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User:BlaueBlüte/Wikidata mini-series

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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

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1. Motivation

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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!

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presented at WikiWednesday NYC, April 2017

3. Strongly formalized, yet still a cultural artifact

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(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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n. The Dangerous Lure of Supracultural Ontologies

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Discussion

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