[Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

[Pavlo Shevelo]

> * Wikisource -- better native support for side-by-side translations,
> annotations, and extracting/citing primary source material from the
> other sites like Wikipedia would be very helpful.

Same thing is in need for Wikiquote as well while I do believe
 that
> ... extracting/citing primary source material from the other sites like ...

is extremely useful and very universal thing for any cross-project
'linking' (and even for internal citing)


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 9/9/09 9:41 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>> As Erik points out, at a certain point we have to actually write new
>> code to support new ideas. Else "projects we could do at Wikimedia"
>> becomes "projects we can do with a wiki engine."
>
> IMO we need to do that for the projects we already have before we take
> on new obligations!
>
> We still have very poor software support for:
>
> * Commons -- We need a sane upload and post-upload workflow (eg review
> and deletion), and a clean system for handling structured metadata
> (descriptions, authorship, licence info).
>
> Some of this is being worked on now with Michael Dale's video & media
> work, and the Ford Foundation grant will let us put more resources into
> the workflow & metadata side, so this is the one I worry the least about. :)
>
>
> * Wiktionary -- Really needs to be rebuilt as a structured system. It's
> very hard to query Wiktionary or extract its data usefully, and there's
> a lot of duplicated manual work maintaining it.
>
> There was some third-party work done in this direction (Ultimate
> Wiktionary/WiktionaryZ/OmegaWiki) which was very interesting but never
> got the community buy-in to push that work back towards the live Wiktionary.
>
>
> * Wikibooks -- We still have very poor native support for multiple-page
> "books" or "modules", which complicates navigation, search, authoring,
> and downloading.
>
> Tools like the Collection extension are making it easier to download a
> batch of related pages for offline reading, but someone still needs to
> build those collections manually and they don't provide other navigation
> aids.
>
>
> * Wikinews -- Workflow on Wikinews has been aided by tools like
> FlaggedRevs but is still a bit awkward. Native support for things like
> exporting feeds of news articles is still missing, leading to a lot of
> workarounds and manual effort being expended.
>
>
> * Wikisource -- better native support for side-by-side translations,
> annotations, and extracting/citing primary source material from the
> other sites like Wikipedia would be very helpful.
>
> -- brion
>
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