[Foundation-l] Dreams, goals, and milestones (1 of 3)

[Daniel Arnold]

Am Freitag, 22. September 2006 03:39 schrieb SJ:
> Questions: what are the most important goals over the next few years
>   a) for Wikipedia,
>   b) for Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Commons and any further media
> repository, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, Wikiversity
> [I would forward to the other lists but for some of them it might
> double their annual list traffic]

Wikimedia Commons goals are better software which we naturally don't want to 
demand solely from others but want to be able contributing to with less 
friction. Some of our goals:
* Single login
* CheckUsage directly in MediaWiki
* CommonsTicker directly in MediaWiki (for example via a defined RSS feed that 
can be imported in any other Wikimedia or third party wiki: See as 
well "Instant Commons" idea)
* Checked Versions for files in order to review not only negatively ("this 
file needs to be deleted") but also positively ("this file can be used safely 
and is useful") our content.
* Wikidata in MediaWiki for uniform and queryable file descriptions. Every 
serious media repository in the world uses well defined description fields.

These are some high priority requirements for the visions of Wikimedia Commons 
coming true.

Have also a look at the thread on CommonsDelinker, our current pending 
solution to yet another software problem, wich adresses as well some 
expectations towards the Foundation (which thus has a little bit to do with 
the goals of the Foundation, although not the same ;-).

Cheers, Arnomane