On 11/22/2010 10:24 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > In my opinion, the Wikimedia Foundation should very seriously look into > starting something like wikidata.
One major problem is that different people have very differing understanding of what "wikidata" should mean. It is an abstract good, similar to "world peace" or "democracy" -- or Wikimedia's "usability" project, that introduced slow and broken Javascript instead of actually increasing usability. With this background I would advise against starting a "wikidata" project. What should be started is something smaller and more focused, that solves some actual problem. This is like asking for "freedom of the press" or "women's suffrage" rather than abstract "democracy". So, which concrete, smaller ambitions could you list? -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
