be willing to write one with some guidance.  I would
appreciate any thoughts that you have on this subject.

You might want to have a look at 
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=392 too.


Cheers
Lydia



Thanks,
James Weaver

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