[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

Mon Nov 22 22:31:23 UTC 2010

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:
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>> Could this be part of dbpedia?
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> 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?

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.

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John Vandenberg