From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-29/News_and_notes
- *Wikidata*: On the Foundation-l mailing list, the Foundation's Deputy Director Erik Möller mentioned plans for a "Wikidata Commons"<http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/216574#216574>, a central repository of structured data for all Wikimedia projects, with similarities to existing projects, such as the Semantic MediaWiki<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki>-based "Shortipedia <http://shortipedia.org/index.php/Main_Page>" and Freebase<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase_%28database%29>. Back in 2004, Möller had already proposed the Wikidata<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata>project. (See also recent *Signpost* coverage of related proposals: "A centralised 'data wiki'<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-08-09/Technology_report#A_centralised_.22data_wiki.22>".) Möller said that the Foundation's "Data Summit" that has been planned for a while (bringing together various people involved in such efforts) had to be delayed until next year. Speaking about Wikimedia sites in general, he remarked that "we're continuing to fall behind the rest of the web in terms of usability." This could be incredibly valuable, especially if it's accessible by other sites outside Wikimedia (I'm fairly sure it will be - they're all about open knowledge), and if it includes data from many government and intergovernmental sources, e.g. from the World Bank. -- Chris Watkins Appropedia.org - Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. blogs.appropedia.org community.livejournal.com/appropedia identi.ca/appropedia twitter.com/appropedia
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