Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates

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FromCrossrefBot 1: Publication dates[edit]

FromCrossrefBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Carlinmack (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: Using information from Crossref:

  1. Add publication date to items where they are not present in Wikidata
  2. Fix publication dates where they are erroneous

Code: Will be using Pywikibot in a similar way as I have done previously with this bot

Function details: Previously this bot has been used to add CC licenses to items which has been successful. In March 2022 it was realised that other bots/tools were using the wrong date for publication date in Crossref. Since I am working with this dump, I will step up to try fix this issue.

A simpler task is to fill in the details for items without publications. I've created a set of 80k items and once given the go ahead I will contribute these dates.

The issue of the wrong dates is a little more complicated as there are some false positives on both sides of this, sometimes Crossref is wrong and sometimes Wikidata is wrong. I'm sure that Wikidata is wrong more often, however before doing any edits I will do some manual validation to check the prevalence of false positives. When I am fairly confident I will start editing and I'll see whether I can deprecate the existing statement, add a reason and add the new date as preferred. If not, due to limitations in Pywikibot, I'll remove the previous statement instead. --Carlinmack (talk) 14:31, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Support This seems useful. However I see only one example edit for this so far, maybe you should do some more just to verify it's doing what we expect? You will be using the "published" date-parts data in the Crossref json files for this? If an item already has the correct published date value will you add the reference? Maybe that should only be done if the published date doesn't already have a reference though... ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:17, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Pls make some test edits.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:53, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@User:Carlinmack: What about "erroneous" in Crossref and corrected in WD? --Succu (talk) 20:19, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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