Hey,
Wikibase, the software created for the Wikidata project, now has it's own website. http://wikiba.se/
Among the goals of the website are promoting third party usage and outlining the various components and applications that make up the Wikibase software. It is not meant to hold the per component documentation, such as installation instructions for the Wikibase Repository extension, which remain where they are, and simply are referenced where applicable.
It's still a work in progress, and you are invited to edit the site, by sending a pull request.
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3
Wikibase, the software created for the Wikidata project, now has it's own website. http://wikiba.se/
Among the goals of the website are promoting third party usage and outlining the various components and applications that make up the Wikibase software. It is not meant to hold the per component documentation, such as installation instructions for the Wikibase Repository extension, which remain where they are, and simply are referenced where applicable.
It's still a work in progress, and you are invited to edit the site, by sending a pull request.
It's not a wiki. :( It looks really nice though and I'm glad that you can still edit it with pull requests through Github. Site looks great!
Am I understanding you correctly in thinking that this site essentially serves as a promotional tool to encourage people to learn about Wikibase and what it does?
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Derric Atzrott datzrott@alizeepathology.com wrote:
It's not a wiki. :( It looks really nice though and I'm glad that you can still edit it with pull requests through Github. Site looks great!
Am I understanding you correctly in thinking that this site essentially serves as a promotional tool to encourage people to learn about Wikibase and what it does?
Correct, yeah. It's mainly so we have a nice place to point people to that want to learn a bit more about what Wikibase is and what it can do for them.
Cheers Lydia
Just wondering - why isn't this part of mediawiki.org?
On 2 September 2014 19:03, Jeroen De Dauw jeroendedauw@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Wikibase, the software created for the Wikidata project, now has it's own website. http://wikiba.se/
Among the goals of the website are promoting third party usage and outlining the various components and applications that make up the Wikibase software. It is not meant to hold the per component documentation, such as installation instructions for the Wikibase Repository extension, which remain where they are, and simply are referenced where applicable.
It's still a work in progress, and you are invited to edit the site, by sending a pull request.
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3
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Hey,
Just wondering - why isn't this part of mediawiki.org?
Most of the Wikibase components have nothing to do with MediaWiki. Having it on MediaWiki.org would make the whole software appear to be MediaWiki specific, and thus scare non-MediaWiki users away. Furthermore, it's sub optimal to have a collection of pages about a single topic on a wiki about something else like that, since the main navigation menus point to unrelated content.
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3
Site looks great and responsive on smart devices too. :)
- Enock On Sep 4, 2014 2:17 PM, "Jeroen De Dauw" jeroendedauw@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Just wondering - why isn't this part of mediawiki.org?
Most of the Wikibase components have nothing to do with MediaWiki. Having it on MediaWiki.org would make the whole software appear to be MediaWiki specific, and thus scare non-MediaWiki users away. Furthermore, it's sub optimal to have a collection of pages about a single topic on a wiki about something else like that, since the main navigation menus point to unrelated content.
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3
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Good to know, up till now I thought wikibase was still a mediawiki extension :s
On 4 September 2014 15:16, Jeroen De Dauw jeroendedauw@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Just wondering - why isn't this part of mediawiki.org?
Most of the Wikibase components have nothing to do with MediaWiki. Having it on MediaWiki.org would make the whole software appear to be MediaWiki specific, and thus scare non-MediaWiki users away. Furthermore, it's sub optimal to have a collection of pages about a single topic on a wiki about something else like that, since the main navigation menus point to unrelated content.
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3
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Am 04.09.2014 18:42, schrieb Deryck Chan:
Good to know, up till now I thought wikibase was still a mediawiki extension :s
It is. But it consists of several components by now, some of which are independent of MediaWiki. Ideally, we would eventually have a Wikibase core that does not rely on MediaWiki, and then have the extension only as "glue" between that core and MW.
-- daniel
Hey,
Good to know, up till now I thought wikibase was still a mediawiki extension :s
It is. But it consists of several components by now, some of which are independent of MediaWiki.
I don't agree with that use of the terminology. The website defines it as follows: "Wikibase is a collection of applications and libraries for creating, managing and sharing structured data."
This includes Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client, both of which are MediaWiki extensions.
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Jeroen De Dauw jeroendedauw@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
Good to know, up till now I thought wikibase was still a mediawiki extension :s
It is. But it consists of several components by now, some of which are independent of MediaWiki.
I don't agree with that use of the terminology. The website defines it as follows: "Wikibase is a collection of applications and libraries for creating, managing and sharing structured data."
This includes Wikibase Repository and Wikibase Client, both of which are MediaWiki extensions.
But it is easy to build a client application which uses Wikibase data using without any mediawiki component. e.g. pure rdf / json data extraction.
Great website. I'm looking forward to contributing to it via github.. A bit different, but a idea worth trialling. ;-)
It would be nice to add a copy of the content pages to mediawiki.org, to allow easier editing by people who arn't git savvy. I'd be happy to help manually bridge mediawiki edits over to github, and help automate that.
-- John Vandenberg