On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 07:32:07 -0700, Jeroen De Dauw jeroendedauw@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
You mention using a global id to refer to sites for making links. And
synchronization of the sites table.
So you're saying that this part of Wikidata only works within Wikimedia projects right?
Does Wikidata overall only function within Wikimedia projects. Or is there a different mechanism to deal with clients from external wikis?
The software we're writing is completely Wikimedia agnostic and the actual Wikidata project will obvious be usable outside of Wikimedia projects. We will allow for links to non Wikimedia sites (although we have not agreed on how open this will be), and for non-Wikimedia sites to access all data stored within Wikidata (including our "equivalent links" using the sites table). Does that answer your question or am I missing something?
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw http://www.bn2vs.com Don't panic. Don't be evil. --
Ok, so the data is available to 3rd party wikis.
I was asking how you planned to handle sites in 3rd party wikis. Do you have a separate mechanism to handle links from 3rd party clients? Or are they supposed to sync their sites from Wikimedia's Wikidata?