Hi Andreas, assuming the original data is in a license that can be used in Wikidata, and assuming the Wikidata community wants this data in Wikidata, yes :) The use cases are technically feasible for sure.
Cheers, Denny 2012/4/1 Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> > 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 > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Eisenacher Straße 2 | 10777 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. 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
