Hoi,
Facts are in and of themselves not copyrightable. Collections of data may
be copyrighted.We choose not to and as a result Wikidata is the powerhouse
that it has become.The CC-by-sa license is our license of choice for
Wikipedia however, the way it has been enforced so far has been defensive,
we are quite happy when our material is used.
At Wikidata we are long past the point where the majority of the data is
from a Wikipedia. From day one Wikidata has provided essential services to
every Wikipedia, Wikidata can provide superior services to Wikipedia.
Because like Commons, we have to maintain the data only once and have it
available everywhere. Wikidata is instrumental in sychronising death
information among our projects. It has been shown over and over again to
have more complete information as can be found in Wikipedia lists and
categories. Wikipedians choose to stick with their arguably substandard
practices.
The notion that a Google or an Amazon are not capable of extracting facts
from a Wikipedia is silly. They have the capacity and the skills and the
software to do just that. Wikidata provides them additional information
making their information more complete. They have their reasons to be model
citizens and contribute to the Wikimedia Foundation. We now provide paid
for services to them making their bot activity less of a strain to our
services and provide them a (paid for) service.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Sun, 26 Sept 2021 at 04:32, The Cunctator <cuncta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for not being explicit; the connection is that protection of
> copyleft would be inconvenient to major endowment donors such as Google and
> Amazon. WikiData is a Wikimedia project that converts copylefted content
> into (what Wikimedia asserts to be) copyright-free content.
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 5:40 PM Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 19:27, The Cunctator <cuncta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > It's really disappointing to me that the Structured Data work has been
>> used to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft.
>>
>> 1. Your message has nothing to do with the endowment
>>
>> 2. You offer no evidence that "the Structured Data work has been used
>> to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft."
>>
>> 3. You do not explain what you mean by "blow up Wikipedia's copyleft."
>>
>> If you wish to discuss copyright and/or structured data, please start
>> a new thread; and be clear there about the point you wish to make.
>>
>> --
>> Andy Mabbett
>> @pigsonthewing
>> https://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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