[Wikipedia-l] Commons Database

[Michal Rosa]

On 11/29/07, Michal Rosa <michal.rosa at gmail.com> wrote:

Doh!  Never find, it was just pointed out to me that a project like
that already exists - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

Thanks anyway :)

> Please excuse my ignorance if a proposal such as this one has already
> been discussed already (perhaps it's a wrong mailing list) but I could
> not find any information about it.
>
> Has it ever been discussed, considered to establish a central database
> (in a manner of Commons) to hold information such as for example basic
> statistical data about population, area, geographical data etc etc for
> towns, cities or even countries?  If data like that was to be stored
> in one central location it would be possible to link to it from
> Wikipedias and it would make it easier to update such data and it
> would make it consistent across all projects.  Just a quick example,
> according to en Wiki the population of Washington DC is 581,530,
> German Wiki says it's 548.360, according to French Wiki it's 553 523
> and Polish Wiki states it's 582 049.
>
> If data like that was stored in a central location, one could just
> update it once and all projects would show the same information.  Also
> it would make it easy for bots to create articles containing basic
> demographical data about towns and localities based on such
> information.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Michal "roo72" Rosa
>


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Michal "roo72" Rosa