wikidata is an incredible powerful concept (the early success / adoption in technically savvy circles hints as much) but developing the fullness of its potentia

wikidata is an incredible powerful concept (the early success / adoption in technically savvy circles hints as much) but developing the fullness of its potential will require a lot of further work on both technical matters, content, usability and transparency / governance / acceptance by world-wide users. abstract wikipedia and related directions are (imho obviously) mission creep, raising the bar to possibly unrealistic heights and thus creating the conditions for criticism of what is (I repeat) one of the few unambiguously good online platforms out there... Afterthought: a premonition of the rise and fall of mozilla (and the string of its failed projects). surveillance capitalists can waste billions at "moonshoots" but non-profits must justify every penny. this is the world we live in, alas