Hello. I've just joined the list, as soon as I've known about the Wikidata subject.
I've been thinking about a Wikidata project even before I knew about the ideas proposed at Meta. I've explained it to several people in Spanish wikipedia, and there I've begun work on "Wikidata-compliant" population data templates, which are also found in en.wiki and de.wiki. Obviously Wikidata seems almost "a must" for me, not only for providing up-to-date data once for all the wikis, but also for providing global solutions to show it (graphics, tables...), and many other ideas. But the proposals at Meta don't seem to advance, and the Wikidata mailing list (!) is inactive from 2007. Recently I asked in IRC, and Gerard talked to me about Omegawiki; currently used for dictionaries, but could possibly expand to Wikidata. On the other hand, the "global templates" or "Commons-like" solution for Wikidata would need no "extra interface" as Omegawiki does (so, faster implementation and adaptation) and there could be useful global templates not related to data. But that wouldn't be a real database to interact with (from Toolserver, for example). Anyway, it seems clear to me that Wikidata is necessary, and that it should be an independent Wikimedia project, whichever the way it is implemented. I hope it can be "pushed" from here, and I'm ready to help with the work when appropiate. Looking forward to more ideas... José Emilio Mori Recio, -jem- in the projects _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l