On 1 July 2015 at 22:51, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Where to publish entire datasets... Something tells me that this is not
the most urgent and important problem that we have, but the community definitely knows better, so correct me if I'm wrong. I think our main use
I would agree with this. There has historically been a lot of vagueness around the word "data", and a lot of vague suggestions in the early days when Wikidata was still being created... and as a result people sometimes get the impression that Wikidata intends to be a kind of generalised data repository. This is a bit like assuming Wikipedia will take anything that's got words :-)
I wonder if it would be good to identify a couple of good, reliable, repositories we can encourage people to use for this sort of material? This means that even if we have to say to a potential partner "sorry, this isn't what we want", we can still give them advice on how to get it released and available in the most appropriate way. Better than a frustrating back-and-forth...
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