[Foundation-l] New project : movies.mediawiki.org?

[Александр Сигачёв]

> WikiData is indeed to become a repository for database-storable
> information, especially that which would have to be manually replicated
> on all wikipedias otherwise. Movie data is about the prime example for
> this. There is absoluely no need to write the same actor/crew/studio/etc
> data into every single wikipedia if one can create an info box with a
> simple command (read:template) using information stored at WikiData.

Not so easy. Example what about non-regular transliteration of names
(not all languages use roman letters, isn't it)?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration