Nathan, the Enwiki organic category system is not very good. For example, there are no consistent ontological constraints placed on the entire ontological tree (which should not be surprising because the Library of Congress Card Number system, the Dewey decimal system, the SIC ontology, and even Wordnet to some extent, are all insufficient for topic subject matter classification as specializations increase.) As ontologies go, it barely ranks in the fourth decile. Wikidata already has inherent ontology patches to the organic category system, and most if not all of them are compliant with European laws. I am going to love what happens to Wikipedia's organic categories as they meet normal forms.
Enjoy!
Best regards, Jim
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not seeing an argument here for why Wikimedia should adhere to this law, if it is correctly stated by the OP. If France passed a law banning Internet-published photos of living people, how would we approach that law? If Germany barred publishing the place of birth, date of birth or religious preference of public figures? If the United States banned publishing the name of individuals accused of mass murder? Passionate arguments could be made in favor of each, but none of them would support the perspective of an educational organization dedicated to the freedom of knowledge. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe