On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
First I must say I can't speak for the Dutch community, I can only try to sense how pages with coding are perceived. Seeing the editwars about users from outside the Dutch community adding properties to articles, seeing the following discussion, and seeing the general discussion about automated lists on nlwiki, I do not think this will happen. Based on this I can only draw the conclusion that the community will not accept automated lists in the article namespace. Being able to click in the top of the page on edit and then edit the page, is perceived as basic value of Wikipedia, an unwritten rule that may not be broken. Having these codes in the article namespace will scare people off.
At the same time I personally see some value in automated lists. I also noticed in the discussions that if users use these codes in their user namespace or in pages of wikiprojects, that it is not so much a problem. As I think that automated lists are not allowed in the main namespace, while they do have some value, I think it is more likely to create a separated namespace for this kind of lists. In that way all pages in the article namespace stay editable and at the same time this information is available on Wikipedia. A namespace called "List:" or in Dutch: "Lijst:".
I also should mention that the first priority of Wikipedia is not to be up-to-date, because Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia and its nature is being running behind. This is the priority and the focus, this does not mean it can't be up-to-date.
So it matters not so much if the knowledge is or isn't available in the Dutch Wikipedia, it does matter for users that all pages in the article namespace stay without codes, that these pages stay editable in that page itself. And it also matters that linking to other Wikipedias is not allowed in pages in the article namespace. While we did not have a voting about whether it is allowed to link to Wikidata, but having seen earlier a discussion about linking to Q...'s which was ending in the conclusion being not wanted, I think that links in articles to Wikidata items when there is no article in Dutch, will not be allowed.
Yeah this is my impression as well of the current status. Let's all just give it time. Editors need time to get comfortable with Wikidata. The more comfortable they are with using it and the more they trust it the more it'll be used. So let's keep building this trust :)
Cheers Lydia