Pintoch added a comment.
Thanks for reviving this thread I had forgotten about ^^ I don't think I fully understand your vision here, because it's not clear to me what problem we would solve by using an ontology in this case. To me, the main problem is that the information OpenRefine requires to offer upload functionality for a Wikibase instance is a mixture of things that can be discovered automatically (via the WikibaseManifest extension) and other tool-specific fields (such as the EditGroups template summary, or more recently the predefined schemas to offer to the user) which don't make sense for other tools and therefore don't really make sense to include in something served by the Wikibase instance itself. So, even if we are assuming that the WikibaseManifest extension serves its information by following some particular ontology, the tool-specific information will not be available there. That means we cannot make it possible to just set up a Wikibase instance in OpenRefine just by providing the URL of the Wikibase instance and letting OpenRefine discover the configuration there. Or how would OpenRefine discover this additional information it requires? In my opinion, the WikibaseManifest extension already provides a valuable help in that it exposes generic configuration information in the Wikibase instance already. OpenRefine could adapt its own manifest format to make it smaller, only containing information that cannot be derived from the WikibaseManifest (https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/4258). If some of those generic fields change, this could also make it easier for OpenRefine to update its own configuration dynamically (since those fields would be fetched directly from the Wikibase instance). TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266344 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Pintoch Cc: Abbe98, Pintoch, Aklapper, Danny_Benjafield_WMDE, Astuthiodit_1, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, maantietaja, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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