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
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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
>
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>> 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:
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>> 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 at
http://opensourceexile.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/adrian-pohl-wrote-some-excell… has
the sitaution moved on?
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> stuart
>>>
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