View source for Submissions:2024/5 Years of Editing Video Games on Wikidata: Wrangling Weird Data, Remakes, Remasters, and Old Games

{{WCNA 2024 Session Submission
|type=Lecture (15-30 min)
|theme=Open Data, Wild Ideas
|abstract=I've been editing Wikidata, specifically video game items on Wikidata, for over 5 years now. In that time, I've made more than 500k edits to Wikidata between myself and my bot. 

While doing all that work, I've run into *a lot* of weird problems with video games, including the accuracy of various video game databases, regional variants of games, translations of video game titles, confusing series orders for games, video games that were ported to other platforms that changed the game content in some way while retaining the same title, and various other problems.

The purpose of the talk is to show some of the more interesting or confusing issues I've run into. And to go over the ways I and other members of WikiProject Video Games have resolved some of these problems.

Over the last year, I've been collecting a lot of weird data for this kind of talk here: https://gist.github.com/connorshea/33cd370315df71d07dbe5475788cb3ce
|author=Connor Shea
|username=Nicereddy
|email=connor.james.shea+wikiconfna{{@}}gmail.com
|scholarship=Yes
|time=20-25 minutes
|livestream=Yes, you may livestream my session
|requests=No additional requirements
}}