I wonder how the French Wikisource community solved it, for example.
The easy way to solve it is probably before importing data related to a Wikisource page check if an item already exists for this page (it's an easy API call). Even if this raw import would have not been done, we would have had to do it anyway, because of hand created items. Most bots are used to do that before doing any item creation.
Cheers,
Thomas
Le 3 août 2016 à 21:05, Anika Born WikiAnika@wikipedia.de a écrit :
Hallo Andrea,
just saw https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#Wikispecies
maybe there is a bigger problem with that user? --> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Administrators%27_noticeboard
Anika
2016-08-03 12:11 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com: Hi everyone.
Thanks to Samwilson, we have know a pre-alpha tool that help us retrieve metadata for books in Wikisource: https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-search/?title=%25&author=&lang=it&o...
it's in very early stage so please be kind and generous: (and also, if you can, help :-)
The tool will hopefully help each community in deal with Wikidata import.
BUT: today a discovered, with a bit of horror, that more than one year ago a "rogue" wikidata editor imported thousands of pages (without properties!) from Wikisources without even noticing the communities...
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#wikisource_mass_import https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#Stop_creating_items
I revived the last thread (second link) because I think this was not helpful to us as communities. I don't think we can't fix it (there is also the chance that he kind of helped us, if we now use the right tools): but, still, I wanted to express my frustration in seeing this kind of action.
I wonder how the French Wikisource community solved it, for example.
Andrea
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