2014-08-17 17:00 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, Importing data from Wikidata (where do you want it??) is just one application. There are so many potential applications for structured data and Wikidata implicitly covers the sum of all knowledge as we know it (in the Wikimedia projects) so there are opportunities galore.
For people "not to know how to" is a given. I do not care to know about Wikipedia templates because they are freaking impossibly hard.
Yet, if we don't use the Wikidata data in the "freaking impossibly hard" Wikipedia templates, what is the point of Wikidata as a Wikimedia project?
I remember that this project had among its first goals to help disseminate structured data on all Wikimedia projects, in order to relieve the less-crowded WMF projects of their burden in managing such data and to let their few users focus on writing/translating/expanding their articles. Now, if we don't show to people on the WMF project - even the bigger ones - that Wikidata IS useful by helping them in retrieving these data, what is the point of this project?
"There are so many potential application", I know, yet THIS IS ONE OF THEM -- and in my personal and humble opinion a damn important one.