Thanks, Vito & All! Scott
On Jul 31, 2016 5:05 PM, "Vi to" <vituzzu.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Note: I'm using the last message for a cumulative reply] > > Wikidata has 16k active users, 66 admins, 3 'crats, with a pretty active > community. This thread has turned into a weird mix of inclusionism vs. > deletionism catfight + a request to undelete some contents in a specific > project + a series of off-topics. The first part might fit the scope of > this list (though is *so* boring), same for the third one. Instead, the > second part must be discussed on Wikidata following local policies. > > Finally, just to clarify: undeletions by stewards are completely out of > our mission and policies (I, for one, would rather intervene to delete ^^), > same for the staffers. No chances to overrule a community for such trivial > reasons. > > Vito > > 2016-08-01 0:36 GMT+02:00 Info WorldUniversity < > i...@worlduniversityandschool.org>: > >> If, as Jimbo Wales' wrote the purpose of Wikipedia involves imagining "a >> world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to >> the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.—Jimbo Wales >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Wales>[3] >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose#cite_note-3>" >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose ... >> >> and the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation includes: >> >> "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people >> around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free >> license <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content> or in the public >> domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. >> >> In collaboration with a network of chapters >> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Local_chapters>, the Foundation >> provides the essential infrastructure and an organizational framework for >> the support and development of multilingual wiki projects >> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects> and other endeavors >> which serve this mission. The Foundation will make and keep useful >> information from its projects available on the Internet free of charge >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:gratis>, in perpetuity." >> >> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement >> >> I'd vote as a Wikidata community member for aggregating conferences and >> courses in all languages with machine and wiki (human) processes. Whether >> this is best done in Wikidata/Wikibase, or another related platform or >> elsewhere, may be worth exploring process-wise in a number of different >> Wikidata forums and discussions. This also seems wise, and relatively easy >> too I.T.-wise, given shared unfolding agreement among Wikidatans and >> Wikipedians. >> >> Friendly regards, Scott >> >> CC https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch >> >> On Jul 31, 2016 2:18 PM, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hoi, >>> There were lists of Wikimania talks for the Wikimanias. So these items >>> were not standing alone they were in context and THAT is what makes it >>> attractive to have them. We do have Wikimanias as items and on there own >>> they do not provide information. Looking at them from only WIkidata you do >>> not get the picture. Thank <enter your deity> that Magnus has his fantastic >>> tools that allow us to show the value of data. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> On 31 July 2016 at 22:47, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> > Ask yourself what it is about.. It is about the Wikimania talks. What >>>> > was done is removing all the Wikimania talks without any discussion. >>>> >>>> I wonder whether Wikidata is really the best platform to host Wikimania >>>> talks and information about it. While I have no doubt these are >>>> excellent talks of great interest to Wiki community, their notability in >>>> the larger world is a more difficult question. Specifically, would we >>>> create an item for every talk even for a major conference (not >>>> considering copyright etc. questions now)? We have a lot of conferences >>>> with much wider attendance than Wikimania happening each year. >>>> >>>> Now, Wikimania is of course special - for Wiki movement. And having >>>> *some* repository for this content and knowledge would be completely >>>> appropriate. However, is that repository Wikidata - as purported to be >>>> repository of knowledge of general public interest? I am much less sure >>>> of it. Unless we take the wider mission of accepting data about talks on >>>> any conference of note - which may be possible, but I'm not sure whether >>>> it should be done... If yes, then of course clear policy statement to >>>> that effect may be helpful - so people who are not sure about it like me >>>> would know what the community consensus has arrived to. >>>> -- >>>> Stas Malyshev >>>> smalys...@wikimedia.org >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikidata mailing list >>>> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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