What exactly will constitute an item and what will not will be up to the Wikidata community, once it exists. We will have the possibility to create pages for items that do not have Wikipedia articles, as Jakob notes, but this does not mean that there will be no notability criteria.
I agree with Oren, that we have to (and we actually did and do) consider the pragmatics of the project within the Wikimedia family of projects. And we have and will start rather simple, and slowly increase the scope of the project depending on the need and the feedback of the community. But our first priority, as already noted, is to support the Wikipedia projects, then other Wikimedia projects, then the Web as a whole, and finally anything else :) That is one of the reasons why I am reluctant to simply say: "yes, upload all data into Wikidata". That's simply not my job to do. We are building an infrastructure that would hopefully support such a request, but in the end, a community that does not even exist yet, has to make that decision. Cheers, Denny 2012/4/2 Jakob Voss <[email protected]> > Oren Bochman wrote: > > > > Each project has its own criteria of Notability, since it requires its > own noise > > filter. > > > As far as I understand, WikiData is about any item, not only about > things > that have an article in en.Wikipedia or any other Wikipedia. The > question > "What items may be included in WikiData" should be added to the WikiData > > FAQ. I can think of a very broad definition: every thinkable thing or > object can > be included as item with its own page in WikiData if the thing is topic > of an > article in Wikipedia or in any other Wikimedia project (e.g. Wiktionary > or Wikisource) or if the thing is referenced in any of this articles. > This includes > for example: > > > - normal Wikipedia articles of any language > - things that are included as items in a list-of-X-article > - words (Wiktionary) > - digital objects (Commons) > - single pages from digitized books (Wikisource) > - publications used as references > > > Managing the vast number of items will only be possible with backlinks, > for > instance you can get the list of Wikidata items linked to or used in > some > selected Wikipedia article and you can get a list of items not used in > any > article for cleanup. > > > Jakob > > > -- > Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) > Digitale Bibliothek - Jakob Voß > Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1 > 37073 Goettingen - Germany > +49 (0)551 39-10242 > http://www.gbv.de > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Eisenacher Straße 2 | 10777 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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