Wikipedia talk:Meetup/NYC/Action=History March 2017

Some observations
Regarding the formalization of ethnicity (as a property of a person), arguments were being made both in favor of:
 * 1) Recording the ethnicity as per how the person identifies
 * (Some seemed to favor doing this in contemporary categories and terms regardless of when the person in question was/is alive.)
 * 1) Reflecting reputable records, e.g. in libraries and museums
 * (It was pointed out that these records avail themselves of the terms in use at the time.)

Regarding the didactics of Wikidata and a possible need for more specific teaching/training: BlaueBlüte (talk) 04:37, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Abstraction and the non-lingual/formalized nature of concepts/items/properties is generally not well understood.
 * (reflected in widespread concern that items are missed in queries when “[the records are] not labeled with the right words”)