On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brian J Mingus <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > >> Agree. Starting using SMW for a brand new project for data >> could solve all the issues that prevented it >> to be used until now? Hope it could. >> it would be extremely helpful for project like Commons and Wikisource >> (just talking about data now) >> >> Aubrey. > > > SMW would have to be completely redesigned for use in a project with > millions of pages and millions of attributes where arbitrary queries are > possible.
What limitations would be useful to get the project off the ground? Some ideas: The data project is initially only used/queried by Wikipedia projects, and then cached on the Wikipedia side The data project is initially limited to only geographic entities. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
