On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> DBpedia's information source is Wikipedia, so it certainly isn't open to
> "all kinds of data."
>

"All kinds of data" as in sourced or unsourced. Some data in Wikipedia is
not sourced.

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hoi,
> In my opinion is Wikidata a collection of assertions. By providing sources
> respectability is provided to assertions it does however not provide
> certainty to what is asserted and consequently does not make them facts by
> definition.
>

It does not, but I don't think the aim is to collect all the assertions
found in Wikipedia either. Remember that Wikipedia is not a primary source.

Cheers,
David
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