On 18/06/2014, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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A single editor in Commons can tweaks license
information as much as it
might be in Wikidata. Remember both Commons and Wikidata are wikis. It is
likely that a property will be needed to reference an OTRS instance.
Reasons why a file has issues will be as much be defined by properties and
qualifiers. Really Fae, not much will change except that a Russian may view
all this in Russian and a Brazilian in Portuguese.
Effectively the number of people who will be able to understand what is
expressed will increase. More people will be able to find media files...
Remember, that IS the objective isn't it?
With regard to your specific mention of OTRS tickets and identifying
different licences for the same image (or derivatives) across
projects, can you point to an example, or an agreed plan with a date
for implementation on Wikidata? I know that Jarekt has worked hard on
Commons licence identification, to my knowledge it is a far more
complex issue than people might expect.
At the current time, I have yet to see how the Wikidata theoretical
use improves finding images on Commons today. After regularly getting
emails over the past two years raising expectations of how these
problems will be solved through Wikidata, I have yet to be involved or
invited to join any Commons based Wikidata project, despite being
currently the most active unpaid volunteer uploader for Commons.
One of my particular interests was sorting out the Geograph project
where I added meaningful place categories to images (around a million
images). Last year I deliberately deferred continuing improvements and
new uploads based on suggestions of how Wikidata was going to
revolutionise the way this worked. As far as I am aware, there is
still no published plan to help with identifying Commons categories
with places using Wikidata; indeed for projects like our Avionics
batch uploads (which rely on Airport categories and their locations) I
have been told the opposite, to no longer expect, nor wait, for this
to be sorted out and I am likely to revise my Geograph work without
any plans to incorporate Wikidata, or work with Wikidata.
Fae
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