On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > I have two recurring thoughts about search lately, since you asked. > > First, multimedia search is absolutely horrible, basically non-existent. > If you go to Wikimedia Commons and try its search functionality and then > compare to any other media service on the Internet, you can quickly come > up with a list of a dozen features that are missing (search by file size, > by color, by image file format, etc.).
To really make this awesome we need structured data support for Commons with Wikidata. We'll be making more progress on it in the second half of this year but there is a lot to do. <snip> > Beyond these two points, it's vitally important that we able to > arbitrarily query Wikidata soon. I'm hoping this functionality is live on > Wikimedia wikis by the end of 2015. And speaking to APIs specifically, we > really need to focus on projects such as Wiktionary and Wikisource that > are desperately in need of API support to serialize and add structure to > what is currently very fragile blobs of wikitext markup. Please give feedback on the latest proposal for Wikidata support for Wiktionary: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development/Proposals/2015-05 Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
