User:Deryck Chan
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When will Wikidata have its first lame edit war because two sister projects disagree on how to structure their shared data?
Interwiki fixes
[edit]My multi-cultural identity means that I often find myself fixing correspondences between similar concepts in different languages. Below are groups of easily confused items that I've tried to fix:
- Eggy rolled-up food
- spring roll (Q715525) (春卷)
- biscuit roll (Q4102828) (蛋卷)
- Swiss roll (Q320657) (Swiss roll)
- egg roll (Q4103048) (蛋皮卷)
- Highly involved parents
- monster parents (Q20983091) (Japanese-origin term)
- helicopter parent (Q1352982) (USA-origin term)
- posthumous (Q1395509) - three-way merge of two European and one East Asian concepts, all referring to the act of conferring honour after someone's death
- saltwater fish (Q5364423) - two-way merge between saltwater fish in European language and saltwater fish in Asian languages
Property migration tools
[edit]My greatest (and perhaps most controversial) contribution to Wikidata so far has been the creation of two pywikibot scripts that perform property+qualifier migration semi-automatically. This allowed the deprecation of P794 ("as" - deprecated because it is untranslatable to non-European languages), the Pokedex merge and a few other property/qualifier deprecation batch jobs.
- /SPARQL
- /Property migration tool (Migrate P1/Q2 to P1/Q3)
- /Property migration tool 2 (Migrate P1/Q2 to P3/Q4 with quantity → string datatype change)
- Property migration tool 3 (Migrate P1 to P3, preserving all qualifiers, references, and rank)
- Property migration tool 4 (e.g. [1])
- /P794 migration log
- /P31 qualifier migration log
- This thread
- Link to JupyterHub for Wikidata
Wikidata talks
[edit]I have given a few Wikidata talks at Wikimedia conferences, and some of them have dedicated wiki-pages or slide-decks:
- Wikidata and infoboxes panel discussion, Wikimania 2017
- "Wikidata is a language", Wikimedia UK AGM 2018
- Wikidata infoboxes talk, Wikimania 2019