<quote name="Denny Vrandečić" date="2014-03-20" time="16:06:46 +0000"> > I would very strongly recommend to use Semantic MediaWiki for this use > case. It is more powerful, we use SMW in other WMF contexts already,
Only on wikitech.wikimedia.org, and only until Ryan Lane figures out how to use Wikidata to manage the labs provisioning/etc :) > and > supporting the data inside Meta (instead of inside Wikidata and then > transcluding it) allows us also to generate workflows in Meta involving > local User-accounts, etc., and reduces complexity since the data is saved > in one place, and you don't have to switch between Meta and Wikidata to > update the data for an extension. It also frees Wikidata for having have to > extend their policies to support this specific use case (would MediaWiki > extension developers all get their own item per Notability, etc.). Also, > SMW already right now supports the uses cases you are asking for right now. > > I understand that SMW was already suggested in Bugzilla. I understand > Wikidata looks more sexy right now, but I think it is not the most > appropriate tool for this use case. Very useful points though. I have no horse in this race, but I do want the best tool for the job to win. Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
