Presentation for Writing a bot - Wikimania Hackathon 2021

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Presentation

Writing a bot

Start by having a good usecase
Talk to others about the usecase e.g. in the Wikidata Telegram Chat

Think about how to break down the problem in smaller steps

E.g. I want to enrich Wikidata items with data from OpenCitations

Subquestions:
- Where is the Scholarly data on Wikidata and how is it modelled?
- WDQS not suitable 
- How can I look up a specific DOI in OpenCitations?
- How can I look up a specific DOI in Wikidata?
- How can we add missing information to Wikidata?

Next step is pseudo code

E.g
- log in to Wikidata
- Opening the list of Wikidata items with DOI
- loop for each line in the file
  - parse the line
  - lookup data in the OpenCitations API
  - parse the data
  - prepare adding to Wikidata
  - upload