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Speaking of politics, that's often why Wikidata is not linked to Wikipedia. Most of the smaller language Wikipedias are eager to use Wikidata, as it provides da
by oxguy3 6y ago
Speaking of politics, that's often why Wikidata is not linked to Wikipedia. Most of the smaller language Wikipedias are eager to use Wikidata, as it provides data on a scale they couldn't achieve on their own. But the biggest Wikipedia, the English one, is very resistant to implementing Wikidata support, as they feel their local info is better maintained than Wikidata info. Which is true, but ignores the likelihood that Wikidata would improve very quickly if enwiki started using it. A very short-sighted and selfish attitude.
- drej 6y agoThis is a case of a smaller Wikipedia (a country of 10M people, 400k articles or so). I've talked with our local Wikimedia orgs and there are basically two arguments: 1. It would be fairly difficult to implement an infobox that would load all the data properly (e.g. party membership, by-elections, complex elections etc.) 2. Some people would be sad to see their thousands of manual edits being replaced by an automated source of information.