On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Douillard <thomas.douill...@gmail.com> wrote: > If my experience in correct, this would not stop anything. There are usually > very basic arguments about data duplication and data reuse, ease of > maintenance and so on, stuffs that should be on an introduction about > Wikidata and Wikipedia. > > But this won’t be enough and some people will push stuff more and more and > demand more and more stuffs, and don’t care about those arguments. « Fake > News » are in the air, and the Truth is not stopping them. Improvements in > watchlist integration, edition on the client wiki and so on are stuffs which > resulted of those discussion. There was a war on frwiki to slow down > Wikidata infobox deployment enough to lead deployment that will need > decades. > > And in the end, I’m afraid this will not be enough because some people have > a problem with the very idea of using data external of « their » wiki, a > sensation of loosing control and will try to react by any mean, a fear to > collaborate with foreigners …
Absolutely. But maybe it will help take off pressure and anger from you all and be seen by all the bystanders in the discussions which I believe is the silent majority. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
