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

[John Vandenberg]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:
>  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?

http://www.mail-archive.com/foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg11368.html

> 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?

I don't think that is part of the current design.

However, the calling wiki could pass though a language code, and the
datawiki could respond with the translated result.  datawiki would
then host the translations for the keywords, which would be similar to
how Commons templates operate.  This also helps with uniformity, as
the datawiki can manage out of date translations because they are
local.  translatewiki may also have ideas for how they can help manage
the translations of these databoxen.

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John Vandenberg