[Note: I'm using the last message for a cumulative reply] Wikidata has 16k active users, 66 admins, 3 'crats, with a pretty active community. This thread has turned into a weird mix of inclusionism vs. deletionism catfight + a request to undelete some contents in a specific project + a series of off-topics. The first part might fit the scope of this list (though is *so* boring), same for the third one. Instead, the second part must be discussed on Wikidata following local policies.
Finally, just to clarify: undeletions by stewards are completely out of our mission and policies (I, for one, would rather intervene to delete ^^), same for the staffers. No chances to overrule a community for such trivial reasons. Vito 2016-08-01 0:36 GMT+02:00 Info WorldUniversity < [email protected]>: > If, as Jimbo Wales' wrote the purpose of Wikipedia involves imagining "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.—Jimbo Wales > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Wales>[3] > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose#cite_note-3>" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose ... > > and the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation includes: > > "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people > around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free > license <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content> or in the public > domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. > > In collaboration with a network of chapters > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters>, the Foundation > provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for > the support and development of multilingual wiki projects > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects> and other endeavors > which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful > information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:gratis>, in perpetuity." > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement > > I'd vote as a Wikidata community member for aggregating conferences and > courses in all languages with machine and wiki (human) processes. Whether > this is best done in Wikidata/Wikibase, or another related platform or > elsewhere, may be worth exploring process-wise in a number of different > Wikidata forums and discussions. This also seems wise, and relatively easy > too I.T.-wise, given shared unfolding agreement among Wikidatans and > Wikipedians. > > Friendly regards, Scott > > CC https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch > > On Jul 31, 2016 2:18 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hoi, >> There were lists of Wikimania talks for the Wikimanias. So these items >> were not standing alone they were in context and THAT is what makes it >> attractive to have them. We do have Wikimanias as items and on there own >> they do not provide information. Looking at them from only WIkidata you do >> not get the picture. Thank <enter your deity> that Magnus has his fantastic >> tools that allow us to show the value of data. >> Thanks, >> GerardM >> >> On 31 July 2016 at 22:47, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> > Ask yourself what it is about.. It is about the Wikimania talks. What >>> > was done is removing all the Wikimania talks without any discussion. >>> >>> I wonder whether Wikidata is really the best platform to host Wikimania >>> talks and information about it. While I have no doubt these are >>> excellent talks of great interest to Wiki community, their notability in >>> the larger world is a more difficult question. Specifically, would we >>> create an item for every talk even for a major conference (not >>> considering copyright etc. questions now)? We have a lot of conferences >>> with much wider attendance than Wikimania happening each year. >>> >>> Now, Wikimania is of course special - for Wiki movement. And having >>> *some* repository for this content and knowledge would be completely >>> appropriate. However, is that repository Wikidata - as purported to be >>> repository of knowledge of general public interest? I am much less sure >>> of it. Unless we take the wider mission of accepting data about talks on >>> any conference of note - which may be possible, but I'm not sure whether >>> it should be done... If yes, then of course clear policy statement to >>> that effect may be helpful - so people who are not sure about it like me >>> would know what the community consensus has arrived to. >>> -- >>> Stas Malyshev >>> [email protected] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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