On 6 December 2014 at 22:36, Wiki Billinghurst <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 2) if the schema.org metadata is a preferred means to progress, what
> is the recommended means to progress such an issue
>

I hesitate to mention it, as ​I'm aware that this is likely to start a
debate with lots of heat and little light, but you should be aware that
schema.org is (was?) a mostly-failed attempt by the big search engines to
get a new standard for meta-data widely used faster​ than had it gone
through the existing processes, and declaring it "a preferred means to
progress" is a very good way to start a fight with certain kinds of
techies. :-)


> 3) presumably some of this fits into the discussion about Structured
> Data discussion, and what means is there to include this into that
> discussion?
>

​My personal preference would be for ​our efforts to focus on using
Wikibase (either on wikidata.org or in "local" installs) for structured
data and meta-data alike, rather than forking the workload. Emitting RDFa
sourced from Wikibase on related pages sounds like a reasonable way to
achieve more richly-laded pages which is helpful for users (and with the
side-effect, rather than primary intent, of SEO).

​Thoughts from others?​

​J.​
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

[email protected] | @jdforrester
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