On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ted Thibodeau Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > One element I see missing from (or at least, unclear in) the > discussion thus far, is how corrections or other changes are > made to the data therein, and how changes made in one set are > fed (back) to the others. In other words -- > > 1. When an error is discovered in data on service "x", where > are edits made to correct that data? > > 2. If edits are made locally (on service "x") to content which > originated on another service ("y"), do those edits also > get applied to the original source, and if so, how (e.g., > automatically by service "x"; manually by the user; manually > by service "x" admin team; etc.)? > > I think information like this is needed throughout, and will > help a lot in demonstrating the complementary nature of these > various services. > > DBpedia content, for instance, is not edited directly, but gets > all its changes by digesting edits made to Wikipedia. > > Freebase also digests changes made to Wikipedia (but it's not > clear to me exactly how these are then acted on), but is also > edited directly -- and I don't see a mechanism that routes such > direct Freebase edits back to Wikipedia (or elsewhere). > > Regards, > > Ted
Editing will be possible in Wikidata directly. These changes will be visible in whatever gets its data from Wikidata, like Wikipedia. The rest is a bit outside the scope of this list. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
