I guess this question for me is how do we do this in practice? How do we make sure Wikidata stays up to date/synced with external databases we think are important?
On 7 September 2017 at 20:51, Marco Fossati <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As a data quality addict, I've been investigating the coverage of external > identifiers linked to Wikidata items about people. > > Given the numbers on SQID [1] and some SPARQL queries [2, 3], it seems > that even the second most used ID (VIAF) only covers *25%* of people items > circa. > Then, there is a long tail of IDs that are barely used at all. > > So here is my question: > *which external identifiers deserve an effort to achieve exhaustive > coverage?* > > Looking forward to your valuable feedback. > Cheers, > > Marco > > [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/browse?type=properties "Select > datatype" set to "ExternalId", "Used for class" set to "human Q5" > [2] total people: http://tinyurl.com/ybvcm5uw > [3] people with a VIAF link: http://tinyurl.com/ya6dnpr7 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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