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 …
2017-09-20 13:14 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>de>:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Thomas Douillard
<thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don’t know what you disagree with but
personally I investd a lot of
time
in those discussions in frwiki, and I keep a lot
of bitterness over the
process. This seems like a wierdly very very similar redux of those
discussions with the exact same arguments, and I’m done with all this.
I’m
also done with the « it’s not the use by itself
who is the problem it’s
the
advocacy » who is very close to the one of
conspiracy theory (a group of
outsider want to steal the control of your wiki and invade it) who is a
serious attack on the good faith of everyone borderline to push
everything
on fire. Enough with this.
Since this is indeed the same discussions over and over again would it
maybe be helpful to create a central page that lines out our thinking
and arguments about them so you can point there instead of doing this
over and over again?
Cheers
Lydia
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