Hoi, Again, what is done is harvest from everywhere. Such actionar are not exclusive to Wikidata, it is also done by DBpedia, they have been longer at it and at this time they are better at it. What I hope is that there is quality data in the research done in the past. Making this available will improved quality now.
When Wikipedias have different data about the same item, there will be a process to consoledate it There is no such process at this time. If there is data where you feel that it is "problematic" and it cannot be easily retrieved from Wikipedia, you can opt to not make it available in Wikidata.
At this time more than 50% of all items have one or no statement. From a quality point of view, it is poor but improving. Again, if your data is problematic fine, do consider that we are interested in every subject. Not only people. So if you have data that can be shared please do, it helps.
From where I stand data that "cannot" be shared but can be easily harvested
anyway is openly available. Making this into a big circus does not help. It just supports the unease that many have about academic issues. Thanks, GerardM
On 20 April 2014 01:14, Stuart A. Yeates syeates@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/04/2014 11:05 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
What I do know is that at Wikidata we harvest information from all
Wikipedias. It does include en,wp but it is not exclusively so. It does include the Russian, the Chinese, the Arabic ... all Wikipedias. As you know, the first operational task for Wikidata is to replace the old inter language links. A next objective is to include all the information that is currently held in info boxes.
What process does wikidata have when different wikis have different policies about what should appear by default in infoboxes. In particular when a policy calls for discretion or human judgement?
cheers stuart
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