Date written (or originally published) metadata download?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Thasaidon

Grump on [useless neofans who have not even read any of the SF classics changing the name of SF (Science Fiction) to SciFi to Speculative Fiction and barely a trufan among them and I doubt any really understand the old trufan saying "it is a proud and lonely thing to be a fan" grump grump] grump off.

I am with you. I even went so far as to set up a Tag Transform (replace) in Preferences: Adding Books: Adding Actions

[compurandom]

I've got a preliminary plugin working to download publication dates from wikidata.
It's somewhat rough, and there's a lot of room for improvement, but I've tested what is implemented, and it found dates for a few of my books missing dates.

It's also not finding as many books as I think it should but that can be improved later.

[compurandom]

I've posted the wikidata plugin to the plugin thread, but having not done this before, still working on getting the forum posting format right. I'll PM the initial index entry in a few hours.