Prior to viewing Markus Krötzsch's Wikidata page, I was unaware of the
"Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase" article [1] written by
Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch.  This is a very helpful article
that in my opinion should be featured on the Wikidata main page. 

[1] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext

Regards,
James Weaver

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, at 05:14 PM, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> Irrespective of the general policy discussion, I have now been bold and 
> changed my item and user page to record that relationship as by my 
> earlier suggestion (as copied below):
> 
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18618630
> 
> I was wondering if, given that we have single signon, "website account 
> on" should point to "Wikidata" or to "Wikimedia" or something else. But 
> besides this minor point this seems to be a nice way to have COI 
> declarations in the data (would also be interesting to know which living 
> people have official Wikimedia accounts).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Markus
> 
> On 07.01.2015 15:25, Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> ...
> >
> > In addition, there should be a template that one can use on one's user
> > page to disclose that one is the person described in a certain item.
> > Conversely, we should also use our "website account on" property (P553)
> > to connect living people to their Wikidata user account, so the COI is
> > recorded in the data. One could further disclose other COIs on one's
> > user page in some standard format, but maybe with Wikidata we could
> > actually derive such COIs automatically (your family members, the
> > companies you founded, the university you graduated from, etc. can all
> > be specified in data).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Markus
> >
> >
> 
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