[Wikimedia-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic

[David Gerard]

On 11 April 2012 12:09, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:

> It also fixes the whole death anomalies thing: if someone dies, we can
> update the Wikidata entry, rather than having conflicting information
> on different language versions of Wikipedia. I would think some of our
> more fanatical BLP adherents would rather like that. ;-)


The Atlantic article is arguing against consensus reality existing,
and against NPOV rather than article forks. (This is quite aside from
the writer not understanding the feature and extrapolating from his
misunderstanding.)


- d.