[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

[Jan Kucera (Kozuch)]

I too support the creation of Wikidata. Unfortunately, in the global decline of Wikimedia participation, even the Foundation is unable to help ignite a new valuable project that is desperately needed in order to bring in some new participation... sad situation. I wonder what the 50+ Foundation staffers are working on, if they are not able to help out little bit with such and important idea...

Kozuch

> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
> Předmět: Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata
> Datum: 23.11.2010 00:33:40
> ----------------------------------------
> 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.
> 
> --
> John Vandenberg
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