The Wikimedia Foundation has a new project in development: Wikidata . Announced in February this year, the new product will be “a free editable knowledge base of men and machines,” according to the description of the company itself. The idea is simple: to offer those who edit files on Wikipedia, a large library of content in multiple languages, so they can gather information to be added to his articles in the encyclopedia.
The expectation is that by December this year, the page will be already in the air. With a budget of about $ 1.7 million, which has holdings of Paul Allen, the Google and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , the project is seen as a “logical progression” for Wikipedia.Andrew Lin, author of “The Wikipedia Revolution”, believes the WikiData can make the experience of writing for the virtual encyclopedia much simpler. “When Wikipedia started, was in several languages ??with different information. It was a manual process to copy content from other places. With Wikidata, there will be a model much more efficient and better to organize this information, “he said.With new technology, edit the files should be more complicated. Lin points out that this process has always been very simple: just copy the written text, paste in one location and publish it.Recently, the publisher of Wikipedia is already getting a little more complex, and the search in a database, it may be more difficult. “I’m a little doubtful, but aredito that this is even the way forward,” he added.
