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Re:Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia by vrandecic on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:19PM (#28290894)
I'd suggest that in this case one should consider using MusicBrainz, in order to get more comprehensive and better results than either with Wikidata or Wikipedia.
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Re:Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia by exogen on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:41PM (#28293091)
I wouldn't say the data is better, just different. Instead of "how do I extract the info I want?" your problem becomes too much data to sift through. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24992600
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Re:Wikidata or Scraping Wikipedia by jancsika on Thursday August 26, 2021 @12:36AM (#28310760)
That obscures my point.

My point is that even if "Wikipedia" may not be the best tool, "Wikidata" is the wrong tool because the data is wrong.

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