Hello everyone,

Sure: Reasonator is a great example, but converting the whole code is taking 
more time then making new stuff. You just can't intergrate it.

Greetings,

Sjoerd de Bruin
[email protected]

> Op 30 dec. 2014, om 16:31 heeft Thomas Douillard <[email protected]> 
> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> At this step queries are planned 
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan 
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development_plan> I guess placeholder 
> articles are lower in Lydia's list, this seems only a preliminar steps.
> 
> So it's not stupid to assume they will be ready.
> 
> 
> 
> I read your blog a long time, including your posts about reasonator. I'm on 
> this project for as long as you, I hope you know that. I just don't see your 
> point, nor a clear answer. And I don't want to guess.
> 
> 2014-12-30 15:59 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Hoi,
> Until Wikidata provides query functionality, any arguments about it are 
> without much merit. Until that time WDQ provides functionality. That 
> functionality can be implemented in new functionality when it arrives.
> 
> As to the question if I know Reasonator ... Read my blog ... [1]
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
> 
> [1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com <http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/>
> 
> On 30 December 2014 at 14:08, Thomas Douillard <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > Do you speak for the community ??
> 
> Nope, I speak for myself. Nether told anything else.
> 
> > Do you really know what Reasonator is about ?
> 
> I don't really appreciate the tone, I think reasonator is really cool and I'm 
> probably one of the people who pushed its use the most in Wikidata. Do you 
> have a useful answer to your own question ? 
> 
> One point is that Reasonator uses Wikidata query, who, last time I checked, 
> was not planned to be integrated into Wikibase. Wikibase will have its own 
> query engine. It would be a giant software architecture mess if the core 
> mediawiki/wikibase depends on external query engine.
> 
> 
> 2014-12-30 13:48 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Hoi,
> One of the requisites as mentioned on the page by Lydia is that it is usable 
> on any and all projects. Relying on local only technoloy like templates do 
> not make sense.
> 
> Reasonator DOES provide functionality that is similar to what can be achieved 
> with templating. When a person has relatives, for instance it will show. When 
> something is in a particular location, it will show the hierarchy. when there 
> is a geo coordinate, it shows a map,
> 
> Now citing "political reasons" begs the question since when our community 
> decides NOT to implement things that are so manifestly in line what our 
> mission. 
> 
> When you consider in build queries... That is what Reasonator offers for a 
> long long time.
> 
> Do you really know what Reasonator is about ? Do you speak for the community 
> ??
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
> 
> On 30 December 2014 at 13:30, Thomas Douillard <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Gerard, I like Reasonator a lot, but there is several advantages to an 
> integrated solution :
> * We can reuse technologies of the mediawiki ecosystem, like for example a 
> very important one : templates, that are already used an that a lot of 
> wikimedians knows. It can be used to build template articles. I don't know if 
> reasonator atm had a lot of contributions. It needs a github or something 
> account and Javascript knowledge.
> * community is reluctant to use not in wiki tools for such needs, it's 
> politically hard to push Reasonator integration into Wikidata fundamental 
> templates, I can tell.
> * A solution based on prebuilt queries to select the appropriate template 
> seems not so hard to implement only with Wikibase concepts, and deeply 
> integrated to the mediawiki ecosystem, integrate Reasonator will probably 
> eventually not result into such result.
> 
> And yes, Reasonator is usable right now. So it's cool that this feature is 
> not implemented right now :) And reasonator can follow its own path.
> 
> 
> 2014-12-30 12:28 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> Hoi,
> You also forget that it HAS been in use on several Wikipedias in the past. So 
> when that was no problem why is it a problem that can not be overcome now and 
> for now?
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
> 
> On 30 December 2014 at 12:15, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hoi,
> They are mostly excuses. The software has been in use for a LONG time. It is 
> known for its relevance for the same long time.. So the value of this need is 
> diminished by the lack of attention in the past.
> 
> The point is that these excuses are very much in the way of us achieving our 
> goal.. sharing in the sum of all knowledge. The knowledge in Wikidata is 
> available knowledge to us so we do not have a valid excuse.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
> 
> On 30 December 2014 at 11:38, Michał Łazowik <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Wiadomość napisana przez Gerard Meijssen <[email protected] 
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> w dniu 30 gru 2014, o godz. 10:24:
> >
> > Reasonator works now.
> 
> Yes, but the thing is that putting anything on production is not just 
> including it there.
> The whole code needs to be reviewed and there are some limitations, especially
> with 3rd party libraries. Bootstrap is a no-go. There are code conventions, 
> performance
> and compatibility issues (mediawiki has to support IE 8) and 
> internationalisation. And
> tests.
> 
> Maybe some of these things are already there, but still the review would have 
> to be
> done.
> 
> Michał
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