On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Pete Forsyth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But at the same time, Wikidata is supposed to inform the Wikipedias, as a > > central data repository. This creates a mismatch between Wikidata's > "early > > days -- anything goes, let's just get content in, we'll sort it out > later" > > attitude and the relatively mature Wikipedias where editors insist on > > sources for any new content added. > > > > This out-of-synch-ness is a real problem if you want Wikipedias to > actually > > use Wikidata content. Wikipedians will not accept content generation > models > > that take Wikipedia back to its bad old days where you could write > anything > > you liked without a source to back it up. > > > Andreas, I think there's an important piece you're missing (or at least not > explicitly acknlowledging) here. > > Very few of the Wikipedias are "relatively mature." To the extent Wikidata > is meant to help Wikipedia, I believe it is meant to help the less mature > Wikipedias benefit from the more robust research into sources etc. that > takes place at the big ones -- and help the big ones notice when they have > out-of-sync information from one another, and make informed decisions about > what to do about it. > > The analysis you offer here doesn't seem granular enough to capture this, > and seems to miss the primary value of Wikidata when it comes to Wikipedia. > > Thoughts? > Pete > Pete, Yes, those are good points I missed. Andreas _______________________________________________ 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>
