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

[Brion Vibber]

Daniel Arnold wrote:
> 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

Real soon now. ;)

> * 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.

Would love to these too; bug me about them in October and keep bugging me until
they happen!

> * Wikidata in MediaWiki for uniform and queryable file descriptions. Every 
> serious media repository in the world uses well defined description fields.

That could be some ways off, but useful data that's not wikidata might be
shorter term.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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