Hi Denny, great tool!
I really like this kind of "human computation" tools, as they are quick to grasp and easy to perform. The Wikidata Game from Magnus is a great example too, IMO.
I wonder: could it be hard to find a way to "count" how many merging one accomplishes? This would work both for an individual and to a list of usernames.
I feel it would be really good in Wikidata presentations or editathons or outreach events: you can let many people merge articles, and have a sort of counter displayed which says how many are done, in real time. It's a sort of a race/game, and it could be fun especially for young people.
I don't know, it's just an idea, but gamification kinda works :-)
Aubrey
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Santi Navarro < santiagonavarro@wikimedia.org.es> wrote:
James, I have a question. Should you merge the items or the tool will do it?
El 2014-10-29 19:10, James Forrester escribió:
On Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:56:42 Denny Vrandečić vrandecic@google.com wrote:
There’s a small tool on WMF labs that you can use to verify the links (it
displays the articles side by side from a language pair you select, and then you can confirm or contradict the merge):
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