According to wikidata editors, is it possible to index web sources and collate their data on WD?
How do they deal with bulks or pieces of data that may be provided by users ?
Indexing the web does not require agreements, since any web crowler of search engines works indeed like that.
Here, a crowd of people can coordinate themselve to create a consistent database.
I believe consistency is a key to serve
Anyone in the world.
Anyone can use Wikidata for any number of different ways by using its application programming interface.
I think applications that have "value" in the sense of corporate datasets can be built over data including business profiles and ownership towards other participated /subsidiaries companies and stakeholders who participate in the business.
Imagine a minimised version of Bloomberg of Bureau Van Dijk, free to serve anyone in the world.
***I think I could contribute in three ways:
- collecting data
- designing test-application to facilitate crowd-sourced addition of data
- providing a simplified guide to treat Wikidata properties on a specific case (a kind of info-graphic, but need very clear guidance in the entities and properties for corporates).