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I think it is logical to want a curated database as a companion to wikipedia. WP aims to be an encyclopedia - a collection of articles on a subject; not a collection of data, a dictionary, a taxonomy/ontology, a time-series database of world history.

That doesn't mean such efforts aren't interesting - see eg:

http://wiki.dbpedia.org/

But I think it is important to realize that both can be useful. Perhaps there is room for something that blends traditional hypertext/hypermedia and articles better - fundamentally I think such a system will be more like a complex (object) programming system than text. It would need to be somewhat self-organizing (eg: do how would you like to present a list of published works; on a timeline? With short reviews? In a map?) - and it would probably have similar issues that a large multi-user codebase has.

I suppose lively-kernel.org moght be one approach to making something like that (smalltalk-like js run-time in the browser with webdav for code/data storage).