Re http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Team
The 'credits' for dbpedia don't currently acknowledge any contribution outside of the core DBpedia project. This is natural as a 'who are the dbpedia team?' page (ie. who made this site/software), but since you link the page as 'Credits' from the homepage, and have <h1>Credits</h1> at the top, it would be appropriate to offer some broader acknowledgements. Even if it's somehow obvious that DBpedia is from/for/by Wikipedia-lovers, sometimes it is nice to state the obvious. In conversation people casually conflate DBpedia with the *data*, and the credits for the data include the thousands at Wikipedia who edited all those pages. May I take the liberty of suggesting some text? """ DBpedia is essentially a data-oriented interface to the work of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_users";>Wikipedia community</a>, and wouldn't exist without the massive contributions made by editors and authors at Wikipedia, or without the developers who built the underlying infrastructure that supports <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/";>Wikipedia</a>. DBpedia is intended to show how the information spread across many Wikipedia pages can be combined into a single integrated database. We hope this will make it easier for the amazing amount of information in Wikipedia to be used in new and interesting ways, and that it might inspire new mechanisms for navigating, linking and improving the encyclopaedia itelf. DBpedia is our way of saying "thank you!" for Wikipedia... """ cheers, Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
