Hi Gerard,
I’d be happy to help you understand, but maybe you can help me first? :)
What do you mean by “using files from Wikidata”? Wikidata uses files from
Wikimedia Commons. And what the FileExporter does is exporting files from
local wikis to Commons.
Regarding your concerns about disambiguation, script conversion and
updates, could you elaborate this a bit? A good place for this would be the
central feedback page, because that's where we can best keep track of all
feedback:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:FileImporter
Thank you,
Johanna
Am Di., 15. Jan. 2019 um 08:26 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>gt;:
What I fail to understand is how this will be better
than using files from
Wikidata. The only benefit is that people may feel good because their file
has been exported and it is to these poor other Wikipedias to share in the
luster of ones own Wikipedia. The biggest drawback I see is that
disambiguation becomes an issue, scripts conversion are an issue and
updates are not possible once a list has been converted.