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Lesson 01 1.3 Relationship with other wiki projects: distinguish Wikidata from Dbpedia? #16

Closed eslao closed 5 years ago

eslao commented 5 years ago

Might it be useful to briefly state that Wikidata is not Dbpedia? I have, anecdotally, seen this cause confusion among librarians. Making distinctions between the goals of the two projects (and where they overlap) might also help participants to understand the relationship between Wikidata and Wikipedia. (Apologies if this idea has already been discussed.)

eslao commented 5 years ago

Dbpedia is mentioned in 2.4 ("How Wikidata compares with other data sets") -- is that where this question should be addressed? Should 1.3 be relabeled to something more explicitly about linking, like "Linking Wikidata to Wikipedia"? Or "Linking Wikidata to other Wiki resources" (I could imagine covering Wikimedia Commons image links here, etc)?

konrad commented 5 years ago

Thanks for raising this, @eslao. As we want to be part 1 as simple as possible we describe the difference between Wiidata and DBpedia in 2.4. We will rename 1.3.