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Primary Sources Tool for Wikidata | ||
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# Wikidata primary sources tool | ||
A platform to release and curate third-party datasets for Wikidata. | ||
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Wikidata/primarysources.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Wikidata/primarysources) | ||
See the following links for more information: | ||
- [Wikidata project page](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool); | ||
- [Phabricator project](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/2788/). | ||
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[Freebase](https://freebase.com) was launched to be a “Wikipedia for structured data”, because in | ||
2007 there was no such project. But now we do have Wikidata, and Wikidata | ||
and its community is developing very fast. Today, the goals of Freebase | ||
might be better served by supporting Wikidata. | ||
# Overview | ||
![Tool architecture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Wikidata_primary_sources_tool_architecture_v2.svg) | ||
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See https://plus.google.com/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVqcQc | ||
# Acknowledgments | ||
This work was supported by the **[StrepHit renewal](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal)** | ||
Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grant. | ||
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Freebase has seen a huge amount of effort go into it since it went public | ||
in 2007. It makes a lot of sense to make the results of this work available | ||
to Wikidata. But knowing Wikidata and its community a bit, it is obvious | ||
that we can not and should not simply upload Freebase data to Wikidata: | ||
Wikidata would prefer the data to be referenced to external, primary sources. | ||
See the following links for details on the development timeline: | ||
- [monthly reports](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Timeline); | ||
- [midpoint report](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Midpoint); | ||
- [final report](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References/Renewal/Final). | ||
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The Primary Sources Tool is an Open Source tool which will run on Wikimedia | ||
labs and which will allow Wikidata contributors to find references for a | ||
statement and then upload the statement and the reference to Wikidata. We | ||
will release several sets of Freebase data ready for consumption by this tool | ||
under a CC0 license. This tool should also work for statements already in | ||
Wikidata without sufficient references, or for other datasets, like DBpedia | ||
and other machine extraction efforts, etc. | ||
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Website and discussion of this tool: | ||
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool | ||
# License | ||
The source code is under the terms of the [Apache License, version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0) and the [GNU General Public License, version 3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). |