Hi Lydia,
'We' are people who committed professionally to the SMW (and Halo) approach to enterprise computing and 'we' are clients who have invested in this approach. We'll _want_ to install wikidata-client along with smw to get at infobox data (if such is the ultimate design). We'll _want_ to install wikidata-host to stay current with where all the investment dollars, the technical interest, etc, are flowing. Yet you assert that smw & wikidata have different target groups (without defining either). However, I believe they are the SAME because their objectives are the same: to integrate structured data into the MW editing/display environment. There's not room for multiple implementations of tools with the same objective. In short, my whole push is that, to be most successful, wikidata must consider the already-available or -installed base of technologies and tools. That's what reinventing the wheel is all about. It's why God took only 6 days to create the world -- there was no installed base to "accommodate". john On 13.06.2012 03:00, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Denny said: On the other hand, you are not the only person thinking that this (Wikitopics) is a good idea (hello Gerard!), and in the long run Wikidata could be extended to such a system -- but for now I regard this to be out of scope for Wikidata and I will not devote resources for this. It can be added later anyway. Denny, I never see the long-run! Anyway, to get real, be aware there are specific concerns about [[wikidata]] within the SMW community in the here and now: > > Hey John, > > It'd be great if you could say who "we" is specifically. I am happy to > discuss issues and find ways to fix them. "We" is making it seem like > it is the whole SMW community which I know isn't true ;-) > >> * we worry that our sites are threatened by virtual cessation of SMW development -- this may already be happening a bit as SMW subjectively seems to be encountering quality control issues lately > > Ok. What can we do to fix this? SMW shouldn't be threatened by > Wikidata nor the other way around. They have different target groups > for one and can co-exist. > We are of course trying to share things like result formats in the future. > http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de [1] 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] [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l [3] Links: ------ [1] http://www.wikimedia.de [2] mailto:[email protected] [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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