On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:10:05 +0100, Anthere
<anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Wikidata is a new project... does the community
supports this ?
Wikidata itself isn't really a project. It's more of a technical
solution to some of the problems on existing projects.
The implementation of Wikidata will obviously need community support
-- do Wiktionarians want to merge their projects into the "ultimate
Wiktionary", for example -- but I don't think the feature itself
should need consensus before its written, only before its implemented
on Wikimedia in a way which would affect existing projects.
Angela.
When we have an ultimate wiktionary, it is up to the individuals that
make up the wiktionary communities if they want to contribute to the
ultimate wiktionary or to the existing language specific wiktionaries.
My aim will be to convert the content of the existing wiktionaries in a
lossless manner. I expect that the integration of all the languages will
provide the synergy that will make it really cool to work on the
ultimate wiktionary. Each wiktionary can decide to stop their activity
once the data is included into the ultimate wiktionary.
I expect that with the first iteration of the ultimate wiktionary we
will learn many lessons. My idea of the database will be to have it
relatively simple in database design so that it will be possible to
enhance things as we learn what can be done in a better way. Erik's
timeline does include the implementation of a thesaurus. This will be
based on the GEMET data. A thesaurus is a simplification of what we will
have in the ultimate wiktionary but it will show us what we need in a
User Interface.
Thanks,
GerardM