2012/5/9 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Chris Tophe <kipmaster@gmail.com> wrote:> 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?

(I am no expert on OmegaWiki, so please excuse me and correct me if I make a mistake)

The design and plan for Wikidata/Wikibase (further Wikidata) has a very different focus than OmegaWiki/Wikidata (further OmegaWiki).

* Our first aim for Wikidata is to support the Wikipedias (and then also other projects). Thus Wikidata talks about items and their properties, the items being the topics of the respective Wikipedia articles.

* OmegaWiki is geared towards replacing the Wiktionaries. Thus OmegaWiki talks about words and their translations, the meaning of the words being given by their defined meaning.

Although both involves structured data, the kind of structure is very different. The workflows are very different. I was checking OmegaWiki again and again while writing the proposal for Wikidata, getting inspired in how things are done there, thinking about the differences in the workflow, etc., but in the end, although I find OmegaWiki a fascinating project (and did so since 2005, when I heard of it for the first time from Gerard) I did not see sufficient overlap in order to investigate the code further.

If I am mistaken, I would be very happy to actually see the features that you think we can steal from OmegaWiki or the other way around. I guess a chat would make sense at some point?

Cheers,

Denny