On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > >> Could this be part of dbpedia? > > dbpedia is about collating the information available on Wikipedia and > providing that as a database for others to use. This is about having a > central information store that can be edited to add information. Whilst > dbpedia could seed wikidata, they're very different projects in the way they > would operate.
I agree. > In my opinion, the Wikimedia Foundation should very seriously look into > starting something like wikidata. I don't suppose there's a facilitator that > could be hired that knows about Wikimedia sufficiently to facilitate an > on-wiki discussion and formation of a comprehensive proposal to start this > project, including bringing together the various people interested in this > project? As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF staff member assigned to it would be brilliant. As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic mediawiki by WMF, it would be good for that someone to already experienced with semantic medawiki. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
