On 11/7/05, Frando frando@xcite-online.de wrote:
I've read a lot on the whole wikidata thing in the past view month. The whole project will IMO be a enourmous advantage not only to mediawiki and wikipedia but also to the whole idea of free information.
I think, however, that most of you concur with me in this point.
There are loads of amazing ideas in the minds of all us and in meta.wikimedia.org, so this is not the point ;)
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This is a complex subject. If we try to discuss everything out we'll just be in discussion forever. It's pretty much come to a point in time where we should say "Show me the code".
If it's going to move forward it will either be via incremental improvement, or via a crazed rewrite (if you do this, please write the parser in a c-callable language and make it versatile enough to use it outside of mediawiki!).
Either approach is valid it's just a question of who is motivated to do what work.