[Foundation-l] Project Proposal: Wikicat

Fri Jul 28 20:37:46 UTC 2006

GerardM wrote:

> The project that you propose has a very large
overlap with the WikiAuthors
> project.

Yes, a little bit of déjà vu here ;)  :

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiAuthors#Wikicat

>
> This project is as it is described on Meta about
among other things
> the disambiguation of Pubmet articles. This project
is extremely likely to
> be realised. The functionality that you describe can
and will by and large
> be modelled using Wikidata technology.
>
> As this project does use the Wikidata technology, it
would make very much
> sense to collaborate and share our efforts and make
one big and beautiful
> project.

Absolutely.  The issue Wikiauthors is trying to
address ([[w:authority control]]) ideally should not
be occurring in a professionally-run catalog, and
there may still be the possibility that beneath the
Pubmed web interface enough information is being
recorded in the bibliographic records to uniquely
distinguish authors.  But in any case the ability to
correct or enhance bibliographic data is something
Wikicat will definitely need to support, and this
hopefully will meet all the needs of Wikiauthors.

> Please let us discuss how we can / will collaborate.

Sure.  Let's me, you, and Erik take our discussion off
the foundation list so as not to bother everyone with
unnecessary technical details.

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