Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/LccnBot

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 Approved--Ymblanter (talk) 20:14, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

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LccnBot

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Operator: Thisismattmiller (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: Adds P244 to bibliographic entities base on library authority records.

Code: Diagram outlining the logic | Script code

Function details: The NACO network is a large number of institutions who has catalogers (librarians) creating authority records for bibliographic related agents, such as authors. In the process of creating these records they do research that often includes locating the related Wikdiata page for the author and they add that Q ID to the authority record. This bot monitors new library authority records and creates a P244 back to the Library of Congress based on the ID in the authority record. In short, this bot creates links back to the authority record from the Wikidata page based on the work done by the catalogers who have identified the correct Wikidata entity but did not create the P244 link. This bot should create 150-200 new P244 links each month. --Thisismattmiller (talk) 15:54, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

• LGTM, please make 50 test edits. @Thisismattmiller: --So9q (talk) 05:26, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks. Okay, ran it for 50 edits Thisismattmiller (talk) 21:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

•  Support additions like this are perfect in my opinion, this bot is welcome! --Epìdosis 17:27, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Wow, I did not know that the LCCN metadata included Wikidata identifiers. Great use of that data and I appreciate that this bot's activity is very focused. Send my appreciation to everyone at the Library of Congress. --William Graham (talk) 19:34, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
• @William Graham: Actually the Library of Congress rarely includes Wikidata IDs in authority records. It is many of the hundreds of other libraries around the world that does. Although the database is hosted at the LoC, the creation of the authority file is a cooperative program of many hundreds of individual libraries large and small. U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, and libraries elsewhere all contribute authority records. It is the Program for Cooperative Cataloging that initiated adding Wikidata IDs to authorities. AdamSeattle (talk) 08:09, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

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