Federated knowledge graphs/Wikibase
How should we think about linking wikibases?
Current approaches:
- Federated Wikidata -- an idea that means different things to different people
- Structured Wikidata on Commons
- Wikibase Community User Group -- just start one :)
- Wikibase docs don't address this yet.
A simple spec edit
- All wikibases register @ wikidata [w/ a Wikibase entity + Wikibase ID property]
- Wikibases that want to federate, indicate this there [w/ a property]
- Local properties drawn from Wikidata are marked as such [maybe cached locally]
- Similar to global filename/template: if no local property, look globally? That can be a separate flag
- Nuisance: you could have multiple such [remote-ID] relations, for 1-to-n identification
- Local properties that /may/ be the same as a property on [WD] are also flagged that way
- with notes about the mapping/crosswalk/relation
- Mechanism to flag properties that would make sense on [WD]
Examples:
+ WikiCite: all citation and biblio data in one wikibase, referencable by WM projects.
Q: Copied into WD on use?
+ ZineWiki:
More complex edit
- Instances of [WD] above can be replaced by [any other wikibase] for more decentralization
- Locally: mention properties you infer from another wikibase. (ex: create a gender property; allow 'WD values + other')
- You can explicitly say you're overriding a global property? for linting (to avoid flagging this as a mistake)