[Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

[David Gerard]

On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:

> Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki
> like they did on Commons. E.g. German speakers meet at the Forum
> (<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum>) instead of the
> Village pump. That will happen on a datawiki too and probably these
> subcommunities will focus on their respective regions, e.g. German
> speakers will focus on maintaining the town data for places in Germany,
> Austria, Switzerland etc.


I do like this idea very much indeed. What will it take in software
terms? Something similar to Freebase? Something like Freebase bolted
onto MediaWiki? OmegaWiki?


- d.