Wikidata/Archive/Wikidata

Historical page may be found at /historical.

This page should be used for summarizing, coordinating and promoting activities of wikidata-related projects.

Ideas and current implementations

Cite

• mw:Extension:Cite

OmegaWiki

• OmegaWiki (http://omegawiki.org/) -- structured implementation of dictionary (was: Ultimate Wiktionary)
  • Kennisnet/Structured data
  • OmegaWiki data design (was: Ultimate Wiktionary data design)
  • Wikidata/Timetable (implemented on Wikimedia projects, too?)

Wikipedia Projects

References

French Wikipedia has Reference: namespace (example) : see fr:Aide:Espace référence for details. This space has been created following

1. a community decision (largely consensual) and
2. some discussion & decision regarding bibliographic conventions;

it led the way to Wikiproject Sources. "Référence:" are used to simplify quoting sources by putting all "technical" informations on those pages and justgiving a link from articles. It could use some Wikidata, and also be expanded into a separate site, like Wikimedia Commons.

Wikipedia Persondata

en:Wikipedia:Persondata (also exists in other Wikipedia languages: in Winter 2007 there were approximately 15000 persondata entries in English Wikipedia and 175000 "Personendaten" in German Wikipedia). The project uses hidden (has a special CSS-style) tables to add metadata in bibliographic articles. The data is structured using uniform templates and can be extracted with scripts via XML / SQL database dumps or webscrapers "Templatetiger".

Wikiproject Geodata

en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates is another multilingual project to create database powered information. In this case articles are connected with geographical coordinates and so that points of interest can be embedded into 3D satelite picture viewers like NASA Worldwind or Google Earth and link back to Wikipedia.

Wikispecies

Wikispecies was launched in September 2004 to create a database for taxonomy. They currently use the standard implementation of MediaWiki software without database enhancements. Techniques used are: interwiki links and templates which make it's use quite limited. The data is currently not available for other Wikipedia projects. The participants are awaiting wikidata to be implented.

scionline.org

• scionline.org one implementation of a modified Cite extension.
  • stores references in a database table
  • uses a popup to allow editors to enter citations as they edit text (modeled on the way people use citation software like endnote)
    • users can either cite an existing reference or add a new one if no one else has entered it yet
  • creates a page for each reference where it can be evaluated/discussed
  • provides a reverse citation index (a list of all articles that cite each reference)

Other materials for analysis

Extensions and similar

• mw:Extension:Data -- extension for automatic content adding based on localization.
• Wikidata/Notes (outdated?)
• Wikicite
  • Proposal for global bibliography wiki.
• Wikicat
• WikiTextrose

Lexicography and semantics

• WikiWord - "a project to build a Thesaurus by extracting lexical and semantic information using text mining and data mining techniques. This page is a loose collection of material and ideas about that project."
  • The project page is useful for further references. (Some links from the "Related projects" section are incorporated here.)
• Extracting Semantics from Wiki Content [1] - Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann; Uni Leipzig; See also http://dbpedia.org/ and http://wikipedia.3ba.se/
• Semantic MediaWiki - http://ontoworld.org and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
• OntoWiki - http://ontowiki.net
• knewco - http://www.knewco.com/
• DBWiki - http://www.dbwiki.de/ German Wiki for database developers: tutorials, tipps, ...
• FreeBase - http://www.freebase.com
• Semantic wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Semantic_Wikipedia

Unclassified

• The original Wikidata ideas.
  • On MediaWiki site.
• Post and comments about improved Cite extension.
• Category:Wikidata -- category, should be analyzed.

Needs

General needs

• Easy to use extensions
• Structured data.
• Extension implementation to Wikimedia projects in a reasonable amount of time.

Cite related needs

• Extensible citation (notes, references, etc.) (bug 6271)
• Elected or appointed body for checking references (Wikimedia projects)? If such body would exist, it should be international.
• Compatibility with BibTex (and other standards?). (bug 8167)

Software implementations

This is the place for working software implementations which are or aren't used on some particular project.

• mw:Extension:Cite
• OmegaWiki extension
• French Wikipedia reference software (?)
• scionline.org improved Cite extension (?)

Project implementations

This is the place for software implemented or should-be-implemented on some particular project.

Implemented

• mw:Extension:Cite -- Wikimedia and a number of other MW based projects.
• OmegaWiki (http://omegawiki.org/) -- structured implementation of dictionary (was: Ultimate Wiktionary)
• French Wikipedia has Reference: namespace (example).
• scionline.org implementation of improved Cite extension.

Should be implemented

Please, describe here working software which you think that should be implemented on some of Wikimedia projects.

Current situation of wikidata-related projects

Add your comment in time reverse order and sign it.

• 2007-10-16: A number of separate projects with the same or similar aims. Situation should be analyzed. --Millosh 10:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)