good point, Sam, imo actually the best so far :-)
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From:Sam Katz <smkatz(a)gmail.com>
To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-
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Sent:Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:41:12 -0600
Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] citing female academics
Let me comment on the original question. The
correct citation is typically the oldest one known
to the researcher, not the most popular.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hoi,
> I am truly happy that Wikidata is its own master. When a Wikipedia has
> certain policies it is welcome to it. As long as they do not use Wikidata
> to improve the quality of its content [1] and by the same token improve
the
> data at Wikidata, I am not interested what a
Wikipedia does.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> [1]
>
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2016/01/wikipedia-lowest-
hanging-fruit-from.html
>
> On 28 February 2016 at 20:31, Stuart A. Yeates <syeates(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Wikidata appears to allow original research and the inference of gender
>> from the name or photo of the subject. It will be a cold day in hell
before
>> en.wiki allows this, see [[WP:RS]] and
.[[WP:OR]].
>>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>> --
>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> But there have also been lots of corrections. As far as painters go, the
>>> data is really pretty decent now. It helps that it's really easy to
check
>>> the state of Wikidata against the contents of Wikipedia categories. As
more
>>> people become aware of how to make such
checks, I think we start to
see a
>>> cleanup of categories and (I hope) a
better categorization system
starting
>>> to form that is more in line with
Wikidata property class trees.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Stuart A. Yeates
<syeates(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Data has been sucked from GND to wikidata via a number of routes,
>>>> principally VIAF.
>>>> See
Wikidata:Bot_requests#Import_GND_identifiers_from_VIAF_dump
for
example
>>>> for a discussion of an instance of
this.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> stuart
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
>>>> gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hoi,
>>>>> The blog states that a lot of data was sucked into Wikidata from
GND.
>>>>> As far as I am aware that never
happened. So its assertion is wrong.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> GerardM
>>>>>
>>>>> On 28 February 2016 at 19:43, Stuart A. Yeates
<syeates(a)gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
>>>>>> gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hoi,
>>>>>>> It is trivial when you only consider Wikidata.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've previous blogged about the issues with sex / gender in
wikidata
wrote-some-excellent.html
>>>>>> has the sitaution moved on?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>> stuart
>>>>>>
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