On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? > > +1 Definitely want to see this implemented for Wikimedia. We had a bunch of related strategy proposals calling for us to do something like this: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Data.wikimedia.org http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Data-driven_content http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Structured_Data more... We have our own data like coordinates that would be great to share across projects. Seeing governments and organisations (e.g. http://data.worldbank.org/, http://data.gov, http://data.gov.uk/ ...) jumping in on doing *open* data, we have an opportunity make use of it for infoboxes, charts, etc. Then, there's geodata from OpenStreetMap and elsewhere... -Katie (@aude) > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
