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Your help desk question edit

Did you ever get the Wikidata problem fixed?— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:13, 16 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi User:Vchimpanzee, thanks for your follow-up,
do you mean my question about Pedro Miguel Caratini : well, obviously ,no...
the problem is not on wikidata : while editing wikidata's item for this article, I noticed that, on the article, this person is dead in 1940 in the text, and 1978 in the infobox, while the category only mentions 20th century death... - the wikidata item can only be fixed after the article is first.
as I have no knowledge in the subject, and no source to find the info, I asked the question on the Help desk. Maybe it is not the right place to ask : I had trouble to find my way among the very numerous pages that are available to ask a question...
do you know who could adress this question ? and/or redirect it to the right place ?
thanks for your help :) --Hsarrazin (talk on wd) 21:40, 16 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
PS : I had not checked the history of the article (which was wrong...) - seems that the problem lies in this edit by @Flyer22 Reborn:. --Hsarrazin (talk on wd) 21:44, 16 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
With that edit, I reverted problematic material. Vandalism. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 17:51, 17 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
I actually have no idea where you would get the help you need. I try to make sure all questions were answered, but sometimes I don't know. Maybe try asking again. Sometimes they'll tell you the correct place.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:14, 17 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
@Flyer22 and Vchimpanzee:
Sorry, I didn't get down far enough in the history...
Seems the orginal article was put online by User:Saidneder, who last modified the death date in the infobox, forgetting to correct date in the text and category at the same time.
All sources given are paper sources, impossible to consult online... but I found a MyHeritage source - don't know whether it's considered reliable on enwp. As it gives the same value for death as the article, I added it with ProveIt.
Hope this will be ok, and a baseball fan from Dominica will be able to complete this stub :) --Hsarrazin (talk on wd) 20:18, 17 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

I'm sure if someone has a problem with it, they'll fix it.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:25, 18 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

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wikidata edit

Hi.
What is the actual use/benefit of wikidata? Kindly ping while replying. —usernamekiran(talk) 14:18, 8 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Usernamekiran:
Hi,
well, contrary to wikipedia, wikidata is a database, which stores structured data, not text. It stores all kind of data, available for all sister-projects, like wikipedia, wikisource, commons, etc. ;the same info is available, without having to search info everywhere (here I think of wikisource authors, for example); it is thus complementary to other projects...
Info is structured, and thus can be queried -> like all persons born in 1919, 22 september
also you can compare data and thus find errors and discrepancies, like people dead before they were born etc.
I detected and nominated for merging hundreds of pages on all language wikipedias, for example.
it also allowes to make statistics, thus be able to measure the gender gap on various projects, for example (which categories don't tell).
it is also very useful for storing books references (for bibliographical templates, for ex.)... as a wikisource admin, I find it very useful to store the data of books we edit, and authors of these.
if you want to know more about it, just come on the Project chat and discuss it with us :) --Hsarrazin (talk on wd) 15:19, 8 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, dear Helene! First of all, I would like to thank you for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84723004, since I am the author of the article in ru.wiki "Odinayev, Sabzali". At the same time, considering your high mastership of French, I would like to ask whether you could be interested in creating a fr.wiki article translated from the en.wiki version. If there is no way to do so, maybe you could advice someone who could do it. Regardless, I will be thankful for your response. Sincerely — Khurshed.yusufbekov (talk) 18:27, 14 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

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