Thanks Sam, your answer warms my soul!
And you summarize my key points excellent, (and clearer than I managed myself)
@Gerard: Our visions are very close and I support yours in general. On a more concrete level it seems we have some different views, it could be misundertandings from my side, it could be that we think of different article subject segments or even that we have different perspective on what can be feasible at different point in time. My strong belief (and life experience) is that is in the meeting of different perspectives, like ours in this case, that really bright concepts and solutions turns up! And unfortunately a mail list is not really working for an exchange of ideas and concepts, so I wonder over possibilities to have some time a IRL gathering to really discuss through these issues and reach new enlightenments. I am open to anywhere anyplace, Wikimania could be one opportunity if it does not put this a bit far away. Or could we create a special subtrack at Wikimania for this??
Anders
Samuel Klein skrev 2014-02-06 21:29:
@Anders: I seem to have unintentionally derailed your excellent thread. My apologies; I've taken responses to that subthread offline. To return to your main point: we do need 'A strategy for semi-automated article generation; and inclusion of Wikidata'.
Anders Wennersten writes: < [we] will not be able to achieve our goal without... technical expertise < (like knowledge in Lua, how to write datainterface to external dataproviders)
And it is important to attract and expand this sort of expertise. Not only through local chapter support but through collaboration across different project-communities, as you say.
@Gerard: I second your vision for Wikidata. It is a natural place to cultivate tools for large-scale creation and enhancement of information. And for now it seems open to experimentation, being bold, trying and reverting things.
Wikidata is a wiki. You indicate that the official sources need work. Wikidata is a good place to work on this.
+1 !
Sam.
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