Denny and Wikimedians,
In what ways might World University and School (which is like Wikipedia with MIT OCW), with plans to be in all 3,000-8,000 languages, and 200 countries, each a school or beginning university as a wiki page, to begin, participate in this process? The English version presently has nearly 500 wiki pages. Here's WUaS's Subject Template, - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE - as one key to WUaS's structure.
Cheers, Scott
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 7/10/12 3:14 PM, jmcclure@hypergrove.com wrote:
...You say "Keeping the control over the
formatting in the client wiki seems desirable to me" overlooks the fact that normal wiki rules-of-the-road apply within the wikidata environment also, where authors certainly should be able to exert "control", likely even more so, over infobox content & styling.
My understanding is that "normal wiki rules-of-the-road" will not apply on WikiData, as the editing interface will be form-based, not wikitext-based. WikiData will not house any infoboxes, only the data that the Wikipedias will pull into their infoboxes (and elsewhere).
Housing the infoboxes on WikiData would be a terrible idea for several reasons:
- Every Wikipedia does infoboxes differently depending on the policies and
conventions of that wiki (for example, on English Wikipedia we strongly discourage flag icons in infoboxes, while other wikis don't care).
- Infoboxes are only 1 possible use of WikiData. Other possibilities:
** Setting the birth and death dates in the lead sentences of biographies ** Setting the coordinates displayed on geography articles ** Populating the interlanguage links (already planned)
Ryan Kaldari
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