That is so true! Making book items is hard and then using them in reference statements is harder
-----Original Message----- From: "Andrea Zanni" <[email protected]> Sent: 26-1-2016 09:20 To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > - It is really laborious to add references. Many references are a book a > publication and I give you one example of a book [1]. It takes MUCH more > time to add a source than it is to add a statement. The book, the > authors > they need sources in their own right.. > Also, Wikidata has not found a way yet to work with books. Yes, it's relatively easy to create an item for a recent book and populate it with a few statements relatively to the main metadata (author, year of publishing, publisher). What we don't have is a way to *consistently* work with books (which have often many translations and editions). We cannot import (yet) library catalogs in wikidata[1]. We don't even have a consistent way to link Wikidata to Wikisource (index pages, ns0 pages). I think this is quite relevant for the reference issue. Aubrey [1] there is an ongoing project with the National Library of Florence, in Italy. We now have a script to import records in WIkibase, and will do on a local one. Then we will approach Wikidata. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
