[Wikimedia-l] WMCON14 - Registration now open

2014-01-23 Thread Wenke Storn
Dear Wikimedians, We are delighted to update you today regarding the upcoming Wikimedia Conference[1], which will be held in Berlin on April 10-13, 2014. We, Daniela and Wenke from WMDE's event team, look forward to making the logistics as smoothly as possible for everyone involved and to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 22 January 2014 08:35, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: There are many ways to skin a cat. The most obvious one is to add a {{Reasonator}} template as a place holder in a Wikipedia. Another is to capture a not found or a red link and insert Reasonator info. What I am

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Magnus Manske
Hi Andy, I thought about that as well. Besides the intro text, the info box would be the main attraction; but if infoboxes were to fall back on wikidata information, which they could technically already do, all we'd have to do is add a blank infobox, and it should automatically fill up with the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Daniel Mietchen
What about having the Reasonator sit in the Draft namespace, with a link from the search results or the text preloaded for non-existing pages in the main namespace? Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-daniel/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Having Reasonator generated content in a draft namespace is *NOT* a bad idea. - I do not know enough about the draft namespace.. Is there a way to discover that an article exists in Draft ?? - My personal target for this functionality is very much the smaller projects. By using a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote: What about having the Reasonator sit in the Draft namespace, with a link from the search results or the text preloaded for non-existing pages in the main namespace? Daniel It is still far too early to

[Wikimedia-l] Congrats Ms. Alex Wang

2014-01-23 Thread Siyona G Gaunkar
Hi, Ms Alex, Hi everyone. Congrats to Ms. Alex Wang, hats off to your 'much experience in thedeveloping world'. nice pics  nice to come across you. (Kadambas,Royals of South India, Our proud heritage, Secrets of Velliapura) by: Siyona, Goa, India. __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, We can provide information now(ish). We are discussing draft because it is a likely avenue. It is however very much NOT intended for the English Wikipedia. If anything it would be much better if we work this out on other Wikipedias first. The most benefit from Reasonator will be for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 23 January 2014 15:12, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: I thought about that as well. Besides the intro text, the info box would be the main attraction; but if infoboxes were to fall back on wikidata information, which they could technically already do, all we'd have to do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Risker
On 23 January 2014 15:42, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On 23 January 2014 15:12, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: I thought about that as well. Besides the intro text, the info box would be the main attraction; but if infoboxes were to fall back on