Hi!
john cummings:
I guess the issue may be different for Wikipedia and Wikidata in that the size of the community to number of items/articles is very different.
That's correct, so flagged revisions wouldn't work on Wikidata, but we need different approaches. I believe that the approach of locking single statements against changes by anonymous / very new editors would be a good one.
Federico Leva (Nemo):
All the datasets I've seen imported on Wikidata have been improved significantly on the wiki. Of course, one has to live with the fact that the dataset will diverge.
You probably mean items by speaking of "datasets". Items will diverge and be improved, no doubt. However, there are single statements (!) that are proven to be correct (possibly in connection with qualifiers) and are no subject to being changed in future. Locking these statements would make them much less risky to obtain them and use them directly in Wikipedia. What would be the disadvantage of this, given that slightly experienced users can still edit them and the lock is only a protection against anonymous vandalism?
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