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A comment on DNS over Wikipedia.

Re:DNS over Wikipedia by kfiven on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:34PM (#33833702)
Why Wikipedia though? Wikidata should be one to get this kind of data and all Wikipedia articles has Wikidata items. On top of that Wikidata even keep records of site name, like when someone change their site name.
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Re:DNS over Wikipedia by dontbenebby on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:53PM (#33834008)
I think a lot of people conflate Wikipedia with the larger Wikimedia organization.

https://www.wikimedia.org/

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Re:DNS over Wikipedia by xd1936 on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:34PM (#33834686)
I suppose the thought process is, more eyeballs are on corresponding Wikipedia pages for entities than are on Wikidata entries, so it's more likely to be corrected/up-to-date.
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Re:DNS over Wikipedia by kfiven on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:30AM (#33841802)
In many type of Infobox on Wikipedia, it's Wikidata which is working from the behind and editing the data in such articles is basically being done at Wikidata.
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Re:DNS over Wikipedia by ranger_danger on Saturday December 03, 2022 @05:34PM (#33848166)
Literally never heard of wikidata, and I doubt most other people have either.
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