Hi Gerard,
I very much agree. It would be very good to have a discussion on which kind of data can be integrated in which way.
One way or the other, one of the most frequent criticisms of Wikidata is a lack of references, which this tool will tackle on the way as well. And at the same time it will allow for a human curation step, which I think is crucial for the Wikidata community to gain ownership of the data.
Just dumping everything into Wikidata is, in my opinion, not a sustainable solution. But since the data will be released free, well, the community can decide to do it otherwise, obviously.
Cheers,
Denny
On Wed Dec 17 2014 at 8:40:25 AM Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Lane Rasberry <lane@bluerasberry.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Where is the appropriate place on Wikidata to discuss this? This is big
> enough for its own WikiProject. Does it already have one somewhere? Should I
> make one? Actually I just did.
>
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase>
>
> I hardly know what the implications are of this but it seems big enough to
> have a dedicated place for discussion.
>
> Thanks to Denny for whatever role you had in getting access to
> well-developed data collected by another project. I do not understand that
> is happening here but it seems like really good news, and I hope someone
> explains it more.
Thanks for starting the project, Lane. Will you announce it on the
Project chat? That way most people on-wiki will see it and can jump
in. Once it has a bit more content we can announce it more widely.
Cheers
Lydia
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