On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 6:52 PM Luca Martinelli [Sannita] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Il giorno mer 26 mag 2021 alle ore 17:52 Mateusz Malinowski > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Is there anyone who knows more about this project? It looks like > > Mix'n'match tool. > > Mateusz is referring to: > > > Development > > - Designing and planning for the first version of a tool to compare > > Wikidata's data against other databases and find mismatches that might > > need > > fixing > > Sorry, doing this because I didn't understand at first what project he > was referring to, so I thought this might be useful also for other > people :) > > L.
Thanks Luca! The tool we've been digging into for quite a while now is different from MixnMatch. MixnMatch is meant to help you connect an entry in a catalog with its corresponding Wikidata Item. Once you found the corresponding Item a new external identifier statement can be added to the Item to store this connection permanently. Having these connections is a very very useful base for what we're looking into now. The tool we are envisioning is meant to find the cases where the actual data in an Item does not match the data in another database that also has an entry on it and then help editors to resolve those mismatches. A concrete example would be a person with a date of birth on their Item in Wikidata. They also have an entry in the German National Library. Now we can potentially look at the date of birth in the person's entry in the German National Library and compare it to the date of birth Wikidata has. If they don't match someone should probably have a look at it and see where the problem is and potentially fix it. This is however not a trivial thing and we're still figuring out how exactly it will work so things might shift a bit in the coming weeks. Cheers Lydia -- 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] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
