Hi everyone, If you hadn't heard, the Wikimedia Foundation has started the first round of what is planned to be be a twice-annual program to fund individuals and small groups to work on projects that further the WMF's goals - "individual engagement grants":
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG I have a proposal currently in place for a project that relates to Wikidata. It's a Javascript "data browser", that would provide a drill-down interface to let users navigate through the data of Wikipedia, Wikidata, and any standard MediaWiki-based wiki, without overloading the server with queries. This would be accomplished by using browser-based data storage, which would also enable fast navigation on mobile devices, and even offline use. The downside is that it would mean, for the case of Wikipedia/Wikidata, that it could only store a small fraction of the overall data; but there could be multiple "apps" for different subject matters - one for cars, one for buildings, one for politicians, and so on. You can read my proposal here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/MediaWiki_data_browser Any feedback is welcome, here or on the proposal talk page; and there's a section at the bottom for endorsements, if you would like to see this project happen. Thanks, Yaron -- WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com
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