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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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