[Wikidata-l] Wikidata name consistency - Wikidata

9 May 2012

Dear Wikidata people,

I see that there is now a mess in names, and I don't see
where (or if) this has been discussed anywhere.

There is the "Wikidata extension" (on which the OmegaWiki dictionary is
based)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidata
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata
[note: I am a developer of OmegaWiki]

and the "Wikidata project" , using the "Wikibase extension"
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

It would be nice if we could rename some of those to make it more
consistent...
Obviously, "Wikidata" is a wonderful name that everybody wants :-)

I am not opposed to changing the current "Wikidata extension" to something
else, if
this is possible. I am not sure whether it could be renamed to something
like "OmegaWiki extension", since it was not meant to be only used for
OmegaWiki,
but in practice, there is no other implementation of it.
Otherwise, any other name would be fine (Extension:WikiRelationalDB?),
but should probably be discussed with Erik (Moeller) who initiated the
project.

Concerning collaboration between the two projects,
I am not sure why the new-Wikidata is starting from scratch, and not from
the
old-Wikidata, but there are probably good reasons for that.
Would anybody know if, in the future, it would be possible to make OmegaWiki
use the new Wikidata instead of the old one? Or should they stay separate
projects?

Thanks,
Christophe