As far as I know, that's even planned by the Wikidata team. Cheers Martin
2013/6/18 Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]> > Hello, > I am also unhappy with the mail from Hubertl, and also some remarks that > good be understood as a criticism of the German Wikipedia editing > community. Actually, both opinions coexist also in de.WP, although the anti > bot faction is obviously stronger. > My concern is that bot articles usually stay the same and don't grow much. > They give a bad impression about a Wikipedia language version, and there is > no one to update them. Maybe it would be better to support WikiData and > later find a solution with WikiData to provide data to small or large > Wikipedia language versions. > Kind regards > Ziko > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ziko van Dijk > voorzitter / president Wikimedia Nederland > deputy chair Wikimedia Chapters Association Council > > Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland > Postbus 167 > 3500 AD Utrecht > http://wikimedia.nl > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 2013/6/17 Per A.J. Andersson <[email protected]> > > > Hi! > > > > Sad for seeing you so disappointed. Good to see you have insight in > > butterflies. So I hope you will make your knowledge visible on dewp, > where > > neither genera so far have found its way into articles. enwp (together > with > > viwp!) has at least the genus "Jameela" as an article. > > > > That aside, is it really a disaster that svwp relies on scientific texts > > that was unquestioned until three years ago? I think maybe there are more > > pressing concerns in the development of our wikipedias. > > > > Best of wishes, > > /Per > > Paracel63 at svwp > > > > 2013-06-17, 22:29, skrev Kurt Kulac: > > > > > > i don´t want to repeat all those arguments already quoted (lennard > >> already mentioned achim raschkas criticism, which i fully agree with), > >> since what happend, already happend, and will unstoppably happen in the > >> future. but i would say first of all the strategic goal is not to > >> contribute hundreds of mistakes a day. just to take the 1 millionth > >> article Erysichton elaborata: after an advice on the talk page a HUMAN > >> added, that the species is probably synonymized with Erysichton palmyra. > >> so far, so good. but even this correction is not enough. in 2010 the > >> genus erysichton was redefined and a new genus, jameela was described. > >> both taxa now desrcibed as in sv.wikipedia are invalid. > >> > >> so just concerning this tiny tiny group of articles, there is already a > >> bunch of mistakes, the bot copied out of outdated databases. wouldn´t be > >> a big deal, if somebody mentioned that the articles sticked to the old > >> view. but that´s something a bot can´t handle. so how reliable is the > >> rest of the articles? > >> > >> a bot can be a convenient helper for authors, who know, how to handle > >> it, as it seems has happened with the creation of the articles about > >> swedish lakes (i´m no expert with that though). but it is a desastrous > >> tool for our whole movement, if you create hundreds of thousands (!) > >> articles, without the slightest idea, how to handle the contradictions, > >> that will appear doubtlessly? > >> > >> it´s a sad thing, that you mention quality and this action in one > >> centence... > >> > >> truly utterly disappointed encyclopedic greetings, > >> kurt > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l< > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0 www.wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
