Hi Amir,
2015-03-10 14:31 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>il>:
[ Aude and Christian Consonni, this should especially
interest you. ]
:-)
Luca already posted the link that summarizes my idea about Wikidata and OSM.
2015-03-10 17:38 GMT+01:00 Luca Martinelli <martinelliluca(a)gmail.com>om>:
I just want to add a little bit of context to this, and I want to say
that this proposal stemmed out of what I saw as one of the major
advantages of Wikidata over - say - DBpedia, i.e. the integration with
the other Wikimedia projects through Mediawiki.
I remember that when Wikidata was launched in Washington one key
element behind the idea of using Mediawiki to build a data repository
- which to me looked a little crazy (and perhaps a litlle more than
just a little) back then, and in part it still does - was that using
Mediawiki would have provided the users with the same environment that
they were (and are) used to when they edit the projects. Even keeping
the same structure of the site was considered a plus.
In the same sense I wondered "what would happen if we do the same
thing with OSM?" Would this facilitate the integration of OSM data and
Wikipedia data in the same way that Wikidata is facilitating the
integration of data among all the WIkimedia projects?
I don't know if I have misunderstood or overestimated this "unified
environment" factor, or if this idea was just born out of a period
where in Wikimedia Italia we were like "Let's use Wikibase
everywhere!" (we have a project where we are using Wikibase outside of
Wikidata: the EAGLE project [1]. it is going very well and we are very
happy about it).
The next idea was that it should be synchronized with OSM and then I
realized that the net effect would be that this system would provid a
new editor for OSM data, perhaps more specialized and focused in
particular for tags.
And that's basically it.
C
[1]
http://www.eagle-network.eu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page