Last modified: 2014-11-17 10:36:08 UTC
According to proposal called "Proposal:Structured Data" on Strategy Wiki (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Structured_Data) and about 10 another similar proposals, we need to create a project for DATA. May this bug be tracking one for the whole DataCommons/WikiData project. So far I understand the matter has been stuck rather because the technical solution is not clear, but I think there is an obvious need for the project.
Random crap that I remember from past times this has been brough up on IRC, Hackathons and Wikimania: * We could use a (rewritten version of) Semantic Wiki ("rewritten" due to some issues, most notably the 'central wiki' part, as well as other major "issues") * Write a new system to store key/value pairs, not associated to a page but directly in a database interface ** version A: a SpecialPage that is a *little* bit like CentralAuth in that it'd be a central table but not per se on a central wiki, editable by anyone with the required global right ** version B: a SpecialPage that is only installed on the central wiki, major difference with version A: The project would get it's own wiki (not just a talk page on Meta-Wiki) and users would get user-rights for this specialpage on the local wiki) * (Abuse|Reuse|Use) the interwiki-transclusion system for this and store the data as pages ("templates") on a central wiki which can be transcluded to any wiki (optionally the interwiki transclusion would be limited to the Template-namespace, or better a new namespace "Data:") ** wikipedia article: "Lorem ipsum dolor {{datawiki:Data:Foobar}} silet amet" ** As a side-effect / opportunity or silly idea (pick the one you prefer): We could combine the data-wiki with the template-wiki for multi-langual/cross-wiki templates. All it takes is setting the configuration to allow transclusion of not just NS_DATA but also NS_TEMPLATE) -- Krinkle
Wikimedia Germany started the project at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiData_WMDE.
Should this become a new project in Bugzilla?
(In reply to comment #4) > Should this become a new project in Bugzilla? Well, I am not sure how the German guys want to handle the project at all... Better to ask them (at WMDE).
*** Bug 4706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #0) > we need to create a project for DATA. Work in progress: https://www.wikidata.org/
Wikidata exists nowadays and is in use. In Bugzilla, you can find "MediaWiki extensions > Wikidata*" and for server configuration there is "Wikimedia > Wikidata", plus a "wikidata" keyword. Closing as FIXED. If there are specific unfulfilled aspects of this request, please check if they already exists against Wikidata and if not, file specific bug reports about them. Thanks!
