On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Gnangarra gnangarra@gmail.com wrote:
5.People need to able to trust all data in WikiData, otherwise they just wont use it because as Wikidata expands the same PR firms, interest
groups
which have seen so many of WP issues will gravitate to the easier to manipulate WikiData
I think the potential problem here is far worse: people *will use* the data, because their lack of trustworthiness, as amply described in the Wikidata disclaimer[1], is no longer visible when they're displayed as "fact" by dominant search engines.
It's worth mentioning:
Dominant search engines do not rely on one source of information to surface results, they get information from many sources, weigh the responses they get based on the trust on the sources and many other factors, and aggregate to find the best answer to be shown to the user. I just used "chicken pox" as a search query in Google, I see an information box on the right-hand-side of the page about the disease, and when I click on Sources I get this page https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2364942?p=medical_conditions&rd=1 ("See where we found the medical information") which shows all the sources Google has used to retrieve information about chicken pox from, nothing in that list starts with wiki. Of course, this is not the case for all search queries, for some of them, Google still uses Wikipedia snippets.
Leila