I too support the creation of Wikidata. Unfortunately, in the global decline of Wikimedia participation, even the Foundation is unable to help ignite a new valuable project that is desperately needed in order to bring in some new participation... sad situation. I wonder what the 50+ Foundation staffers are working on, if they are not able to help out little bit with such and important idea...
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------------ Původní zpráva ------------ Od: John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com Předmět: Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata Datum: 23.11.2010 00:33:40
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brian J Mingus brian.mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni
zanni.andrea84@gmail.comwrote:
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.
Agree. Starting using SMW for a brand new project for data could solve all the issues that prevented it to be used until now? Hope it could. it would be extremely helpful for project like Commons and Wikisource (just talking about data now)
Aubrey.
SMW would have to be completely redesigned for use in a project with millions of pages and millions of attributes where arbitrary queries are possible.
What limitations would be useful to get the project off the ground?
Some ideas:
The data project is initially only used/queried by Wikipedia projects, and then cached on the Wikipedia side
The data project is initially limited to only geographic entities.
-- John Vandenberg
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