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Gerard,
Then ... what would be valuable is a tool that can change the interwiki badge. At the moment, there are no tools that enable us to be able to change a work from not proofread, to proofread, to validated. We know the status of each work at the respective Wikisource through the Index: ns page, so we should be able to botify pushing that status through to the interwiki. There was a technical inability that prevented it being done from memory. and I have a ticket there somewhere in the phabricator morass for Wikidata.
Taking the validated and proofread works (from Index namespace at enWS) would give you 4000 works. Once that is done, we can then also start pulling that data back to the wikis, and with good templating we can then look utilise that on Author pages.
Regards, Billinghurst
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Sent: 23/10/2017 10:48:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] WikidataCon 2017
Hoi,
A Wikipedia matra is be bold and another is that things are a work in progress. In my opinion, what we need is the name of a book, its author and the fact that people can read it. All the other stuff like what "version" is a particular book pales in comparison. We should not let the quest for perfection be the enemy of the good.
Also Archive.org and Open Library are two different entities. Both the Open Library and the Internet Archive have their own identifiers for authors and they are not necessarily linked. We are talking about books from the Open Library and they are available as an E-book or a PDF.
My problem is not with Open Library, my problem is that we do not know what is available from Wikisource as a finished good ready for reading. In the end what we advertise is the author the book, versions are secondary.
Thanks,
GerardM