On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Martynas Jusevicius <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
There will be forms and the like to input information. We're trying to make it as intuitive as possible. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. 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
