Hi Ben,

looked at the first result from your query. Merge was done by a new user,
who seems to have an "interest" in biology:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/H%C3%AA_de_tekhn%C3%AA_makr%C3%AA

Second result, another user with no user page, same pattern:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Nguyenld

Note that both do other things to items in the "realm", so it doesn't
appear to be my game. Both have done multiple merges.

Haven't looked at more results/ Will look into game mods anyway.

Cheers,
Magnus

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:34 PM Benjamin Good <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Magnus,
>
> We are seeing more and more of these problematic merges.  See:
> http://tinyurl.com/ovutz5x for the current list of (today 61) problems.
> Are these coming from the wikidata game?
>
> All of the editors performing the merges seem to be new and the edit
> patterns seem to match the game.  I thought the edits were tagged with a
> statement about them coming from the game, but I don't see that?  If they
> are, could you just take genes and proteins out of the 'potential merge'
> queue ?  I'm guessing that their frequently very similar names are putting
> many of them into the list.
>
> We are starting to work on a bot to combat this, but would like to stop
> the main source of the damage if its possible to detect it.  This is making
> Wikipedia integration more challenging than it already is...
>
> thanks
> -Ben
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Magnus Manske <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I fear my games may contribute to both problems (merging two items, and
>> adding a sitelink to the wrong item). Both are facilitated by identical
>> names/aliases, and sometimes it's hard to tell that a pair is meant to be
>> different, especially if you don't know about the intricate structures of
>> the respective knowledge domain.
>>
>> An item-specific, but somewhat heavy-handed approach would be to prevent
>> merging of any two items where at least one has P1889, no matter what it
>> specifically points to. At least, give a warning that an item is
>> "merge-protected", and require an additional override for the merge.
>>
>> If that is acceptable, it would be easy for me to filter all items with
>> P1889, from the merge game at least.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:50 PM Peter F. Patel-Schneider <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/28/2015 12:08 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> > Going back to Ben's original problem, one tool that Freebase used to
>>> help
>>> > manage the problem of incompatible type merges was a set of curated
>>> sets of
>>> > incompatible types [5] which was used by the merge tools to warn users
>>> that
>>> > the merge they were proposing probably wasn't a good idea.  People
>>> could
>>> > ignore the warning in the Freebase implementation, but Wikidata could
>>> make it
>>> > a hard restriction or just a warning.
>>> >
>>> > Tom
>>>
>>> I think that this idea is a good one.  The incompatibility information
>>> could
>>> be added to classes in the form of "this class is disjoint from that
>>> other
>>> class".  Tools would then be able to look for this information and
>>> produce
>>> warnings or even have stronger reactions to proposed merging.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that using P1889 "different from" is going to be adequate.
>>> What
>>> links would be needed?  Just between a gene and its protein?  That
>>> wouldn't
>>> catch merging a gene and a related protein.  Between all genes and all
>>> proteins?  It seems to me that this is better handled at the class level.
>>>
>>> peter
>>>
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