On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 11:29 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 December 2015 at 15:59, Andreas Kolbe
<jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Can you tell me just whose interests it serves if
re-users do not have to
indicate that the data they're showing their users come from Wikidata?
Max
Klein mused that the big search engines might be
paying for Wikidata "to
remove a blemish on their perceived omniscience", because they can
present
Wikidata content as though they had compiled it
themselves.[1] That is at
least a plausible line of thought; but whom else does it serve?
Anyone who doesn't want to spend way too much of their time worrying about
copyright law.
Re-users are very, very unlikely indeed to spend "way too much of their
time worrying" about, say, having to add the words "Source: Wikidata.
(Disclaimer.)" to their websites -- hyperlinked to
wikidata.org and the
Wikidata disclaimer.
It's a one-minute job.
And that's really all you need to keep the public informed, and provide
them with an instant link to the wiki the data comes from -- so they can
view it there, understand the history of how it was created, and make an
input.
Wikis are about openness and participation, not about presenting the public
with faits accomplis.