On 7 September 2017 at 20:16, john cummings <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? At least part of that solution has to be to get the maintainers of those external databases involved - we have an API, and they can use it to update items, programmatically, if they store Wikidata IDs in their data (or if we have a third identifier in common). OCLC (who manage VIAF) are doing this, as are Quora (not just for people), and others are beginning to show interest, Digital signing of statements, when it is enabled, will encourage them, by demonstrating that their contributions will be respected and valued. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
