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stuart yeates
stuart yeates
@stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week

I just discovered this #nigerian #library #wikidata thing: https://nlnsnar.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page

It looks like #wikimediaDE is bootstrapping Nigerian library authority control to enable better coverage of Nigerian culture and literature in #Wikipedia.

It could be great!

It could be also be v colonial.

Any Nigerians around care to chime in on this?

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Jan Ainali
Jan Ainali
@ainali@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@stuartyeates I am not sure, but I think WMDE is just providing know-how about the platform and the work is done locally. There was a talk at WikidataCon, the first one on Saturday (slides and recording available). https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:WikidataCon_2025/Program#Saturday,_November_1st_-_Notes

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Federation Bot
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@Federation_Bot replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@ainali @stuartyeates there is also a recorded talk by the same speaker at Wikimania: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Program/How_to_Wikibase:_National_Library_of_Nigeria_Authority_Semantic_files_on_Wikibase

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