On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Denny Vrandečić <denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > I certainly don't want to cookie-lick this usecase for Wikidata / Wikibase, > but I think that using the Wikibase extension for this might be easier than > it looks. The one major point would be a bit of coding to allow claims for > the media namespace. But indeed, right now we do not have the bandwidth to > do this, and if we are to work on it, it would be deferred to the Summer > (the design can be started earlier, obviously).
Go ahead and lick the cookie for the long-term -- we'll happily eat a smaller cookie in the short term. :) This structured data really does belong in Wikidata. But for now we just need a way to query this info that already exists using templated microformats, and preferably in a simple server-side way that keeps us from having to reimplement all the parsing on multiple platforms. > On the other hand, as said, we don't want to cookie-lick the usecase: if > there is a quick way to implement it, it is also obviously clear that > moving well-defined structured data from one system to the other is far > easier than the original creation of that structured data, and thus > inefficient use of human work would be minimized anyway. As long as we are > creating such well-defined structured data, I am happy either way. *nod* -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
