Hoi,
One thought, the majority of statements are not made at Wikidata but are
done using Widar or a bot. How will this affect these processes ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 February 2015 at 12:44, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hoi,
> I like where you are going a lot... GND is given as an example and for any
> source including the GND we know things can be wrong as well. They
> regularly are and there is a process in place for indicating where GND and
> WP-DE differ. This works well because in time the GND does look and remedy
> or comments. So when a source differs, we need a report. Such a report is
> GOLD. Because it enables us to verify what is right and what differs. The
> people who care so much about sources will have a field day with this
> BECAUSE it is actually worthwhile to spend time on such differences.
>
> When GND has data and Wikidata does not, we should import from sources. I
> prefer data over no data any day. Particularly when we strive to have
> comparisons between multiple sources.. Nonsense will weed itself out in
> this way.
>
> What we need is a process of reconciliation of what is there in the first
> place, where sources differ and how we deal with eventual changes in the
> sources (they do include the various Wikipedias, Wikisources, Wikibooks,
> Wikinews, Wikitravels..)
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On 20 February 2015 at 11:40, Lydia Pintscher <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks :)
>>
>> The students team working on data quality is making good progress. For
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>> Cheers
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>>
>>
>> Hey :)
>>
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