I don't work for the Foundation. This is my opinion, and I do not require
any lawyers to sign off on it. What a sad world that would be.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Magnus Manske
> <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The success of Wikidata is tightly coupled to the re-use of its wealth of
> > data, both in Wikimedia projects and by third parties. Completeness of
> data
> > is very much a factor here; for some research purposes, completeness may
> > even be more important than 100% accuracy. As we have seen on Wikipedia,
> > accuracy will improve over time, if a "critical mass" of contributors
> can be
> > achieved.
>
> I'm surprised that the WMF lawyers signed off on this. Deliberately
> getting the sex of living people wrong seems like the kind of thing
> litigation is made of. But then again, I'm not a lawyer.
>
> cheers
> stuart
>
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