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

[GerardM]

Hoi,
A movie is often called differently in many languages, even in different
countries. The same can be said for the names of actors and actresses, I
assume that you know how to write Brad Pitt or Julia Roberts in at least one
other character set.

As this kind of information is of a lexicological nature, there is the
option to have this information in the "Ultimate Wiktionary" where it is of
value in its own right and it would give you the appropriate information in
your Wikipedia.

Thanks,
GerardM

On 10/13/05, Александр Сигачёв <alexander.sigachov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
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