Great, GerardM and Wikidatans,
Let's build on this.
Scott
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> One way to bring the different view points together is to consider a
> halfway house (with benefits of its own). Currently there is this
Hoi,
One way to bring the different view points together is to consider a
halfway house (with benefits of its own). Currently there is this opinion
that a binary issue exists; you either import from Wikidata or you have
your data at your project.
This is not necessary; what could be done is to
I think infoboxes and Wikidata crosses the line from invisible to highly
visible, which is why we are seeing a more in-depth discussion now. Plus,
the whole area of infoboxes (even without Wikidata) has been a battleground.
In the Facebook group Wikipedia Weekly, one of the folks from pt.wp
Yes, this sounds like correct. When Wikidata was about interwiki links,
nobody cared because nobody cared about interwiki links. Then it started to
be about the templates, but still nobody cared because nobody noticed. Now
they did, and there are already some users whoc want to "ban" Wikidata.
Crossed with Luca, making exact same point.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Yaroslav Blanter wrote:
> Well, most (I guess) English Wikipedia active users do not speak any
> languages other than English, and they are not in a position to appreciate
> that there
Well, most (I guess) English Wikipedia active users do not speak any
languages other than English, and they are not in a position to appreciate
that there could be Wikimedia projects beyond the English Wikipedia
worthwhile to talk about. I remember once the Signpost asked a user who was
2017-10-03 17:39 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lih :
> To be sure, some of the arguments had merit - better sourcing needed, BLP,
> user interface improvements, etc.
>
> But I was astonished to see many remarks amounting to, “Never Wikidata.”
>
> A significant number saw EN.WP as its own
While Wikidata certainly has concerns to deal with about accuracy and
vandalism, I think we need to push back against this mindset that Wikipedia
works perfectly while Wikidata is this unregulated free-for-all. I've run
into editors on en.wp objecting to a Wikidata infobox displaying the very
On 19 September 2017 at 19:18, Dario Taraborelli
wrote:
> I wanted to draw your attention to a deletion nomination discussion for an
> experimental template – {{Cite Q}} – pulling bibliographic data from
> Wikidata:
Closed as "no consensus"; it's worth reading the