Wikidata overtakes Wikipedia

[Poetlister]

Today, Wikidata surpassed Wikipedia English in total number of edits since their respective inceptions ... Note that this only reflects what the statistics special page calls “page edits”, not all contributions across namespaces. And of course the usual disclaimer about human vs bot edits applies.

Antoine Zimmermann on Twitter

Considering how much longer Wikipedia has been running, this is quite impressive. Of course, it must be down mainly to bots.

[Dysklyver]

99% bots importing stuff from existing databases.

[Kumioko]

99% bots importing stuff from existing databases.

Yeah but AWB doesn't work at all on Wikidata so they are all custom bots.

[Poetlister]

We may wonder how much of this stuff is checked to sort out discrepancies between different wikis.

[Bezdomni]

There's certainly an error for the Yellow vests movement at wikidata. If you look at the cumulative views across all .wp, there is no data on the main page at fr.wp (§§). I suppose I could try to figure out whodunit & why. (§§)

[Kumioko]

One of the big negatives to Wikidata is that once it is more developed and matured, it will hold a lot of things like infobox data, categories, etc. Once that's done and that info is moved out of the Wikipedia articles, it will make a lot of the articles a lot less portable. Which is to say, it will be a lot more difficult for other sites to use/import that information and use it outside Wikipedia.

[Poetlister]

One of the big negatives to Wikidata is that once it is more developed and matured, it will hold a lot of things like infobox data, categories, etc. Once that's done and that info is moved out of the Wikipedia articles, it will make a lot of the articles a lot less portable. Which is to say, it will be a lot more difficult for other sites to use/import that information and use it outside Wikipedia.

It means that either other sites must find ways to link to Wikidata, or they'll have to copy the info manually. That's already the case with photos as most are on Commons.

[Bezdomni]

One of the big negatives to Wikidata is that once it is more developed and matured, it will hold a lot of things like infobox data, categories, etc. Once that's done and that info is moved out of the Wikipedia articles, it will make a lot of the articles a lot less portable. Which is to say, it will be a lot more difficult for other sites to use/import that information and use it outside Wikipedia.

It means that either other sites must find ways to link to Wikidata, or they'll have to copy the info manually. That's already the case with photos as most are on Commons.

You can import photos from Commons by filename on any mediawiki installation. Maybe once it's "mature" that, too, could happen, via those boringly named data-Qpoints?

[Kumioko]

Commons works fine in Fandom if you ask the staff to allow it. Only a few wiki's use it though because most of the wiki's on Fandom don't really have articles where commons would be helpful.