Unfortunately my SOLRSearch proposal was deemed ineligible [5] the reason given that "extensions require code review from WMF to deploy" so I hope yours is more successful.

-john

On 14.02.2013 07:14, Yaron Koren wrote:

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 [2]

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 [3]

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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Hi John,

Thanks; my proposal is safe so far because it wouldn't require WMF coordination to run.

I should note that I think it might still be possible to get your proposal un-invalidated - the question is whether your proposal is meant for WMF sites, or just for regular MediaWiki wikis. I'm guessing the latter. I think the WMF people are so used to thinking in terms of Wikipedia that some of them forget that MediaWiki is itself a WMF project, and that improving it on non-WMF wikis can still assist with the "sum of all knowledge" goal; they just assumed that you were talking about adding SOLR to Wikipedia. I have no inside knowledge on this, but that's my theory.

-Yaron