Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/BiodiversityBot

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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--Ymblanter (talk) 20:44, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

BiodiversityBot

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

Task/s:

  • Populate wikidata items with a iNaturalist taxon ID with links to iNaturalist images of observations (with CC0 and CC-BY licenses)
  • Populate wikidata on taxons with missing iNaturalist taxon IDs to then continue with the task above
  • Adding commons categories


Code: Bot code on github

Function details:

In the context of Wikidata:WikiProject_iNaturalist we are requesting a bot account to enrich wikidata with knowledge and links to image related to the biodiversity globally. The game plan is, to once excepted deploy a bot build using the WikidataIntegrator. The first task is to enrich wikidata with URLs to photo's from iNaturalist observations with wiki compatible licenses using the Commons compatible image available at URL (P4765) property. There are a myriad of cc0 and cc-by licensed photos on iNaturalist and by storing their URLs using the Commons compatible image available at URL (P4765) property we can easily query for images that can be used in Wikipedia. Alas, if an item on a taxon does not contain statements with the property image (P18) it is likely that the Wikipedia article on that taxon does not contain an image. Knowing this allows easy enrichment of Wikipedia articles with images from citizen science apps like iNaturalist.

As a second task, the bot account should be used to add iNaturalist taxon IDs to those taxa that lacks those IDs or create Wikidata items for taxa not yet covered on Wikidata.

Notified participants of WikiProject iNaturalist

--Andrawaag (talk) 19:51, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that both tasks are useful and best accomplished by a bot. I checked about half of the bot's test edits so far and the associated information on iNaturalist, and found no issues. All the images I saw were of birds and for task 1, though, so I would encourage some test edits for (1) other taxon groups, since the quality of the information in the platform is not uniform, (2) task 2. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 16:44, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Mietchen: I added 50 links to images of endangered mammals. I will work on some test runs for (2), but takes some more time since filtering for non-existing iNaturalist taxon ID's is not straightforward and requires caching, but I am on it --Andrawaag (talk) 18:18, 14 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As a second test I extended the bot to, next to Commons compatible image available at URL (P4765), also add iNaturalist taxon ID (P3151) in case a wikidata item on a given taxon exists, but lacked the iNaturalist taxon ID (P3151) --Andrawaag (talk) 10:14, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I will approve the bot in a couple of days provided there have been no objections raised.--Ymblanter (talk) 19:33, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I checked a subset of the additional test edits, and they look good to me. --Daniel Mietchen (talk) 02:34, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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