On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Joshua Gay<joshuagay(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think it would be easy to build upon this work and one could do a really
powerful MW extension (and maybe some new templates, etc) that would allow
people to contribute to both MW and OL simultaneously.
I think that the OL should continue to do what is trying to do. I also think
people should be able to quickly and easily create new and important
wikimedia projects, especially when people are passionate to do so. And, I
think when different projects on the Internet have a lot of overlap in what
they are trying to do, and share similar philosophy and ethics, that they
should have their machines play nice with each other and make sharing
(reading and writing) data between them easy.
-Josh
I was gong to say basically this, and then Josh said it better :)
There's no special reason to reinvent the wheel; as DGG mentioned
there are several very difficult aspects of building a big
bibliographic database (cataloging standards, getting the data in the
first place, theoretical relationships between works) that the OL
folks have tackled with some success; and there is value in having a
project that focuses just on this hard problem. SJ is right that
Wikimedian expertise lies in making large wikis functional and
multilingual, and augmenting data; but that doesn't mean such a
project has to be a *Wikimedia* project. I think cooperation between
the projects would be better. Interlinking into Wikip/media would
raise OL's profile substantially, and would mean that WP had access to
some sort of canonical catalog data; a win for everyone.
-- Phoebe