[Wikimedia-l] Experience implementing Wikidata

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Are you going to use this info in a blogpost or something ? If not is it ok
for me to do so ??
Thanks,
     Gerard


On 3 November 2013 09:02, Anders Wennersten <mail at anderswennersten.se>wrote:

> Since August we are implementing Wikidata for the Swedish 290 communes and
> 1900 "towns", including automatic update from the authority "Statistic
> Sweden" to Wikidata.
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> Our original assumption was that it would take us 8 month but it now seems
> it will not be enough, it will probably be more like a year to get it fully
> implemented, and I thought our experiences could be of interest to several
> (even excluding anything of the WD community or the "science" of properites
> etc)
>
> QUALITY
> My assumption was that the Swedish articles was 98% correct but that
> Wikidata ought to have 99,8% correct info. We found, though, as a start
> that WD was only 96% correct as it has been loaded from en:wp, which is,
> from a Q point for these entities, worse then de.wp, nl:wp and sw:wp. A
> critical information, that was missing, was the communcode/towncode, that
> is needed to implement an automatic update. In practice this has meat we
> have had to manually check and complement all objects on WD, that with its
> primitive interface meant it taking a very long time, one of us even
> temporary getting "repetitive strain injury"
>
> INTRICACIES
> When we have created articles on sv:wp we have only covered some finer
> intricacies of these entities in the article text. But with Wikidata it is
> not enough, it has to be handled fully correct. Trosa commun existed
> 1971-1973, was then merged into Nyköpings commun and 1994 broken out  with
> some more areas to become again a Trosa commun. Sv.wp hase only one article
>  for Trosa commun, but for wikidata we have created two entities one called
> Trosa commun (1971-73), whos corresponding entity on sw.wp is a redirect.
> Another example: Statistic Sweden defines the boundary of a town by strange
> advanced citerias meaning a real town is some year  is seen by them as two
> towns. We have of these reasons been forced to define new properties, and
> create some hundred new entities in Wikidata, and check the corresponding
> redirect articles on sv:wp, giving them Categories etc, all OK but it takes
> time...
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> POTENTIAL
> We are still convinced of the strong potential of WIkidata, but believe
> the full benefits requires an a (semi)automatic update of data from the
> authorities databases.  In our case "Statistic Sweden" are positive,
> believe in Open data and have a nice API, but it is a new component for us
> to take care of, the datatransfer/update program/script, who will be
> responsible for this etc?
>
> Experience from others are welcome to us
>
> Anders
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