| Mahir256 added a comment. |
In T173145#3527784, @dbarratt wrote:Are you implying that, to understand any of the arguments posted here, I must first acquire a 'secret knowledge' that can only be obtained by further participation in the community?
This proposal to expand Wikidata's scope was put forward without forewarning of the community in any other public forum—it is not guaranteed that frequent Wikidata contributors will all be members of the Wikidata project on Phabricator. I have added subscribers based on a related issue, who have continued and will continue to enlighten you on exposing structured user information, but trips through RFCs, project chat archives, and administrators' noticeboard archives will most likely show that this topic was fought over at length between occasional users and longtime contributors—it is not codified knowledge, but it is most certainly not secret and I am not trying to imply that it was. If you have in fact combed through these things (and discovered that the topic of user items has never been broached in the site's five years of existence) or if you have actually informed the community somewhere else other than Phabricator, then I sincerely apologize for misstating the facts.
Would you be willing to explain the context to me so I am no longer ignorant and am able to understand these arguments?
I will save a more thorough response for later in the week. Bear in mind, though, that I don't frequently take larger roles in the discussions linked to above and thus my own views are not nearly as developed and may not nearly be as representative of the overall community as others' might be. It is to your benefit to find sanction (or compel it) for this proposal among the community in venues other than Phabricator first as this is more than just a technical issue to many people.
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