Re:Wikimedia director on commercial use of Wikipedia
by peferron on Thursday March 15, 2018 @02:41AM
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I rather think you're being extremely dramatic, and with zero justifications for why this would suddenly add a "large cognitive load" to Wikipedia (relatively to the load they are already sustaining today), or why it's a "new tasking" that will require new tooling to cope with (rather than reusing the tooling and processes they have been developing for more than a decade to deal with contentious topics), or why it exposes YouTube and the entire industry to "systemic legal and moral risks".
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Re:Wikimedia director on commercial use of Wikipedia
by pika_weedier on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:51AM
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> and with zero justifications for why this would suddenly add a "large cognitive load" to Wikipedia
Because if a video about say, 9-11 conspiracy theories, will have an infobox added to it which quotes the first par of a Wikipedia article, makers and viewers of such a video will go to Wikipedia and edit the first par to front-load the information they want to see. This will happen extensively across hundreds of thousands of topics. Many of Wikipedia's policies and processes won't apply to these new edit wars because they are about whether or not information can be included, rather than which information appears in the introductory part.