[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: [Fwd: Kennisnet will underwrite/pay for the creation of Wikidata and the Ultimate wiktionary]

[Gerard Meijssen]

Anthere wrote:

> Just a stupid question....just popped in my mind...
>
> Wikidata is a new project... does the community supports this ?
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> Ant

Hoi,
Wikidata is in essence a building block. It enables things, the building 
of Wikidata will allow us the functionality of a proper wiktionary or a 
poper wikispecies. In itself it is not a project. To me, having the 
ability for hosting relational data is seperate from having yet another 
set of relational data. The decision of hosting a set of data is what 
makes a project. As far as I am aware and as far as I am concerned this 
is what needs community support and board approval. Hosting wiktionary 
and wikispecies data are things that we are committed to.

Thanks,
    GerardM

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> Gerard Meijssen a écrit:
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>> Hoi,
>>
>> I am very happy to announce that Kennisnet is willing to 
>> underwrite/pay for the creation of wikidata and the ultimate 
>> wiktionary. This will allow us to host relational data within a 
>> Mediawiki environment. Wikidata will particularly enhance projects 
>> like Wikispecies and Wiktionary where a lot of the relevant data is 
>> relational in nature. The details of this project can be found here: 
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RfP_Wikidata_and_Ultimate_Wiktionary
>>
>> Thanks, :)
>>   GerardM
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