Nemo_bis 🌈Over 1000 researchers are now on #Mastodon and have their handle on #Wikidata!
https://w.wiki/5xA3
#Debirdify is a pleasure to use. Please advertise your fediverse handle on your birdsite bio/name if you want to be found.
Gilles DePemig@nemobis Excuse my ignorance, but what does "having a handle on wikidata" mean?
@Depemig Thanks for asking, I realised later it was confusing. I mean a handle as in address, identifier. A statement for the Wikidata property called #P4033 "Mastodon address" https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P4033 . With URL vs. username vs. ID vs. other things it gets confusing.
Mastodon address
address on the Mastodon decentralized social network (the form is '[email protected]' without a leading '@')
@nemobis Thanks! I was actually also not aware of the wiki data list of researchers. Can you explain the use of this list? Thanks a lot!
@Depemig Does this page about #WikiCite help? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite
Wikidata is (also) a database about millions of authors and papers.
@nemobis That helps a lot, thanks! A good framework it is.