Hi Peter, Wikidata is thought of as a knowledge base by not only you and me, but also Denny Vrandecic and Markus Kroetzsch [1] and many others.
I said that one of Wikidata's goals is "structuring the sum of all human knowledge" to suggest how Wikidata fits into the vision set out for Wikipedia by Jimmy Wales: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."[2] One could certainly nitpick both of those statements -- the projects will never have information on how much coffee I have left in my mug as I write this, which is certainly human knowledge -- but neither statement is meant to be especially precise. They are statements of ambitious vision. To answer your questions: no, I don't recall getting any pushback from the workshop audience on any of the subjects you asked about. Best, Eric https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Emw 1. Denny Vrandecic, Markus Kroetzsch (2014). "Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase". Communications of the ACM. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext 2. Jimmy Wales (2004). "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/story/04/07/28/1351230/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-responds On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider < [email protected]> wrote: > It's very pleasant to hear from someone else who thinks of Wikidata as a > knowledge base (or at least hopes that Wikidata can be considered as a > knowledge base). Did you get any pushback on this or on your stated > Wikidata > goal of structuring the sum of all human knowledge? > > Did you get any pushback on your section on classification in Wikidata? It > seems to me that some of that is rather controversial in the Wikidata > community. I was a bit surprised to see class reasoning used on diseases. > This depends on a particular modelling methodology. > > peter > > > On 10/12/2015 11:47 AM, Emw wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > On Saturday, I facilitated a workshop at the U.S. National Archives > entitled > > "An Ambitious Wikidata Tutorial" as part of WikiConference USA 2015. > > > > Slides are available at: > > http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Ambitious_Wikidata_Tutorial.pdf > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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