2014-08-17 17:00 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>:
> Hoi,
> Importing data from Wikidata (where do you want it??) is just one
> application. There are so many potential applications for structured data
> and Wikidata implicitly covers the sum of all knowledge as we know it (in
> the Wikimedia projects) so there are opportunities galore.
>
> For people "not to know how to" is a given. I do not care to know about
> Wikipedia templates because they are freaking impossibly hard.

Yet, if we don't use the Wikidata data in the "freaking impossibly
hard" Wikipedia templates, what is the point of Wikidata as a
Wikimedia project?

I remember that this project had among its first goals to help
disseminate structured data on all Wikimedia projects, in order to
relieve the less-crowded WMF projects of their burden in managing such
data and to let their few users focus on writing/translating/expanding
their articles. Now, if we don't show to people on the WMF project -
even the bigger ones - that Wikidata IS useful by helping them in
retrieving these data, what is the point of this project?

"There are so many potential application", I know, yet THIS IS ONE OF
THEM -- and in my personal and humble opinion a damn important one.

-- 
Luca "Sannita" Martinelli
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita

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