Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 04:46:50PM -0700, En Pine wrote: Here's an opinion piece, The Problem with Wikidata, by Mark Graham, who is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, which appears on The Atlantic's website. I'm not personally supporting or opposing his views but I found this to be an interesting read. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-problem-with-wikidata/255564/ From reading, it looks like the wikidata team has this at least partially covered. We're making plenty of positive progress, but we do have to keep our eyes open for (potential) pernicious potholes in the road. If someone shouts look out, we should definitely stop and look, just to be sure. ;-) sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic
I would like to second that recommendation. I read that article too, and thought it highly relevant. Information is power, and there is a real danger of both monopolisation and manipulation of information here. Andreas On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:46 AM, En Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Here's an opinion piece, The Problem with Wikidata, by Mark Graham, who is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, which appears on The Atlantic's website. I'm not personally supporting or opposing his views but I found this to be an interesting read. http://www.theatlantic.com/** technology/archive/2012/04/**the-problem-with-wikidata/**255564/http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-problem-with-wikidata/255564/ __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
