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&output_format=table&has_index=na

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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