GerardM wrote:
As part of the Wikidata implementation we will have a
shot at
importing and exporting data using formats like XML. There are already
some people interesting in helping out with this. Exporting the
current wiki data in XML could be part of that effort, It would be a
good thing to combine things as we propably do not want to publish XML
in too many ways,
XML by itself doesn't provide any structure. What sort of XML schema is
used on WikiData's import/export or which method you use to pull the old
freeform text entries in the first place are relatively minor details;
the hard part is making structure out of the text, and there's not
really a good generation solution. That's going to be very specific to
the task (converting Wiktionary to a structured database).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)