I will.

That, though, is a proposal of a "special" namespace, I mean,
technologically.
We could have a brand new namespace using Wikibase, or that DataNamespace,
or a simple balnk new namespace, as it is the Wikisource namespace, or the
ns0.

Right now, we just need a room to put some data.

Aubrey






On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:19 PM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:

> AFIK, Dario did a proposal in that regard some time ago:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DataNamespace
>
> No idea what is the current status. Maybe you could ask him?
>
> Cheers,
> Micru
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> volcanic User:Alex brollo is working on "dictionaries", aka generating
>> lists of used words in Pages and works.
>> For example:
>> https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Discussioni_pagina:Il_cavallarizzo.djvu/2,
>> as a list of the book Il cavallarizzo.
>>
>> I bet that in the next few years (with more books, more users, Wikidata,
>> and the world domination led by Wikisource) we would have more and more of
>> these experiments.
>> A list of used words of an ancient book could help customize OCR and
>> tools for typo corrections, for example.
>>
>> Moreover, we will have Wikidata, and maybe we will need to store some
>> metadata (eg page numbers, or metadata about images and scans) into
>> Wikisource.
>> Lua could help us build tools for creating automatic indexes, or textual
>> version in ns0 (eg precompile the pagelist tag...)
>>
>> So,
>> the question is: want we Wikisource communities a new Data namespace?
>> How do you like the idea? Would you want to have the Wikibase extension
>> in it, or just a normal namespace?
>>
>> I'm sure you will find this mail confusing, but I think we are in the
>> need of something,
>> I just don't know what it is :-)
>>
>>
>> Aubrey
>>
>>
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