Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Semantic Wikipedia

2010-05-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This would be awesome ... truly ... On 19 May 2010 21:42, wrote: > Hi, > > The Semantic MediaWiki extension has been out for years now but it looks > like it will take some time until it is installed on Wikipedia. In the > meantime, maybe DBpedia could host a copy of Wikipedia with the Sema

[Dbpedia-discussion] for your information

2010-04-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blog every now and again about DBpedia.. I did it again.. when you have good ideas how we can use the DBpedia to improve Wikipedia, to enrich Wikipedia let me know.. when I understand what you are saying, I am happy to blog about it. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.co

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Software license

2010-03-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you use an application, it does not follow that the content becomes part of that license. It is perfectly ok to create proprietary fiction writing OpenOffice or conversely writing public domain fiction using MS/Word. The licensing of the material generated by DBpedia has Wikipedia as its

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] License DBpedia as CC-BY-SA? was: license update at the Wikimedia Foundation

2009-05-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Gerard Meijssen > wrote: > > I am really pleased that you are willing to follow the WMF in this but as > I > > have argued on this list in the past, DBpedia is a collection of facts.. > > Yes, people keep repeating that... yet EU law,

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] License DBpedia as CC-BY-SA? was: license update at the Wikimedia Foundation

2009-05-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
e under a more liberal license then Wikipedia. > > > > If somebody with a solid legal background knows the answers to these > questions, we would be more than happy if he could give us some advice. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris > > > > >

[Dbpedia-discussion] license update at the Wikimedia Foundation

2009-05-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As expected the Wikimedia Foundation will change its licensing. In the past it was said that DBpedia would follow suit. It is important that it does when you assume that DBpedia needs a license in the first place. As there is little time left in which this change can be made, I urge you all to

Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] DBpedia user, who are you?

2009-05-20 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have been evaluating DBpedia. What I would like to see is use DBpedia to improve the quality and consistency of Wikipedia itself and make use of its curated data for an experiment where Semantic MediaWiki will be enabled for a copy of English language Wikipedia. This would mean that DBpedia

[Dbpedia-discussion] questions about licenses

2009-01-09 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There is a discussion on the Foundation-l about the licensing of Wikipedia. There are two things I want to ask. - Wikipedia is likely to change to the CC-by-sa license, if you intend to follow the license of Wikipedia, are you intending to follow suit ? - It is said that the dump of