Hi Yaroslav, Thanks for the background. The "POV pushing" you describe is of course what Graham and Ford are examining in their paper.
For what it's worth, the Wikidata item for Jerusalem[1] still contains the statement "capital of Israel" today. As I understand it, the Knowledge Graph uses a number of sources to "guess" whether something is factual or not. Whether Wikidata is one of them, and what weight it has in this process, is something I suspect no one outside Google knows. The op-ed I mentioned writing last week is now out as part of the current Signpost issue.[2] Andreas [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1218 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-12-02/Op-ed On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <[email protected]> wrote: > The story with Jerusalem is very simple. I created the Wikidata item. The > English description was "city in Israel". Then POV pushers came. Some of > them wanted "city in Palestine", and others wanted "capital of Israel". > Then one user, who later was elected to the board of Wikimedia Israel, > canvassed a number of users in Hebrew Wikipedia. When there were too many > POV pushers, I just unwatched the page, and it became "capital of Israel". > Later on, someone managed to change it to smth neutral. That's it. There is > nothing automatic here. > > Cheers > Yaroslav _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
