[Wikimedia-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic

[Gerard Meijssen]

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.html

On 11 April 2012 10:09, Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrandecic at wikimedia.de>wrote:

> 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 at 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 at 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.
> > http://www.theatlantic.com/**
> > > technology/archive/2012/04/**the-problem-with-wikidata/**255564/<
> >
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-problem-with-wikidata/255564/
> > >
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