Automatically bot-populating image statements from Wikidata is a bad idea, you'll end up with lots of wrong or unsuitable images. The tools that Andre and Lydia mentioned are much better, as they involve the "human element", while reducing effort to a single click.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:12 PM Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016, 12:35 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Having the image statements populated in the Wikidata items would help >> the performance of the http://ConceptMap.io application. I notice that >> many of the Wikidata items have image statements, so I'm wondering if a >> bot already exists that initializes these statements from the Wikipedia >> article thumbnails. If so, I wonder if it could be run again. If one >> doesn't exist, I'd be willing to write one with some guidance. I would >> appreciate any thoughts that you have on this subject. >> > > You might want to have a look at > http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=392 too. > > > Cheers > Lydia > > > > Thanks, >> James Weaver >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Product Manager for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt > für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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