Hi Loic,
I recently noticed that the history of software is severely
underrepresented on Wikidata and there is very little interlinking going on
at all, while many items are missing P31. I do think it would be useful to
create a Wikidata:<Software project> page to list the various types of
software (OS, languages, development environments) and model how to use
properties to flesh out such items. I suspect there are several properties
that need to be created, such as "Principal developer" or something like
that.
I agree however that for a low-threshold Wikidata meetup, the most
important thing is to share basic gadgets and knowledge, because there is
so much still to be done on outreach in all languages. I noticed for
example that Listeria was blocked on Portuguese Wikipedia due to objections
in the labelling showing up in list headers. This shows how the basic
interface is still such a mystery to so many communities, probably because
the basic interface is still so incomplete in those languages.
Jane
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Loic Dachary <loic(a)dachary.org> wrote:
Hi Sylvain,
On 26/08/2016 11:43, Sylvain Boissel wrote:
2016-08-21 19:06 GMT+02:00 Loic Dachary <loic(a)dachary.org <mailto:
loic(a)dachary.org>>t;>:
When the audience was asked for their preferences, I raised my hand
and
happily declared "Contributing to the Software and FLOSS projects !".
Much to my surprise this was quickly dismissed: "we're only going to learn
about tools, we create groups to use and learn about tools, not to work on
a specific project". My interest for the Software project is known to both
Harmonia Amanda and Ash_Crow, to the extent that I discussed with them my
intent to recruit people to participate in the workshop for that particular
topic[3], well in advance.
And I answered you weeks ago that I plan to organize a fully dedicated
workshop on
this topic later this year, involving local free software
organizations like Parinux or Framasoft.
I remember that, excellent initiative :-) I'm not sure how it explains
what happened during the wikiconvention though.
I was connected to #wikidata-fr today and read a conversation on this
topic, involving you and Harmonia Amanda (which I will not quote here
because I assume this is not a good behavior to quote from channels that
are not logged). The general tone was unfriendly and made me feel unwanted
as a contributor. It also made me realize that my efforts to bring more
French people / organizations to wikidata were mocked and unappreciated.
As a volunteer I value good relationships even more than technical
contributions. For this reason I will distance myself from the wikidata
French community. I hope to return in the future when a more welcoming
context has been established.
Cheers
--
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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