Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata name consistency

2012-05-10 Thread James HK
Hi, I'd like to return to the naming consistency topic, taken into account that the Wikidata project chose deliberately names like Wikibase/Wikibase client to identify their extension, people will get confused by [1] no matter what and assume that [1] extension is related to the Wikidata project

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata name consistency

2012-05-10 Thread Chris Tophe
Denny Vrandečić denny.vrandecic@... writes: * OmegaWiki is geared towards replacing the Wiktionaries. Thus OmegaWiki talks about words and their translations, the meaning of the words being given by their defined meaning. Actually, yes, this is what OmegaWiki is about, but OmegaWiki is only

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata name consistency

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Hi Chris AS someone who as worked with the old Wikidata code, I must say I very much prefer to start over. The old code is convoluted and scales poorly. The approach of the new Wikibase extension is much cleaner. Some advantages: * we can use the storage and versioning facilities of mediawiki