Thanks for that essay, Lydia! You said it well, and I especially agree with what you wrote about trust and believing in ourselves. I had to laugh at some of the comments, because if you substitute "Wikipedia" for "Wikidata" those comments could have been written 3 years ago before Wikidata came on the scene.
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de wrote:
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.
I've taken the time and written a longer piece about data quality and knowledge diversity on Wikidata for the current edition of the Signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-12-09/Op-ed
Cheers Lydia
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