[Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata-l] Meeting about the support of Wiktionary in Wikidata

[Laura Hale]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:13 PM, JP Béland <lebo.beland at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree. We also need to include the Omegawiki community.
>

Why? The question of moving them into the WMF fold was pretty much no,
because the project has an overlapping purpose with Wiktionary, and the
technology they use cannot be supported with the existing resources
available.  There was a great deal of community reasoned community
opposition.

If they independently want to engage in the process on the Wikidata side
without a goal of creating a competing Wikimedia project, that is one
thing... but bringing them to the table as equals sets bad precedent for
sister projects, contributor retention, community support, etc.


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