On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
The success of Wikidata is tightly coupled to the re-use of its wealth of
data, both in Wikimedia projects and by third parties. Completeness of data
is very much a factor here; for some research purposes, completeness may
even be more important than 100% accuracy. As we have seen on Wikipedia,
accuracy will improve over time, if a "critical mass" of contributors can be
achieved.
I'm surprised that the WMF lawyers signed off on this. Deliberately
getting the sex of living people wrong seems like the kind of thing
litigation is made of. But then again, I'm not a lawyer.
cheers
stuart