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