Mastodawn

With #Wikidata increasingly used and gaining traction in academic contexts (including #GLAM ), we should engage with the larger community in earnest. I just became aware of the discussions around the reform of current notability policies: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Notability_policy_reform. Even though this seems mainly focussed on self-promotion, it also addresses the underlying infrastructural problems of the platform by limiting the growth of the knowledge graph, and might heavily impact what we can and cannot do with Wikidata.

We should therefore seriously engage with the issue and participate in the discussion.

Also tagging some colleagues active on the Wikiverse: @JensB @awinkler @rettinghaus

#WikiKult #OpenGLAM #DigitalHumanities @dhandlib

Wikidata:Requests for comment/Notability policy reform - Wikidata

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Mia Mar 10

@tillgrallert I raised this in a conversation with Wikimedia UK folk recently. I'd respond to the consultation but the structure is a bit confusing - I'm not sure which questions are considered settled and which are still open for discussion

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Till Grallert Mar 10

@mia I find these comment pages extremely confusing too. One can reply to each and every comment but it’s not clear where it would matter and to whom

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Mia Mar 10

@tillgrallert I'm kinda glad it's not just me, but it's also a bit depressing. How many norms does one need to know before commenting?

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Till Grallert

@mia and where to find them? These opaque (at least for me) decision making processes are currently the largest obstacle to convincing more people to actively contribute to the Wikiverse. It always feels as if a) there is a widely accepted and well-established process and b) that somehow I am the only one not aware of this common knowledge. A bit like the Fediverse, now that I think about it.