Re: [Wikidata-l] weekly summary #1

2012-04-14 Thread JFC Morfin
At 13:44 13/04/2012, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64Heya folks :) I'll be doing weekly summaries of what's been happening around Wikidata. This is the first one. The plan is to collect them and then make a blog post out of them every month. Lydia, May be you could

Re: [Wikidata-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Wikidata opinion piece in The Atlantic

2012-04-13 Thread JFC Morfin
At 11:36 13/04/2012, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: Hey, I've been following the usage of WikiData on twitter, and for the last week or so, more then half the tweets have been pointing to this article. Apparently people like to criticize :) To discuss something fundamental is not criticizing. This

Re: [Wikidata-l] Engine of Wikidata

2012-04-09 Thread JFC Morfin
At 11:55 09/04/2012, Soslan Khubulov wrote: The best thing would be to create new engine specially for structured data. It would be also better for Wikitionary. Just remember what was Mediawiki created for. Storing marked up text pages. Mediawiki is good for encyclopedia but not for Wikitionary

Re: [Wikidata-l] Engine of Wikidata

2012-04-09 Thread JFC Morfin
At 11:55 09/04/2012, Soslan Khubulov wrote: The best thing would be to create new engine specially for structured data. It would be also better for Wikitionary. Just remember what was Mediawiki created for. Storing marked up text pages. Mediawiki is good for encyclopedia but not for Wikitionary

Re: [Wikidata-l] datawikis?

2012-04-09 Thread JFC Morfin
, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 4/8/12 9:25 PM, JFC Morfin wrote: Is there an objection to the concept of, or cooperation with, datawiki Wikidata compatible projects? I would define a datawiki (as there are databases) as a JSON oriented NoSQL DBMS using an enhanced wiki as a human user I/O interface

[Wikidata-l] datawikis?

2012-04-08 Thread JFC Morfin
Is there an objection to the concept of, or cooperation with, datawiki Wikidata compatible projects? I would define a datawiki (as there are databases) as a JSON oriented NoSQL DBMS using an enhanced wiki as a human user I/O interface. This would permit BigData, specialized data, and graph

Re: [Wikidata-l] SNAK - assertion?

2012-04-06 Thread JFC Morfin
BinĂ ris, then you should coin a crystal clear definition of snak (could it be made an acronym?) everyone can memorize and understand. Sounds also as snap and snag. If you find a pun it would help it get accepted. jfc At 10:39 06/04/2012, BinĂ¡ris wrote: 2012/4/5 Gregor Hagedorn

Re: [Wikidata-l] A common, open access, human and computer readable data pool for scientist

2012-04-05 Thread JFC Morfin
Lydia wrote: I would like that this project could serve in that manner the scientific community and provide standards for submission of data for scientist. Any plans in this direction? The en.wikipedia page on big data should give the answers, if it was kept current with the current Big Data

Re: [Wikidata-l] Multilinguistics matters

2012-04-01 Thread JFC Morfin
Dear Lydia, Hmmm I have to confess I don't understand this completely and therefor can't give you an answer. Could you give me an example of what you are talking about and how you see Wikidata fit in? Hmmm :-) I am somewhat at loss here. Let start from some basic, then. 1) is there a