On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Chris Tophe <[email protected]> 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/wiki/Extension:Wikidata > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata > [note: I am a developer of OmegaWiki] > > and the "Wikidata project" , using the "Wikibase extension" > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata > > It would be nice if we could rename some of those to make it more > consistent... > Obviously, "Wikidata" is a wonderful name that everybody wants :-) > > I am not opposed to changing the current "Wikidata extension" to something > else, if > this is possible. I am not sure whether it could be renamed to something > like "OmegaWiki extension", since it was not meant to be only used for > OmegaWiki, > but in practice, there is no other implementation of it. > Otherwise, any other name would be fine (Extension:WikiRelationalDB?), > but should probably be discussed with Erik (Moeller) who initiated the > project.
We deliberately use Wikibase for the extensions to distinguish the project and the software - think Wikimedia and MediaWiki for example. As to the Wikidata extension being renamed to something else to avoid confusion: That is entirely up to the owners of it (which should be Erik and Gerard) of course. > 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 anybody know if, in the future, it would be possible to make OmegaWiki > use the new Wikidata instead of the old one? Or should they stay separate > projects? Someone else with more knowledge of the internals of both will have to answer that. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 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
