User talk:Vladimir Alexiev

• great work in Wikidata

You modified the crunchbase identifier on Fyber (Q100319972) but it seems your edit points at a non-existent entry? How are you making these updates?

I'm going through https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P2088 and fixing things. All other CB identifiers use lowercase letters and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P2088 "Format" disallows uppercase.

But you are right, "Fyber" is an exception in CB. Fixed.

couldn't there be other/lots of identifiers that don't work in all lowercase? How do we know this didn't break lots of items

• I've seen thousands of CB identifiers and never seen one in uppercase.
• The prop definition says "format as a regular expression: [^A-Z \/]+ ; constraint status: mandatory constraint" (but has no reference). I didn't add this constraint.
• I'm not changing identifiers to lowercase en-masse, just this one
• I've added http://km.aifb.kit.edu/services/crunchbase/ en-masse which unfortunately has errors. In addition to those fixed by batch described in "Crunchbase bug" below, I'm currently working out many more

ok thanks for doing this

Based on this edit, the task you just ran appears to have a bug of some sort.

I got those CB IDs from http://km.aifb.kit.edu/services/crunchbase/ and they were made maybe 4y ago. I guess at the time the right ID was pomona-college-2, now it's pomona-college.

The batch failed to add references, so I'm rerunning it now https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/#/batch/62211. Please report any more bugs you find, and I'll fix them after the batch is done.

Another mistake: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:MobileDiff/1484559699&markasread=744103886&markasreadwiki=wikidatawiki

@tacsipacsi, Sdkb:: I'm now running https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/#/batch/62657 to remove 851 wrong Crunchbase IDs. But WD update is so broken that such simple operation gives errors, and I've had to rerun "reset errors" 5 times already

Hi Vladimir,

Based on your questions on my talk page, you seem to be working on artists regularly. Could you have a look at Q2146291 and Q41323135? It seems the data on two different artists are mixed up here (see RKDartists links).

Best, ~~~~

Yes, they appear the same (please merge), whereas https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/33250 (linked to the first WD item) is a different earlier artist (please create new)

@RKDData: Merged the two, and removed the wrong RKD https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/33250

Dear Vladimir Alexiev,

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Hi Kholoud, my interests are very eclectic, from BG orthodox icons to MIC market codes to GLEI RAL company registries. So I'm not sure what you can learn from that :-) Sorry I won't have time to participate. Send regards to Elena!

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		For your tireless contributions .. Great job!!

I've tried to enact the renewal of the main page, in order to collect ideas from all members of the project: I'm looking forward to hearing your ideas in Wikidata talk:WikiProject Authority control#Renewal of main page. Thank you in advance!

Hi! I've finally succeeded in writing a draft of a possible restyling of the mainpage Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control: it is Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/Draft. I've tried to insert only basic information about related pages and tools/gadget, in order not to confound new users reaching the page and looking for a little overview; all the useful information collected in the last years would obviously remain accessible in Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/Archive - I've also added in the fifth tab of Wikidata:VIAF a link to VIAF Games.

Obviously the mainpage can still be expanded, but I would keep it relatively brief, while I think that specific pages about single groups of identifiers would be very useful: as Wikidata:VIAF, also Wikidata:AAT (or a more general Wikidata:Thesaurus) can potentially be created - unfortunately I haven't enough experience to structure such a page, so at the moment I have just inserted a link to Coreference AAT. I wouldn't make them subpages of Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control, in order not to make their title too long and so less easily reachable by users.

Let me know your opinion and thank you in advance for the great work you do!

hi @Epìdosis: I don't see a lot of the data about VIAF in your new structure (eg the table with counts per source in time), I was only able to find it in archives.

Hi! That's because I had no up-to-date data ready for showing and the old ones referred to many years ago. However, I project to have some good data by the end of the year and I will surely add tables.

Hi Vladimir Alexiev,

Wikidata:Database_reports/Complex_constraint_violations/P7534 finds items with labels and descriptions that are in all caps. Many seem to have created by you. I suppose you are aware of Help:Label and Help:Descriptions about that. If you need help fixing them, please add a request to Wikidata:Bot requests.

Posted https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#fix_ALLCAPS_of_items_imported_from_MIC. But proper "Title Case" is not so easy to do due to prepositions.

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Здравствуйте! Пожалуйста, проверьте эту Викидату. Нет ли там ошибок? Всё ли там правильно оформлено? С уважением, Урыл (talk) 10:11, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

It's pretty good! I just:

• added two values for "movement"
• made those instances of "literary movement"
• changed the "movement" prop constraint to include class "literary movement"
• changed the encyclopedia URL to use "+" instead of "%20" and Cyrillic instead of encoded chars (IRIs were adopted 15 years ago!)
• moved the prop "reference URL" to "references" and added prop "URL" as "qualifier"

thanks!

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