On 20.02.2015 22:44, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Regarding Paul's comment:
>>>
I first heard about Wikidata at SemTech in San Francisco and I was told
very directly that they were not interested in working with anybody who
was experienced with putting data from generic database in front of
users because they had worked so hard to get academic positions and get
a grant from the Allen Institute and it is more cost-effective and more
compatible with academic advancement to hire a bunch of young people who
don't know anything but will follow orders.
I am, frankly, baffled by this story.
So am I. I think we all agree that there was never a time where anybody
in the Wikidata project could have held such a view. Also, anybody who
is following discussions on the various project channels knows that
Wikimedia developers (in Wikidata and elsewhere in WMF) are not the
"following orders" type but strong individual personalities who are each
bringing in a big share of passion. This is the way we work and want to
work.
@Paul: You should not feel rejected (for whatever reason) by Wikidata.
Nobody wants to contest your expertise here. I understand that you would
have made some technical choices differently, but you should not be
frustrated because of that. We, too, have had many heated tech
discussions about Wikidata, and each of us has had to give up some
positions in the process.
Cheers,
Markus
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Markus Kroetzsch
Faculty of Computer Science
Technische Universität Dresden
+49 351 463 38486
http://korrekt.org/
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