Re: [Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata

Denny, Gerard, Lane, Lydia and Wikidatans, In what ways could we use Freebase - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Freebase - as an example to further develop Wikidata approaches, and process about, as Denny writes "which kind of data can be integrated in which way" in Wikidata, fo

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata

Hoi, As you know Amir wrote software to compare data in Freebase and Wikidata. Currently there are students working on a similar approach with other sources. Yes, we want sources obviously HOWEVER, the lack of sources should not hold us back from having valid and valuable data. When data can be com

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata

Hi Lane, I am happy to answer (almost) any questions about this :) I will also go to the Wikiproject and contribute there. Thanks for appreciating this step, and thanks for setting up the Wikiproject. Cheers, Denny On Wed Dec 17 2014 at 10:04:47 AM Denny Vrandečić wrote: > Hi Gerard, > > I ver

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata

Hi Gerard, I very much agree. It would be very good to have a discussion on which kind of data can be integrated in which way. One way or the other, one of the most frequent criticisms of Wikidata is a lack of references, which this tool will tackle on the way as well. And at the same time it wil

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Lane Rasberry wrote: > Hello, > > Where is the appropriate place on Wikidata to discuss this? This is big > enough for its own WikiProject. Does it already have one somewhere? Should I > make one? Actually I just did. > >

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata

Hello, Where is the appropriate place on Wikidata to discuss this? This is big enough for its own WikiProject. Does it already have one somewhere? Should I make one? Actually I just did. I hardly know what the implications are of this

Re: [Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata

Hoi, It is an assumption that Wikidata will not expect data from Freebase. It has not been discussed, it may be correct. However, there are many really important reasons why we should seriously consider the offer of accepting much data from Freebase for inclusion in Wikidata. The most important re

[Wikidata-l] Tool for adding references and data to Wikidata

Freebase was launched to be a “Wikipedia for structured data”, because in 2007 there was no such project. But now we do have Wikidata, and Wikidata and its community is developing very fast. Today, the goals of Freebase might be better served by supporting Wikidata [1]. Freebase has seen a huge am