I have been experiencing something similar
although I would not call it
vandalism, just changing things that are official statistics to something
that is not and merging items that are not the same thing. I have recently
been importing information on the UNESCO Biosphere Reserves to Wikidata
with Navino Evans that includes referencing everything to the official site
descriptions on the UNESCO website (he's been doing all the actual work, I
mainly offer manual labour and make the tea). People have been replacing
the official statistics e.g the coordinates submitted to UNESCO as part of
the inscription process with coordinates with no references and also
merging sites that are not the same thing (usually similar sounding sites
in China and Russia). This is annoying for two reasons:
1. Its making Wikidata less accrurate
2. Its breaking our import spreadsheets meaning we have to use queries to
guess at possible reasons why things have broken which takes a really long
time and then I have to fix them.
Since we completed the import a few days ago the data has already started
to drift with manual additions and changes from other users. I wonder if
there is some equivalent of the Wikipedia protected page that could be used
to reduce this issue? I don't know what this would look like but it seems
as though it may be needed. Perhaps another model to use would be the
proofreading mechanism from Wikisource?
Thanks
John
On 9 June 2016 at 15:25, Julie McMurry <mcmurry.julie(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How big a problem is fact vandalism? It may be
less likely to be
detected/fixed in languages for which there are fewer editors. Only if a
big problem, I'd suggest that specific text (not whole articles) be
protected, but not locked. Eg implementing a requirement for confirmation
by multiple editors before it is published. A lock would be too likely
to thwart legitimate edits and could be abused by moderators.
Some ostensibly hard facts do in fact change over time. Even the
measurement of the mass of the electron took years to perfect.
Julie
On Wednesday, June 8, 2016, Biyanto Rebin <biyanto.rebin(a)wikimedia.or.id>
wrote:
Hello,
Wikidata is a great collaboration of database, I love it, but sometimes
when I encounter some vandalism, it makes me so angry. Just like today,
I've found Q879704 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q879704>, the label,
description and alias in Indonesian (ID) is vandal into something else and
it was happened in 2014
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/202.67.33.46>!
Now, I'm just curious, will everyone agree if (maybe) in the future
Wikidata team can lock some cell that already fix? For example Javanese
(Q33549) = P31: language (Q315). Or we just let the Wikidata always open
for everyone to edit?
PS: I'm making WikiProjects Languages in Indonesia
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Languages_in_Indonesia>,
anyone who want to join please let me know :)
Best regards,
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