On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Thomas Douillard
<thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If my experience in correct, this would not stop
anything. There are usually
very basic arguments about data duplication and data reuse, ease of
maintenance and so on, stuffs that should be on an introduction about
Wikidata and Wikipedia.
But this won’t be enough and some people will push stuff more and more and
demand more and more stuffs, and don’t care about those arguments. « Fake
News » are in the air, and the Truth is not stopping them. Improvements in
watchlist integration, edition on the client wiki and so on are stuffs which
resulted of those discussion. There was a war on frwiki to slow down
Wikidata infobox deployment enough to lead deployment that will need
decades.
And in the end, I’m afraid this will not be enough because some people have
a problem with the very idea of using data external of « their » wiki, a
sensation of loosing control and will try to react by any mean, a fear to
collaborate with foreigners …
Absolutely. But maybe it will help take off pressure and anger from
you all and be seen by all the bystanders in the discussions which I
believe is the silent majority.
Cheers
Lydia
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