Hi Andreas On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:14 AM, andreas meier <meier.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Through reports in the German Television I was made aware of the WikiData > project. This sounds really interesting. I could also find the press
Hah! Nice. Do you remember where you saw it? > announcement online. There was a reference to the European Union Project, > which seemed to be instrumental to kick this off: http://render-project.eu, > and I was surprised that such diverse entities were behind this: Google in > Ireland, Telefonica in Spain, KIT University in Germany, SIT University in > Austria, JSI University in Slovenia, and Ontotext from Bulgaria. The budget > of Render is 4.4 Mio Eur, and the contribution from European taxpayers is > 2.9 Mio Eur. > > I also saw the first year presentation: > http://render-project.eu/resources/presentations/project-review-year-1, and > am wondering if and how the following use cases fit into the project. > > 1. Open Goverment Data > There is a German Wikipedia article about this: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Data. And also a website > explaining it a little more: http://opengovernmentdata.org/. > Will there be any liason of WikiData with Open Goverment Data? Possibly. If and how is one of the things we have to decide in the community. > 2. Sports Results > When I tried to edit Wikipedia first, i wanted to update some sports > results of my favoured football club F.C. Barcelona. Unfortunately I > failed. I failed as well to copy from another language, the table syntax > was too complicated and it somehow seems to differ from one languate > version to the other. Will WikiData address current sports results, > updating it and make it available for all language versions of Wikipedia? Yes that is one of the things Wikidata will help with. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
