Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/WDBot

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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 --Lymantria (talk) 07:40, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WDBot[edit]

WDBot (talk • contribs • new items • new lexemes • SUL • Block log • User rights log • User rights • xtools)
Operator: Datawiki30 (talk • contribs • logs)

Task/s: A bot to load nominal GDP from the WorldBank API and write it to WikiData countries (property https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2131).

Code: link to code here

Licence of data to import: CC BY-4.0 - see here https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses#cc-by

You can find test edits here:

New test edits -> Greece and Canada on test.wikidata.org.

(Old test edits -> France and USA on test.wikidata.org.)

Function details:

  1. load the country information (retrieved from query.wikidata.org and copy-pasted in the script)
  2. iterate over each country
  3. check if data - Nominal GDP in US Dollar - on WorldBank is available - if not go to the next country
  4. load the first value of wb data
    1. check over all nominal gdp properties if the value is available
    2. skip if value is available skip
    3. write if value is not available

--WDBot (talk) 20:32, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please fill your bot's userpage with {{Bot}}. — regards, Revi 15:55, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have now added {{Bot}} to the userpage. Cheers! --WDBot (talk) 18:34, 21 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Question At first sight I would think that the CC BY-4.0 license is not compatible, whereas data here is licensed CC-0. How should I see this? Lymantria (talk) 15:25, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the good question. I'm not a licence-specialist, but I have found the following explanation under the CC-0 FAQ here: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#Who_can_use_CC0.3F. Here a citation: "[...]For example, if your work contains another person’s work made available under a CC Attribution license, you will need to identify that work separately, attribute the author and provide the license.[...]". The author is already added to the reference - I would additionally add the property licence (P275) and the value the CC BY4-0 (Q20007257) as a value to the reference of each gdp value. After this extension of the reference the I think this should be compatible with wikidata. Cheers! --WDBot (talk) 22:06, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have added two new edits on test.wikidata.org (see above for Greece and Canada). There you can find the information about the licence. --WDBot (talk) 09:17, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Are there any additional information or more test edits needed to complete the request? Cheers! --WDBot (talk) 20:08, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It seems no others see licensing problems. I am ready to approve the bot task in a couple of days provided that no objections will be raised. Lymantria (talk) 16:29, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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