2017-12-01 9:34 GMT+01:00 Markus Kroetzsch <markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de>: > Dear Mathieu, > > You are in an impossible position. Either you want to be an objective > researcher who tries to reconstruct past events as they happened, or you are > pursuing an agenda to criticise and change some aspects of Wikidata. The way > you do it, you are making yourself part of the debate that you claim you > want to reconstruct. > > From a research perspective, any material you gather in this way comes with > a big question mark. You are not doing us much of a favour either, because > by forcing us to refute accusations, you are placing our memories of the > past events in a doubtful, heavily biased context. > > Your overall approach of considering a theory to be true (or at least > equally likely to be true) unless you are given "proofs that this claim is > completely wrong" is not scientific. This is not how research works. For a > start, Occam's Razor should make you disregard overly complex theories for > things that have much simpler explanations (in our case: CC0 is a respected > license chosen by many other projects for good reasons, so it is entirely > plausible that the founders of Wikidata also just picked it for the usual > reasons, without any secret conspiracy). And once you have an interesting > theory formed, you need to gather evidence for or against it in a way that > is not affected by the theory (i.e., in particular, don't start calls for > information with an emotional discussion of whether or not you would > personally like the theory to turn out true). > > What you are doing here is completely unscientific and I hope that your > supervisor (?) will also point this out to you at some point. Moreover, I am > afraid that you cannot really get back to the position of an objective > observer from where you are now. Better leave this research to others who > are not in publicly documented disagreement with the main historic > witnesses. > > So you should understand that I don't feel compelled to give you a detailed > account of every Wikidata-related discussion I had as if I were on some > trial here. As a "researcher", it is you who has to prove your theories, not > the rest of the world who has to disprove them. I already told you that your > main guesses as far as they concern things I have witnessed are not true, > and that's all from me for now.
I agree wholeheartedly with Markus. I'm sorry to be blunt, but it's been almost three days now and 40+ messages, and it seems that all the fundamental reasons for this thread to be open are either too complicated to be implemented (or at least "not worth the while") or inherently biased and/or unfounded. For so, I kindly ask all people in this list to close this thread, as it seems that nothing good will ever come out of it. Thank you. -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
