Re: Wikidata, the free knowledge base that anyone can edit
by danso on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @09:19PM
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No, I mean I was really confused. The term "WikiData" seems to connote data of the tabular type, like a central repository for public data. Though I'm also confused at how the mapping for this particular term (for "victory") can't be done in Wikipedia or the Wiki dictionary.
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Re: Wikidata, the free knowledge base that anyone can edit
by zeckalpha on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @09:28PM
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It is, but the problem is whether you are talking about an individual language version of Wikipedia or the Wikipedia project as a whole. In the article they talk about the problem of maintaining Interwiki links on each individual language version, rather than centrally.
This is also just one aspect of Wikidata. The centrality of shared table content is important, too. Why have data in a specific language version Wikipedia and point to it from other versions when you can have a central repository that is pointed to using templates from each language version?
Re: Wikidata, the free knowledge base that anyone can edit
by gngeal on Sunday March 10, 2013 @11:00AM
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"The term "WikiData" seems to connote data of the tabular type"
There's a strong correspondence between "tabular data" (you probably mean relational) and triples (<predicate,X,Y>). Bot are based on the first-order predicate logic, so there's actually a natural mapping.