On Sep 2, 2017, at 7:47 AM, Jane Darnell
<jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Your note really made me feel so sad. I try to motivate my Wikipedian friends into doing
more on Wikidata and each time they react the way you did, with a sentence like "I
imagined that the mapping between Wikipedia and Wikidata was ultra-automated." I
guess there is something about the "data" word in the same that makes people
assume it is technical, or that being "machine-readable" makes it impossible for
humans to read and without "bot" knowlege, there is no place for "normal
contributors" to help out.
I appreciate this perspective a great deal. I think it's great that you are motivating
users to edit Wikidata--it's really important. Wikidata is nothing (IMHO) without the
human-in-the-loop.
But as a practical matter wouldn't it be useful if there were stubs in Wikidata that
would help editors identify which entities need attention? Or would the vastness of it
cause a problem?
I can certainly see an argument for an embargo period to give counter-vandalism efforts a
chance to triage the new pages. But after that point wouldn't it be useful if a bot
monitored the language wikipedias for new entries and then added them to Wikidata so that
people could fill them out?
I'm just throwing ideas around here, and am not trying to be critical of the current
state of affairs. You all are doing amazing work.
//Ed