Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Bots and gadgets/Bibliographic bot for Wikidata
Problem : Many references on Wikidata only consist of an URL (P854 ).Who would benefit : Wikidata and all projects using its dataProposed solution : Based on reference URL, retrieve (with a bot?) related information (title, language, publication date, author, page, ISBN/ISSN, etc.) and add them to the reference. Data to be added will depend on the source type (book, article, website, etc.).More comments :Phabricator tickets : task T285498 Proposer : Ayack (talk ) 18:01, 27 November 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Marchitelli (talk ) 18:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Waddie96 (talk ) 18:35, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Shoeper (talk ) 18:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Sebastian Wallroth (talk ) 18:58, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Movses (talk ) 18:59, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support --NGC 54 talk contribs Reply [ reply ] Support ThadeusOfNazereth (talk ) 19:35, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support CrystallineLeMonde (talk ) 20:19, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Articute (talk ) 20:26, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Silver hr (talk ) 20:41, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Ssstela (talk ) 21:16, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Luis Fernández García (talk ) 21:46, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Iniquity (talk ) 23:47, 8 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Abductive (talk ) 00:03, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support BugWarp (talk ) 01:35, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Hanif Al Husaini (talk ) 01:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Shizhao (talk ) 02:49, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support For Wikidata to ever get buy-in from en-WP and other large projects, the two biggest problems it needs to solve are vandalism and referencing. This would be a big step forward regarding the latter. {{u| Sdkb }} talk Reply [ reply ] Support --Till.niermann (talk ) 06:33, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Xgeorg (talk ) 06:51, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Cherryblossom000 (talk ) 07:17, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Omda4wady (talk ) 07:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support ChrisHodgesUK (talk ) 09:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Samwalton9 (talk ) 09:34, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support JAn Dudík (talk ) 10:46, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Kpjas (talk ) 10:46, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Pru.mitchell (talk ) 13:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support ‐‐1997kB (talk ) 13:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support — Rhododendrites talk Reply [ reply ] Support Oaktree b (talk ) 16:27, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Lirazelf (talk ) 16:49, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Tylwyth Eldar (talk ) 18:23, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Weak support it certainly would save me a lot of stress, but it's also important for editors to themselves be accountable. Tyrekecorrea (talk ) 19:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support TheAmerikaner (talk ) 20:25, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Oppose This doesn't need a MediaWiki developer, a bot could do this, which could be done by the community. The more fundamental problem is that there are a lot of statements on Wikidata that don't even have a URL providing a reference. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk ) 21:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support NMaia (talk ) 23:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Yes, please! - Darwin Ahoy! Reply [ reply ] Support - yona B. (D ) 07:12, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Nonahg (talk ) 08:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Possibly (talk ) 08:57, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Spasimir (talk ) 10:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Ayack (talk ) 16:28, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Libcub (talk ) 18:24, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support . Meiræ 18:48, 10 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support It brings more verifiability to Wikidata and all its projects that depend on it. WikiFer msg Reply [ reply ] Support Should then be operational in different language Wikipedia versions. --Furfur ⁂ Discussion 03:41, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Ghart27 (talk ) 04:06, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Some1 (talk ) 05:25, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support eranroz (talk ) 10:23, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Import Citoid from Wikipedia. It would interestig to create a bot importer. BoldLuis (talk ) 10:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Paucabot (talk ) 12:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Dhx1 (talk ) 13:18, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Izno (talk ) 15:27, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support GiFontenelle (talk ) 16:07, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Bencemac (talk ) 16:12, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Szalax (talk ) 16:35, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Watty62 (talk ) 16:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Theklan (talk ) 17:37, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support --Teukros (talk ) 17:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Krinkle (talk ) 20:18, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Quebec99 (talk ) 21:03, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support —Michael Z. 2020-12-11 23:47 z 23:47, 11 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Redalert2fan (talk ) 00:09, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support --Acer11 (talk ) 02:43, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support — AfroThundr (u · t · c ) 05:08, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support ~Cybularny Speak? Reply [ reply ] Support Francois-Pier (talk ) 11:55, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Tom Ja (talk ) 12:27, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk ) 13:35, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Yes :) . Conny (talk ) 15:42, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Mike Linksvayer (talk ) 19:14, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support TheLatentOne (talk ) 19:43, 12 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Nikkimaria (talk ) 17:50, 13 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Yes. This. Papuass (talk ) 21:21, 14 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support MTheiler (talk ) 16:36, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Hlambert63 (talk ) 18:00, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Anonyme314159 (talk ) 18:18, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Utopes (talk ) 19:33, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support SpringProof (talk ) 22:39, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support that would be nice, I'm often guilty of URL only references. Wolfmartyn (talk ) 14:07, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Dankowski (talk ) 20:24, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Joalbertine (talk ) 14:31, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Gdafs (talk ) 15:03, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Shinkolobwe (talk ) 16:21, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Base (talk ) 19:28, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Owleksandra (talk ) 19:28, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Gikü (talk ) 22:56, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Nashona (talk ) 02:58, 18 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Robins7 (talk ) 16:52, 18 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support AdaHephais (talk ) 05:48, 20 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ] Support Nicereddy (talk ) 04:11, 21 December 2020 (UTC)Reply [ reply ]
Support Marchitelli (talk) 18:29, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Weak support it certainly would save me a lot of stress, but it's also important for editors to themselves be accountable. Tyrekecorrea (talk) 19:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
Oppose This doesn't need a MediaWiki developer, a bot could do this, which could be done by the community. The more fundamental problem is that there are a lot of statements on Wikidata that don't even have a URL providing a reference. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
