Thanks for that essay, Lydia! You said it well, and I especially agree with what you wrote about trust and believing in ourselves. I had to laugh at some of the comments, because if you substitute "Wikipedia" for "Wikidata" those comments could have been written 3 years ago before Wikidata came on the scene.
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Lydia Pintscher < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Lydia Pintscher > <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ 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>
