Hoi James,

The biggest bottleneck to innovation is our own community process. It is also an impossibility to get Wikimedia to consider how it performs for specific groups of students. Never mind.

When you want to increase the value of "Our World in Data", it helps when their identifiers are linked to Wikidata identifiers. The OWID identifiers are welcome on Wikidata when need be. The value is that as a consequence labels in all our supported languages become available. When information is to be shown in another language, only the missing labels are needed for best results.

When Wikimedia Foundation is interested in improving its functionality, I am quite happy to point to the lowest hanging fruits for the biggest number of people we could provide a service for.

Thanks,

GerardM

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 22:52, James Heilman <jmh649@gmail.com> wrote:

We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID) working within a mediawiki environment.

1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers. Hopefully this has allowed us to address security and privacy concerns.

2) We have created an extension that allows the use of this content within a mediawiki install

3) We have made a bunch of changes to formatting, such as removing the logo, to make it compliant with WP practice and style. You can see an example on MDWiki in the infobox here.

My question to the movement is are their communities interested in using this technology? There are about 4,000 of these graphs. We of course will also need to develop a framework for translation.

Best
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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