Hoi,
Obviously you forgot about OmegaWiki. It can still do things Wikidata is
incapable of.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 February 2015 at 17:21, Markus Kroetzsch <
markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> Dear Gerard:
>
> ...
>
>> This is the essence of Wikidata. After that we can all complain about
>> the fallacies of Wikidata.. I have my pet pieves and it is not your RDF
>> SPARQL and stuff. That is mostly stuff for academics and it its use is
>> largely academic and not useful on the level where I want progress.
>> Exposing this information to PEOPLE is what I am after and by and large
>> they do not live in the ivory towers where RDF and SPARQL live.
>>
>
> It seems that, in this bright future, you are forgetting our past. Those
> very "ivory towers" that you so scold are where Wikidata has been
> conceived. RDF is the reason why we have properties as first-class objects
> in Wikidata. Even before such technical "details", the vision of a Semantic
> Web that enables the free exchange of information beyond system boundaries
> for Denny and myself has been the first and foremost inspiration for much
> of the work that went into preparing and realizing Wikidata. Surely not all
> of Wikidata came from this one source of inspiration -- e.g., the crucial
> insight that all of this should be in a single multilingual site is due to
> Erik Moeller -- but without all of the work in semantic technologies we
> would not have Wikidata today.
>
> People from different backgrounds are working together here. If you want
> to be part of such a community, you should abandon outdated stereotypes,
> and in particular stop using "academic" as a pejorative.
>
> Markus
>
>
>
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