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

1. Motivation

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!

presented at WikiWednesday NYC, April 2017

3. Strongly formalized, yet still a cultural artifact

(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.

Discussion

Feedback on this effort is welcome. Please leave comments etc. on the pertinent talk page.