Hoi,
The difference between the use of quality images from Commons and
establishing what is correct is quite distinct. With Commons it is an
esthetic difference, with these lists it is about the credibility of the
data involved.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 November 2015 at 09:53, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gerard,
I think this was always the case. Most Wikidatans are as at home on
Wikipedia as they are on Commons. The issue you describe also happened to
Commons - both communities feel the other is less focussed on quality. Many
Commonists spend hours on high quality images and these are rarely picked
up by Wikipedia unless a Commonist notices and does so in their own
language. There is no requirement for Wikipedians to get to know any other
project and this is normal wiki behavior. We don't want anyone to feel
pressured to do anything they feel uncomfortable doing. It's already
difficult to get Wikipedians to do small tasks like add catagories to their
articles. The list of things necessary to create an acceptable article on
Wikipedia just seems to get longer and longer, while the associated work
for illustrations of that article or for data of that article is not even
mentioned in current AfC policies on Wikipedia. I have thought about this,
but I still think we need to break down the list of things necessary to
make new short articles on Wikipedia, not extend the list. So in summary, I
think that what you describe is normal predictable behavior for a
"Wikipedia support" project such as Commons and Wikidata. This will change
as more and more external users find out that Commons and Wikidata are
valuable resources in and of themselves. This is already the case for many
GLAMs which have found collaborations with Commons to be valuable
experiences. I have high hopes this will become the case for Wikidata as
well.
Jane
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
At Wikidata we often find issues with data imported from a Wikipedia.
Lists
have been produced with these issues on the
Wikipedia involved and
arguably
they do present issues with the quality of
Wikipedia or Wikidata for that
matter. So far hardly anything resulted from such outreach.
When Wikipedia is a black box, not communicating about with the outside
world, at some stage the situation becomes toxic. At this moment there
are
already those at Wikidata that argue not to
bother about Wikipedia
quality
because in their view, Wikipedians do not care
about its own quality.
Arguably known issues with quality are the easiest to solve.
There are many ways to approach this subject. It is indeed a quality
issue
both for Wikidata and Wikipedia. It can be seen
as a research issue; how
to
deal with quality and how do such mechanisms
function if at all.
I blogged about it..
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/11/what-kind-of-box-is-wikipedia.ht…
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