Hi, Through reports in the German Television I was made aware of the WikiData project. This sounds really interesting. I could also find the press announcement online. There was a reference to the European Union Project, which seemed to be instrumental to kick this off: http://render-project.eu, and I was surprised that such diverse entities were behind this: Google in Ireland, Telefonica in Spain, KIT University in Germany, SIT University in Austria, JSI University in Slovenia, and Ontotext from Bulgaria. The budget of Render is 4.4 Mio Eur, and the contribution from European taxpayers is 2.9 Mio Eur.
I also saw the first year presentation: http://render-project.eu/resources/presentations/project-review-year-1, and am wondering if and how the following use cases fit into the project. 1. Open Goverment Data There is a German Wikipedia article about this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Data. And also a website explaining it a little more: http://opengovernmentdata.org/. Will there be any liason of WikiData with Open Goverment Data? 2. Sports Results When I tried to edit Wikipedia first, i wanted to update some sports results of my favoured football club F.C. Barcelona. Unfortunately I failed. I failed as well to copy from another language, the table syntax was too complicated and it somehow seems to differ from one languate version to the other. Will WikiData address current sports results, updating it and make it available for all language versions of Wikipedia? With best regards, Andi. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l