Hoi, It is interesting that people consider the potential negative aspects and forgets about the positive.
For me the big thing is that translatable info boxes is a perfect method of populating relevant information in stub articles. This is of particular relevance to the smaller Wikipedias, the projects where people are actively building something up. I noticed on the Zulu Wikipedia that they are working hard on doing something like this. Being able to translate the labels, some words relating to the content.
There is also the notion of NPOV. Yes, sometimes people will fight over the numbers but this will benefit the whole of Wikipedia. Thanks, Gerard
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/04/wikidata-and-what-it-can-do-for....
On 11 April 2012 10:09, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.dewrote:
I agree that Mark has written a nice article, but I disagree with some of his conclusions, as you can find in my comment on the page (alas, not permalinkable).
Andreas, do you think that it is easier to monopolise and manipulate information on Wikidata, visible to potentially many editors and users coming from different backgrounds, than it would be in a Wikipedia language edition with a small number of active editors? I.e. do you think that Wikidata *increases* that danger, or merely does not improve the situation, or maybe even has the chance of leading to a less likely to be manipulated system?
Cheers, Denny
2012/4/11 Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com
I would like to second that recommendation. I read that article too, and thought it highly relevant.
Information is power, and there is a real danger of both monopolisation
and
manipulation of information here.
Andreas
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:46 AM, En Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com
wrote:
Here's an opinion piece, "The Problem with Wikidata", by Mark Graham,
who
"is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute," which appears
on
The Atlantic's website. I'm not personally supporting or opposing his
views
but I found this to be an interesting read.
technology/archive/2012/04/**the-problem-with-wikidata/**255564/<
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-problem-with-wikid...
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