Date: Thu, 14
Mar 2013 13:50:02 +0100
From: psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org
To: wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] question about Inclusion policy discussion
Le 2013-03-14 02:09, Michael Hale a écrit :
I think of Wikidata as the symbiotic version of
Freebase. I won't
say
Freebase is a parasite, but I think a core aspect
of Wikidata is
that
edits to the database will often feed back into
the encyclopedia
in
various places. I haven't looked too much at
the technical
implementation of Wikidata yet, but databases with billions of
items
aren't that rare anymore.
In this connection, I would like to take advantage to ask if we
should
include references in wikidata, and —what would be even more
awesome–
relations between statements/theses and a particular author. I think
this could benefit wikipedia with the no-original work goal, and
making
references cross-chapters consistent.
Moreover this could also be used to associate a statement
attribution
reliability and a statement relevancy reliability. Let's say I read
an
article on some foreign antiquity culture. This article report some
statements which are, at first glanced, well sourced. But one
reference
happened to be a book that I can't get. A research prove me that the
book indeed exists, but is no longer publicly available. So I can't
check if what is claimed in the wikipedia article is what is claimed
in
the book. But other people may have a copy, so they could give
feedback
to the community confirming or invaliding that the statement can
indeed
be found in the book. Now an other case may be that a reference is
readable directly on the internet, but the text is written in a
forreign
dead language that you don't know, nor find an automatic translator.
So
despite having the source right before your eyes, you can't check
that
the text make the statement. You may of course ask a validation in
discussion page, or check if someone let feedback on the topic. But
it
would be far better if knowledgeable people feedback could be
gathered
whatever the chapter they use, and redistributed in all chapters.
What do you think of that ?
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