Hoi, There were lists of Wikimania talks for the Wikimanias. So these items were not standing alone they were in context and THAT is what makes it attractive to have them. We do have Wikimanias as items and on there own they do not provide information. Looking at them from only WIkidata you do not get the picture. Thank <enter your deity> that Magnus has his fantastic tools that allow us to show the value of data. Thanks, GerardM
On 31 July 2016 at 22:47, Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi!
Ask yourself what it is about.. It is about the Wikimania talks. What was done is removing all the Wikimania talks without any discussion.
I wonder whether Wikidata is really the best platform to host Wikimania talks and information about it. While I have no doubt these are excellent talks of great interest to Wiki community, their notability in the larger world is a more difficult question. Specifically, would we create an item for every talk even for a major conference (not considering copyright etc. questions now)? We have a lot of conferences with much wider attendance than Wikimania happening each year.
Now, Wikimania is of course special - for Wiki movement. And having *some* repository for this content and knowledge would be completely appropriate. However, is that repository Wikidata - as purported to be repository of knowledge of general public interest? I am much less sure of it. Unless we take the wider mission of accepting data about talks on any conference of note - which may be possible, but I'm not sure whether it should be done... If yes, then of course clear policy statement to that effect may be helpful - so people who are not sure about it like me would know what the community consensus has arrived to. -- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org
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