On 29 March 2015 at 02:06, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
I agree with Andy's comment on the blog post that
it doesn't really
make sense for VIAF to store all the Wikipedia links to a given topic
- that's what Wikidata is already really good at.
Thanks or copying me in, Daniel.
I've now subscrribed to the list - hello everyone!
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Luiz Augusto
<lugusto(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The blog post mentions only Wikipedia links. And,
in fact, doing a search on
>
test.viaf.org, you will get only records containing links to Wikipedia.
> I'm not particularly surprised on this, since
the Wikimedia Foundation never
> does nothing to help "sister" projects
What does this have to do with WMF? OCLC are independent actors,
reusing Wikidata content as anyone may do, without having to consult
or involve the WMF.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk