I'm starting to create a similar app with a friendly interface that helps users sync music discography data between Wikidata, Musicbrainz, and Discogs. It's called Linkbase and it's made with Flutter.
Wiki page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1/Linkbase> Github <https://github.com/lectrician1/linkbase> lectrician1, On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 2:02 AM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > This is to announce that we have finalized the concepts and started > development for a tool to help editors work on mismatches between > Wikidata's data and other databases/websites. > > > Why are we doing this? > > Wikidata is becoming too big for the editors to monitor individual data > points. Additionally, keeping Wikidata’s data in sync with the external > database (meant in the broadest way possible) requires a lot of effort and > existing workflows are haphazard and one-off. > > Who are we doing this for? > > The target audience of this tool are tech-savvy editors whose primary goal > is finding mismatches and data quality improvement. They are: > > - > > Dedicated data quality workers who specifically seeks out lists of > issues in an area of their interest to fix a number of mistakes > - > > Heavily affected by the data quality > - > > Experienced using bots and mass editing gadgets > > > What is the solution? > > We will build a system that will have a store for mismatches. Different > people and organizations can load mismatches they found into this system. > Various tools can then get mismatches from the system to help editors > resolve them. > > Sources for the mismatches can be many. We will start with mismatches that > we found as part of previous work to find references for statements lacking > references (aka Reference Treasure Hunt > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Automated_finding_references_input>). > In the future, categories on Wikipedia that indicate a mismatch between the > local value on that Wikipedia and the corresponding value on Wikidata could > also be possible. Various research organizations as well as large data > re-users could also contribute mismatches they found in their internal > processes when doing quality assurance on Wikidata’s data. > > We hope that this tool will help to make it easier for editors to find and > fix the mismatches between Wikidata’s data and other databases. > > Feel free to ask questions or give us feedback at the discussion page: > Wikidata_talk:Mismatch_Finder > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Mismatch_Finder> > > Cheers, > > -- > Mohammed Sadat > *Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase* > > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 > https://wikimedia.de > > Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, > Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now > <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! > https://spenden.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. 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] >
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