On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is to add MusicBrainz to the primary source tool, not anything else? > > > It's apparently worse than that (which I hadn't realized until I re-read the > transcript). It sounds like it's just going to generate little warning > icons for "bad" facts and not lead to the recording of any new facts at all. > > 17:22:33 <Lydia_WMDE> we'll also work on getting the extension deployed that > will help with checking against 3rd party databases > 17:23:33 <Lydia_WMDE> the result of constraint checks and checks against 3rd > party databases will then be used to display little indicators next to a > statement in case it is problematic > 17:23:47 <Lydia_WMDE> i hope this way more people become aware of issues and > can help fix them > 17:24:35 <sjoerddebruin> Do you have any names of databases that are > supported? :) > 17:24:59 <Lydia_WMDE> sjoerddebruin: in the first version the german > national library. it can be extended later > > > I know Freebase is deemed to be nasty and unreliable, but is MusicBrainz > considered trustworthy enough to import directly or will its facts need to > be dripped through the primary source soda straw one at a time too?
The primary sources tool and the extension that helps us check against other databases are two independent things. Imports from Musicbrainz have been happening since a very long time already. 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 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
