Hey again,
"getting over" wasn't meant to be harsh. I was hoping though "wiki" in "Wikidata" stands for a the broader concept of "free and open", and not a particular syntax for encoding knowledge.
I'm all for free and open knowledge, but I think sticking to the same mechanisms which helped bootstrap Wikipedia is not a good idea when building the next-generation semantic Wikidata. It prohibits out-of-the-box thinking and evaluating new, state-of-the art approaches in this area. Wouldn't it be desired that the tasks on Wikidata could be done via an intuitive user-interface rather than via wiki syntax? I would certainly think so, and I also think it is doable.
Martynas graphity.org
2012/4/5 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de:
2012/4/5 Martynas Jusevicius martynas@graphity.org
Too bad people cannot get over the wiki mentality. It has worked fine for a while, but it's time to move on.
Dear Martynas,
with Wikidata, we do not want to "get over the wiki mentality", but actually embrace it. I thought that our name *Wiki*data was quite a give-away regarding that point.
Cheers, Denny
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