Frando wrote:
What the project lacks of at the moment is a better coordination and organisation.
Erik Moeller is working on it; he *is* the project, and I am confident that he can coordinate himself :-)
I think that we should link the idea of wikidata with some other improvements that mediawiki needs, especially better semantic web abilities, iow. a xml in- and output implentation,
My initial but mostly working XML export implementation:
http://magnusmanske.de/wikipedia/wiki2xml.php
Paste wikitext in, get XML out. I've been meaning to work on a further conversion to OpenOffice XML, but didn't really get around to it.
the possibilty to tag articles with a standart (as for Jimbo's "1.0"-proposal)
It's waiting in the wings, for Brion to copy SpecialValidate.php back from CVS HEAD and turn it on.
and maybe also a improved discussion system (liquidthreads).
Didn't write that yet. Surprise! ;-)
So I propose to take all this together and call it MediaWiki 2.0 resp. phase4.
Why? They're not dependent on each other in any way. WikiData is developing, validation is ready for testing; XML export(/import) is in early stages, and LiquidThreads is in consensus limbo. None of them needs any of the others to become reality.
We can say "together, we'll call them MediaWiki 2.0", but that's a marketing thing, not a technical necessity IMHO.
I think we have enough guys out there who're more than willingly to help coding, but the problem is that no one really knows where to start ..
* WikiData should stay with Erik for the time being; in such an early phase, a single developer can be more effective than a dozen guys who have to be told every detail first. We'll grab it once it has reached a beta or whatever * Validation waits for field testing, though I'd be happy if you'd have a look at the code * XML import/export would be something where you can jump right in. Speed up/bugfix my parser, add an ODT converter, write an importer (easy enough), whatever * LiquidThreads seems to be stuck between better order and security vs. "everyone can edit this comment".
Concerning myself, I think I will not be able to write too much of code myself, because my little freetime is already rather occupied, but I'd love to contribute to the project as much as possible.
Welcome to the club of people-who-don't-have-time-but-still-make-some :-)
Magnus