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

[JP Béland]

Just because the service Wikidata could provide to Wiktionaries is exactly
what Omegawiki is doing. I'm not saying to talk about Omegawiki joining WMF
but looking at a way to use what volunteers already committed time to
develop on Omegawiki on Wikidata implementation for Wiktionaries.
 On Aug 10, 2013 12:22 AM, "Laura Hale" <laura at fanhistory.com> wrote:

> 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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