Hoi,
Checking against other sources is indeed a different thing. However when
you are able to check against another source, what is the point of the
primary sources tool in the first place for that source?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 24 September 2015 at 20:35, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris(a)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
>
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