New subject: [Wikidata-l] My WMF IEG proposal: "data browser" for Wikidata, etc.

14 Feb 2013

Hi everyone,

If you hadn't heard, the Wikimedia Foundation has started the first round
of what is planned to be be a twice-annual program to fund individuals and
small groups to work on projects that further the WMF's goals - "individual
engagement grants":

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG

I have a proposal currently in place for a project that relates to
Wikidata. It's a Javascript "data browser", that would provide a drill-down
interface to let users navigate through the data of Wikipedia, Wikidata,
and any standard MediaWiki-based wiki, without overloading the server with
queries. This would be accomplished by using browser-based data storage,
which would also enable fast navigation on mobile devices, and even offline
use. The downside is that it would mean, for the case of
Wikipedia/Wikidata, that it could only store a small fraction of the
overall data; but there could be multiple "apps" for different subject
matters - one for cars, one for buildings, one for politicians, and so on.

You can read my proposal here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser

Any feedback is welcome, here or on the proposal talk page; and there's a
section at the bottom for endorsements, if you would like to see this
project happen.

Thanks,
Yaron

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