On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
Could this be part of dbpedia?
dbpedia is about collating the information available on Wikipedia and providing that as a
database for others to use. This is about having a central information store that can be
edited to add information. Whilst dbpedia could seed wikidata, they're very different
projects in the way they would operate.
I agree.
In my opinion, the Wikimedia Foundation should very
seriously look into starting something like wikidata. I don't suppose there's a
facilitator that could be hired that knows about Wikimedia sufficiently to facilitate an
on-wiki discussion and formation of a comprehensive proposal to start this project,
including bringing together the various people interested in this project?
As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic
mediawiki by WMF, it would be good for that someone to already
experienced with semantic medawiki.
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John Vandenberg