I agree getting bogged down on one item of data isnt helpful but the data does need to show its disputed and the data item on Israel https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q801 should at least have Tel Aviv listed as its mentonym
within the database because the data base
is applying one truth where there is no one truth for everyone. This will always be the single biggest flaw of Wikidata no matter how data is presented it can never be the absolute truth
The Jerusalem/Israel example where the data doesnt indicate its disputed means that it will propagated as an absolute truth...
Then again this is shifting away from the original concern over quality that the ability to verify the information isnt clear combined with the CC0 license the already established practice on other sources. Wikidata for falsehoods being easily manipulated its going to have a impact.
On 10 December 2015 at 16:44, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
Amen to that! This discussion about Jerusalem reminds me of the discussion we had about the nationality of Anne Frank. For those interested, there have been some heated debates about whether Mobile should use the text in Wikidata "label descriptions" or rather some basic presentation of the P31 property. Most descriptions are still blank anyway. Personally I think texts such as "capital of Israel" or "holocaust victim" are both better than blank, but many disagree with me.
Both of these represent associated items that have a lot of eyes on them, but what about our more obscure items? Lots of these may be improved by the people who originally created a Wikipedia page for them. As a Wikipedia editor who has created over 2000 Wikipedia pages, I feel somewhat dismayed at the idea that I need to walk through this long list and add statements to their Wikidata items as the responsible party who introduced them to the Wikiverse in the first place. But if I had a gadget that would tell me which of my created Wikipedia articles had 0-3 statements, I would probably update those.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
Criag is right this cant be fixed within the database because the data
base
is applying one truth where there is no one truth for everyone. This
will
always be the single biggest flaw of Wikidata no matter how data is presented it can never be the absolute truth unless its measurable
through
some mathematical scientific process that can replicated by everyone, translated into any language.
Wikipedia's answer is to present all considerations in an equal manor
and
not interpret the facts....
Wikidata defines what is fact, what is truth, what is right thats a big task and is something the community has never tackled before... should
we
even try, has the damage already been done or should we narrow the
range
of
recorded data, could we flag alternatives, could we give a measure of acceptance for each fact. are there alternative means....
That is actually not correct. We have built Wikidata from the very beginning with some core believes. One of them is that Wikidata isn't supposed to have the one truth but instead is able to represent various different points of view and link to sources claiming these. Look for example at the country statements for Jerusalem: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1218 Now I am the first to say that this will not be able to capture the full complexity of the world around us. But that's not what it is meant to do. However please be aware that we have built more than just a dumb database with Wikidata and have gone to great length to make it possible to capture knowledge diversity.
Cheers Lydia
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