Hi Denny,

as Nemo pointed out, that grant is for Wikisource :-)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision

We spoke about that briefly in the Office hours:

one of the main thing Wikidata could do, I think,

is to centralize cross-wiki links, the very same way it centralized interlinks.

I don't know how difficult could it be, but I sense this would be a breakthrough for all sister projects.

We could review the Sister template, and make cross-wiki navigation much more easy and useful.

Aubrey

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Denny Vrandečić, 11/03/2013 14:52:

There is currently a number of things going on re the future of Wiktionary.

There is, for example, the suggestion to adopt OmegaWiki, which could
potentially complicate a Wikibase-Solution in the future (but then again,
structured data is often rather easy to transform):
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Adopt_OmegaWiki>

There is this grant proposal for elaborating the future of Wiktionary,
which I consider a potentially smarter first step:

<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Elaborate_Wikisource_strategic_vision

That's Wikisource. :)

There's this discussion on Wikdiata itself:

<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary>

And I know that Daniel K. is very interested in working into this direction.

Personally, I regard Wiktionary as the third priority, following Wikipedia
and Commons. A lot of the other projects -- like Wikivoyage or Wikisource
-- can be served with only small changes to Wikidata as it is, but both
Commons and Wiktionary would require a bit of thought (and here again,
Commons much less than Wiktionary).

Actually Wikiquote and Wikivoyage use interwikis exactly like Wikipedia; Commons in the same way except it's interproject; Wiktionary in the same way except it's case-sensitive and not about concepts (opr about a stricter definition of concept); Wikisource in a completely different way; Wikibooks, Wikinews and Wikiversity I'm not sure.
As for phase II, it's another story. Wikisource and Commons would benefit a lot from it; for Wiktionary it could be a revolution; for Wikispecies idem but with less effort (?); Wikiquote would become

I would appreciate a discussion with
the Wiktionary-Communities, and also to make them more aware of the
OmegaWiki proposal, the potential of Wikidata for Wiktionary, etc. Just to
give a comparison: it took a few months to write the original Wikidata
proposal, and it was up for discussion for several months before it was
decided and acted upon. I would strongly advise to again choose slow and
careful planning over hastened decisions.

It's impossible to plan or discuss anything without knowing what matters.

Nemo

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