[Foundation-l] WikiData and Football, WikiData and OpenGovernmentData, 2.9 Mio Eur from European tax payers

[Denny Vrandečić]

Hi Andreas,

assuming the original data is in a license that can be used in Wikidata,
and assuming the Wikidata community wants this data in Wikidata, yes :) The
use cases are technically feasible for sure.

Cheers,
Denny


2012/4/1 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher at wikimedia.de>

> Hi Andreas
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:14 AM, andreas meier <meier.andi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Through reports in the German Television I was made aware of the WikiData
> > project. This sounds really interesting. I could also find the press
>
> Hah! Nice. Do you remember where you saw it?
>
> > announcement online. There was a reference to the European Union Project,
> > which seemed to be instrumental to kick this off:
> http://render-project.eu,
> > and I was surprised that such diverse entities were behind this: Google
> in
> > Ireland, Telefonica in Spain, KIT University in Germany, SIT University
> in
> > Austria, JSI University in Slovenia, and Ontotext from Bulgaria. The
> budget
> > of Render is 4.4 Mio Eur, and the contribution from European taxpayers is
> > 2.9 Mio Eur.
> >
> > I also saw the first year presentation:
> > http://render-project.eu/resources/presentations/project-review-year-1,
> and
> > am wondering if and how the following use cases fit into the project.
> >
> > 1. Open Goverment Data
> > There is a German Wikipedia article about this:
> > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Data. And also a website
> > explaining it a little more: http://opengovernmentdata.org/.
> > Will there be any liason of WikiData with Open Goverment Data?
>
> Possibly. If and how is one of the things we have to decide in the
> community.
>
> > 2. Sports Results
> > When I tried to edit Wikipedia first, i wanted to update some sports
> > results of my favoured football club F.C. Barcelona. Unfortunately I
> > failed. I failed as well to copy from another language, the table syntax
> > was too complicated and it somehow seems to differ from one languate
> > version to the other. Will WikiData address current sports results,
> > updating it and make it available for all language versions of Wikipedia?
>
> Yes that is one of the things Wikidata will help with.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
>
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