Hi everyone :)
In Wikidata people from many different backgrounds work together. As
Wikidata grows we can't rely on everyone speaking English anymore.
With the development of Wikidata Bridge (the ability to edit Wikidata
directly from the other sister projects) we will see another surge in
contributions from people who potentially will have to discuss with
each other about the content we have without speaking a shared
language well enough for that. It was also one of the major topics
identified in the session about obstacles to more Wikidata adoption in
Wikipedia at Wikimania 2019.
This is not an easily solvable topic but one we need to think about
and your input would be very helpful. I opened a page for it here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Language_barriers_input
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi everyone :)
We do want to allow more and more people to run their own Wikibase
instance. As part of that we want to allow people to deeply connect
these Wikibase instances among each other and especially with
Wikidata. We also want to allow them to benefit from work done in
other Wikibase instances and especially Wikidata, like the definition
and refining of properties. As people talk and think about this it is
often referred to as Federation. However there is the problem that we
don't talk about the same thing when we say Federation but instead
about a multitude of related features. In order to move the
development forward we need to sort out what people actually want and
need to make sure we're actually developing something useful. I opened
a page for collecting your input here:
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
Product Manager for Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.