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Submission + - The next big step for Wikidata: forming a hub for researchers (wikipedia.org)

The ed17 writes: Wikidata, Wikimedia's free linked database that supplies Wikipedia and its sister projects, is gearing up to submit a grant application to the EU that would expand Wikidata's scope by developing it as a science hub. ... This proposal is significant because no other open collaborative project ... can connect the free databases in the world across disciplinary and linguistic boundaries. ...the project will be capable of providing a unique open service: for the first time, that will allow both citizens and professional scientists from any research or language community to integrate their databases into an open global structure, to publicly annotate, verify, criticise and improve the quality of available data, to define its limits, to contribute to the evolution of its ontology, and to make all this available to everyone, without any restrictions on use and reuse.

Comment Re:I am Mr. Cyber-Sleuth (Score 2, Interesting) 377

Congratulations to Mr. Brandt for his continuing effort to prove he is not a public figure by hitching himself to this controversy and getting quoted by the New York Times yet again. In his attacks on Wikipedia for creating an article about him, he claimed he was in fact not a public figure, despite his half dozen plus appearances in the Times and more in other publications. It's obvious from his use of this controversy to promote himself and from his hit list of Wikipedia editors that he has no real interest in privacy issues, he's just pissed that the Wikipedia article about him had links to two sites critical of him, an article in Salon (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/goog le_watch/) and http://www.google-watch-watch.org/.

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