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# Wikidata service
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2023-06-02 14:12:27 -04:00
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Wikidata is the metadata community behind Wikipedia. See for example
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[Hank Green](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550996). In his page, there are
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all the links to his wikipedia pages, and many facts about him. What is
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particularly useful to us is the twitter username (P2002) and mastodon
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username (P4033).
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From this information, we can build a feature that suggests to follow the
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native fediverse account of someone you are trying to follow from Twitter.
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The main downside is that those redirect are only for somewhat famous
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people/organisations.
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## Goals
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### Being reusable by others
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All this data can be useful to many other fediverse projects: tools
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for finding interesting accounts to follow, "verified" badge powered by
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Wikipedia, etc. I hope that by working on improving this dataset, we can
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help other projects thrive.
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### Being independent of Twitter
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Bird.makeup has to build features in a way that can't be suddenly cut off.
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Building this feature with a "Log in with Twitter" is not viable.
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Wikipedia is independent and outside of Elon's reach.
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Also this system supports many other services: TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, etc.
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Which is really useful to expend the scope of this project while reusing as
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much work as possible
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### Having great moderation
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Wikipedia has many tools to help curate data and remove troll's submissions,
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far better than anything I can build. I much prefer contribute to what
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they are doing than try to compete
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