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
>
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