Hoi, The point is not about people. It is about presentations given at Wikimania. They represent the best effort at the time of a Wikimania and are therefore highly relevant.
I am sad that people like John misrepresent the issues at hand. They are three:
- are Wikimania talks relevant - should consideration for Wikimedians be any different from the way we treat other people - is it ok for a Wikidata admin to delete a lot of content without any discussion. At this time it is easy to observe that Wikidata do as they please, they require of others big "community" efforts and easily do as they please without considering the Wikidata policies.
Thanks, GerardM
On 1 August 2016 at 09:31, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, A question that is very much under discussion is if presentations like these deserve a place at Wikidata. Given the subject and the relevancy of our current state of mind on subjects like these it makes perfect sense.
We
are already able to produce lists using the tools provided by Magnus to update when new talks of a conference or on a subject are present.
What do we think? Are presentations like these notable? Are the presentations of Wikimania notable?
Context for Gerard's post is:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Controv... https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2016-July/009158.html
I believe it is highly off-topic wrt the subject of this thread about Katherine's talk, which cant be compared with creating Wikidata items about non-notable Wikimedians simply because they presented at Wikimania.
-- John Vandenberg
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