On 20.11.2015 09:18, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Gerard Meijssen, 20/11/2015 08:18:
At this moment there
are already those at Wikidata that argue not to bother about Wikipedia
quality because in their view, Wikipedians do not care about its own
quality.
And some wikipedians say the same of Wikidata. So "quality" in such
discussions is just a red herring used to raise matters of control (i.e.
power and social structure). Replace "quality" with "the way I do
things" in all said discussions and suddenly things will make more sense.
+1 to this accurate analysis
What we need to overcome this is more mutual trust, and more personal
overlaps between communities. There are already some remarkable projects
where the boundary between "Wikipedian" and "Wikidatista" (or what's our
demonym now?) has vanished. I think these will naturally grow and
prosper as Wikidata becomes better and better (bigger, more reliable,
more usable, etc.), but it will take some patience and we should not
expect Wikipedia veterans to change their processes overnight to
accommodate Wikidata. I think the right strategy is to do this
grass-roots style, not by expecting big policy changes, but by showing
the gain of Wikidata to individual domains one by one.
Markus
The first step to improve the situation, imho, is to banish the word
"quality".
Nemo
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