Let me comment on the original question. The correct citation is typically the oldest one known to the researcher, not the most popular.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > I am truly happy that Wikidata is its own master. When a Wikipedia has > certain policies it is welcome to it. As long as they do not use Wikidata > to improve the quality of its content [1] and by the same token improve the > data at Wikidata, I am not interested what a Wikipedia does. > Thanks, > GerardM > > [1] > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2016/01/wikipedia-lowest-hanging-fruit-from.html > > On 28 February 2016 at 20:31, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wikidata appears to allow original research and the inference of gender >> from the name or photo of the subject. It will be a cold day in hell before >> en.wiki allows this, see [[WP:RS]] and .[[WP:OR]]. >> >> cheers >> stuart >> -- >> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky >> >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> But there have also been lots of corrections. As far as painters go, the >>> data is really pretty decent now. It helps that it's really easy to check >>> the state of Wikidata against the contents of Wikipedia categories. As more >>> people become aware of how to make such checks, I think we start to see a >>> cleanup of categories and (I hope) a better categorization system starting >>> to form that is more in line with Wikidata property class trees. >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Data has been sucked from GND to wikidata via a number of routes, >>>> principally VIAF. >>>> See Wikidata:Bot_requests#Import_GND_identifiers_from_VIAF_dump for example >>>> for a discussion of an instance of this. >>>> >>>> cheers >>>> stuart >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Gerard Meijssen < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hoi, >>>>> The blog states that a lot of data was sucked into Wikidata from GND. >>>>> As far as I am aware that never happened. So its assertion is wrong. >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> GerardM >>>>> >>>>> On 28 February 2016 at 19:43, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen < >>>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hoi, >>>>>>> It is trivial when you only consider Wikidata. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I've previous blogged about the issues with sex / gender in wikidata >>>>>> at >>>>>> http://opensourceexile.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/adrian-pohl-wrote-some-excellent.html >>>>>> has the sitaution moved on? >>>>>> >>>>>> cheers >>>>>> stuart >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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