But there have also been lots of corrections. As far as painters go, the data is really pretty decent now. It helps that it's really easy to check the state of Wikidata against the contents of Wikipedia categories. As more people become aware of how to make such checks, I think we start to see a cleanup of categories and (I hope) a better categorization system starting to form that is more in line with Wikidata property class trees.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Data has been sucked from GND to wikidata via a number of routes, > principally VIAF. > See Wikidata:Bot_requests#Import_GND_identifiers_from_VIAF_dump for example > for a discussion of an instance of this. > > cheers > stuart > > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Gerard Meijssen < > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hoi, >> The blog states that a lot of data was sucked into Wikidata from GND. As >> far as I am aware that never happened. So its assertion is wrong. >> Thanks, >> GerardM >> >> On 28 February 2016 at 19:43, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen < >>> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hoi, >>>> It is trivial when you only consider Wikidata. >>>> >>> >>> I've previous blogged about the issues with sex / gender in wikidata at >>> http://opensourceexile.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/adrian-pohl-wrote-some-excellent.html >>> has the sitaution moved on? >>> >>> cheers >>> stuart >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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