Last modified: 2012-04-14 18:00:05 UTC
One of the troubles with the whole Wikipedia idea is that when many articles are written by many different authors, facts, statistics and figures (i.e., population) are often different in different articles. Trying to get them all to agree is a daunting task. To simplify this process, a central repository for information could be used. When writing articles, the information would be entered as a link, somewhat like a template. The correspoding data would then appear in the article. The repository would be the place for discussion of the information, and when the information is updated, the articles all update - there'd be no need to seek out and adjust a large number of articles, and a new revision generated for each of the articles - the previous "oldid" versions would be linked to a specific revision of the information.
I think this project is getting traction, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Wikidata
This seems essentially the same as * Bug 30345 - Create "Data Commons" or "Wikidata" project (tracking) Marking this as a duplicate (since there is more info on the other bug) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 30345 ***
