Hi Lydia,
'We' are people who committed professionally to the SMW (and Halo) approach to enterprise computing and 'we' are clients who have invested in this approach. We'll _want_ to install wikidata-client along with smw to get at infobox data (if such is the ultimate design). We'll _want_ to install wikidata-host to stay current with where all the investment dollars, the technical interest, etc, are flowing.
Yet you assert that smw & wikidata have different target groups (without defining either). However, I believe they are the SAME because their objectives are the same: to integrate structured data into the MW editing/display environment. There's not room for multiple implementations of tools with the same objective.
In short, my whole push is that, to be most successful, wikidata must consider the already-available or -installed base of technologies and tools. That's what reinventing the wheel is all about. It's why God took only 6 days to create the world -- there was no installed base to "accommodate".
john
On 13.06.2012 03:00, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13,
2012 at 12:03 AM, jmcclure@hypergrove.com wrote:
Denny said: On
the other hand, you are not the only person thinking that this (Wikitopics) is a good idea (hello Gerard!), and in the long run Wikidata could be extended to such a system -- but for now I regard this to be out of scope for Wikidata and I will not devote resources for this. It can be added later anyway. Denny, I never see the long-run! Anyway, to get real, be aware there are specific concerns about [[wikidata]] within the SMW community in the here and now:
Hey
John,
It'd be great if you could say who "we" is specifically. I am
happy to
discuss issues and find ways to fix them. "We" is making it
seem like
it is the whole SMW community which I know isn't true ;-)
- we worry that our sites are threatened by virtual cessation of SMW
development -- this may already be happening a bit as SMW subjectively seems to be encountering quality control issues lately
Ok. What can
we do to fix this? SMW shouldn't be threatened by
Wikidata nor the
other way around. They have different target groups
for one and can
co-exist.
We are of course trying to share things like result formats
in the future.
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