Hi Andreas,
assuming the original data is in a license that can be used in Wikidata,
and assuming the Wikidata community wants this data in Wikidata, yes :) The
use cases are technically feasible for sure.
Cheers,
Denny
2012/4/1 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
Hi Andreas
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:14 AM, andreas meier <meier.andi(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
Through reports in the German Television I was made aware of the WikiData
project. This sounds really interesting. I could also find the press
Hah! Nice. Do you remember where you saw it?
announcement online. There was a reference to the
European Union Project,
which seemed to be instrumental to kick this off:
http://render-project.eu,
and I was surprised that such diverse entities
were behind this: Google
in
Ireland, Telefonica in Spain, KIT University in
Germany, SIT University
in
Austria, JSI University in Slovenia, and Ontotext
from Bulgaria. The
budget
of Render is 4.4 Mio Eur, and the contribution
from European taxpayers is
2.9 Mio Eur.
I also saw the first year presentation:
http://render-project.eu/resources/presentations/project-review-year-1,
and
am wondering if and how the following use cases
fit into the project.
1. Open Goverment Data
There is a German Wikipedia article about this:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Data. And also a website
explaining it a little more:
http://opengovernmentdata.org/.
Will there be any liason of WikiData with Open Goverment Data?
Possibly. If and how is one of the things we have to decide in the
community.
2. Sports Results
When I tried to edit Wikipedia first, i wanted to update some sports
results of my favoured football club F.C. Barcelona. Unfortunately I
failed. I failed as well to copy from another language, the table syntax
was too complicated and it somehow seems to differ from one languate
version to the other. Will WikiData address current sports results,
updating it and make it available for all language versions of Wikipedia?
Yes that is one of the things Wikidata will help with.
Cheers
Lydia
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