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Integrate with Wikidata to help keep public body database up-to-date #6686

Open RichardTaylor opened 2 years ago

RichardTaylor commented 2 years ago

See WDTK public bodies on WikiData

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8167

and

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Mismatch_Finder

Could this be an opportunity to combine volunteer efforts, we could benefit from Wikidata volunteers and they/their project could benefit from updates we make to our database too.

This is a very vague ticket.

garethrees commented 2 years ago

Is this a duplicate of or an addition that depends on https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/6535?

(EDIT: Perhaps https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/6535 is more about us linking up to the Wikidata entries, and this ticket more about pulling additional info from them?)

RichardTaylor commented 2 years ago

I think #6535 is about using WikiData links to fill in metadata about bodies, this ticket is about using the WikiData links to help keep the public body database up-to-date.