Hello,
I'm interested in installations of Wikibase (the software behind
Wikidata) that are used outside Wikimedia projects. While we have
already collected some, we are interested in getting to know more of them.
Do you run an installation? Do you know of installations of Wikibase "in
the wild"?
Comments and links are much appreciated!
Cheers,
Jens
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Jens Ohlig
Software Communication Strategist
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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Once upon a time there was an awesome maps company called Mapzen
<https://mapzen.com/>. All of their software was open source and all their
data sets were licensed under a free license.
Sadly they are shutting down <https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/>.
One of their projects was Who's on First <https://www.whosonfirst.org/> which
is a gazetteer <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer> of places. The
data is a huge collection
<https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data> of geojson files
hosted on github.
The place files include a concordance of ids in other systems... including
Wikidata. :)
Mapzen used the data in Wikidata in their Places API
<https://mapzen.com/documentation/places/> (source code
<https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-www>) to translate place names.
I'm not sure if we would have any interest in using/importing this data in
Wikidata, but I thought I'd make more people aware of an awesome free
license data set that needs some help now that Mapzen is going away.
Thanks for everything you do!
David Barratt