Re: [Wikidata-l] Introduction and some questions on Wikidata

2012-11-15 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey Bernardo On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Bernardo Najlis b52@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, My name is Bernardo and I work as a Business Intelligence Consultant in Toronto, Canada. I've been reading pretty much everything about WikiData over the past few days, and I'm really excited

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was Introduction and some questions on Wikidata)

2012-11-15 Thread Daniel Kinzler
On 15.11.2012 20:06, Helder . wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at wrote: (...) First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. Wikidata should not be a data storage for everything structured in the world, so we should

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was Introduction and some questions on Wikidata)

2012-11-15 Thread Sven
Automatically copying over infoboxes is something I don't advise. Unlike current infoboxes, which are rarely sourced, every point of data on Wikidata should be DIRECTLY and INDIVIDUALLY sourced. We can use the same source 37 times, but each bit of information that would ordinarily have a field

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata license (was Introduction and some questions on Wikidata)

2012-11-15 Thread Sven Manguard
The argument above is about automatically copying over content from other projects. My point is that the license isn't the problem with it, but that there is a problem with it. Sven On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Gregor Hagedorn g.m.haged...@gmail.comwrote: On 15 November 2012 23:35, Sven

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata demo repo is being spammed.

2012-11-15 Thread Snaevar
Hello, I wanted to let you guys know that there is spam being added to items (descriptions and labels) on the demo repo. Regards, Snaevar ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org