Thanks for the interesting resource you coded and shared with the Wikidata community here.

In preparing to donate CC World University and School to CC Wikidata for its 3rd birthday!, World University, which is like CC Wikipedia in ~300 languages with best STEM CC OpenCourseWare (and planning to accredit on CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC to begin) would like to create CC Universities in all countries' main languages, and in Wikidata. And WUaS plans towiki-include the CC MIT OCW Sloan School of Management/Business courses -
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/ - and facilitate adding related databases, for example, and other fundamental economics' and financial research and data of great universities - and importantly interlingually in countries' main languages. In what ways might we explore further SimFin coding and interlingual questions together as World University and School prepares to donate WUaS to Wikidata? World University's focus nation states' main languages (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Nation_States and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Languages) might be of particular interest to you.

Concerning "feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I (Thomas) coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible" (so great, Thomas!), World University hopes to generate /recruit student volunteers and others in all 7941 languages (for WUaS wiki schools for open teaching and learning too), especially from great universities, to help with coding, data entry, making and curating as wiki CC WUaS grows.

Since you know Wikidata's structure, and interlingually too to some degree, may I be in touch with you (and possibly CLMB in Berlin) off list about some related questions?

Hello everyone,

[People not interested in financial data can stop reading here - this is only indirectly related to Wikidata but I asked Lydia and John for permission to post this so I hope you don't mind]

my name is Thomas and I am the co-founder of a new crowd-sourcing website for fundamental financial data (that is our focus is clearly on finance, so I don't think we are a "competitor" of Wikidata) called SimFin.

I am writing to you because we launched our open beta just two weeks ago and we are now looking for feedback, especially from people with experience in working in a crowd-powered-environment where data is in a structured way, just like at Wikidata.

I would be especially interested in your feedback regarding the data entering and review process, since I coded and designed the whole system myself from scratch and tried to make the data entering process as easy as possible.

Just to make it clear, all the data on our site is freely accessible and can be exported quickly. In fact, the core idea behind SimFin is to offer a free service that can rival professional (and very expensive) tools used to access fundamental financial data, such as Bloomberg or Factset, in terms of functionality, while still being free because of the community generated content.

Some links:
Homepage: https://simfin.com
Sample company page: https://simfin.com/data/companies/1
The same company in wikidata as reference, there are some similarities: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578

Thanks for reading

Kind regards

Thomas

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