Hi Loic, I recently noticed that the history of software is severely underrepresented on Wikidata and there is very little interlinking going on at all, while many items are missing P31. I do think it would be useful to create a Wikidata:<Software project> page to list the various types of software (OS, languages, development environments) and model how to use properties to flesh out such items. I suspect there are several properties that need to be created, such as "Principal developer" or something like that.
I agree however that for a low-threshold Wikidata meetup, the most important thing is to share basic gadgets and knowledge, because there is so much still to be done on outreach in all languages. I noticed for example that Listeria was blocked on Portuguese Wikipedia due to objections in the labelling showing up in list headers. This shows how the basic interface is still such a mystery to so many communities, probably because the basic interface is still so incomplete in those languages. Jane On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Loic Dachary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sylvain, > > On 26/08/2016 11:43, Sylvain Boissel wrote: > > > > > > 2016-08-21 19:06 GMT+02:00 Loic Dachary <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]>>: > > > > When the audience was asked for their preferences, I raised my hand > and happily declared "Contributing to the Software and FLOSS projects !". > Much to my surprise this was quickly dismissed: "we're only going to learn > about tools, we create groups to use and learn about tools, not to work on > a specific project". My interest for the Software project is known to both > Harmonia Amanda and Ash_Crow, to the extent that I discussed with them my > intent to recruit people to participate in the workshop for that particular > topic[3], well in advance. > > > > And I answered you weeks ago that I plan to organize a fully dedicated > workshop on this topic later this year, involving local free software > organizations like Parinux or Framasoft. > > I remember that, excellent initiative :-) I'm not sure how it explains > what happened during the wikiconvention though. > > I was connected to #wikidata-fr today and read a conversation on this > topic, involving you and Harmonia Amanda (which I will not quote here > because I assume this is not a good behavior to quote from channels that > are not logged). The general tone was unfriendly and made me feel unwanted > as a contributor. It also made me realize that my efforts to bring more > French people / organizations to wikidata were mocked and unappreciated. > > As a volunteer I value good relationships even more than technical > contributions. For this reason I will distance myself from the wikidata > French community. I hope to return in the future when a more welcoming > context has been established. > > Cheers > > -- > Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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