On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Tom Morris tfmorris@gmail.com wrote:
This is to add MusicBrainz to the primary source tool, not anything else?
It's apparently worse than that (which I hadn't realized until I re-read the transcript). It sounds like it's just going to generate little warning icons for "bad" facts and not lead to the recording of any new facts at all.
17:22:33 <Lydia_WMDE> we'll also work on getting the extension deployed that will help with checking against 3rd party databases 17:23:33 <Lydia_WMDE> the result of constraint checks and checks against 3rd party databases will then be used to display little indicators next to a statement in case it is problematic 17:23:47 <Lydia_WMDE> i hope this way more people become aware of issues and can help fix them 17:24:35 <sjoerddebruin> Do you have any names of databases that are supported? :) 17:24:59 <Lydia_WMDE> sjoerddebruin: in the first version the german national library. it can be extended later
I know Freebase is deemed to be nasty and unreliable, but is MusicBrainz considered trustworthy enough to import directly or will its facts need to be dripped through the primary source soda straw one at a time too?
The primary sources tool and the extension that helps us check against other databases are two independent things. Imports from Musicbrainz have been happening since a very long time already.
Cheers Lydia