Re: [Wikidata-l] [[meta:wikitopics]] updated

2012-06-14 Thread Nadja Kutz
John McClure wrote: Of course, thanks for the pointer. Yes, I'd agree that 19788's ontology be closely reviewed for inclusion. 19788:2 standardizes the Dublin Core properties, the same I recommend for [[wikidata]] provenance data, the same slated for the [[wikidata]] ontology. But more to

Re: [Wikidata-l] [[meta:wikitopics]] updated

2012-06-13 Thread Friedrich Röhrs
Hi, 1c. You're arguing over CHF 200 -- which extraordinarily-cheaply and fundamentally PROTECTS the MWF from copyright infringement suits? Can the SNAK architecture provide that reassurance to the MWF community? imho there are some problems with this argumentation: First i don't really know

Re: [Wikidata-l] [[meta:wikitopics]] updated

2012-06-13 Thread jmcclure
Hi Friedrich - IAANAA (I also am not an attorney)! and likely know no more than yourself about the issues. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Map [3]s gives links to iso/iec 13250 2. The 'community' includes developers who contractually/implicitly guarantee the provenance of the

Re: [Wikidata-l] [[meta:wikitopics]] updated

2012-06-12 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi JMC, thank you for the explanations, I understand quite better now. Re 1, I regard it as pretty obvious. But here's the relevant sentence taken fromt he Wikimedia values: We believe that this mission requires thriving open formats and open standards on the web to allow the creation of content

Re: [Wikidata-l] [[meta:wikitopics]] updated

2012-06-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I was silent on this thread mostly due to the following two points: 1. as mentioned several times, a standard for us to be considered must be free. Free as in Everyone can get it without having to pay or register for it. I can give it to anyone legally without any restrictions. Free of patents.

Re: [Wikidata-l] [[meta:wikitopics]] updated

2012-06-11 Thread jmcclure
1. as mentioned several times, a standard for us to be considered must be free. Free as in Everyone can get it without having to pay or register for it. I can give it to anyone legally without any restrictions. Free of patents. Free as in W3C. 2. I have taken another look at your page, and

Re: [Wikidata-l] [[meta:wikitopics]] updated

2012-06-08 Thread jmcclure
Hi all! Am a bit mystified here! about the radio-silence to this thread or, for that matter, to the [[meta:wikitopics]] [1] document itself. From wikipedia: [2] REINVENTING THE SQUARE WHEEL is the practice of unnecessarily engineering artifacts that provide functionality already provided