User:BlaueBlüte/Wikidata mini-series
The Wikidata mini-series is an incipient sequence of brief presentations offering a gentle introduction to, and eventually critique of, Wikidata from a Wikipedia point of view. The series can conceivably be presented at subsequent chapter meetups or similar, as the apparent success of its first installment has shown.
Episodes
[edit]1. Motivation
[edit]- presented at WikiWednesday NYC, Februrary 2017
- interwikilinks
- complexity of all-to-all linking
- listing elements of connected components
2. Let’s Make It an Ontology!
[edit]- presented at WikiWednesday NYC, April 2017
3. Strongly formalized, yet still a cultural artifact
[edit]- (including discussion)
- presented (and discussed) at WikiWednesday NYC, May 2017
- Wikidata contents as structured data
- Structured and expressed in terms of Wikidata properties
- Wikidata properties are outcomes of discursive process, subject to human flaws
Some voices from the ensuing discussion at the meetup:
- Having to deal with structured data can be helpful because if forces editors to think more logically.
- Often (e.g., Wikiproject Opera the community feels that it should be up to the community to what degree an article is structured or literary—think infoboxes etc.
- Structured data can help liberal-arts-type people glean insight and see connections otherwise overlooked or more tedious to trace.
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[edit]n. The Dangerous Lure of Supracultural Ontologies
[edit]Discussion
[edit]- Feedback on this effort is welcome. Please leave comments etc. on the pertinent talk page.