wrote: 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(a)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/z122wpyxhob0hjoik04cc3vatw2zfv4zsz… 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/z122wpyxhob0hjoik04cc3vatw2zfv4zsz… 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 _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Volunteer m: +44 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> _______________________________________________ Social-media mailing list Social-media(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media