On 10 jan. 2015, at 02:10, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
What if we used Wikidata and had an open form of sharing? I could imagine us asking Wikidata what things are instance of sharing platforms and what the URL for them. Using something like OOJS UI's InputLookupWidget you could allow users to search for their preferred service in this category.
We could then keep track for a given user their preferred services.
This means we would be completely neutral. It could also be a bit of a game changer in the open web. Maybe we could revive http://webintents.org/ using Wikidata?
I’ve dabbled quite a bit in this topic, and with the exception of using wikidata as the data platform to query from (which wasn’t around a few years ago), this is exactly how I always envisioned this could and should work for wikipedia.
But we simply never had time to build a neutral sharing platform that was usable for Wikipedia. Perhaps now with so much more infrastructure in place, it would be doable.
DJ