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Could you implement large-scale import of studies data with the Research Bot?

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Hi there, thanks for User:Research Bot which seems very useful and like it has imported data on a significant number of studies.

Could the bot be used to bulk-import data on very many studies – please give your input here and/or here. The latter is about Scholia and I think that platform becomes useful in the real world only once Wikidata has data on, basically, most studies.
For example, charts on scholia would be inaccurate if so many studies are missing in Wikidata. The former is also about books and names a few datasets that I think could be used, maybe most notably dumps by Anna's Archive. I also asked the operator of "LargeDatasetBot". I think you know a lot in this space and your input would be very appreciated!

Also <sub> does not work in item titles – for example see Q125340665. Maybe these could be replaced with the ₂ characters retrospectively and the title be altered accordingly for future imports. Prototyperspective (talk) 18:27, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Prototyperspective: Thanks for thinking along. In terms of imports, the first question should always be whether we should do it, and in the affirmative case, we can explore whether and how we could implement any technical solutions. At the moment, anything large-scale is essentially precluded by the looming graph split anyway. In terms of markup in the titles, I think we should implement something, but technical solutions would probably depend as well on how the graph split plays out. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 21:14, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I did not know about this. moving the scholarly articles to a separate graph as in the experiment seems like a good idea and better enable what I asked about. Also I think there need to be some measures to prevent covert vandalism which could already be an issue with such a large number of largely unmonitored items, for example by locking all scholarly articles items to be only changed by bots/queries. The same would also be useful for food product items as mentioned in my recent comment here. I don't know which parts are missing when this bot and a few already imported many items and thought datasets like those used by OpenAlex or ScienceOpen could be used. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:08, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2024 Newsletter

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Bad data in QuickStatements Batch #236310

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This batch has a large number of descriptions that do not follow the guidelines for descriptions. I have initiated a revert of this batch. William Graham (talk) 23:29, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 23:50, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Inferring language of work from title

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This is a very bad idea, e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q35094528&diff=prev&oldid=1616318412. Better not to have a language of work or name (P407) statement than English when it should be French. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:09, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate item

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Hi there, I was wondering how this item got created - it's a duplicate of a journal article item that already exists. Usually I can see why a duplicate was made (e.g. the original item didn't have a DOI, or orthographic differences in a title) but for this case I have no clue. Prosperosity (talk) 22:22, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No idea in this case either. Thanks for checking and merging, though. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 22:41, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August 2024 Newsletter

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Invitation to research workshop on Wikidata users' experience of content gaps

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Dear Daniel_Mietchen,

I hope this message finds you well!

We are researchers at King's College London investigating how content gaps arise and can be measured in Wikidata. Currently we have explored existing research papers to identify several categories of gaps. However, we have noted a lack of consideration of editors’ experiences in this existing research and are keen to hear about editors’ views on and methods for identifying and addressing content gaps. While this topic has seen a lot of attention in Wikipedia, we believe Wikidata presents unique challenges and content which warrant further investigation.

We are reaching out as we understand you have previously taken part in a research study with our colleague Kholoud and thought as an active and experienced editor, you may be able to share your experiences with us. We would therefore like to invite you to participate in an interactive online workshop to explore this topic further.

This will consist of a 90 minute online call consisting of a group discussion and collaborative editing of a document (in Miro). We will ask you to rank gaps according to your familiarity and your opinion of their importance, give feedback on which types of metric might be most valuable to you as an editor and give some initial thoughts and potentially even sketches of how a content gap monitoring tool might look for Wikidata.

The main goal of the workshop is to understand your perspectives on how to measure and monitor content gaps as well as potentially identify further metrics or even to propose new methods to identify and quantify gaps in Wikidata. Participation is completely voluntary. All personal data will be kept confidential in compliance with GDPR. If you are interest in taking part, you can find out more about the workshop from our participant information sheet. You can also read more about the research at our meta page.

You can sign-up to take part from our registration form.

The workshop will take place online using Microsoft Teams. We are hoping to host the workshop in the coming weeks, but if you would like to take part and are unavailable during the proposed times, we may be able to find an alternative time.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at anelia.kurteva@kcl.ac.uk and neal.t.reeves@kcl.ac.uk

Thank you for considering taking part in this workshop and supporting our research.

With kind regards, Celestialtoast (talk) 20:18, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to Join the Wikidata 12th Birthday Data-thon in India

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Dear Daniel Mietchen :)

Wikidata's Twelfth birthday datathon

I'm excited to announce that Wikidata:WikiProject India and various communities across India are planning to celebrate Wikidata's 12th birthday with a special Wikidata Data-thon during the months of October-November 2024. This campaign will focus on improving the quality of content on Wikidata, with a special emphasis on India-related properties and items. Additionally this data-thon also aims to enhance Wikidata items by improving labels and descriptions in the native language, along with the addition of references, qualifiers, and statements contributing to the improvement of structured data in Wikidata.

As part of this celebration, I would like to invite all interested community members and User Groups to join us in this collaborative effort to celebrate this milestone by making Wikidata even better. Please have a look at the event page.

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Best regards,
Gnoeee 07:17, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - September 2024 Newsletter

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