[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

Mon Nov 22 23:18:47 UTC 2010

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel <email at 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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