On 7 September 2017 at 19:51, Marco Fossati <fossati(a)spaziodati.eu> wrote:
external identifiers linked to Wikidata items about
people.
I'll take this as an invitation to remind everyone about ORCID iDs ;-)
See:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ORCID
and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ORCID
Not only is this an identifier for people who often have no other ID
for us to use, but it is one that they can register for, and manage,
themselves.
So we can help ourselves, by encouraging the people we write about to
register for, and use, one. This is especially true (but not limited
to) all the authors of scientific papers which we are currently adding
to Wikidata.
However, although an ORCID iD is free to register and use, and ORCID
is an open source project, run by a non-profit foundation, there has
been some resistance, from a few noisy individuals, to us doing this.
The German Wikipedia community has so far, refused to include ORCID
iDs in its "Normdaten" ("Authority control") template.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk