You probably mean Linked Data? On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:41 PM, David Cuenca <dacu...@gmail.com> wrote: > While on the Hackathon I had the opportunity to talk with some people from > sister projects about how they view Wikidata and the relationship it should > have to sister projects. Probably you are already familiar with the views > because they have been presented already several times. The hopes are high, > in my opinion too high, about what can be accomplished when Wikidata is > deployed to sister projects. > > There are conflicting needs about what belongs into Wikidata and what sister > projects need, and that divide it is far greater to be overcome than just by > installing the extension. In fact, I think there is a confusion between the > need for Wikidata and the need for structured data. True that Wikidata > embodies that technology, but I don't think all problems can be approached > by the same centralized tool. At least not from the social side of it. > Wikiquote could have one item for each quote, or Wikivoyage an item for each > bar, hostel, restaurant, etc..., and the question will always be: are they > relevant enough to be created in Wikidata? Considering that Wikidata was > initially thought for Wikipedia, that scope wouldn't allow those uses. > However, the structured data needs could be covered in other ways. > > It doesn't need to be a big wikidata addressing it all. It could well be a > central Wikidata addressing common issues (like author data, population > data, etc), plus other Wikidata installs on each sister project that > requires it. For instance there could be a data.wikiquote.org, a > data.wikivoyage.org, etc that would cater for the needs of each community, > that I predict will increase as soon as the benefits become clear, and of > course linked to the central Wikidata whenever needed. Even Commons could be > "wikidatized" with each file becoming an item and having different labels > representing the file name depending on the language version being accessed. > > Could be this the right direction to go? > > Cheers, > Micru > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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