On 10 March 2014 07:41, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree with what Gerard wrote.

Then please see my response to him.

> We should be moving away from a world
> where information is entered on Wikipedia and then in addition on
> Wikidata. We need to move to a world where information is added in
> Wikidata and then used on Wikipedia.

I'd love to know how you think that will happen, in a timely manner,
for the kinds of people who use AfC,

> Otherwise the whole idea ofther t
> Wikidata is kinda moot. It will not happen tomorrow and need more work
> but this is where we should be going and I'd rather we didn't take
> steps that drag this process out even longer.

Meanwhile, articles are being created, daily, via AfC with no Wikidata
equivalent, or where someone has to create the equivalent manually,
cutting-and-pasting or retyping text, rather than having tools do the
work for them. That's crazy.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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