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*
>
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