On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Luca Martinelli
<martinelliluca(a)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
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