(This is the project formerly known as Wikimedia Data & Developer Hub)
build.wikimedia.org aims to become a hub for developers and researchers interested in Wikimedia data and the APIs to interact with it.
Wikimedia has developed a number of repositories of free and open datasets, and has made its APIs freely available. However, these APIs and their documentation are currently scattered across several projects, with no central location for people to learn about and build upon them.
Let's fix this problem! Wikimedia has so much to offer.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/build.wikimedia.org
http://fab.wmflabs.org/project/board/60/
Currently we are developing a prototype.[1] We are still discussing the technologies to be used in the final implementation,[2] including the specific use of MediaWiki. Your ideas and help are welcome.
1 - http://fab.wmflabs.org/T478 2 - http://fab.wmflabs.org/T491
On 8/25/14, 5:59 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
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This is now at [[dev.wikimedia.org]]? That sounds like a much better name than "build", which I thought was going to be some CI automated builds server from your email title :)
-- Legoktm
Legoktm wrote:
This is now at [[dev.wikimedia.org]]? That sounds like a much better name than "build", which I thought was going to be some CI automated builds server from your email title :)
Seems so; related links:
* http://fab.wmflabs.org/T490 * http://fab.wmflabs.org/T492 * http://fab.wmflabs.org/T487
Thanks for the reply at http://fab.wmflabs.org/T491#22. The more we can push back against creating further unsustainable micro-sites such as transparency.wikimedia.org, the better, as far as I'm concerned. We already have a publishing platform that we can and should leverage and it lives at www.mediawiki.org or wikitech.wikimedia.org or meta.wikimedia.org.
As discussed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Dev.wikimedia.org, we can set up a cutesy URL similar to https://bookshelf.wikimedia.org.
MZMcBride
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:54:28PM -0700, Legoktm wrote:
This is now at [[dev.wikimedia.org]]? That sounds like a much better name than "build", which I thought was going to be some CI automated builds server from your email title :)
But also sounds like it's the absolute end of the line for development work, cf. mediawiki.org.
I'll say from personal experience that when I find a website that links to a "developers" resource, and that resource is all about APIs and data, I ragequit the browser tab because the software is clearly not modifiable, they just want people to play with the toys they've allowed.
This is pretty well illustrated by the list of external examples.
Is there any discussion of the name of the portal?
On 26 August 2014 08:57, Mark Holmquist mtraceur@member.fsf.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 01:54:28PM -0700, Legoktm wrote:
This is now at [[dev.wikimedia.org]]? That sounds like a much better name than "build", which I thought was going to be some CI automated builds server from your email title :)
But also sounds like it's the absolute end of the line for development work, cf. mediawiki.org.
I'll say from personal experience that when I find a website that links to a "developers" resource, and that resource is all about APIs and data, I ragequit the browser tab because the software is clearly not modifiable, they just want people to play with the toys they've allowed.
This is pretty well illustrated by the list of external examples.
Is there any discussion of the name of the portal?
Hey Mark,
You might have missed the links from earlier in the thread:
On 25 August 2014 18:10, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Legoktm wrote:
This is now at [[dev.wikimedia.org]]? That sounds like a much better name than "build", which I thought was going to be some CI automated builds server from your email title :)
Seems so; related links:
J.
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