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.

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

Some voices from the ensuing discussion at the meetup:
 * Wikidata contents as structured data
 * Structured and expressed in terms of Wikidata properties
 * Wikidata properties are outcomes of discursive process, subject to human flaws
 * 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.