I too support the creation of Wikidata. Unfortunately, in the global decline of Wikimedia participation, even the Foundation is unable to help ignite a new valuable project that is desperately needed in order to bring in some new participation... sad situation. I wonder what the 50+ Foundation staffers are working on, if they are not able to help out little bit with such and important idea...
Kozuch > ------------ Původní zpráva ------------ > Od: John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> > Předmět: Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata > Datum: 23.11.2010 00:33:40 > ---------------------------------------- > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
