Migrating Freebase to Wikidata

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A C++ backend and REST API ingest Freebase dumps and surface candidate claims on Wikidata via a browser user script turned gadget while using the MediaWiki API to post edits with edit tokens. Source proposals come from a Knowledge Vault extractor and are shown for approve/reject, and the code lives in google/primary-sources on GitHub. The pipeline works end to end but yields far fewer acceptable references than expected because many suggested sources are actually derived from Wikipedia, creating circular citations.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:03Structured Data
3. 4:37Qualifiers
4. 6:57The Wiki Data Homepage
5. 14:52Live Coding
6. 24:33Userscript
7. 25:39Wikimedia Api
8. 26:47Mediawiki Api Documentation
9. 39:09Questions

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