Hi Markus and Marco, all,
Thanks for your support of and caring for the Primary Sources Tool. Please find my replies inline.
Dear <whoever is maintaining the PS gadget now>,
I guess the core team still does, with the caveat explained by Denny in [1], the tl;dr is that we work on it on top of our regular jobs and that we are happy to hand it over to folks with more time on their hands.
The PS tool seems to break more and more. Besides the persisting issue with duplicated claims being offered (even if they are already stored), there is now also the issue that claims cannot be rejected. If I reject a claim, the page reloads, but the suggestion still shows up after that.
I checked both problems. It seems the writes from the front-end somehow do not make it to the back-end. I opened a random item Q632229 and approved and rejected claims. The approval went through just fine [2].
(i) However, I could reproduce the duplicate claims being shown, the reason is that the uniqueness comparison does not take references into account [3], a known @ToDo up for grabs. (ii) I could also in some cases reproduce the non-rejectable claims issue. I repeated disapproved statement 868483 [4], but if you query the back-end for incoming Freebase statements for Q632229, it keeps coming back as "unapproved" [5] (search for "868483").
For (i), if someone wants to tackle this, happy to merge their Pull Request. For (ii), Sebastian, do you have a suspicion why this could be the case?
Thanks, Tom
-- [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-February/008316.html [2] https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q632229&type=revision&dif... [3] https://github.com/google/primarysources/blob/master/frontend/freebase2wikid... [4] https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/statements/868483 [5] https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-primary-sources/entities/Q632229