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  • MarkJohnson
    MarkJohnson Posts: 13
    @Nick Shinn Done. If you ever change your mind you can let me know or re-submit. Best of luck to you and your endeavors.
  • Ray Larabie
    Ray Larabie Posts: 1,479
    edited March 5
    @MarkJohnson I mentioned earlier that automation doesn’t really work for Wikidata, though to be fair that might just have been my experience. I spent about a week trying different approaches to automate entries and mostly ended up wandering down dead ends.

    That said, if you can get batch submissions working reliably, there’s no real reason you couldn’t transform your data into the required format and push it through. If you’re planning to experiment with that, it’s worth starting sooner rather than later; there’s a bit of a waiting period involved before you can run larger batches, and having an established Wikimedia account helps.

    One practical tip: AI tends to explain how these tools worked in the past, not necessarily how they behave now. It’s better to look for recent, real-world examples of working submissions and follow those.
  • MarkJohnson
    MarkJohnson Posts: 13
    Good call. Question for you on that @Ray Larabie, have you tried using playwright for any of your exploration? That was my fall back idea in my mind this morning if there's no API or connection I can make myself. But again, I've not really gotten through what's possible there. I can't imagine it will be wildly fast and immediate, but...maybe possible through that if nothing else?
  • Ray Larabie
    Ray Larabie Posts: 1,479
    No, I didn't use playwright, I was using Quickstatements. There are structural fragilities to say the least. Cryptic failures, opaque limbo, and from my guess, a thin wrapper over a brittle backend. And pile on some mid-job token expiries, and mysterious timeouts!

    I couldn't even get it to successfully upload more than a couple of entries.

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