From: Markus K. <ma...@se...> - 2012-03-30 08:49:43
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Dear SMW users & developers, many of you are already aware of the Wikidata project [1] -- a major effort to establish a platform for editing and sharing data among all Wikipedia communities. The project will start next Monday, 2 April 2012. A few moments ago, the official press release on Wikidata has been issued by Wikimedia Germany e.V.: DATA REVOLUTION FOR WIKIPEDIA Wikidata will be the first new Wikimedia project since 2006 http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Pressemitteilungen/PM_3_12_Wikidata_EN The technical work will largely be documented online, and there is also a mailing list wikidata-l [2] for announcements and discussions that you might find interesting. Exciting times. Cheers, Markus [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l |
From: Jesse W. <wj...@gm...> - 2012-03-30 17:40:58
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Just to add that this is not a small event, it's been reported world-wide, you can find more online from: - Wall Street Journal<http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/03/30/techies-team-up-to-make-wikipedia-smarter/> - Seattle Times (of course, one Seattlite is the major contributor)<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2017870468_post_47.html> - PR News Wire<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/data-revolution-for-wikipedia-145106905.html> - C|Net<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57406789-52/wikidata-to-provide-structured-data-for-all-wikipedia-versions/> - TechFlash<http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2012/03/paul-allen-giving-wikidata-867000.html> - The Chronicle<http://www.chronline.com/life/tech/article_cad16699-8a77-5982-a45a-3b85d9297c46.html> - Geekwire<http://www.geekwire.com/2012/paul-allen-bankrolls-project-wikipedia-accurate/> and more. If you want to learn more details, join SMWCon Spring 2012<http://bit.ly/scs12>, we have talks for wikidata project and more :) Jesse On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Markus Krötzsch < ma...@se...> wrote: > Dear SMW users & developers, > > many of you are already aware of the Wikidata project [1] -- a major > effort to establish a platform for editing and sharing data among all > Wikipedia communities. The project will start next Monday, 2 April 2012. > A few moments ago, the official press release on Wikidata has been > issued by Wikimedia Germany e.V.: > > DATA REVOLUTION FOR WIKIPEDIA > Wikidata will be the first new Wikimedia project since 2006 > http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Pressemitteilungen/PM_3_12_Wikidata_EN > > The technical work will largely be documented online, and there is also > a mailing list wikidata-l [2] for announcements and discussions that you > might find interesting. > > Exciting times. > > Cheers, > > Markus > > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata > [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Sem...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > |