On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
But at the same time, Wikidata is supposed to inform the Wikipedias, as a central data repository. This creates a mismatch between Wikidata's
"early
days -- anything goes, let's just get content in, we'll sort it out
later"
attitude and the relatively mature Wikipedias where editors insist on sources for any new content added.
This out-of-synch-ness is a real problem if you want Wikipedias to
actually
use Wikidata content. Wikipedians will not accept content generation
models
that take Wikipedia back to its bad old days where you could write
anything
you liked without a source to back it up.
Andreas, I think there's an important piece you're missing (or at least not explicitly acknlowledging) here.
Very few of the Wikipedias are "relatively mature." To the extent Wikidata is meant to help Wikipedia, I believe it is meant to help the less mature Wikipedias benefit from the more robust research into sources etc. that takes place at the big ones -- and help the big ones notice when they have out-of-sync information from one another, and make informed decisions about what to do about it.
The analysis you offer here doesn't seem granular enough to capture this, and seems to miss the primary value of Wikidata when it comes to Wikipedia.
Thoughts? Pete
Pete,
Yes, those are good points I missed.
Andreas