On Apr 8, 2013 12:11 AM, "Risker" <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As I've indicated very early in this thread, Phase 2 affects an area of
English Wikipedia that is already under considerable dispute (i.e.,
infoboxes); requests for comment (RFCs) were already being drafted before
this deployment was being announced. There is a pretty good chance that
issues related to infoboxes will wind up being brought before the
Arbitration Committee within the next few months. English Wikipedia is
not
the place to test this software now. That's what
test wikis are for, and
what voluntary project participation is for.
Aren't the controversial issues along the lines of "who decides whether any
infobox should be used on an article" and possibly "which fields should an
infobox contain"? Both of those issues seem entirely unrelated to whether
or not the data for the fields that are present in the infobox may be
optionally fetched from wikidata.