Hoi,

There were lists of Wikimania talks for the Wikimanias. So these items were not standing alone they were in context and THAT is what makes it attractive to have them. We do have Wikimanias as items and on there own they do not provide information. Looking at them from only WIkidata you do not get the picture. Thank <enter your deity> that Magnus has his fantastic tools that allow us to show the value of data.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 31 July 2016 at 22:47, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi!

> Ask yourself what it is about.. It is about the Wikimania talks. What
> was done is removing all the Wikimania talks without any discussion.

I wonder whether Wikidata is really the best platform to host Wikimania
talks and information about it. While I have no doubt these are
excellent talks of great interest to Wiki community, their notability in
the larger world is a more difficult question. Specifically, would we
create an item for every talk even for a major conference (not
considering copyright etc. questions now)? We have a lot of conferences
with much wider attendance than Wikimania happening each year.

Now, Wikimania is of course special - for Wiki movement. And having
*some* repository for this content and knowledge would be completely
appropriate. However, is that repository Wikidata - as purported to be
repository of knowledge of general public interest? I am much less sure
of it. Unless we take the wider mission of accepting data about talks on
any conference of note - which may be possible, but I'm not sure whether
it should be done... If yes, then of course clear policy statement to
that effect may be helpful - so people who are not sure about it like me
would know what the community consensus has arrived to.
--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@wikimedia.org

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