On a technical note, Reasonator is pure JavaScript, so should be easily portable, even to a Wikipedia:Reasonator.js page (or several pages, with support JS).
git here: https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/reasonator On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Ryan Lane <rlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Gerard Meijssen > <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > Hoi, > > > > At this moment Wikipedia "red links" provide no information whatsoever. > > This is not cool. > > > > In Wikidata we often have labels for the missing (=red link) articles. We > > can and do provide information from Wikidata in a reasonable way that is > > informative in the "Reasonator". We also provide additional search > > information on many Wikipedias. > > > > In the Reasonator we have now implemented "red lines" [1]. They indicate > > when a label does not exist in the primary language that is in use. > > > > What we are considering is creating a template {{Reasonator}} that will > > present information based on what is available in Wikidata. Such a > template > > would be a stand in until an article is actually written. What we would > > provide is information that is presented in the same way as we provide it > > as this moment in time [2] > > > > This may open up a box of worms; Reasonator is NOT using any caching. > There > > may be lots of other reasons why you might think this proposal is evil. > All > > the evil that is technical has some merit but, you have to consider that > > the other side of the equation is that we are not "sharing in the sum of > > all knowledge" even when we have much of the missing requested > information > > available to us. > > > > One saving (technical) grace, Reasonator loads round about as quickly as > > WIkidata does. > > > > As this is advance warning, I hope that you can help with the issues that > > will come about. I hope that you will consider the impact this will have > on > > our traffic and measure to what extend it grows our data. > > > > The Reasonator pages will not show up prettily on mobile phones .. so > does > > Wikidata by the way. It does not consider Wikipedia zero. There may be > more > > issues that may require attention. But again, it beats not serving the > > information that we have to those that are requesting it. > > > > I have a strong feeling you're going to bring labs to its knees. > > Sending editors to labs is one thing, but you're proposing sending readers > to labs, to a service that isn't cached. > > If reasonator is something we want to support for something like this, > maybe we should consider turning it into a production service? > > - Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- undefined _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
