Wikidata appears to allow original research and the inference of gender from the name or photo of the subject. It will be a cold day in hell before en.wiki allows this, see [[WP:RS]] and .[[WP:OR]].
cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > But there have also been lots of corrections. As far as painters go, the > data is really pretty decent now. It helps that it's really easy to check > the state of Wikidata against the contents of Wikipedia categories. As more > people become aware of how to make such checks, I think we start to see a > cleanup of categories and (I hope) a better categorization system starting > to form that is more in line with Wikidata property class trees. > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Data has been sucked from GND to wikidata via a number of routes, >> principally VIAF. >> See Wikidata:Bot_requests#Import_GND_identifiers_from_VIAF_dump for example >> for a discussion of an instance of this. >> >> cheers >> stuart >> >> -- >> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky >> >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Gerard Meijssen < >> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hoi, >>> The blog states that a lot of data was sucked into Wikidata from GND. As >>> far as I am aware that never happened. So its assertion is wrong. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> On 28 February 2016 at 19:43, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen < >>>> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hoi, >>>>> It is trivial when you only consider Wikidata. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I've previous blogged about the issues with sex / gender in wikidata at >>>> http://opensourceexile.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/adrian-pohl-wrote-some-excellent.html >>>> has the sitaution moved on? >>>> >>>> cheers >>>> stuart >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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