https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40934
Tobias Eigen <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from Tobias Eigen <[email protected]> 2012-10-11 03:33:31 UTC --- Hi everyone, Thanks, Andy, for proposing this idea, and thanks Tom and Krinkle for the questions and discussion. I am of course chuffed that some wikipedians are interested in /open but of course also understand that many of you might also not see it as necessary, given that all of wikipedia is open data. Nevertheless, I think that a quick and easy way in for humans looking for your API and downloads and ways to access your data programmatically would be very useful, and the /open URL is as good a place as any since it's already being used by many others. It is becoming a standard.. though I don't claim all credit! Just like I think the contact page should be quick and easy to find, the page explaining the different ways to get your data should be easy to find - for non-wikipedians. (This works reasonably well for the contact page - though it still takes two clicks to get to the contact page via http://en.wikipedia.org/contact . Something similar for /open would be fine). Let me give you some background. I created the /open site in 2011 after the Open Data for Development camp in Amsterdam where many participants lamented how difficult it can be to find open data to work with and many others were interested in opening up their organization data and looking for examples to follow and guidelines on how to do it. I created /open as a community resource to help address this and also to encourage more people to learn about open data and start publishing their data as open data. More info about the original motivations is in the "hello world" post on the /open site: http://slashopen.net/2011/09/hello-world/ The /open site is open to community input and I welcome all suggestions on ways to improve the guidelines, badge and other aspects of the site to make them promote more openness and do more to help people who are trying to find open data, spread open data and open up their data. I'm happy to keep the conversation going and to learn more about how others see this - and will also reflect on and respond to Tom's blog post at http://tommorris.org/posts/2459 which makes several points that right now I don't really understand. Cheers, Tobias -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
