Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

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January 7th, 2016

@Tpt93 And misspellings like https://t.co/o83AmuUEYW. Valuable (AdWords) keywords $-) if you think global scale…

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@Tpt93 I agree, the data is sometimes suboptimal (as on Wikidata, too). But then also you find pearls like https://t.co/uQhY5Tf2qr :-)

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@Tpt93 As I said, redirects are more than aliases: for human-readable see https://t.co/UdTBQd1LWr, via the API it’s https://t.co/IswuRfdVO8.

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@Tpt93 Fair enough, you’re right. Still missing redirects, though (https://t.co/IswuRfdVO8). These are more than Wikidata labels.

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@Tpt93 I guess the answer is “because people”. Wikidata’s “Q64” is less speaking than “Berlin” https://t.co/PSeCI7wlxh. Also less API calls.

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Created a couple of convenience functions around #Wikipedia for use in Google Spreadsheets https://t.co/ntZ1BNrwCV https://t.co/cbi6FjF4IS

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