Hi Peter,

Wikidata is thought of as a knowledge base by not only you and me, but also Denny Vrandecic and Markus Kroetzsch [1] and many others. 

I said that one of Wikidata's goals is "structuring the sum of all human knowledge" to suggest how Wikidata fits into the vision set out for Wikipedia by Jimmy Wales: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."[2]  One could certainly nitpick both of those statements --  the projects will never have information on how much coffee I have left in my mug as I write this, which is certainly human knowledge -- but neither statement is meant to be especially precise.  They are statements of ambitious vision.

To answer your questions: no, I don't recall getting any pushback from the workshop audience on any of the subjects you asked about.

Best,
Eric
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Emw

1.  Denny Vrandecic, Markus Kroetzsch (2014).  "Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase".  Communications of the ACM.  http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-wikidata/fulltext

2.  Jimmy Wales (2004).  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds".  Slashdot.  http://slashdot.org/story/04/07/28/1351230/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-responds


On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
It's very pleasant to hear from someone else who thinks of Wikidata as a
knowledge base (or at least hopes that Wikidata can be considered as a
knowledge base).  Did you get any pushback on this or on your stated Wikidata
goal of structuring the sum of all human knowledge?

Did you get any pushback on your section on classification in Wikidata?  It
seems to me that some of that is rather controversial in the Wikidata
community.  I was a bit surprised to see class reasoning used on diseases.
This depends on a particular modelling methodology.

peter


On 10/12/2015 11:47 AM, Emw wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Saturday, I facilitated a workshop at the U.S. National Archives entitled
> "An Ambitious Wikidata Tutorial" as part of WikiConference USA 2015.
>
> Slides are available at:
> http://www.slideshare.net/_Emw/an-ambitious-wikidata-tutorial
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_Ambitious_Wikidata_Tutorial.pdf


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