Enwiki uses a fairly extensive system of marking up redirects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_alternative_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_alternative_spellings
(etc) Not all redirects by any means are there, but it would be a good way of identifying "pre-cleared" ones for import. Andrew. On 19 June 2015 at 08:53, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Ricordisamoa, 19/06/2015 09:07: >> >> I've seen countless inaccurate aliases 'inferred' from redirects by bots. > > > And I've seen countless simple searches failing due to lack of obvious > redirects/aliases. > Are there reasons to believe that redirects are in majority bad aliases? > (Surely there can be some obvious filtering.) Are there other good sources > for aliases? (Perhaps we can mass-import alternate names from VIAF etc.) > > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
