These projects all have namespaces on En Wikipedia. If there was consensus that the projects should have Wikidata namespaces -- if that is something the community would allow and would embrace, that would be something I would support doing.
- Erika *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>* On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 9:53 AM Brill Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes. This is the crux of the matter, the big question: *"I'm not sure we >> should store this kind of data on Wikidata."* >> > > So, I miss the ideas and mantra we had in Freebase. "some data is better > than no data". It really was FREE in the sense that editathons or curators > or researchers could actually use Freebase to begin storing their data > collection. Freebase had the same worries. And we solved it quite easily > and built up a wonderful community of lists, data in the making, partial > projects, etc. Just like Black Lunch Table is doing now. The solution was > introducing a very simple idea of a "namespace". Everyone and every > project could have their own slice of Freebase and anyone could ask > permission from the namespace owner to help edit or curate. Our search and > API allowed you to filter out non-root namespaces if you wanted or filter > ON THEM. My personal namespace was /thadguidry. And it is there to this > day in the data dumps where you can see all my curated data and lists. We > monitored namespaces for simple violations like racism, human dignity data > violations, etc., but left it free and open in the sense that "some data is > better than no data". It resulted in the amassing of over 500,000,000 > namespace facts and they are still used to this day to enrich "less than > notable" entities where many of those "less than notable/popular?" facts > actually show up in Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, & Google and where researchers, > and students have used those facts to enlighten the world and make it a > better place. > > It would be AMAZING, if somehow, this year in 2018...that namespaces could > actually be used in Wikidata to make it truly free and open to all. > /blacklunchtable to start. > > -Thad > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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