Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-13 Thread Michael Hale
Hi Scott, I'm personally very interested in the future of online education, and I appreciate your enthusiasm about the subject. However, I wonder if your energy would be more productive if it was directed to an older project. Have you heard of Wikiversity? It is already multilingual and doesn't

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi Michael, The one thing that makes it easy for you is that you speak English. For other languages there are not the same amount and diversity of resources. While I have my reservations about the feasibility of what Scott proposes, his proposal is for all the Wikipedia languages and then some.

Re: [Wikidata-l] Browser search plugins for Wikidata

2013-07-13 Thread Jane Darnell
Hmm, I tried installing this plugin for Chrome, but I just get the message This web page has not been found 2013/7/12, Jeroen De Dauw jeroended...@gmail.com: (Apologies if you are getting this twice - I accidentally send this to wikidata-tech earlier on.) Hey all, Today I had a day off and

[Wikidata-l] Propagation of changes to the Wikipedias currently lagging

2013-07-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
copied from http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Propagation_of_changes_to_the_Wikipedias_currently_lagging Changes to Wikidata are currently propagated to the Wikipedias with a lag of several hours, but this should be fixed during the next few hours. The Dispatcher, who is

Re: [Wikidata-l] Browser search plugins for Wikidata

2013-07-13 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, Hmm, I tried installing this plugin for Chrome, but I just get the message This web page has not been found Good catch. The searching for the entered term was indeed broken, I did not realize this needed handling different then the selection of one of the suggestions. An update with a fix

Re: [Wikidata-l] Accelerating software innovation with Wikidata and improved Wikicode

2013-07-13 Thread Scott MacLeod
Hi Michael and GerardM, I'll respond off-list about your wiki-educational ideas. Best, Scott On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi Michael, The one thing that makes it easy for you is that you speak English. For other languages there are not