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@gmail.com>:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@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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