[Foundation-l] Proposal for New Project Wikirec

[Gerard Meijssen]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>--- Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Galloway Joe wrote:
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>>>I'd like to announce a proposed new project, currently
>>>titled Wikirec, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikirec
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>>Sj  wrote:
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>>>Interesting.  I think this would make more sense as part of a general
>>>wikigeography project...
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>>I agree with Sj that this would be better as part of a project with a
>>broader scope.
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>>Related proposals on Meta include:
>><http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps>
>><http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiatlas>
>><http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGPS>
>><http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps/GeonamenDB>
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>Also wikiGIS (the .com and .org of that and wikimaps are owned by the
>foundation; or at least registered by me and awaiting the foundation to claim
>them from me)
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>Yep – this all needs to be in one uber-project that has highly-structured data
>in a relational database. The wikidata module needs to be developed before this
>type of project could exist, however. I hear there is some possible funding for
>that. 
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>-- mav
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Hoi,
There is indeed funding for WikiData. Programming will start within two 
weeks. WikiData will be a buildingblock within the MediaWiki software. 
It will indeed enable new projects.

Initially there are two prime candidates for Wikidata: Wiktionary and 
Wikispecies. The implementation of "the ultimate wiktionary" is part of 
the implementation of Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM