It seems like a client-side bot-powered Semantic MediaWiki. If I understand correctly it gather the data from across the website and create its visual representations. ----- Yury Katkov, WikiVote
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Wjhonson wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
Could someone put this in third-grade English? Cause I don't understand what this does
-----Original Message----- From: Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org; jmorgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org Sent: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 12:05 am Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Percolate: Python scripts & modules to create browsable auto-updated guides onwiki
Percolate is a system of Python scripts and modules for working with bot-updated templates, built by WMF's grantmaking department, but reusable.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking_and_Programs/Learning_%26_Evalua...
"Percolate provides a relatively simple and robust way of replicating some of the functionality that closed-source social software (like Facebook and Quora) use to surface relevant content and recent activity without sacrificing the flexibility that makes MediaWiki great. It does this through profiles and views..."
(found via the monthly report: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_July_2013#Indiv... ) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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