Hello. I'd like to absolutely and strongly support the Wikidata project idea (I've suscribed just to write this, so you can imagine). I've been thinking about it before I knew I wasn't the first one. Apart from the strategy proposals, there are more on Meta, and works in that direction (data templates) on de.wiki and en.wiki, at least. In es.wiki I'm trying to open the same way, but only a global project would make sense.
A real database implementation could cost a great effort, so maybe an easier "global templates" solution (in the same way Commons is available for the rest of the projects) should be considered, as there could be useful global templates apart from the data templates. Anyway, I think Wikidata is definitely something we must have. Answering to Michael Peel, if some concrete definition is needed about what Wikidata should be, I'd be glad to help in the process. I wrote more about that subject in the WMF list a few months ago (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/058688.html), but with no luck.
So, my question is: What is needed in order for this to be real? Should I/we/someone make an official proposal to someone or some group?
José Emilio, -jem- in the projects