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 wi
Denny Vrandečić 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 one possible impl
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 w
Hoi,
The KEY part of OmegaWiki is not so much that it is intended to replace
Wiktionary, it is that it has language and concepts at its heart. This is
in my opinion the only way to look at things .. consider: When you have a
word that needs disambiguation, it follows that the Wikipedia article abou
2012/5/9 Lydia Pintscher
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Chris Tophe
> wrote:> Concerning collaboration between the two projects,
> > I am not sure why the new-Wikidata is starting from scratch, and not from
> > the
> > old-Wikidata, but there are probably good reasons for that.
> > Would any
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Chris Tophe wrote:
> Dear Wikidata people,
>
> I see that there is now a mess in names, and I don't see
> where (or if) this has been discussed anywhere.
>
> There is the "Wikidata extension" (on which the OmegaWiki dictionary is
> based)
> http://www.mediawiki.org
Dear Wikidata people,
I see that there is now a mess in names, and I don't see
where (or if) this has been discussed anywhere.
There is the "Wikidata extension" (on which the OmegaWiki dictionary is
based)
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikidata
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata
[no
