On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> this very statement highlights one issue that > > will always be a problem between Wikidata and Wikipedias. Wikipedia, at > least in my 10 years of experience on en:wp is that when you have multiple > sources that differ you highlight the existence of those sources and the > conflict of information we dont decide what is right or wrong. > > There was an interesting Oxford Internet Institute article recently discussing the potential problems that can result when Wikidata and/or the Knowledge Graph provide the Internet public with a single answer: nuances get lost, and provenance becomes obscured. http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/2015/11/05/semantic-cities/ The underlying study, "Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web", by Heather Ford and Mark Graham, is here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2682459 Moreover, I was somewhat surprised to learn the other day that, apparently, over 80 percent of Wikidata statements are either unreferenced or only referenced to a Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Citing_as_a_public_service.pdf&page=17 That seems like a recipe for disaster, given that Wikidata feeds the Google Knowledge Graph and Bing Satori to some extent. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
