Hey again, "getting over" wasn't meant to be harsh. I was hoping though "wiki" in "Wikidata" stands for a the broader concept of "free and open", and not a particular syntax for encoding knowledge.
I'm all for free and open knowledge, but I think sticking to the same mechanisms which helped bootstrap Wikipedia is not a good idea when building the next-generation semantic Wikidata. It prohibits out-of-the-box thinking and evaluating new, state-of-the art approaches in this area. Wouldn't it be desired that the tasks on Wikidata could be done via an intuitive user-interface rather than via wiki syntax? I would certainly think so, and I also think it is doable. Martynas graphity.org 2012/4/5 Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]>: > 2012/4/5 Martynas Jusevicius <[email protected]> >> >> Too bad people cannot get over the wiki mentality. It has worked fine >> for a while, but it's time to move on. >> > > Dear Martynas, > > with Wikidata, we do not want to "get over the wiki mentality", but actually > embrace it. I thought that our name *Wiki*data was quite a give-away > regarding that point. > > Cheers, > Denny > > -- > Project director Wikidata > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Eisenacher Straße 2 | 10777 Berlin > Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
