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