Hi Jon, I am grateful to the wikimedia community for providing their responses about this project so there is nothing to be sorry about. I understand they have a lot of concerns to maintain the quality of data on the site.
The rating system has been built on top of semantic mediawiki so this can be replicated anywhere on any wiki which has SMW installed along with a few other extensions.
I really wish to see the project take shape and be helpful to mediawiki and for that i am willing to contribute beyond the gsoc period too. Jamie, the owner of wikiApiary thinks the same and he is willing to add more knowledge he farmed using data of extensions to mediawiki ( things like basket analysis; which extensions are used together, data from openhub.org on activity etc ) which in future may really enrich information on mediawiki.
I hope this idea gets support for deployment. I believe it will open up a path for all such 3rd party sources who collect data in multiple forms, to process that data and enrich mediawiki with new knowledge and analytics in the future. Anyhow, I had a great time working on this. So thanks to everyone. :)
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Aditya I'm truly sorry you are getting this kind of response, the replies you've got here seem very mean spirited but please don't take them personally. I hope it doesn't put you off building stuff on top of MediaWiki.
I just wanted to say thank you for building this, regardless of whether it gets used or not on mediawiki.org.
I was curious to how generic the rating system is. For example would it be possible to use such a thing on something like BetaFeatures or was it specifically designed for extension rating?
Could you point me to the code that provides this functionality? wikiapiary seems to be down :/ Jon
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:03 AM, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
Probably the original IRC discussions.
On 19 August 2014 17:22, Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl wrote:
On 19 August 2014 07:36, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
Personally I don't think in it's current state/design it is overly
suitable
for deployment onto MediaWiki wiki as it will introduce a external
factor
on the page load for each visitor, although I haven't looked at the
current
privacy policy but it is generally considered a no-no for us.
What do you base that on? As far as I can see, there's just a bot that adds/updates the rating to the extension template:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:ConfirmEdit&diff=p...
And that's also explicitly stated in the GSoC proposal: "During this period I will work on the Data Syndication phase of the project.
- For this, I will be extending the existing WikiApiary bot, creating
new
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