Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikibase now has a home

2014-09-04 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > >> > Good to know, up till now I thought wikibase was still a mediawiki >> > extension :s >> >> It is. But it consists of several components by now, some of which are >> independent of MediaWiki. > > > I don't agree with that use of th

Re: [Wikidata-l] Commons Categories again (was Re: Commons Wikibase)

2014-09-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am really interested how you envision searching when all those topics are isolated and attached to each file.. I also am really interested to know when you have all those files isolated on Commons, how you will include media files that are NOT on Commons.. This is a normal use case. Thanks,

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikibase now has a home

2014-09-04 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, > Good to know, up till now I thought wikibase was still a mediawiki > extension :s > > It is. But it consists of several components by now, some of which are > independent of MediaWiki. > I don't agree with that use of the terminology. The website defines it as follows: "Wikibase is a colle

[Wikidata-l] [x-post] Content Translation round-table on 5 September 2014, 1600 UTC

2014-09-04 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
[X-posted announcement] Hello, The Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on a tool for easy translation of Wikipedia articles from one language to another. The Content Translation tool has been in development since early 2014 and in July it was deployed and opened

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikibase now has a home

2014-09-04 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 04.09.2014 18:42, schrieb Deryck Chan: > Good to know, up till now I thought wikibase was still a mediawiki extension > :s It is. But it consists of several components by now, some of which are independent of MediaWiki. Ideally, we would eventually have a Wikibase core that does not rely on Me

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikibase now has a home

2014-09-04 Thread Deryck Chan
Good to know, up till now I thought wikibase was still a mediawiki extension :s On 4 September 2014 15:16, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > > Just wondering - why isn't this part of mediawiki.org? > > Most of the Wikibase components have nothing to do with MediaWiki. Having > it on MediaWiki.or

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikibase now has a home

2014-09-04 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Site looks great and responsive on smart devices too. :) - Enock On Sep 4, 2014 2:17 PM, "Jeroen De Dauw" wrote: > Hey, > > > Just wondering - why isn't this part of mediawiki.org? > > Most of the Wikibase components have nothing to do with MediaWiki. Having > it on MediaWiki.org would make the

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikibase now has a home

2014-09-04 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey, > Just wondering - why isn't this part of mediawiki.org? Most of the Wikibase components have nothing to do with MediaWiki. Having it on MediaWiki.org would make the whole software appear to be MediaWiki specific, and thus scare non-MediaWiki users away. Furthermore, it's sub optimal to have

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikibase now has a home

2014-09-04 Thread Deryck Chan
Just wondering - why isn't this part of mediawiki.org? On 2 September 2014 19:03, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey, > > Wikibase, the software created for the Wikidata project, now has it's own > website. http://wikiba.se/ > > Among the goals of the website are promoting third party usage and > outl

[Wikidata-l] Clear objectives that motivate us for change

2014-09-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I do not know if you were present at the recent chat, I could not be there but I could read the log ... You may have been at the chat, you may have read the log [1]. I did read the log and it did not motivate me at all. If anything it made me sad. From what I read, people were concerned about