Re: [Wikidata] provenance tracking for high volume edit sources (was Data model explanation and protection)

2015-12-09 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Finn Årup Nielsen wrote: > Fine. I have added a ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118322 > "Merging wizard shouldn't allow dissimilar items to be merged". Perhaps a > developer can help solve the issue. This is scheduled to go live tonight. From then on t

Re: [Wikidata] provenance tracking for high volume edit sources (was Data model explanation and protection)

2015-11-10 Thread Finn Årup Nielsen
Fine. I have added a ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118322 "Merging wizard shouldn't allow dissimilar items to be merged". Perhaps a developer can help solve the issue. On 11/10/2015 08:47 PM, Benjamin Good wrote: You misunderstand me if you thought I was blaming Magnus for this.

Re: [Wikidata] provenance tracking for high volume edit sources (was Data model explanation and protection)

2015-11-10 Thread Benjamin Good
You misunderstand me if you thought I was blaming Magnus for this. It was a hypothesis that right now seems false and we do not yet have another answer. I do think it is entirely possible that a high-volume, low-user-expertise game interface could generate problems very much like what we are obse

Re: [Wikidata] provenance tracking for high volume edit sources (was Data model explanation and protection)

2015-11-10 Thread Finn Årup Nielsen
If I understand correctly: 1) Magnus' game already tags the edits with 'Widar'. 2) Magnus' game cannot merge protein and genes if they link to each other. With 'ortholog' and 'expressed by' Magnus' merging game does not contribute to the problematic merges (Magnus email from previously today:

[Wikidata] provenance tracking for high volume edit sources (was Data model explanation and protection)

2015-11-10 Thread Benjamin Good
In another thread, we are discussing the preponderance of problematic merges of gene/protein items. One of the hypotheses raised to explain the volume and nature of these merges (which are often by fairly inexperienced editors and/or people that seem to only do merges) was that they were coming fr