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 …
2017-09-20 13:14 GMT+02:00 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Thomas Douillard thomas.douillard@gmail.com wrote:
I don’t know what you disagree with but personally I investd a lot of
time
in those discussions in frwiki, and I keep a lot of bitterness over the process. This seems like a wierdly very very similar redux of those discussions with the exact same arguments, and I’m done with all this.
I’m
also done with the « it’s not the use by itself who is the problem it’s
the
advocacy » who is very close to the one of conspiracy theory (a group of outsider want to steal the control of your wiki and invade it) who is a serious attack on the good faith of everyone borderline to push
everything
on fire. Enough with this.
Since this is indeed the same discussions over and over again would it maybe be helpful to create a central page that lines out our thinking and arguments about them so you can point there instead of doing this over and over again?
Cheers Lydia
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