On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.good@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that a number of EN Wikipedia articles are starting to use
> wikidata e.g. all of these templates:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_using_data_from_Wikidata
>
> This is great, and I have already started trying to encourage more of this
> in the areas we are working on (genes, drugs, diseases). But concerns
> raised more than 2 years ago now still seem very valid:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikidata/Workflow
>
> I'm particularly concerned about the edit button. When a Wikipedia user
> hits edit on an article built using wikidata content, how are they supposed
> to edit the wikidata content? Obviously the well-informed can sort out
> which wikidata item is relevant and which properties are being used and go
> to edit at wikidata.. but this can't be the solution.
>
> What is the status of this issue ?

We'll have a student starting next month researching the topic. She'll write her bachelor thesis on it. You can track it at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103092

Cheers
Lydia

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