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Autodesc

Monday, September 9, 2013

Wikidata offers multilingual labels for items. Since many items will have the same label with, or even across, languages, one can also add a brief description for an item in each language, to quickly disambiguate between them. Such descriptions are helpful in searches, and essential when adding claims linking to other items. However, many items […]

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How to nip a budding project

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Wikidata is booming. A huge number of editors, many of them new contributors to the Wonderful World of Wikimedia projects, are adding, fixing, and sourcing claims to the database. A ridiculously high amount of language links have been moved from Wikipedia to Wikidata. Part of the promise of this new project is to unify factoids […]

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