Hoi, Wikidata is not Wikipedia. When it is imported from Wikipedia it often says so. It does not mean that all the related data is from one Wikipedia and consequently the composite data is information that may be relevantly different.
Again you insist on your point of view. If you think that Wikidata is inferior for the reasons that you give; fine. Never mind, move on.
In the mean time we will continually improve the quality of Wikidata and when Wikipedians fail to take notice they will find slowly but surely that the information in Wikidata is increasingly superior in the one area where it is most obvious: the silly mistakes that come to light when it is not only one Wikipedia that is the source of data. Thanks, GerardM
On 13 December 2015 at 16:57, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
Jane,
The issue is that you can't cite one Wikipedia article as a source in another. If, as some envisage, you were to fill Wikipedia's infoboxes with Wikidata content that's unsourced, or sourced only to a Wikipedia, you'd be doing exactly that, and violating WP:V in the process:
"Do not use articles from Wikipedia as sources. Also, do not use *websites that mirror Wikipedia content or publications that rely on material from Wikipedia as sources*." (WP:CIRCULAR)
That includes Wikidata. As long as Wikidata doesn't provide external sourcing, it's unusable in Wikipedia.
Andreas
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com wrote:
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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