[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

[Michael Peel]

On 22 Nov 2010, at 23:17, Brian J Mingus wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
>>> staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
>>> As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic
>>> mediawiki by WMF, it would be good for that someone to already
>>> experienced with semantic medawiki.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Agree. Starting using SMW for a brand new project for data
>> could solve all the issues that prevented it
>> to be used until now? Hope it could.
>> it would be extremely helpful for project like Commons and Wikisource
>> (just talking about data now)
>> 
>> Aubrey.
> 
> 
> SMW would have to be completely redesigned for use in a project with
> millions of pages and millions of attributes where arbitrary queries are
> possible.

OK - a) why, b) how, c) is this feasible, d) is SMW the right way to go?

Mike