Hi Rexford,
What objectives would we achieve if we were to "revamp the MediaWiki system from ground up"? Even if we pretend that we have infinite financial and human resources to do this, I am not sure what we would accomplsh, and we would likely introduce a lot of new reliability and security bugs.
Perhaps Maryana can give us an update about the Commons app, so I'm pinging her.
Pine On Aug 15, 2014 7:46 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" nkansahrexford@gmail.com wrote:
@svetlana, I thought http is rather being strengthened via REST? The Internet of things all will better work with HTTP.
From your list of items, @pine, I will recommend, smart watches, AI, and smart homes and buildings.
But why would Wikimedia wanna include the yet-to-well-surface technologies when mere edit conflicts isn't solved on the Wiki?
The Wikipedia app is currently under good development and I think its doing great.
Your question is worth considering, but in reality, I don't think Wikimedia will be up to the task, even if one from your list is chosen.
Just pondering over how many months, if not years its taken to get the Wikipedia app in shape, not to mention the Wikimedia commons app that's seems to have been abandoned as it hardly enjoys updates, makes me wonder if Wikimedia will ever finish a native application should they wanna even try AI.
For me, if I should suggest what should be Wikimedia's biggest priority today will be to revamp the MediaWiki system from ground up.
rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone On Aug 16, 2014 12:43 AM, "svetlana" svetlana@fastmail.com.au wrote:
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, at 07:21, Pine W wrote:
Following up on Lila's Wikimania keynote: what platforms and devices
should
we have in mind when making decisions today or in the near future about Wikimedia content creation and delivery?
also think of something outside of web browser ? and then also outside of http protocol ?
svetlana
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