To be sure, some of the arguments had merit - better sourcing needed, BLP, user interface improvements, etc.
But I was astonished to see many remarks amounting to, “Never Wikidata.”
A significant number saw EN.WP as its own exceptional isolated sustainable entity that would only be polluted or weakened by decentralizing control with Wikidata-generated content. Or that the sharing in the sum of all human knowledge (and therefore, citations) was of no interest.
That’s quite sad to see.
-Andrew
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com wrote:
I would say the arguments of users who voted to delete the template have merit, and the template was kept (and not even banished to the draft space) under the condition that attemps will be made to reduce the issues.
Cheers Yaroslav
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Robert Fernandez wikigamaliel@gmail.com wrote:
While Wikidata certainly has concerns to deal with about accuracy and vandalism, I think we need to push back against this mindset that Wikipedia works perfectly while Wikidata is this unregulated free-for-all. I've run into editors on en.wp objecting to a Wikidata infobox displaying the very same information that was unsourced in that Wikipedia article for nearly a decade. Both are a work in progress, both can do better, and these should not be barriers to progress or integration.
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 19 September 2017 at 19:18, Dario Taraborelli dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:
I wanted to draw your attention to a deletion nomination discussion
for an
experimental template – {{Cite Q}} – pulling bibliographic data from Wikidata:
Closed as "no consensus"; it's worth reading the full comment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templa tes_for_discussion/Log/2017_September_15&curid=55240730&diff =803445497&oldid=803444684
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