Hoi,
This same mail was send at the same time to the Wikidata mailing list.. The
answer there is argued in a different way with an utterly different
outcome.. This is an example of forum shopping and the result is that there
is no single outcome, it is great example why forum shopping does not help.
It divides more than brings together.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 9 July 2018 at 04:17, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Mathieu! I agree that tracing the full history of a data cite is
> important, independent of license. I'm thinking about scalable solutions
> for this.
> It's definitely not the only factor in reliability; but it does matter who
> entered the data (for instance) as one way to estimate the importance of
> doublechecking a cited source to confirm that the data is found there.
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:59 AM mathieu lovato stumpf guntz <
> psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
>
>
> > I agree this is misconception that a copyright license make any direct
> > change to data reliability. But attribution requirement does somewhat
> > indirectly have an impact on it, as it... enforces traceability.
> > That is I strongly disagree with the following assertion: "a license
> > that requires BY sucks so hard for data [because] attribution
> > requirements grow very quickly". To my mind it is equivalent to say that
> > we will throw away traceability because it is subjectively judged too
> > large a burden, without providing any start of evidence that it indeed
> > can't be managed, at least with Wikimedia current ressources.
> >
> > Now, I don't say traceability is the sole factor one should take into
> > account in data reliability, but certainly it is one of them.
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