[Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Wikidata

Mon Nov 22 23:17:24 UTC 2010

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com>wrote:

> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> Agree. Starting using SMW for a brand new project for data
> could solve all the issues that prevented it
> to be used until now? Hope it could.
> it would be extremely helpful for project like Commons and Wikisource
> (just talking about data now)
>
> Aubrey.

SMW would have to be completely redesigned for use in a project with
millions of pages and millions of attributes where arbitrary queries are
possible.

- Brian