On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Jens Best best.jens@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure where you get your impressions, Magnus. But when I discuss ideas for a better implementation of Wikidata into Wikipedia to improve automatisation of repetitive editing procedures, including the implementation of the possible use of structured data, I rarely hear "It Is Not Made Here" or "It's Bad Because Its New".
When it comes to analyse the problems with Wikidata it isn't only about possible early-lifecycle issues(which can be fix), but about the blind spot when it comes to develope working social processes which keep everybody (especially the editors) in the picture.
Community involvement (especially consultations) are often seem to be organized only out of necessity. They not in the middle of the decision-making process. Nobody said that doing things the way they are done in a crowdsourced, community-driven process are easy, but this is no excuse for any Foundation or other similiar entity to set up an intransparent, precendents creating process where community becomes accessories.
I have spent a huge part of my waking hours over the past 4 years making sure that community always comes first in Wikidata. And I will continue to do so. But that doesn't mean that everyone always gets their way because that is simply impossible with the demands people have for Wikidata. What I have been doing and will continue to do is to engage with people on a rational and non-agitated level and hear them out so we can find ways to make it happen or get a better understanding of why something can't be done (yet). What we have created through this is an amazingly friendly, hard working and reasonable community on Wikidata that I am proud of every single day.
Cheers Lydia