On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Luca Martinelli martinelliluca@gmail.com wrote:
No offence, but I really don't see why Wikidata should abandon its open approach and create small sacks of "premium items" to preserve the interests of private companies, instead of the common interest in free knowledge, given also that there is no extensive proof of any need for such a radical measure.
Wikidata's rules work because they are the same for everything/everyone and apply in the same way to everything/everybody. If they think their data are so valuable that we cannot be trusted with their maintenance, they can very well keep it.
Agreed. However I don't think we need to see it black and white. There are many things we can do and meet in the middle. Right now for example Lucas and Olga are working hard on showing constraint violations right next to statements and making them available via the API. Additionally a team of students started working on exploratory work for signed statements (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138708). Those are all pieces of the puzzle that will get us to better data quality while still staying an open project. I am sure we can do more in this direction. I should take the time to write down more of my current thinking...
Cheers Lydia