Hoi,

If we want to make visible that our data is good, you have to approach it from another angle. Adding sources to all statements is not going to happen. Comparing data that exists in multiple sources is comparatively easy. When data at Wikidata is the same as a source like VIAF or IMDB, we do not have to give attention to those statements. When we put our effort in the differences we make a difference. Both our quality and their quality improves.

The notions that fear of Wikipedians prevents their take up of our data does not mean that we have to adopt their practices that do not scale.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 4 June 2015 at 12:25, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Markus Krötzsch
<markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:
> That's exactly what I am saying. I think your misconception is that what you
> suggest does not happen because of some opposition from the Wikidata
> community. In reality, it simply does not happen because nobody did it yet,
> neither from the DBpedia nor from the Wikidata community. It does not help
> very much to post arguments of how useful this would be. At least you don't
> need to convince me. What is needed is deed, not talk.

Wikipedians have objections because importing from Wikipedia is
already bad enough in their eyes. Importing from an extraction is even
worse in their eyes. We should have convincing numbers about the
quality of extraction. This is a reputation problem for Wikidata. One
we're spending a lot of time improving and will need to spend a lot
more on.

> The folks working on the primary sources tool are trying to provide a
> standard process for almost arbitrary data imports. It was just my first
> thought for turning your complaint into something that could work as a
> solution -- if you have a better idea which tool to use, feel free to post
> it.

Big +1.

Cheers
Lydia

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