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

[Magnus Manske]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I thought transwiki template transclusion is being worked on?

Magnus