On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Chris Tophe kipmaster@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Wikidata people,
I see that there is now a mess in names, and I don't see where (or if) this has been discussed anywhere.
There is the "Wikidata extension" (on which the OmegaWiki dictionary is based) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidata http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata [note: I am a developer of OmegaWiki]
and the "Wikidata project" , using the "Wikibase extension" http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata
It would be nice if we could rename some of those to make it more consistent... Obviously, "Wikidata" is a wonderful name that everybody wants :-)
I am not opposed to changing the current "Wikidata extension" to something else, if this is possible. I am not sure whether it could be renamed to something like "OmegaWiki extension", since it was not meant to be only used for OmegaWiki, but in practice, there is no other implementation of it. Otherwise, any other name would be fine (Extension:WikiRelationalDB?), but should probably be discussed with Erik (Moeller) who initiated the project.
We deliberately use Wikibase for the extensions to distinguish the project and the software - think Wikimedia and MediaWiki for example. As to the Wikidata extension being renamed to something else to avoid confusion: That is entirely up to the owners of it (which should be Erik and Gerard) of course.
Concerning collaboration between the two projects, I am not sure why the new-Wikidata is starting from scratch, and not from the old-Wikidata, but there are probably good reasons for that. Would anybody know if, in the future, it would be possible to make OmegaWiki use the new Wikidata instead of the old one? Or should they stay separate projects?
Someone else with more knowledge of the internals of both will have to answer that.
Cheers Lydia