2017-10-03 17:39 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com:
To be sure, some of the arguments had merit - better sourcing needed, BLP, user interface improvements, etc.
But I was astonished to see many remarks amounting to, “Never Wikidata.”
A significant number saw EN.WP as its own exceptional isolated sustainable entity that would only be polluted or weakened by decentralizing control with Wikidata-generated content. Or that the sharing in the sum of all human knowledge (and therefore, citations) was of no interest.
That’s quite sad to see.
Sorry to be that guy, but this unfortunately comes from a long way.
What saddens me is that this kind of attitude is blatantly offending to all the non-English-speaking Wikimedians who are working their arses out to share their part of the sum of human knowledge - and doing it, let me stress it, *playing by the rules*. And my greatest fear is that most of them would just don't care about this.
L.