Hallo Andrea,

just saw https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#Wikispecies

maybe there is a bigger problem with that user?
--> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Administrators%27_noticeboard

Anika


2016-08-03 12:11 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>:

> Hi everyone.
>
> Thanks to Samwilson, we have know a pre-alpha tool that help us retrieve
> metadata for books in Wikisource:
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/ws-search/?title=%25&author=&lang=it&output_format=table&has_index=na
>
> it's in very early stage so please be kind and generous: (and also, if you
> can, help :-)
>
> The tool will hopefully help each community in deal with Wikidata import.
>
> BUT:
> today a discovered, with a bit of horror, that more than one year ago a
> "rogue" wikidata editor imported thousands of pages (without properties!)
> from Wikisources without even noticing the communities...
>
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#wikisource_mass_import
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:GZWDer#Stop_creating_items
>
> I revived the last thread (second link) because I think this was not
> helpful to us as communities. I don't think we can't fix it (there is also
> the chance that he kind of helped us, if we now use the right tools): but,
> still, I wanted to express my frustration in seeing this kind of action.
>
> I wonder how the French Wikisource community solved it, for example.
>
> Andrea
>
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