On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel
<email(a)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
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