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by drej
1753 days ago
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It’s fairly difficult from the other side as well - contributing. I’ve been trying to complete wikidata from a few open source datasets I am intensly familiar with… and it’s been rather painful. WD is the sole place I have ever interacted with that uses RDF, so I always forget the little syntax I learned last time around. I have some pre-existing queries versioned, because I’ll never be able to write them again. I even went to a local Wikimedia training to get acquainted with some necessary tooling, but I’m still super unproductive compared to e.g. SQL. It’s sad, really, I’d love to contribute more, but the whole data model is so clunky to work with. |
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Unless the attitude becomes "all facts in infoboxes and most tables come from WD", the two "datasets" will continue diverging. That is obviously more easily said than done, because relying on WD makes Wikipedia contribution a lot more difficult... and that pretty much defeats its purpose.