Not going to lie, this is totally over my head technically — but on the face of it this seems like a big story.

Might be an idea to retweet @wikidata (https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/544937681567117313) or @WikimediaDE (https://twitter.com/WikimediaDE/status/544935659006607360)?

Joe

On 17 December 2014 at 12:04:25 am, Fabrice Florin (fflorin@wikimedia.org) wrote:

Hi guys,

Here’s another piece of movement news that seems worth spreading in social media:

Google just announced plans to wind down its Freebase service and to transfer the Freebase data in to Wikidata in mid-2015.

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z122wpyxhob0hjoik04cc3vatw2zfv4zszk0k

This may sound a bid geeky, but it’s a big deal because it shows wide adoption of our open source structured data format by an industry giant.

t: Goodbye Freebase, hello Wikidata! Kudos to everyone at @wikidata for this great achievement ! 

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z122wpyxhob0hjoik04cc3vatw2zfv4zszk0k

I tweeted it here, if you want to simply retweet:

https://twitter.com/fabriceflorin/status/544958206733086720

This lead comes courtesy of Andrew Lih, who has a very keen eye for important Wikimedia stories :)

Cheers,

Fabrice

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