[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

[John Vandenberg]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brian J Mingus
<brian.mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> >
>> > As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
>> > staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
>> > As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic
>> > mediawiki by WMF, it would be good for that someone to already
>> > experienced with semantic medawiki.
>> >
>> >
>> Agree. Starting using SMW for a brand new project for data
>> could solve all the issues that prevented it
>> to be used until now? Hope it could.
>> it would be extremely helpful for project like Commons and Wikisource
>> (just talking about data now)
>>
>> Aubrey.
>
>
> SMW would have to be completely redesigned for use in a project with
> millions of pages and millions of attributes where arbitrary queries are
> possible.

What limitations would be useful to get the project off the ground?

Some ideas:

The data project is initially only used/queried by Wikipedia projects,
and then cached on the Wikipedia side

The data project is initially limited to only geographic entities.

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John Vandenberg