Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata for organizing 1000s of extensions in mediawiki.org?

2014-03-20 Thread Greg Grossmeier
> I would very strongly recommend to use Semantic MediaWiki for this use > case. It is more powerful, we use SMW in other WMF contexts already, Only on wikitech.wikimedia.org, and only until Ryan Lane figures out how to use Wikidata to manage the labs provisioning/etc :) > and > supporting the d

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata for organizing 1000s of extensions in mediawiki.org?

2014-03-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I would very strongly recommend to use Semantic MediaWiki for this use case. It is more powerful, we use SMW in other WMF contexts already, and supporting the data inside Meta (instead of inside Wikidata and then transcluding it) allows us also to generate workflows in Meta involving local User-acc

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata for organizing 1000s of extensions in mediawiki.org?

2014-03-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I would seriously consider this for two reasons. Yes, we can include this kind of information, obviously. It is worthwhile information so that is one. The most important reason why I want to seriously have this information is because the audience we gain. It is the developers of MediaWiki. Th

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata for organizing 1000s of extensions in mediawiki.org?

2014-03-19 Thread Quim Gil
Organize MediaWiki's catalog of 1000s of extensions using Wikidata. Is this a sensible idea? Reality checks and other opinions are welcome here or at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46704#c33 Pasting the relevant part for convenience: Has anybody discussed the possibility of creat