Isarra, I like the idea of endorsements. Of course the best endorsement to
an extension is to have it installed and actively used in a wiki, and the
more popular the wiki is, the bigger that endorsement can be considered.
Wikiapiary has the building blocks for this in place, since they also track
wikis (with various stats) that users can claim.
And then you could also have the endorsement of pure users just giving a
thumbs up. I wonder whether "counter-endorsements" aka thumbs down could
help here as well. And thjis would ring us closer to ratings, but I get
your point.
On Thursday, August 21, 2014, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Lots of possibilities!
Well, yes. I wonder whether Mark & Markus or someone else would like to
pick a first one and push it until deploying it.
(BTW, some basic structured data about each extension would be great to
expose for users for this purpose; maybe
MediaWiki.org
could be a potential
future Wikibase target?)
I asked/suggested this (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2014-March/003588.html )
but the idea didn't fly.
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