Hoi, You write about your fear, uncertainty and doubt .. Why have us waste time on it? Do something useful. Thanks, GerardM
On 26 January 2016 at 11:33, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 26, 2016 5:24 AM, "Magnus Manske" magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 7:33 AM Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com
wrote:
<snipping most of Mangnus' message, which I appreciate and agree with>
If you have even minimum indications of "evil" WMF plans for Wikidata, please share them! Saying "I know nothing about their plans, therefore
they
must be evil" doesn't really cut it.
Indeed, if that were what I was saying...that would be nuts!
I do not have an opinion on the quality (or moral value, for that matter!) of whatever plans the senior leadership of WMF has around structured data, search, discovery, knowledge engines, etc.
But I do find the secretive approach to planning problematic.
The plans may very well turn out to be good ones (as I said in my original message). But that will not justify the level of secrecy we are seeing lately.
Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
Wikidata is not a problem; but it is something that could be leveraged
in
problematic ways (and/or highly beneficial ways).
I feel it is very important that we start looking at these issues from
that
perspective.
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