Hiya,

 

The issue is that other items might be using that property 
(https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3937) in a different context 
altogether, and we have a specific format (specific fields) in which we export 
Reactome data and then put that data on wikidata. It doesn’t suit other content 
creators that their description, for example was suddenly updated to our 
specific description format – this is why it would be helpful to have a unique 
way to identify items created by out bot. 

 

I hope I’ve been able to explain?

 

Thanks for your help!


Warm regards,

Yusra Haider

 

From: Wikidata-tech <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Addshore <[email protected]>
Reply to: Wikidata technical discussion <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 9 July 2020 at 17:46
To: Wikidata technical discussion <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-tech] Uniquely Identifying Items Created by Bot

 

Hi there!

 

Not in a "nice way"

I'm intrigued, what don't you want to change items that have not been created 
by the bot?

Surely if they have the correct ID then that's all okay?

 

Mind going into a bit more detail? :)

If not I can point you in the direction of an API that would let you know who 
created an item.

 

On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 17:58, Yusra Haider <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

 

I hope this is an appropriate question for this mailing list. 

 

I am a software developer at Reactome and am working on our bot that writes 
Reactome data to Wikidata. 

 

Our bot currently uses the property 
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3937 (the Reactome ID property) to 
identify and update Reactome items. 

 

We are running into the issue that this property is being used by other people 
and our bot inadvertently ends up changing items that have not been created by 
the Reactome bot.

 

Is there any way to uniquely identify the items created by our bot?

 

Thanks and warm regards,

Yusra Hader

 

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