Re: [Wikidata-l] Introduction and some questions on Wikidata
Hey Bernardo On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Bernardo Najlis b52@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, My name is Bernardo and I work as a Business Intelligence Consultant in Toronto, Canada. I've been reading pretty much everything about WikiData over the past few days, and I'm really excited about this project! I would love to participate and collaborate in developing tools to bring data from external sources, particularly the vast open data sets that are so common right now. Have you already seen http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_collaborators ? I have some questions about the project and how can I participate, that you might be able to help me with: 1) I know the data import is planned for a future phase 2. Do you think it would be useful to start working on some of that now? It really depends on what you want to do right now. But the technical basis for actual data beyond language links isn't there yet so there isn't too much to do. People have already written bots to import language links that you might want to have a look at. 2) I also learned that you guys had a round table on June 21 about this topic (wish I could have known about Wikidata and been there!) but I couldn't find what the outcome of that discussion was. Is there anywhere where I can find what was discussed there? Hmm I seem to remember there was an etherpad. Anyone who was there got a link? 3) Is there anyone else on the list working on the subject of how to bring data in? I have some ideas on the subject, but again, don't know if this is too early in the project. A first step would be to define what data exactly you've got in mind and then get consensus in the community that this is something that is wanted. I think it's a bit too early still though for the latter. A real decision can probably only be made after the second phase has been in use for a bit by editors with real data. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
[Wikidata-l] Introduction and some questions on Wikidata
Hi Everyone, My name is Bernardo and I work as a Business Intelligence Consultant in Toronto, Canada. I've been reading pretty much everything about WikiData over the past few days, and I'm really excited about this project! I would love to participate and collaborate in developing tools to bring data from external sources, particularly the vast open data sets that are so common right now. I have some questions about the project and how can I participate, that you might be able to help me with: 1) I know the data import is planned for a future phase 2. Do you think it would be useful to start working on some of that now? 2) I also learned that you guys had a round tablehttp://wikidataroundtable.eventbrite.com/on June 21 about this topic (wish I could have known about Wikidata and been there!) but I couldn't find what the outcome of that discussion was. Is there anywhere where I can find what was discussed there? 3) Is there anyone else on the list working on the subject of how to bring data in? I have some ideas on the subject, but again, don't know if this is too early in the project. Thanks, Bernardo Najlis CRM Business Intelligence Consultant ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Introduction and some questions on Wikidata
2012/11/15 Marco Fleckinger marco.fleckin...@wikipedia.at: First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. Wikidata should not be a data storage for everything structured in the world, so we should first start to transfer data already present on Wikipedia to Wikidata. External data-sources will be interested as well and for sure but the purpose of wikidata is still cenralizing of what we already have. For the time being (i.e. until mid-2013), I assume. -- Luca Sannita Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
Re: [Wikidata-l] Introduction and some questions on Wikidata
First of all the priority lies on data already present on Wikipedia. Wikidata should not be a data storage for everything structured in the world, so we should first start to transfer data already present on Wikipedia to Wikidata. External data-sources will be interested as well and for sure but the purpose of wikidata is still cenralizing of what we already have. A side remark, because I believe this needs some further discussion. I agree that Wikidata should be focusing on the kind of data Wikipedia has or which are suitable for Wikipedia. However, since the Wikipedia data are not systematically sourced (they may be unsourced or the source is only available in edit comments, talk page etc.), it will be very valuable to import relevant, sourced data that have the right scope. Gregor ___ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l