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WikiFAIR/Adding Data

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After matching with your data, the next step could be to enhance Wikimedia projects by adding data from your project, while citing your research as a source.

When your project doesn't provide an online database, your project could just add data and use your publication as a reference. So instead of hosting your own database, publishing your research table as a file, and referencing it.

To mass upload metadata or Media files there are multiple routes (Openrefine, Scripts etc).

Data

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You can add complete items or just single statements to existing items. In both cases it is important to cite sources of new claims!

If your projects creates new items they are added automatically to your watchlist (see Monitoring for more details).

Media

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Add images, videos, sounds, PDFs to Wikimedia Commons, including structured data for those media files. This can be more troublesome, as copyright-compatibility needs to be checked, but negates the complexity of hosting those files yourself.

Additionally allows interesting uses for metadata tagging with structured data on Commons.