I sense a bit of consensus even across the projects. I think both options
have their pros and cons:
An independent project will require a lot of MediaWiki related knowledge
that is not necessarily found in an initial group of interested
individuals. Or combined OSM, MediaWiki & Wikidata knowledge, which may be
even more sparse. It would be more relaxed in regard to rules and
guidelines. Could it be re-integrated to Wikidata later, or would it run to
in-evident oblivion?
An integrated path would require complying to all guidelines eg. re:
notability. It would cause a lot of waiting time for reaching consensus
while defining properties - which is also needed in an independent project.
Once consensus would be achieved, the development could be fast. There
would be continuous maintenance and development in relation to the main
Wikidata project. This option would require a lot of negotiating between
the Wikimedia project/community, the OSM/OHM project/community and also
those who have done research on the topics outside these projects. It might
prove impossible. In the end, the data would be more easily integrated to
other kinds of data, and adopted outside the project for reuse.
Are you going to be in the Zürich hackathon to discuss this?
Susanna
2014-03-20 17:28 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Given that we want to collaborate with
openstreetmap we could host it for
them
I like the idea of a Wikibase-powered OSM data repository, it is a pity
that the WM Incubator is only for language versions of existing projects
and not for new projects... OTOH, since Wikidata is (or is supposed to be)
language-agnostic, couldn't we argue that domain-specific data projects are
to wikidata what language editions are to wikipedia?
I wonder how hard would be to set-up a labs Wikibase instance for OSM
developers to experiment with it? Or even if it would be enough interest?
Thanks,
Micru
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