[Foundation-l] data centralization for the benefit of small (and also bigger) projects

[Marcus Buck]

  An'n 23.08.2010 19:20, hett Magnus Manske schreven:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:13 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 23 August 2010 17:43, Marcus Buck<me at marcusbuck.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> Although I'm sure they will establish sub-communities on the new wiki
>>> like they did on Commons. E.g. German speakers meet at the Forum
>>> (<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Forum>) instead of the
>>> Village pump. That will happen on a datawiki too and probably these
>>> subcommunities will focus on their respective regions, e.g. German
>>> speakers will focus on maintaining the town data for places in Germany,
>>> Austria, Switzerland etc.
>>
>> I do like this idea very much indeed. What will it take in software
>> terms? Something similar to Freebase? Something like Freebase bolted
>> onto MediaWiki? OmegaWiki?
> I thought transwiki template transclusion is being worked on?
>
> Magnus
If what I proposed is planned to be part of transwiki template 
transclusion and if transwiki template transclusion is "real soon now" 
in the literal sense and not "real soon now" in the extended sense, than 
I'm happy and satisfied ;-) Is there a roadmap for transwiki template 
transclusion and is it decided that at the end of this roadmap transwiki 
template transclusion will go live on the Wikimedia projects?

Additional question: My idea involves calling a local template from 
within the transwikied template to do the localisation. Will that be 
possible with transwiki template transclusion?

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox