I don't work for the Foundation. This is my opinion, and I do not require any lawyers to sign off on it. What a sad world that would be.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Stuart A. Yeates syeates@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@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
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