On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > That is actually not correct. We have built Wikidata from the very > beginning with some core believes. One of them is that Wikidata isn't > supposed to have the one truth but instead is able to represent > various different points of view and link to sources claiming these. > Look for example at the country statements for Jerusalem: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1218 > Now I am the first to say that this will not be able to capture the > full complexity of the world around us. But that's not what it is > meant to do. However please be aware that we have built more than just > a dumb database with Wikidata and have gone to great length to make it > possible to capture knowledge diversity.
I've taken the time and written a longer piece about data quality and knowledge diversity on Wikidata for the current edition of the Signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-12-09/Op-ed Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ 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>