David Cuenca, 09/12/2013 13:44:
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Edward Summers wrote:
That’s a good question. By active I meant a situation where OpenLibrary has the resources (and the interest) to write software to synchronize OpenLibrary with Wikidata. I was suggesting that Wikidata doesn’t need to take on the additional burden of writing Wikidata updates back to OpenLibrary.
The main issue with OL is that its situation as entity is not clear. It is both part of IA and somewhat independent, but not integrated enough in IA nor independent enough to know in which direction is going.
Sounds like the definition of any non-Wikipedia Wikimedia project. :)
Nemo