On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
Could this be part of dbpedia?
dbpedia is about collating the information available on Wikipedia and
providing that as a database for others to use. This is about having a central information store that can be edited to add information. Whilst dbpedia could seed wikidata, they're very different projects in the way they would operate.
I agree.
In my opinion, the Wikimedia Foundation should very seriously look into
starting something like wikidata. I don't suppose there's a facilitator that could be hired that knows about Wikimedia sufficiently to facilitate an on-wiki discussion and formation of a comprehensive proposal to start this project, including bringing together the various people interested in this project?
+1 Definitely want to see this implemented for Wikimedia. We had a bunch of related strategy proposals calling for us to do something like this:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Data.wikimedia.org
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Data-driven_content
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Structured_Data
more...
We have our own data like coordinates that would be great to share across projects. Seeing governments and organisations (e.g. http://data.worldbank.org/, http://data.gov, http://data.gov.uk/ ...) jumping in on doing *open* data, we have an opportunity make use of it for infoboxes, charts, etc. Then, there's geodata from OpenStreetMap and elsewhere...
-Katie (@aude)
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.
-- John Vandenberg
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