On 1 July 2015 at 22:51, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote:

> * Where to publish entire datasets... Something tells me that this is not
> the most urgent and important problem that we have, but the community
> definitely knows better, so correct me if I'm wrong. I think our main use

I would agree with this. There has historically been a lot of
vagueness around the word "data", and a lot of vague suggestions in
the early days when Wikidata was still being created... and as a
result people sometimes get the impression that Wikidata intends to be
a kind of generalised data repository. This is a bit like assuming
Wikipedia will take anything that's got words :-)

I wonder if it would be good to identify a couple of good, reliable,
repositories we can encourage people to use for this sort of material?
This means that even if we have to say to a potential partner "sorry,
this isn't what we want", we can still give them advice on how to get
it released and available in the most appropriate way. Better than a
frustrating back-and-forth...

A

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