Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Addbot 3
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Approved Exact-copy paste of another bot *cough* *cough*. Legoktm (talk) 20:55, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Operator: Addshore (talk • contribs • logs)
Task/s: Mass-add properties based on Wikipedia categories
Function details:The way the bot works is that it is given a category (or transcluded template), a property, and an item, and will automagically assign that property/item to each wikidata item in the category. A good example is en:Category:Women physicists. We can safely assume that all members of that category are female, so it makes sense to add P21 (sex) as Q43445 (female). This can probably be done for a lot more categories. --·addshore· talk to me! 23:57, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- This makes perfect sense in principle but only for simpler categories and properties. Obviously any bot with this strategy needs to stay away from the whole subtree of en:Category:Criminals. More generally (and at the risk of repeating myself) the bot shouldn't be importing non-trivial statements without a reliable source. So yes to P21 for sure. Things like P106 (occupation) and P27 (country of citizenship) are also reasonable targets in general but one should still be careful because disagreements on whether this or that biography belongs into this or that category are not uncommon. On the other hand P509 (cause of death) shouldn't be imported without a proper source. Pichpich (talk) 05:48, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Agreed it should only be used for simple statements, I will read all Property talks before thinking about importing to a property. ·addshore· talk to me! 09:44, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]